Yesterday I slept for 18 hours.
18 hours.
Essentially I slept the entire day away.
To add some perspective to this:
I went to sleep at 5 o'clock Saturday morning (after working as a PA for 14 hours) and woke up at 11 o'clock Saturday night.
I did not see the light of Saturday whatsoever.
Maybe some people think it is normal to sleep this long. But in no way, shape, or form is this normal behavior for me.
If I had it my way I wouldn't sleep at all.
I'm a do-er. An incredibly ambitious and controlling person. I don't like to miss a beat. Everyone in my life knows this, has been annoyed by this, and can attest to this.
That's why most of my family and friends thought I was dead yesterday. My poor parents went as far as to call multiple of my friends to confirm I wasn't dead in a ditch somewhere, simply because I hadn't answered my phone all day (which was actually dead).
I assume this all means that I needed the sleep. Which every bone in my body hates to admit. I've been pretty busy the past few weeks with classes and interning and attempting to maintain a social life. But I wouldn't want it any other way. Busy is the only way I know how to be. It's the only way I ever want to be.
There is so much I want to do with my life that I can't stand to waste days being not busy.
So there you go, tired body, you got your sleep. All 18 hours of it. Today is homework and being social and getting ready for the busy week ahead.
As it should be.
So I've definately done this before, sleeping all day. Except, I LOVE sleeping! Staying busy is really a good thing though, but sometimes we all need to catch up on our Zzzzz's:)
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So funny you bring up the topic of excessive and utterly obnoxious lengths of sleep, because Thursday night I slept for 14 hours. I went to sleep at two thirty, which is reasonably early for me, and woke up at four thirty p.m. the next day. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the time on the desk clock beside me, but I can't say I didn't see it coming. You see, I'm the exact way you are. I never sleep. I feel that sleep is trivial and unnecessary. There are too many things to be done and that I want to do to take a healthy six to eight hours out of my busy schedule to set aside in a state of dormancy. I'm too anxious for that. And, yes, yes I'm aware that a lack of sleep can lead to problems focusing and memory impediments and personality disorders, blah blah blah; however, I just can't see the cons outweighing the pros in most situations. For this, I tend to crash sleep one night out of the week and then return to my night owl habits. It's crazy and abnormal, but, whatever, it works.
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