Not enough time in a day. Sleep is a waste of time.
I have a pretty steady growing list of things I want to do.
There is not enough time in a day to do it.
There is not enough time in life to do it.
Sleep is a massive waste of time that should be cured asap. (Legally, and without negative side effects: ex: Cocain)
Put it like this, If you live to be 80 years old (80 years is the age I usually choose when I say "live to be" as it seems like a relatively average age to live to, in a "fulfilled" life).
On the average you sleep 8 hours per day. From birth to death. I pick 8 hours as an average, because in your entire lifetime there will be plenty of days when you simply cannot sleep that long, do not sleep at all, or sleep considerably more then that. So, very roughly estimating sleep hours, I say 8.
If you live to be 80, you have lived a total of 29,200 days. Thats 700,800 hours.
If you sleep 8 hours every day, that means in a year you sleep for 365 * 8 = 2920 hours.
2920 hours in 80 years is 233,600 hours. Thats 9733.33~ days. Which is 26.66~ years.
Now, rounding down to 26 years because I personally think 8 hours per day for an entire lifetime is slightly on the heavy side (but acceptable estimate in my eyes), this means:
80 years of life, 26 years of sleep. Leaves you having only 54 years of actual life. Now, what if we want to assume the following:
Of that entire lifespan, your first 10 years are spent (assuming a perfect world) as a happy child out playing and not accomplishing anything aside from growing up healthy. Your next 10 years are spent adapting to an adult lifestyle (I said assuming a perfect world!) - learning "life skills" and etc.
So assuming your adult life starts at the age of 20; having been properly educated and all that, you now only have 34 years of waking life.
So what I am getting at here is, 80 years of life. 20 years spent "growing up", 26 years wasted "sleeping". 34 years of actual production possible.
This is a very heavy waste of time (Sleeping, that is) - The growing up part, I believe is not a waste, and is absolutely necessary. But come on, sleep? seriously a waste of time.
Think about it! Every single person on earth must sleep. This is as absolute as death itself. Sleep robs us of approximately 26 years of our lives. Is this not something that should be cured? Right up beside finding a cure for death?
Now, I understand the why's involved with sleeping. I know we need it. I know that we will suffer brain damage and eventual death if we do not get it. But this falls into a need for a cure!
Lets zap our brains with microwaves every 24 hours or something. Inject some sort of vitamins into our spinal columns. Anything. We need a cure for sleep!
