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- Q35: Is sleep time well spent? Would I get bored or lonely if I had much less of it? How much more would I get done?
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It’s 2 am and I work in 4 hours. Perfect timing
Same
Haha 5am here. Ready for classes and a whole shift.
people please, get some sleep
It's now 3:02 and I start work at 7:15. Somehow this is just the type of video you always find in those moments.
1:56 for me
I honestly just want the energy. The ability to get refreshed after 1 hour sleeps is invaluable. I will sleep twice, 2 hours total, and be very energized all the time for the rest of the 22 hours.
46 hours.
actually the best i have ever felt after sleep, was after only sleeping 1-2 h. I fell asleep at 6 and was going trough an intense covid feever before that on march 23rd 2022. i will always remeber this night.. if i sleep 6+ h im just dead in the morning.
@@duesenantrieb8272That isn't sustainable though.
bae look into polyphasic sleep. my sleep goal is 3 hours and i rarely make it. some days i do with 20 minutes. once you train yourself to sleep optimally in 20 minute blocks and 2 hour blocks, you basically trade your sanity for the ability to stay awake forever Ow'O
@@kittysplode until you die of terrible health issues 😂
Being fully refreshed is far more valuable than the supposed gain in hours per day. If at any time I were tire or diminished in motivation, being able to recharge with a single hour would make accomplishing whatever is necessary to recover what I lost relatively easily.
Great point!
But that's technically not one hour a day. What about if you was only allowed a hour a day?
@@magicbuns4868 it would still be a consistently better result than the current version.
If you can't make amazing progress in life being fully rested and refreshed every day, then adding a couple extra hours to each day isn't going to help you.
@@magicbuns4868 That means this pill just got 100x better because if I could get super high on opiates and not begin to even get sleepy ... dream come true!
If I could feel 100% refreshed with only 3-4hr of sleep I totally would.
The comedic timing on the outro was brilliant
I love the ending, that was a smart joke you got there.
Oh the irony of catching this video at 3am with a mild bit of insomnia.
Regarding the "Most of my friends would be asleep, I would be alone" point, that's far less of a problem nowadays than it's ever been in history thanks to the internet. With social media like Facebook and online communities like Discord, it's easier than ever to make friends and chat with people around the world. I regularly meet up for chats and multiplayer gaming sessions with friends from Australia, Maine, and England (or we try; it's tricky coordinating folks halfway around the world). So if you're determined to not be bored and to maintain social contact with this magic sleep-free pill, this is the best time ever to do it.
Talking to people online is not the same.
@@Mechjeb661True, but that wouldn't be your only contact with people. It would just be to tide you over until all your local friends wake up.
@@Mechjeb661 You know you don't need physical contact at all times right
we're talking about a 23 hour cycle
Most people would have time to work on a skill even pre internet.
@@dorkangel1076 Exactly. It may not be physical contact, but it's better than nothing if that's what you want or need.
One of the easiest questions in that book, probably. Time is priceless and that pill essentially *gives you lots of time* while also giving you advantage over those who have to sleep much more... Although, sleep _is_ one of my favorite pastimes 😁
Money gets you time tho
Look at the bazillionaires in their express tickets and private jets
Their personal underlings for all the menial stuff
Money is time
And when you inherit a fuckton
People assume you are smart and deserving of special treatment
If you are old and have accumulated wealth, and you have a family and a purpose for it then the calculation of seven hours free time for say 20 years against how much more you have to work to replace that lost wealth....a lot of people wouldnt take the pill
@@billbolton , the older you get the more prescious time gets 🙂
@@konstantin.v true, but I wouldn't give up half of what I own for a few more hours a day, when to get it back would cost me more time than I'd get, I don't want to leave my family penniless. Lindy approaches the question from the point of view of an individual who only has themselves to consider.
If time were priceless nobody would work. Clearly nobody thinks time is priceless. Are you seriously telling me you wouldn't trade a single second of your lifespan for a million dollars?
I barely own anything, so I see this is a pure win!
This is an easy question. Under 25 then yes. Over 50, no.
7 hours a day × 7 days × 12 months a year more lindybeige content.
That would be amazing!
Mr Lindybeige you remind me of a teacher I had, he was wise and a fascinating personality like you, I could spend literally hours just listening to you talk, with your specific life experiences and knowledge you have and shared it is a privilege to watch your videos but i see you in my minds eye teaching and just sharing in a large seated area just like in a university, my teacher did that, I miss him so much and think about all of the teachers at my old school but only two teachers I remember fondly. Mr Lindybeige you Sir are a National Treasure.
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@@kathykuecker yes definitely
The Big Bad Beige One has been on fire with video output recently!
"Fully refresh you". Worth it just for that.
I sleep easily 10 hours when I don't have to get up for something and I'm still not fully refreshed. The pill would be worth it just for the fact that sleep now does its job, let alone the ~50% bonus time. And this isn't like living to 120years old instead of 80... this is 50% more time AT EACH YEAR OF AGE.
If the cost were 90% of everything you own I _still_ think I'd do it.
Absolutely this, this is the first thing I thought of. I had a horrible sleeping session on Friday evening, so I had to sleep to about noon on Saturday to get a full rest. Weekend screwed already. In addition, work wouldn't feel as much of a lifewaster as it is now. Currently I lose about 10 hours to work, then I have maybe 2 hours to myself in which I'm already tired, and then I go to sleep. I would definitely start all over again at €0 just to experience basically a minivacation after every workday.
The sad thing is, if a pill like that were invented then every company going would almost certainly mandate extended shifts to match.
True, A few people would work more, and the rest would have to do the same to keep up with the decrease in the value of their labour. Similarly when women entered the workforce, some households gained a dual income. Now it’s impossible to have a middle class family without a dual income.
@@isaackirkwood-smith5182my wife is a doctor and I do my "job" for fun 😅 she's a keeper ...
Far from true. Speed was invented before WW2.
However, simply being awake more and doing more things, increases your intelligence eventually.
No government ever wants it's citizens actually thinking for themselves!
Another certified neighborhood classic!
Hey Lindybeige, I've watched you for several years. I truly love your content, thank you for being a part of my life for the occasional tiny sliver.
I am always exhausted, regardless of sleep. Like being intensely cold, being deeply tired makes even the best, happiest, most wonderful situations meaningless
Ironically I'm watching this because I couldn't sleep.
Same!
5:00-6:50 I appreciate the candidness. It's hard find by chance, and impossible to find intentionally, people being honest about this subject without falling prey to the promotion of either unhelpful "productivity culture" (see unshirking-shirking & associated negative feelings) or unhelpful "procrastination culture" (see ironic messages making procrastination into a virtuous relatable quirky unseriousness, plus promotion of former).
6:55-7:10 live in a constant on-rush anxiety about running out of time, and ramp up activity amounts, or, don't, and don't? people make this choice and don't realize they've done so.
Lindy back with a bang!!
Hey Lloyd. Appreciate you, man. You've got a great vibe and I find it inspirational. Cheers!
Yes! I'd use the time to reacquire what I've lost by taking the trade. Realistically though I'd spend it playing video games. I love to hear your insight into this, thanks for this series!
I would give nearly anything for that pill. The constant perceived acceleration of time that comes with age is something i havent been able to come to terms with yet.
I'd take that pill in a heartbeat.
It basically extends my life expectancy by 30% because I now have that much more time to experience things.
And it's not the twenty years from 80 to 100, but a lot of healthy/young time.
Added bonus: it would wipe out half of my student debt. Having a negative net worth makes this decision a bit trivial.
Great to see you grapple with the same issues that I do. As for sleep, my wife gets by with 3 hours; sometimes, she meditates all night and is full of extra energy the next day. I need my 6 hours! Beware, time goes faster as you age, so no time to waste.
Really enjoying these videos. It's fantastic to see a weekly or at least bi-weekly Lindybeige video again, no matter the topic!
As an insomniac, I have wanted one of those chairs that promises 8 hours of sleep in one hour since i was a kid
The older you get, the less valuable the lack of sleeping becomes.
At 25 as an American my life expectancy roughly about 51 more years.
You sleep roughly 1/3rd of your life, so around 17 years would effectively be added onto my lifespan- or more than half of the life I’ve lived so far would be effectively added.
I also struggle with energy and getting enough sleep, so I’d be happier that whole time.
I would absolutely take the blow of a few hundred bucks, some Knick knacks, and home goods to be able to only need 1 hour of sleep.
My dad, on the other hand, is about to be 60. By the same metrics he’d only add a little over 5 years effectively and lose thousands upon thousands of dollars, maybe his house, and a lifetime’s worth of collections and memorabilia.
It wouldn’t really be worth it.
We love you, Lindy. If you ever feel unsatisfied with the number of the things you've done, just remember that the scale of things that you've done are far better than most. How many people can claim with confidence that they have both educated and entertained millions about history, technology, and another half-dozen things on top of that? I think you have AT LEAST broken even.
No, and not because of attachment to things, but because I love to dream and place great value on it. In my worldview, my dream world is as important as my waking world.❤️🤗🐝
Just a side note to say the algorithm seems to have woken up as I am getting your feeds appearing in my feed again after a very long time!
Working security, most often at evening and night shifts, 1 hour of sleep being enough would be a godsend for me. Be that actual time to work, or just for free time.
A similar interesting question I think would be, how much would you give to be able to remember every moment of your dreams as though you were awake. As in you wake up after 8 hours of sleep, and you remember the last 8 hours of dreams in just as much detail as if it were real life.
In that way you are essentially extending your perceived life in the same way, except you can't necessarily do anything useful with your extra time. I would allow that you can induce lucid dreams if you practice it, you can exit a dream any time if you are the kind of person prone to nightmares, and you can tell dreams and reality apart - at least, once you're awake.
It has always been a childhood dream of mine (no pun intended) to be able to record and view back my dreams or just to be able to remember them in more detail as I am fascinated by dreams and often find myself in the morning drifting back off to sleep to continue my half finished dreams. I think I would give a lot to have this ability, possibly even half of my possessions like the original question.
While you can't exactly study new information or do useful acts in your dreams it certainly would enrich my experience of life if every night you had a vivid 8 hour experience that feels like real life.
Oh my friend! You absolutely CAN do useful acts in your dreams. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a problem I couldn’t figure out and go to sleep and find the answer. If you are lucid dreaming, everything changes and you can ACTUALLY go anywhere and see anything. Our Dreamtime is a vast and unexplored part of us. We need to correct that.❤️🤗🐝
I am someone who frequently has no choice but to spend days on end awake... uninterrupted consciousness is daunting and while i see a lot of comments saying about being refreshed i truly just need to turn the brain off for a bit. I have a billion things to keep my interest but eventually ill either run out of money for new things or sadly ill get bored. I think id rather have regular sleep over semi permanent awakeness
i feel like the video ending like that told us more about lindeybeige on these questions than everything else...
well, unless it was an editing mistake, of course.
Touché on that ending sir. Brilliant
I know they are not getting a lot of views but honestly I like these videos. First of all, I like coming up with my own answers, but also like being shown completely different view on things 🙂 and also glad that you decided to cut the rules lawyering to a healthy amount, so we actually get to know you a bit 😁
Yeah I’m back in the Lindybeige algorithm
I generally agree that this would be a good deal. I don't get enough sleep as it is, so paying half of what I own to get more time per day, to stay fully rested, and probably live longer because of the health benefits of getting the proper amounts of sleep... Excellent deal.
That said, I think the biggest drawback here is that you are the only one that gets this deal. You become a person that is awake for 23 hours a day in a world where everyone else is awake ~16 hours a day. In my local area most places shut down around 10pm and don't start really ramping up until 6am at the earliest, there's a general expectation of quiet hours in my complex, and all of my normal friends are asleep... so that extra 7 hours is subpar.
That's perfect if you have things you can do that either require no one else (writing, reading, single-player games, binging on youtube / favorite streaming platform, personal crafts, whatever other hobbies...), or ones that work well across timezones (i.e. multiplayer games that has players that would still be on for your extended hours), or were already self sufficient.
But every time you have to interface with the rest of the world you'll have to remember what the schedule for the rest of the waking population is like.
For me I would choose yes. I can replace what I have lost. But as I have a medical condition where one of the main symptoms is fatigue. Yes I would definitely be happy with only one hours sleep. I can make up for lost time, or just get things done but to have the energy. I would give up a lot. There's some things I wouldn't give up but anything replaceable....
Most of what i own are memories and experiences that have shaped me. I've had a few concussions. If the price were not so favorably portrayed, as you've made it, I'd be very hesitant. In the super happy fantasy land that you have proposed in answer to the question...sure, why not?
Being able to dictate how much sleep I get and still be refreshed is a better gift in my opinion. making it so you only need one hour of sleep minimum would be a great boon.
As for half of what I own, depending on when you make this decision and how much I own in total at that time, it is totally possible to reclaim those things or money. things you've made can be remade and you've now got the time. 7 hours is a lot of time to spend on many things, and can be worthwhile using.
I just finished my university work. This means I am now without any real responsibilities and I have a lot of time to rest and "get things done". The most important thing is that I don't simply waste these days with the same mindset that Ill do all these things sometime in the future that isn't now, despite now being the most advantageous time of all. I also don't want to waste the time *thinking* about all the important things I must do during this time... instead of simply doing it. Never has a lack of responsibilities been such a responsibility!
As a chronic insomniac, actually feeling refreshed would be SO nice. I tend to get 2-5 nights a month where I sleep long and solidly enough to feel refreshed.
Make a schedule and stick to it. Treat yourself like your own child or employee; wear a different cap for each task (if you must). That's the only way to feel like you are getting stuff done.
When I'm sick or just relaxing... it feels like boredom, or shirking. So naturally, being sick is my nemesis!
Oh... I went without any significant sleep for nearly a year due to severe trauma... it nearly cost me my life in the years that followed. If there WAS a pill... I would use it AND still sleep as much as I could! ;)
The fully refreshed seals the deal for me. Not even sleeping 6, 8 or 10 hours makes me feel that way. If i could with 1 hour and have extra time to do my things... that's perfect.
I don't know about you, but I really actually do appreciate the sleeping hours. Not from a point of restfulness, but from the dreams that I have. I feel that my dreams are very vivid and detailed and I remember them almost every night, and sometimes feel I can control what happens in them. It's quite an escapism from the real world!
I'd still likely take the pill though, just to feel awake and energetic. I am not a day time person!
Hell yeah!! I have lots of things... If I could be as energetic as I am when newly asleep but never be able to sleep, I'll take it
I would take the pill 100%. Yes, I do get bored, but I often get bored not because there is nothing interesting to do, but because I am to tired to do the thing I want to do. Honestly only downside of it would be the lack of ability to skip time by sleeping on long travels
My main question about this would be what is to be done with the extra hours?
Yes there are plenty of things which could be done but doing things just for the sake of doing things feels kind of pointless.
Which is probably why its good to be a creative person in such a situation as you could have a lot more enjoyment, not to mention all the fun stuff that can be done in bed (watching films, playing computer games, drawing, writing, usw.).
This one is easily a yes for me.
At 30, I don't really own much stuff, that I care about anyway.
Things I've made, I can still remake.
The only thing that'd really hinder me is losing my car, but that's only because the public transit sucks here.
But if I got a second job with my free time for a year or so, I could easily make back what I lost and more.
Then once I've recovered from the original lose, I'd probably come out ahead.
If the pill would allow me to be fully refreshed on ny current amount of sleep, I think I'd take it.
I think to the point of losing half of what you own should be approached from the point of view of losing half of all of your perceived value.
Or in more simple terms, you'd have to carefully and honestly categorize all of your belongings into various 'boxes' representing varying amounts of value.
Money, which may not have much value to you, would go into the lower end of the categories, while deeply personal items that cannot be replaced would go into the higher end.
You'd then have to lose half of the total of everything.
The difficult part of it is how top-loaded the categories would be, with just the first box containing maybe 50% of all the value, due to it containing all the deeply personal and emotional possessions.
So therein lies the immeasurable difficulty of the choice; would you be willing to give up half of each box? Perhaps you'd give up the entire first box, to keep all the rest of your belongings? Or give up everything else, just to keep the belongings that are most dear to you?
I would do it with out a thought. I'd also give up eating if possible. I never feel like I have enough time. I want to live forever so I can experience everything or at least a few thousand years.
perfect timing, i couldnt sleep in 2 days now. Layed awake for 8h each night. Now imma just use the time to study or work ... have been going trough this since im 10 and im 25 now
I would give away every single thing with monetary value that I currently have now to be refreshed after an hour of sleep. That super power would allow me to gain it all back so quickly, I wouldn't care...and the increase in quality of life would more than make up for any temporary discomfort.
Some of us get 4 hours of sleep a night and haven't gotten 8 since being a child anyway.
The sense of time passing more rapidly, increases with age. It's frightening, but true. Things you think of as being very recent can, and do, turn out to be years, often decades, old. This is especially true of music and movies. I'm 60, and it is starting to worry me. Apparently it is real, and not just a mental aberration. That's not much comfort, either.
Like five years ago, maybe more, something happened to me and I have no idea what it was but I just stopped feeling sleepy or tired.
I spent my time watching tv and movies and playing games and chatting with friends online but typically I would feel tired and I would go to bed and sleep.
But one night i just didn't feel sleepy or tired. I felt no need for sleep or rest. So i stayed up all night. I told my friends I would go to bed when I felt tired... except i never felt tired. Drowsiness never came.
I ended up staying awake for four days and nights without feeling tired or sleepy or suffering from ill effects. It was like i just stopped needing to sleep.
It wasn't an unpleasant experience, it wasn't bad, it was just a thing that happened to me. But these days i have to enjoy sleep to a great amount and the idea of giving up sleep and having nothing bad happen as a result is a very unappealing concept.
Amazing outro!! Bravo
I have thought about it a lot. Only disadvantage I see is if you have a partner who still needs normal sleep and is accustomed to sleeping with their partner. Then you'd beed to fall asleep with them and then get up and leave them or find a way to spend your time in bed, while they sleep, without disturbing them. (At least for a set amount of compromised days in the week.) But with the differing sleep schedules in my past relationships, that didn't work too well, either. (And most of the time I don't have a partner anyway. 😅)
Someone asked me, if I didn't enjoy sleeping. Yeah no. I really don't. I am unconscious during that time. In bed before sleeping I only feel dread because I don't have enough time left for a restful sleep and will feel awful again the next day. I only like the feeling of not having to get up on a free day. And I only crave sleep, because I am so sleepy from not having slept enough and tired from my day consising mostly of work, chores, other obligations and sleep with little time for recreation.
But wow, half of what I own is a lot. But I'd still have enough, I'd had several times the amount of time to spend recreationally and time to work more (getting more skilled and able to raise my pay!) and work would also go better and be less of a pain, if I was more balanced and less sleepy all the time. So yeah, I'd probably do it. Just annoys me, that you still need one hour in this scenario. Otherwise I could free up a lot of space and save good money and some work in terms of a bed, mattress, winter cover / summer cover, washing,…
By the way: I love the night. I would really enjoy roaming around at night all the time. Also going to events in the city, not worrying about getting the last train home.
Someone who likes traveling or has international work, would need to worry about jetlag or scheduling international calls.
For someone with a ton of hobbies who works shiftwork, this would be phenomenal. No more missing out on things due to need for rest.
Greetings from America where I just viewed this at 5:30 in the morning before climbing into bed.
As an insomniac since the 70s, For most of my life I normally slept 2 or 3 times a week and maybe 4 or 5 times a week when I was doing heavy manual work. I am now old and broken, medically retired and find I now sleep more than ever before. I do not have the same view of sleep as most people who feel it is normal to sleep every night. IF I slept every night I dont know how I would find the time to get stuff done !. No Pill Needed GRIN
Perfect cut at the end.
Totally not up at 04:00 studying for a final exam no sirreeee
hope it went okay !!
Sleep is the enemy. The only thing worse than having to sleep is being tired. I've wanted this pill for years.
As someone with chronic sleep problems no I would not give up sleep, it's amazing whenever you get a full nights sleep :)
You could also look at it as a 25-30% increase to your lifespan. We sleep almost a third of our lives. If there is no negative side effect to this other than losing some stuff, it's a REALLY good trade off.
The GM will almost instantly regret allowing that one PC the ability to take one-hour long rests.
Came here from a full night of being awake 👀
same!
I'm never bored and I hate having to waste time sleeping. There is always more I want to do than there is time to do it.
The last bit about when you're a writer and feel anything else you do is skirking but don't get around to writing really hit hard, along with the stacks of books and RP scenarios.
We actually probably would need a lot more food since we burn more calories when awake than asleep.
I was an insomniac for some years. If I got 2 hours of sleep a night, it was a good sleep. Now I sleep for a couple hours and I'm up for an hour and go back to sleep a couple more. Not has tired during the day now. I learned to take things easy and rushing around doing stuff all the time turned out to be a waste of time. I learned to "Be still and know who is God" thing. Life is much better now. Being a little sigma, I never needed the company of others much. I am fine just setting around reading and doing my hobbies now that I am retired. If you run your life by a clock, you will always be rushing around trying to fix stuff. It will fall apart anyway in time, like everything does. Concerns about time only makes you older faster.
I own very little and would very much enjoy having almost twice as much time to waste on what keeps me entertained slash occupied until I die, as opposed to wasting it even more on not even being conscious, please and thank you.
The massive gigantic inexpresible issue with this is that you still have to get to sleep. I've considered the question would I give up needing to sleep at all before, and my answer has always been yes, because it takes me so long to get to sleep. It can easily take me up to an hour to get to sleep. However, if I still have to get to sleep every night anyway... I'm not sure how worth it that would be to me.
Having said that, right now I don't own that much because I'm still relatively young. So if it's a one and done thing I'd give up half of what I own now and then use my extra time to earn back what I'd given up relatively quickly and then I'd be in the positive and still have an extra 6 hours to play with each day, which would be nice
No, I could easily jettison the superfluous half of what I own and not take the pill. I quite enjoy dreams while I sleep.
I'd take that in a heartbeat. Take the night shift -- which generally pays a fair bit more in my industry -- and then spend the day running my errands at my leisure, doing hobbies, or just enjoying time outside on a nice day; in the evening, I'll have plenty of time to socialize without having to worry about getting to bed at a reasonable time.
Doesn't hurt that I'm young -- half of what I own isn't really all that much, and I'd be able to replenish a few years' worth of retirement savings pretty quickly.
On the note of the end slides... Actually I imagine you might see more demand for food simply because people's bodies are expending more energy during their waking hours. Additionally, there probably aren't many people kept from being obese by their waking hours, outside of a few edge cases where working a few more hours might be enough to afford excessive amounts of the wrong food on the table.
P.S I love the end slides and wish more people would use them!
I think I’ll go fishing now, eat what I catch then take a nap.
Yes, that sounds like a full day.
I already only sleep 5-6hr a day, so I'm already not wasting much time of the day. On the other hand, I work between 8 and 14hr a day, mixed computer work and workshop work.
But we can tell the question comes from a very specific place. I have worked until 3am. The problem is not so much sleep, than actual physical exhaustion: the muscles get numb and sluggish, the eyesight decrease, you think slower. You just need resting time, and it's not necessarily sleeping time. Just scrolling on the phone refills my energy level, and help me get a sort of second motivational breath.
I don't own enough stuff to survive on half of what is left, but had I, I would indeed gladly trade several dozen thousands euros for perpetual motivation, energy and focus, even just within my normal wake hours.
I would like to take a pill so that one hour of sleep will be enough to refresh me, but i wouldn't want my boss to know.
No hesitation. Half of what I own is an amazing trade-off. I’d make it back in no time.
If everyone had all that extra time, I’m sure our bosses would fill it for us.
i already only sleep around an hour a night so this is an easy one
I'm actually currently a PhD student, and I agree with the sentiment made about doing a PhD, but I've also through the process come to realise I probably have ADHD. I would recommend looking into it if you haven't previously, as I've found that sentiment of squandering many of the minutes you've been given, is actually quite a marker of the inattentive form of ADHD.
I want to meet Nikolas Lloyd so I can bring my other friend Nicholas with me, since I'm also Nicholas, and we can just see how long it takes for us to finish introducing ourselves and each other.
As someone who's body has issues and currently needs at least 10hrs a night to feel refreshed, I'm pretty sure I would take the offer if I could choose what stuff to get rid of
Hilarious cut away at the end
I think that I'd be more likely to take a pill that makes me only need 4 hours of sleep a night as that still gives time for dreams and for sleeping alongside other people without it being weird.
I took a few seconds to realize, but the cutoff was pretty good 😆
Having 1 hour of ptsd fueled night terrors sounds better than 8+. Then again, I find myself with too much free time and a good bit of loneliness already.
106 extra days(159 if counted in regular days with 8h sleep) a year if you slept an hour a night, yeah, that's quite a bit. Somewhere around 3-5 months of extra activity, which you could partly use year 1 and 2 to recover the losses. Also it doesn't say you can't sleep more, just that you only need one hour. Sign me up :D On the negative side, you would have to increase food/drink use as well, and even if refreshed, not sure how much wear/tear it'd cause the body. Even then, with aformentioned money making, losing 5 years of your life(due to use) to gain a year every 3 years, seems to add up.
My first thought was that we also own our own bodies. So being able to feel refreshed after a nap but having no legs for example wouldn't be worth the trade.
For me the important part would be "do I have any more energy while awake than I do now?"
Most of the time I'm so tired that I don't really think I'd want to prolong that period of the day by another 7'ish hours.
Always the Best!!
4:25 if you just need company you wouldn't have to get a job for it.
You could simply try to find friends online who live in a different time zone and spend your night time chatting with them while you other friends are asleep
Yes without hesitation, the problem is not time, it is my difficulty falling asleep and inability to hear alarm clock WHEN I finally sleep. At important periods of my career, I have gone 48 hours without sleep in order to avoid missing an alarm.
If sleep was not a factor to contend with, I am confident my life would be substantially better.
I do not touch computers after sunset, and I dont touch caffeine after 12:00 pm
You could practice using your brain as an alarm clock. Think about what time you want to wake up as you're falling asleep, visualize it if that helps. Over time your circadian rhythm should recognize and conform to this. Kind of like how your body sometimes will naturally wake up before your alarm, it's basically using the same mechanism
For me, the worst thing is that for workdays I have to allocate 2/3 of my time to sleep and the other to work, and about half of what is left is to eat, take a shower and stuff.
If I would get 7hrs of free time, I would get a lot of time for my personal projects, so yeah, I would pay everything I have for this pill
The longest I've went without sleep is 6 days straight. I played Oblivion most days and on the 5th day I drove my mom somewhere, I can't remember where to now, as It's been around 10 years ago. After day 2 I stopped feeling sleepy but kept a slight fog and found that concentration was more difficult and would forget small tasks, like forgetting to empty my inventory in the game and having to sit through another loading screen. I only went to sleep because I got bored of the game and didn't want to go back out into the woods on day 6.