Discussion Do humans 'live' longer the less time they are asleep?

[Memento Mori]

"Imagine it please. This human bean who says he is fifty has been fast asleep for twenty years and is not even knowing where he is! Not even doing anything! Not even thinking!"

- The BFG

Humans spend a large fraction of their time alive in a period of sleep. One might argue the less time you spend sleeping, the more time you get to experience this world through the mind and the senses.

Do you place more value on the time that you are awake and conscious? Or is sleep something that is necessary to you?

 

[Truckzo]

I sleep because rest is comforting, and plus because if I don't i'm in discomfort. I am very much into altered states of consciousness though and I have purposefully gone without sleeping because I think that what you're experiencing under these states is real in some aspect, maybe in an abstract manner (I'm esoteric)

 

[newsincerity]

we are made of memories

 

[Memento Mori]

we are made of memories

elab

 

[newsincerity]

elab

I'm not eloquent so I can't

 

[Memento Mori]

I'm not eloquent so I can't

I get the vibe of it tho

 

[lunin7]

I sleep for like 5 to 6 hours & im fine

I need to sleep on my back because when I sleep on my stomach it causes me to mouth breath since my nose is blocked, brootall

 

[The Patriarchy]

I get on the computer feel tired and want to sleep. I goto bed and get on the phone instead. I get amped up and want to go back on computer. The stroke did this to me.

 

[Nosecel_]

When you are sleeping your body is doing other functions, there's no way to escape sleep. Sleep debt is real, I'm not a scientist but I've tried to looking into it and as far as I'm aware there's a chemical called "adenosine" that your body removes as you are sleeping, not getting enough sleep just allows the chemical to build up, caffeine can temporarily block it but once it's effects run out you will still end up feeling progressively more tired, your brain and body becomes slower, your reaction time, etc.

Losing sleep correlates with dementia, cardiovascular disease, heart attacks, blah blah all of the stuff you don't want. The way I see it is that avoiding sleep will just make you more tired, hurt your health, and you'll still need to make up the sleep anyway, so you shouldn't jeopardize your health to try and avoid it. Just sleep when you are tired and build everything else around that, again low IQ just my opinion.