A sleepless question...

[solidoxygen]

As I was furiously doing my homework, I saw that it was already 2AM and time for me to get some sleep! I was quite upset since I absolutely love doing homework! 7 hours at school simply isn't enough work for me! I want to go over everything and do mind-numbing work during my free time as well!

I put away my homework and decided to do it the next morning on the bus.

If only I did not have to sleep! Then I could do work 24 hours straight! I imagined that life of absolute and pure bliss for a while before I fell asleep.

So here's the question: what would life be like if you never needed to sleep or got sleepy? Instead of wasting a fourth of your life, you could spend the full 24 hours of every single day.

How would life in general be different and how would your life be different?
Feel free to add anything else related to the topic of NEVER NEEDING TO SLEEP.

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[akmal]

as you said that you wasting fourth of your life ,imagine it from other side that your body needs the sleep to regenerate ,and if you didnt get enough energy regenerated it could shorten your life more than a 1/4 ;) .
so i would say its not wasted time

but if it was not needed i think the life would be shortened and so possibly could you make more things in one round, but in end effect probably would not be more than in our regular life span...

(sorry for some bad spelling , i didnt learn english at all)

[AnkokuRyuu]

i'd be a wreck i need my beauty sleep, besides i like to escape to my dreamworld when life gets me down

[solidoxygen]

Yeah, the question is that suppose you didn't have the biological need to sleep---in fact, go as far as to say that nobody even knew what sleeping was; if sleeping never existed. What would life be like with all those extra hours? What would the world be like?

And c'mon guys, no spamming ;)

[takasuryuuji]

My answer to your question is "The life without sleep or getting sleepy is somehow boring and lifeless....because of lack in energy......

[egreyes]

..... Didn't have the biological need to sleep or even a knowledge about it: Uhmmm... What would be my answer??? Let me think first!@@@@@.....Aha!

..... If i that time comes life will be more exciting enough.... You will be able to spend your time to somethings that you want most.... Regrets in everything you've done in your life is not expected from you because you are given the time for it to make it happen....

..... People around the world will be hyper enough or the opposite of the latter; lazier enough because of "Ma?ana Habit" (hehehe... We Filipinos have it! Don't deny the fact!).... PEACE my fellow countrymen....


FYI:
Ma?ana (Ma nya na) habit - a habit of Procrastination which means to postpone doing something that we want or need to do ......

[kurai]

Well if everyone in the world did not have to sleep, we would be using our full brain capacity. School would end in half the time and we would live twice as long. Sleep takes up half of our lives more or less. For example: if you die at 60 you lived conscientiously for 30 years. Days would seem longer, and there might be a rest period sometime in the day, probably night time. The rest period being just lazing around for a bit. Our life spans would increase and the world would be like a bee hive.

A future like that would be scary.:emhh06:

[mlcdl]

Well I already spent my fourth of my day twice in gaming....so I think it depends on the thing you want to do

[lastshin]

well I spend 1/4 ro 1/5 of my 24 hour sleeping it'll be hard for me it that would happen
because sleeping is one of the things that saves me from boredness
(but of course anime is still the no.1 medicine for my boredness)

[OVirus53]

Me? I'd probably find myself spending a lot more time outdoors, as I actually love the nighttime. It's just really difficult for me to sleep during the day, so I have to sleep at night.

Me and my friends would probably be doing movie marathons like crazy mad. I mean, we've watched like 4 movies in a row in one day, but that's about all I could pull before I felt really exhausted and needed to drive home before I collapsed... :^P

If not that, you'd probably be finding me and my friends cruising around downtown getting more familiar with the afterhours crowds.

But that's IF I needed no sleep at all. Wish it was that way. :^P

Oh, I'd also probably have watched a lot more anime by now as well.

[jhai0603]

Putting it in two words, it would be like:
"Alphonse Elric"
...but.
Since I'd rather not be banned, I'd think that life without sleep (and without the consequence of the lack thereof) would be absolutely fantastic.
I live through summer by rallying the night watching anime's or playing games, desperately forcing my eyes open, even to the point of prying them awake.
Without sleep, I think there wouldn't be the need of forcing myself awake, no need of setting a mini-bed infront of the computer just to secure a comfortable position whilst dozing off every now and then.

In other words, boring.
I'd be dumbfounded by the loss of challenge and the trickiness of my sleep-deprived stature. All my urge to shut my eyelids would disappear, I'd have to calmly stay awake at night, waiting for the sun to rise, then repeating the process over and over.
There would exist a stereotypical world of darkness, steadily being awake.
Just boring.
Boo.

[jeiru01]

In my opinion, I don't think I'll like life without sleep.. ah, because when you're sleeping you can escape boring-ness, or the times that are too intense for you. ex: surgeries, and angry mob outside your house. but on the other side, not sleeping can also be an advantage because you have your full attention to things, ex: you get to guard your own house at night, protect yourself or even guard your house from angry mobs. haha.

If sleeping won't exist. (not needing it) I might have been here OL, browsing the net, writing, studying, etc (my other stuffs ex: reading ). I would have been bored from seeing things every minute. I think It would be hard. plus, It would be noisy all day long..

[jfmarasigan1]

no sleep eh?

that'd be great...
i can do things that i'm not able to finish in a day if i slept... that includes homework too.

though.. it would really be boring if i finish things before the day ends.

[Cabale]

I didnt like the fact that I was going to lose 1/3 of my life just by sleeping, so I've been chipping away at that number. I think I have it down to less then 1/4, the plan is almost a success...

I function off 3-4 hours of sleep, but it would be nice to not have to sleep. You'd have to remember though that anything you do, it would be hindered because others would still have to sleep. I think...

[p4pex33]

Hahahha,if you won't sleep, all of us might look like Gaara, The one tailed jinchuuriki,.... haha

[qwertyuiop10]

hahaha....

i cant imagine that!~
50 percent of my life is being lazy in bed when i was home~
and the another was streaming an anime~

oh~
i realize
i can stream all i want to stream in full 24 hours~

whahaha


i think all of people are out of energy so they just look far away and think all what they thought



man its so boring~the world is boring if that happens

[Cptkurke]

Life would fell longer.....and we would prolly fell bored all the time

[Somilge]

I am an insomniac so its probably weird to say this but we need sleep LOL

if ever we didn't need to sleep at all, provided that lack of sleep isn't going to make one sick, i suppose life would be very..... hectic >.< Hectic. Frantic. A never ending manic Monday.

[katl91995]

i think that life will be shorter if we don't sleep
and people are gonna be tired everyday..........
but for me its okay............
i can stream anime everyday without resting...........lol

[mikitty]

Yeah, the question is that suppose you didn't have the biological need to sleep---in fact, go as far as to say that nobody even knew what sleeping was; if sleeping never existed. What would life be like with all those extra hours? What would the world be like?

I get your point.. but in time we will feel the urge to rest.. to relax from all that work, play, or whatever it is your doing.. we might get bored or tired doing all that stuff.. and i think when that time comes.. we'll realize that if we have the biological need to sleep.. we can rest, relax.. if we want to.. ^_^

[LeonCarreon]

I would always watch the Twilight! >.<

*TWILIGHT
-the soft glowing light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, caused by the refraction and scattering of the sun's rays from the atmosphere.
-the period of the evening during which this takes place, between daylight and darkness

*NO. I WASN'T TALKING ABOUT THE BOOK/MOVIE... Eew... (No offence y'all Twilight Fanatics) >.<

[Ephenyan]

sleeping didn't exist?
heck, I would be spending the fourth my life getting reprimanded by my mother!
my only escape to all their blabbering would be sleep.
and that's one excuse down to a person you really don't want to talk or meet to.
and that's also one excuse down to being late for a friend's night out

that's three negative ways to look at it. but I suppose it would also be good now that
I can finally finish a lot of things boggling on my head for some time now

[Bindu1000]

That would be awesome to me ... I would work 12 - 14 hrs (like I do anyway) and then spend the other 10-12 hrs reading, playing games and having with my beloved. Can you just imagine the things people would come up with?
Night Time Sports
Pinyata in the dark
Moonbathing
Walking your dog in nightparks (that is assuming your dog would also not need to sleep, otherwise when you call him for a walk in the night, he would just raise one eye and look at you like you were nuts and go right back to sleep
Ahhhh the blisss

However in reality ... knowing the way the human competitiveness works, schools will expect us to do double shifts (kids will be graduating by the age of 12), offices will expect a minimum of 18 - 20 hrs of work and generally mankind's insane need to fill every moment of every day with what would be considered as "usedful labour" would end up eating into all that sleep time and alas! Us poor Otaku's would be back to square one again :2:

[taurel200]

Well i would watch 24 hours of otakustreamers anime all day hahahaha

[MioAkiyama]

if sleep didnt exist ?
thats hard for a question i will always hear my mom shouting at me
my dad always making me do his bidding
getting humiliated and hurt by my brother
and going to school at night? wth i would die
and maybe an insanity would exist more than sleep
and i remembered the show fairly odd parents lol their god child wishes that sleep didnt existed
and then what happened the world became tires and have eyebags all over their faces
and they were all i want my beauty sleep

[Snoozy19]

Wouldn't we all be like machines and workaholics if we never get fatigued enough for sleep??

If I lived my life without sleep, I would probably spend half a day studying and the other half having fun...
I would hone my drawing ability and make my first original manga (I really would)... but getting better at drawing is gonna take alot more time but because sleep is out of the equation then I'm fine with it..LOL

Since the question only implies the poster and not everyone else, I'd be lonely at night and feel bored staying in the house... I might go out and walk on the beach for fresh air every night.

[musikalles]

I'm not sure what I'd specifically set aside for during that time when we normally sleep... it'd just get filled up with life the way the rest of the day is scheduled. If nobody had to sleep, you know that schools, stores, and offices would never close. And at night, darkness wouldn't serve any purpose except for possibly agriculture. Or not being at risk of sunburn as you continue to work all day long.

[IndI311]

i think i would commit suicide..
..because sleeping is the one and only perfect way..
...to get out of reality..
....
..though i wish there would be 8 more hours
...and that our body would be able to handle it
..
.

[Elexia12]

i'd have time to do everythin' I want or have to do. For example, I can't spend a day with my mind on studies, I NEED free time to watch anime, play videogames, watch tv, etc, anything but college related things. So if I wouldn't needed to sleep i'd have time to study and to do any of my "free time activities".

[batmer]

well my life would be a whole different thing if im allowed to stay 24 hours without sleep..i mean that would be a very great experience because you can do extra things that normally you cant just like spending more time watching anime or any kind of things that interest you for a day..

[Kobowo]

hmmm...I think they would increase work time and school time as well since we dont need to sleep but then what would be the replacement for rest since we dont sleep? >.<

oh and one thing I find cool if we dont have to sleep is there could also be school at night time~ so cool XD

[Drache]

lets see.... if I never had to sleep again for the rest of my life..... I'd probably play more video games and watch more anime, read more books and so forth, basically, my life wouldn't change THAT much.... unless I wanted to work longer shifts and all that, which then I'd make more money, and be able to buy more stuff.....

[SPYHUNTER]

I suppose without the knowledge of sleep (due to the lack of need for it) we would be free to pursue our crazy life without stopping. As for me.....blah I suppose I would spend the time relaxing. But there again...the whole world would change. We work an 8 to 12 hour day mostly because its assumed we need to sleep for 6 to 8 hrs or so each day. So I might suggest that we might find ourselves working 20 hour days and a few hours for free time etc.

Long story short.....I like being able to sleep to pass some time.

[Shaoty]

Hmmm no dreaming hmmmm, and without sleep you'd be exhausted lack too much energy and pass out. But if that wasn't the case what would happen to hangovers?

[JLFabrero]

well sleep is needed by our body in order to rest, but if we removed the necessity to sleep, I think those times would be boring...


WHY?!!!


because the EARTH rotates...

that's why we have day and night

just the same as awake and asleep....


Imagine being always awake during the DARK and COLD night... that's boring... and we'll use much more energy that will pollute the environment....

right?!!!

ClapCLap to me, hahahaha

[eliemusica]

if i never need to go to sleep at all,

i will go and watch every anime series on OS
maybe go and do part-time jobs. usually it pays better if work at night
practice my photoshop skills
and
i'd polish up my guitar skills in the middle of the night, where everyone will be like 'wth?' hehehe...;)

wow.life would be soo much easier. but thank god to sleep as well. atleast i get to dream of flying in the clouds~

[Viletomb2010]

I can do more productive things than sleeping like studying or watching animes

[kellybang]

youll gonna lose your mind..i tried not sleeping for 2 days because of school it started wednesday we where taping a video for our project in Filipino.it took us a day then after the taping i edited the vids from 8pm to 4am in the morning "i was editing 230+ clips with many scene errors and i have to cut it" then class starts at 7 then gone to school from 7am to 5pm "i didnt have the time to sleep because i need to sign all my clearances" then after class went back at home putting some effects in the vids took me quite some time. and i didnt have the time to sleep again because its already 6am then went back to school and played our vid...lol i didnt care anymore my mind was blank and i slept on the soccer ground with my friends :)) "it was the last week of school and i was graduating" brings back memories

[Paoru]

i just did a 3 day marathon on demon's souls with no sleep (but breaks in between). who needs sleep anyway when you got..... COFFEE!!! >:D

[byotch07]

i dont do mu homework at home. im doing it in the library. at school. library is my place.

[DwinLylthx]

A person Without needing sleep huh. I can't Imagine it! I life without sleep? =_= I think a person can't leave without sleeping. Its the best part of Resting. XD I love to Sleep anyways. XD

[pooghost]

As people above have said, life would become more boring. Well, I would've been in a better physical shape than now, because I'd use that 1/3 (as it is to me) on sports instead of sleep, I guess....

[catalyst21]

well if I ever get the chance of not needing to sleep I think I'll use that 8 hours to ....uhm....

I don't know,..

read all the manga in the world?

(gosh,now that I think of it is kind of cool...nah,no thanks I think I still need to sleep.)

[Naruhina101]

well for me... i would do the things i wanted to.. studying,helping OS and lots of stuffs...
and i just hope that if this would come true i hope this doesn't have any physical effects.. ^^

[hotshot75]

During school days, sleep is like heaven.

[error345]

If our bodies didn't need sleep and we up all the time, i think i would find it boring, i mean eventually you'll get tired of doing whatever, i'd compared this to a life of a vampire, the days would seem so long, never-ending, the only reason we like certain things is because there's a limit to how much or how long we can have it, if you remove that limit very soon you get tired/bored of that, you can only change and find something new but after constantly changing it gets tiring..

[yurinino]

without sleeping and never feel that sleepyness...nah that would be wonderful...I will sit in the front of pc not whole day but half day and I'll spend my enough time in..writing novels..eat ..and do some interesting stuff...
but I can't imagine what's the possibly or how world end up if all of us don't need to sleep..hehe

[Reizero]

first off, do my homework for me!

okay, if i could do anything for the full 24/7, i would still sleep a lot. i love sleeping, and i love the dreams that i have. they're like my own little escapes from reality and adventures formed from my mind. i can't live without them. and so really i would just spend the days like any other day right now since it would be the same

[iHoriz0n]

THAT WOULD BE THE WORST NIGHTMARE FOR ME XDD since my favourite things are bath and bed, don't you want to lie down on your bed, wearing socks while outside is pouring heavily, sleeping soundly listening to raindrops, that would be life XDD
But in any case, i will take baths longer (possibly one-third longer), watch more animes, chat even more, study even more, that's it i guess XDD

[benito18]

well I think that is not necessary because we know the fact that people will get tired at the end of the day so we need also rest a sleep..and it's part of everyday lives.

[Quaesitum]

Even though I wouldn't need sleep, I think I would sleep anyway if I still had the capacity to. If not, things would get much more boring. I think it would be a lot harder to gauge between days, too. I'm bad enough with dates as it is! I could just be like "oh it's been two weeks since I checked the date.. what have I been doing?"

And if those with jobs didn't need sleep, the number of hours one is allotted to work full-time would be basically cancelled out! (Unless we'd still experience fatigue... then that statement is entirely moot)

But. If everything else stayed the same and I had an extra couple of hours to do whatever I wanted to (and if I didn't have the capacity to sleep at all) I think I'd just partake in more leisurely activities. Or if I absolutely needed to get something done I'd have that much more time to work on it. :3

[naark]

just sharing my thouht in this...
i think it would be great for me if i dont need sleep..
cause i've always dreamed of somehow i dont want to sleep cause i
want to maximize my downloading,my anime watching,gaming,social life,night life and etc...
but no sleep cant be cause there is no mortal that dont need a rest.. even computers,and gadgets need rest and maintenance so it will be just as cool as a dream

[BloodroseCC]

I would watch a lot of anime, read fan-fiction,and be outside wondering around. I do enjoy sleep tho I'm like a cat I need 12 hours of sleep.