Surviving My Life

The Point of Sleep

Tonight, for whatever odd reason, around 10pm I was really sleepy. That's weird for me. I'm never tired before 1 or 2 am. Anyway, there I was, using my computer, when I suddenly felt exhausted.

So, I powered everything down. Turned off the two tv's, the xbox, the large fishtank, and the computer. Turned off the lights, fed the cats, and went to bed.

1AM rolled around, and I woke up.

Now, I can't sleep.

Which, has gotten me to thinking. What's the point of sleep? Why do we need it? People say we need "our rest", but why? It's not for energy - we eat food for that. So what's the point of sleeping? I mean, as I sit here, thinking about this, imagine what you could do if, instead of sleeping, you had an extra 6-8 hours a day to do whatever you wanted? Imagine if we didn't sleep?

Jeepers. Prime Time TV might start at 2am! Everything would be open 24 hours a day. Imagine going to a movie at 5am, then, after the movie, going to work at 8am.

So, here I am, 1:30 in the morning, looking on the internet for why we sleep. Apparently, nobody knows why we sleep either. They think it's for "energy conservation", or to "recover from physical activity". Interestingly enough, I've found some interesting things:

"Did you ever think about how much you sleep and dream? The "average" human sleeps about 8 hours every day. That's one third of your life! In other words, you sleep for about 122 days every year. A 75 year old person would have spent a total of about 25 years asleep. There is a wide range in the amount of time different animals spend sleeping.

As for dreaming...we enter REM sleep about 5 times in an average 8 hour period of sleep. If we assume that we dream during each of these REM periods, then in one year, we will have had 1,825 dreams! Of course we don't remember all of these dreams. A 75 year old person would have about 136,875 dreams!"

Interesting, eh?

Well, I think that that's one of the first questions I'll ask God when I make it to heaven.

(adds it to the list).

Current List:

1.) We know you made Earth. Did you make any other planets with aliens?
2.) Why didn't you make any rivers that had Pepsi flowing in them instead of just water?
3.) Why couldn't you make Tofu bad for us, and cheeseburgers GOOD for us?
4.) You don't understand women either, do you?
5.) Why do we sleep?

Time for me to go. If you need me, I'll be in my bed.

Wasting time.

posted by Jeremiah @ 01:29