No Sleep Theory

You may love to sleep but why do you love to sleep. You probably love to sleep b/c it makes you feel so good when you get a good night sleep.....right? Even I cannot live with out sleep. I guess I would call myself a "Sleep Hater". I hate sleep. I mean....if it didn't make my body feel better to sleep, I won't do it. What a waste of time! I'm basically laying there doing nothing when I could be doing so many other things.

Ok......so what if we didn't need to sleep. Imagine all the things you could get done and accomplish in your life. I'm not talking about work stuff. That's boring. I'm talking about things in your life that you want to do before you die. I want to travel to all 50 states in the US, travel through Europe, check out my heritage in Italy and Ireland, bunge jump, sky dive......the list goes on and on.

Think about it. Say you sleep on average 7 hours per day. So on average you would sleep about 2,555 hours per year. This is about 30% of the total number of hours in a year (Hours of sleep in a year/Total number of hours in year = 2555/8760). Well, I feel like a lazy ass. For about 30% of my year, I am just laying there sleeping. Nice! That's great news.

Let's take a look at sleep over your lifetime. It's very interesting. Average Life Expectancy in the US is around 75 years of age. I think it has gone up but that's a good estimate. When you are 75 years old, you have slept approximately 191,625 hours out of 657,000 in your lifetime which is again about 30%. When you die...hypothetically speaking, you have slept about 30% of your life away.

I know....I know. We need sleep to live. I understand that. But wouldn't it be cool if you could live without sleeping. Look at the things you could accomplish with that 30%. The things you are passionate about...maybe it's hiking or some kind of hobby. I'll have more to come in the future. This is just the beginning.


~ROC