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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
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Subject: Re: Sleeping
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Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 14:48:28 EST
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  It has become clear to me from the followups and replies I've been getting
that I have been misunderstood (probably due to my own poor writing style).
I am not trying to claim that there are NO physical limits as to how much
sleep you need; what I *am* saying is that many (if not most) people impose
limits upon themselves which are FAR SHORT of the actual physical limit
(even accounting for what are in reality relatively minor individual 
differences in where this limit is).
   Anyone who says they HAVE to have 8 hours (or X hours) a night is coming
from their beliefs and not physical reality, unless they have some special
debilitating medical condition (which, as far as I've heard, none of the
people in question on this net do). It's even worse when people use these
beliefs as an excuse to avoid telling someone who has asked them to do
something with them that they are just not interested (in other words, it
is a very thinly disguised lie). Think of it this way: if you avoid telling
someone you are not interested, and you make it sound as though you might
be at some other time, guess what will happen? Right! They will ask again,
putting you into the exact same position you were trying to avoid the last
time. Avoidance doesn't work. If you're not interested you will probably
have to say so eventually anyway, so you might as well save you (*and* them!)
a lot of grief and say so up front, not come up with a lot of BS excuses.
(Obviously, this applies to other excuses besides sleep).

--Greg
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