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Give me a double shot of CX717

Comment comment by romanizzo on 28 August 2005

Ok, so assuming I live to be about 75 (if the booze, women, tobacco or army don't kill me first) and also assuming that I average 6 hours of sleep a night, I will have wasted almost 20 years of my life sleeping.

Now I can appreciate a good nap as much as the next man. But if I could healthily cut sleep out of my life (or at least cut 50%) I would be a happy man - paranoia and psychosis be damned!

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RE: Give me a double shot of CX717 by AdamWysokinski :: NR0

Well, it's more important how effectively you will utilize your time of alertness, than for how long you will be awake and non-creative. There is a quite good book on sleep - Alexander Borbely "Secrets of Sleep" (available on Amazon.com), inside there is a chapter about famous people and time they used to sleep (e.g. Napoleon - about 2-3 h/day, Edison - 4-6, but also Einstein - up to 10 hours).

There is also Daniel Kripke's study (read here) on increased death rate associated with sleeping time.

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RE: Give me a double shot of CX717 by romanizzo :: NR6

That wasn't supposed to be funny, comment-scorer-guy, I was dead serious!

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