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From: terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: Sleeping
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Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 19:43:00 EST
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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.)

However,  there are physical conditions which require more sleep.  For
example, chemical depressions and/or pyschological depressions:
People suffering from one or the other of these may require
enormous amounts of sleep, and are virtually impossible to rouse.
The chemical depression can often be overcome with anti-depressants,
and the individual starts sleeping less.  And of course, there are the
various forms of narcolepsy which I really don't know anything about :-).


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                                                       Terry Grevstad
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