Sleepless

What if I stopped sleeping at night? What gives me more time or just makes everything so much faster than I end up feeling that I have less time on my hand? It always feels as if I never got sleepy I would be able to get so much more done much faster. I would try many things, whether it was eating something with sugar in it or washing my face with cold water. The results would only last momentarily and in my mind, I was constantly waiting just to get back into bed instead of trying to get things done. I don’t know whether it was the thought that I was tired and could only do so much or the fact that I just enjoyed sleeping so much.

It could not be the second one since I remember being a small child and hated going to bed at certain times and I just wanted to stay awake and sit with everyone else. Yet I also remember falling asleep right there in between everyone and even asking my parents to take me home earlier simply to let me sleep. If we look at it scientifically, sleep is a time when our body regenerates. It’s a time we are almost in a state of healing or recharging as a phone plugged into the wall. Yet instead we can still use a phone when it is plugged into the wall. So why can’t we work while we rest? And if sleep is just so important for our survival why is the world trying to limit and optimise it in a manner that we can do the most with the least? Why is it not that we can simply take as much of it as we want?

With the same logic, we should only be able to drink water when we get thirsty and automatically stop drinking it as soon as we get the amount we can survive on for the day. Yet no, we are almost always encouraged to drink more water. So why is it that sleeping is such a thing that we are almost discouraged from? Don’t sleep till late, and don’t sleep too early either. So, then what are we left with? An amount of sleep that leaves us sleepy in the morning and tired by the evening. So we are only optimally working for about two to three hours in the afternoon. Would it not be simpler if I slept for a little longer maybe seven and a half hours instead of six? That could almost make me livelier in the morning and possibly more active till late and should therefore give me more time where I am actually productive.

That does not matter, does it? all we really want is to be able to do whatever we are meant to every single day without ever feeling even a gram of tiredness or fatigue. So sleeping all this time seems counterproductive rather than productive. Because I start to think about how I do more when I sleep but I don’t think about what happens because of this when I am awake. So I end up being more awake about being asleep and sleeping on being awake.