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A thought, when I was getting to sleep: I want to be there already, so I want time to go as fast as it can, to rush on and take me with it in its stream. But I also want to savor every moment that I can get. Every day, I want to sleep and get to the next day and enjoy my sleep- but there are so many things I want to read, and do, and talk about. Everyone talks about the difficulties of balancing one's time, but I think that it's more than that- am I living for now, for this moment, or am I living for the future? And which choice means which? Is getting enough sleep living for now or the future? Is not getting enough sleep which? Or neither? Can we really know, always- or is each decision on its own?
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Every decision is part of a system, complete with consequences (positive, negative, and/or neutral) for each piece thereof. I shudder to think of people who consider their decisions to be made in a vacuum (but I know people who have done it, and with rather disastrous results).
And this is the rest of my answer (http://www.livejournal.com/users/thevortex/#entry_22035)
Huzzah!
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After enough time without sleep, you aren't really living at all. You're a shadow of yourself; you go through life like a zombie. I'm not into science, but I'm pretty sure they've done extensive research on this sort of thing - the benefits of sleep, the disadvantages and dangers of too little sleep, etc.
Luckily, what constitutes "enough sleep" is highly individualized. So are proper sleeping hours. For me, I have to go to bed "early" (for college kids - around 11pm) so I can wake up with the sun. Otherwise, I feel weird and disjointed all day long.
And hey, God clearly wants us to sleep, too. "B'yado afkid ruchi, b'eyt ishan, v'a'ira..." :)