Sleep
"The mere presence of an alarm clock implies sleep deprivation and what bedroom doesn’t have one?" --James Gleick
I have such the love-hate relationship with sleep. I feel so wasteful when I retire to go to sleep cause I feel like there is more I could be doing. Yet on the other hand when I wake up or get woken up I should say I want nothing more to sleep another hour. I know sleep dep is really bad for you but I can't seem to not get 8 hours a sleep every night. It doesn't help when you know you can function far better then most people with next to no sleep. I've gone 48+ hours and still been able to function fairly well. Engineering school, the military, and working insane hours in New York sure beat functional survivablity into me. I will say though the opposite is nearly as scary.
When I get a "normal" amount of sleep I feel mental razor sharp. Almost TOO sharp. My mind multitasks way to many thoughts at once and its like full on sensory overload. I can hardly do one thing cause my brain is trying to do 15 and it's alot more uncomfortable then being tired. You know that feeling when your watching tv and they flash a barrage of images and such in like a commercial? That feeling like you want to scream out a mouth full of blabber and wildly throw your arms around cause you have the chills on your skin? That's what it feels like.
Then again it could just be my body resisting change back and forth from too much to not enough sleep and at seemly random times. I'm sure several years of that might be a key culprit to that.
I have such the love-hate relationship with sleep. I feel so wasteful when I retire to go to sleep cause I feel like there is more I could be doing. Yet on the other hand when I wake up or get woken up I should say I want nothing more to sleep another hour. I know sleep dep is really bad for you but I can't seem to not get 8 hours a sleep every night. It doesn't help when you know you can function far better then most people with next to no sleep. I've gone 48+ hours and still been able to function fairly well. Engineering school, the military, and working insane hours in New York sure beat functional survivablity into me. I will say though the opposite is nearly as scary.
When I get a "normal" amount of sleep I feel mental razor sharp. Almost TOO sharp. My mind multitasks way to many thoughts at once and its like full on sensory overload. I can hardly do one thing cause my brain is trying to do 15 and it's alot more uncomfortable then being tired. You know that feeling when your watching tv and they flash a barrage of images and such in like a commercial? That feeling like you want to scream out a mouth full of blabber and wildly throw your arms around cause you have the chills on your skin? That's what it feels like.
Then again it could just be my body resisting change back and forth from too much to not enough sleep and at seemly random times. I'm sure several years of that might be a key culprit to that.