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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Sleeping
Message-ID: <1987@hao.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 16:45:31 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  8 16:45:31 1986
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> 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 no doubt you spend the entire day thinking about how you didn't
get "enough" sleep the night before and about how tired you therefore are.
Exactly what I meant about coming from belief.

> and I have to sleep in the afternoon.

   HAVE to?? Do you pass out in the middle of doing something? Or do you
consciously choose to go lie down and sleep, so you can be sure that you
got as much sleep as you believe you need? Think about it.

> 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.

   That may be the best solution for YOU, but I'd much rather go to that
party or go out on that date that is happening tonight only, and if I'm not
missing anything on Saturday I'll sleep til noon if I feel like it. The
whole point of this discussion was whether or not one could legitimately
use need for sleep as an excuse to avoid a date. I still maintain that in
the vast majority of cases where it is so used, it is a load of BS. Read
what you wrote: "the *best* solution is to sleep 8 hours every night"
(emphasis mine). By this, you acknowledge the existence of other possible
ways to deal with the bilogical need for sleep. You CHOOSE to sleep 8
hours every night, you do not HAVE to.

--Greg
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