I like to sleep!

[Deja Q]

Most people take 8 hours per day.

I take 10.

Most people wake up refreshed and ready to face the world.

I wake up feeling groggy, wanting to stay asleep for another 2 to 14 hours because it's so nice and comfy and welcoming.

Like Al Bundy, I know that when I wake up, the day won't get any better until I go back to sleep again.

I sometimes sleep at work. Lord knows I don't want to. Even stay-awake aids don't help. Neither does coffee or those diet pills which contain tons of caffeine. When I start to feel groggy, I get up and walk around because sleeping is a no-no. I end up looking like a walking zombie.

I can't drive long drives (more than 40 miles) because I'll sleep at the wheel. This makes seeing relatives difficult. I know this because I tried driving to St Cloud once, fell asleep without realizing it, and crashed in the recessed area between the northbound and southbound lanes. Grateful I wasn't hurt at the time I suppose. I'd slept in the car driving to customers at my previous job as well.

I like to cuddle with a pillow when I sleep. It's not a person, but I know full well by now that a pillow is all I'll ever get.

Sleeping is cool.

On the other hand, sleeping is an annoyance. There are so many things in life we as a species need or want to do. (to survive is a need, but what humankind has created is actually a want.)

There, if I sound like Andy Rooney on crack, cool. :D

[Loyal]

1. I love sleeping too!

Sometimes with buddies, sometimes without! Sometimes on the couch, sometimes in my bed. Sometimes on my desk, sometimes in my chair. Sleeping is fun, period! :P

[Dirk39]

2. I'm with you, Hypno!

Although I'm german. Look at all these poor Schmocks, who work 20 hours a day, to make this world an uglier place...
Consider us sleepers to be the stongest anti-puritanes force in the world.
Schnarchhhhh,
Dirk

[Deja Q]

3. Didn't mean it like that!

In an alternate timeline, I'd be one of those schmocks. Probably dead by now as I couldn't live with the stress of it all.

But sleep is different for everyone, is a natural function, and the corporate fascists want everyone to live by their fast-paced book.

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. So do I!

My favorite pastime. Since joining the unemployed, I've been taking afternoon naps. I started on the afternoon nap habit when my son was a baby. Napping has a lot to recommend it.

Today I went to a condo board meeting so contentious, I had to sleep for three hours to get over it.

[NJCher]

5. love-hate relationship with sleep

I have mixed feelings about sleep. On one hand I am like a kid who can't go to sleep because there's too much fun stuff to do. But when I'm tired, I can't enjoy anything so I fall asleep as I do it. I often don't "go to bed." What usually happens is sleep overcomes me in whatever I'm doing.

One time, in my younger years, I'd been awake for quite some time, like maybe about 36 hours (can't do this anymore). Unfortunately I was on a date with a very nice guy and he told me I fell asleep while in conversation with him. He was talking to me and all of a sudden I just fell right asleep. I decided to go out with him more often because I could both sleep and have a date at the same time.

I will sometimes go to bed with my husband to watch television. But I can't stay awake for any of the shows and fall right asleep. That means an all-nighter because then I get up about 2:30 a.m. and post on the Internet all night. Then I go back and catch an hour or two of sleep before going to work. In fact, that is my usual schedule. When I tell people that they look at me as if I am nuts.

One time I worked two jobs of six hours each. This was quite rigorous but I was making a lot of money so I did it. Pretty soon I figured out how to sleep sitting up while staring at the monitor. It was a very light sleep and I trained myself to be able to come out of it and not look like I'd been sleeping in case anybody important walked into my office.

I have this great bed, though. It's a king-size and it's about 3 and a half feet off the floor. It has two featherbeds on the base and a featherbed comforter and lots of down pillows. Do I ever like to crawl into that bed!


Cher

[Swede]

6. ZZZZZZZZ-snort, huh, wha--?

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[mykpart]

7. I hate to be a drag here,

but you may have sleep apnea. If you wake up feeling groggy or not rested, you may want to have a sleep study done. People with sleep apnea stop breathing in their sleep, then wake up, breathe, and go back to sleep without remembering. It's very hard on your heart.

Feeling like sleeping all the time is also a textbook symptom of clinical depression. And the moron in the white house is enough to depress anyone!

[U2Fanatic]

8. I need a lot of sleep too

I need 10 hours to feel fully rested, and it takes me a while to get awake and going in the morning. I'm not a morning person I have having to get up early, and by early I mean before 10 :9
I don't fall asleep very easily, I need to be laying down, so I don't have to worry about falling asleep while driving or at work/school. I don't like to take naps either, they make me feel groggy and icky.

[Madrone]

9. I thought I was the only one...

Whether I sleep 2 hours or 12 I NEVER wake up feeling like I want to explode out of bed. Quite the opposite - I want to stay there, and go back to sleep.

I feel like a freak.

[AlienGirl]

10. I don't like sleeping

If I sleep, I dream.

If I dream there are only two possibilities. Either my dream will be better than real life, and I will be disappointed upon awakening; or--more commonly--my dream will bea nightmare and I will wake up full of bad chem.

If I could sleep without dreaming, I might like it...

Tucker

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

11. You have time to sleep 10 hours?

Wow.