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From: wasaunders@watdragon.UUCP (Alec Saunders)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: Sleeping
Message-ID: <592@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 12:47:23 EST
Article-I.D.: watdrago.592
Posted: Fri Mar 14 12:47:23 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Mar-86 03:17:50 EST
References: <5162@kestrel.ARPA> <1281@lll-crg.ARpA> < <525@watdragon.UUCP> <548@cisden.UUCP>
Reply-To: wasaunders@watdragon.UUCP (Alec Saunders)
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Summary: 

In article <548@cisden.UUCP> gmack@cisden.UUCP (Gregg Mackenzie) writes:
>This is not how sleep works.  Once you lose sleep, it is gone.  It does 
>not accumulate and you cannot "catch up" on it.  We each have a certain
>amount that is optimal for us, but it varies with many factors including
>daily activity level and diet.  It also varies between individuals.
>
>The best solution is to sleep when you're tired, (instead of saying, 
>"Well, 'MASH' is over, it's 11:00, it's time for bed"; what if you're
>not tired?  Do you go to bed anyway, just because it's your bedtime?),
>and get up when you wake up (rather than looking at the clock and saying,
>"Oh, I've only had 7-1/2 hours of sleep instead of the 8 that I need to
>function, so I'm still tired and I'm going back to sleep for a half-hour";
>what if you feel refreshed after only 5 hours?  Do you go back to sleep
>just because your clock tells you to?  What makes your clock so supreme
>that it can tell you what to do?).

Sure, I go to sleep when I'm tired .... but I get up for class at either
9:00 or 7:00 every day. So I can't sleep until I'm done sleeping. When I'm
on a work term I sleep when I want for how long (flex time). Whether or not
you "accumulate" a lack of sleep is irrelevant. If you wake up tired one
day, then don't sleep enough that night you wake up MORE tired the next day,
and so on...

Point is that if you have a rigid timetable to stick to your better off getting
a set amount of sleep (good for you or not ...)


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