thought for the day

[ConfusedMind]

More than thirty hours of sleep a week is a luxury that you cannot afford.    :smt045

[Madhavacharya]

for an adult, six hours sleep out of 24 hours, keeps the health in good shape.

[ConfusedMind]

six hours sleep out of 24 hours will take bloody 18 years in a total life span of 72 years. I don't think I can waste a single second in the single human life I've got.

given it a thought?  :smt018

[peaceseeker]

Well calculated, but sleep of less than 6hrs may as well reduce the total life span of a person. You need to account for that too.
Happy Sleeping!!

[ConfusedMind]

i've  no problem having a happy sleep. but i dream something. wanna dream my dream? check out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyOSx62c2Ic&feature=fvst

P. S.  - keep the volume full.

[Elgina]

I heard that some real great philosophers and scientists couldn't even sleep more than an hour because of their wandering minds and souls which couldn't make them sleep, sometimes for days to come.

What is your all opinion for this???

Elgina

[ConfusedMind]

I think this reflects the point that i tried to make. do whatever you do but do not sleep unless it is a compulsion.  you just cannot live for more years by sleeping more and more.

[Rhutobello]

No...you don't live longer the expected by sleeping.....but as said....you might reduce your life span by not doing it.

I will throw in another thought in this discussion.

Sleep for us humans are the same as a battery charger is for a rechargeable battery.

When you sleep, then you end an awoken task....we do like a PC...we close down the task we have done...we put our "inputs" into the right files....our unconscious evaluate things that might lead to dreams, or even solve problems we have struggled with during the day....so yes....sleep are not a waste of time....it is one of our more valuable task, that gives us energies to struggle for another day

If we tell ourselves that we have not time to sleep, then our mind prevent the deep sleep..and even if we sleep for 30 hours an week...we don't get the same value as if we slept for 20 but in a relaxed environment.

We all are different.....we all have different stress....so how much sleep needed are always different....it all comes down to the ability to relax

[ConfusedMind]

sleep durations are different for different people not merely because of the difference of stress level. at east, i think so. age is a major factor, no doubt. but the MOST IMPORTANT thing is Mentality and way of thinking. i believe, I am, and therefore, the world exists. so, i sleep as little as possible so that i can keep my world awake and none has say 'Wake Up' to it.