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From: wasaunders@watdragon.UUCP (Deus Ex Machina)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: Sleeping
Message-ID: <525@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 13:44:25 EST
Article-I.D.: watdrago.525
Posted: Wed Mar  5 13:44:25 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Mar-86 03:43:42 EST
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Summary: 

In article <525@nrcvax.UUCP> terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad) writes:
>woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) says:
>>
>>  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 contidion.
>
>You're right.  Most people do not need 8 hours of sleep every single
>night.  And on those occasions when they really do need the sleep that
>particular night, explaining the reasons for it is not too much to
>ask.  (My child was up with the flue all night last night and I've
>really got to try and get some sleep tonight, sorry. Maybe another
>night.)
>
True, but I know personally that the best way to keep myself functional is
to get 8 hours of sleep per night. Less than that means I feel tired the next
day, and I have to sleep in the afternoon. The problem with getting less than
8 hours is not so much that I can't function the NEXT day, but over a period
of time the lack accumulates until I sleep two or three 12 hour nights. Thus
the best solution is to sleep 8 hours every night.
		Alec Saunders.