Who else loves to sleep?

[NightWatcher]

I love sleeping.

It's the first thing I think about every morning.

When I get up, I can't wait to get back to sleep.

It's like death without the commitment.

In fact, I'm going to bed early tonight because I slept like shit last night.

Oh, sweet release of sleep.

[Skittles]

1. ME, ME

being a chronic insomniac makes real sleep so much sweeter; I especially like it when it's cold and I can wrap myself like a burrito

[Exhibit A]

6. Same here! n/t

[kelly1mm]

2. I have recently retired and I sleep 10 hours a day at least absent any very specific reason. So yes,

I love to sleep and I love waking up 'naturally' just as much. So much more pleasant than an alarm clock!

[Laffy Kat]

3. Yes! The best sleep in the world is ..

going back to sleep in the morning, at least for me. For some reason it's even better if I have a cup of coffee first and then go back to sleep. I sleep hard and have incredibly vivid dreams before waking up the second time. I'm addicted to this method.

[Exhibit A]

4. Ha!

I love sleep, but I usually can't, so it's AC/DC for me!

[Hoyt]

5. Dreams are hard to beat. Like to take a long nap so I can stay up later.

[cwydro]

7. Who doesn't? nt

[Skittles]

8. Pee Wee Herman liked being awake more than he liked sleeping

yes INDEED

[cwydro]

9. Ummm. Not sure...

Wait, you used the past tense about him.

Please tell me I did not miss something.

I loved Pee Wee.

[Skittles]

12. aw I was thinking of scene from movie

alarm goes off and he is so joyous is jumping up and down on the bed

[cwydro]

13. Lol! Thanks.

Seems like so much bad news lately...I got a bit skeered on your post.

[pinboy3niner]

11. He has to keep an eye on his bike. :) nt

[Skittles]

14. and more from what I hear

[BlancheSplanchnik]

17. I know this is usually your job....but....

YOU WANT YOUR ASS KICKED? I think you're just ASKING for an ass kicking, here.

[Skittles]

20. I am constantly asking

I think people are afraid of me

[rurallib]

10. I have grown much fonder of sleep as I grow older

We got one of those foam beds a few years back. On a cold night it is so warm, buried under the covers. Fresh warm flannel sheets, a warm kitty and something on the radio - oh my!

[femmocrat]

15. I know I sleep too much.

It's one of the consequences of retirement, I guess.

[Xipe Totec]

16. To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub,

HAMLET
To be, or not to be? That is the question—
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep—
No more—and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep.
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

18. I. am so glad to know I'm not the only one!

I love it. Warm and snuggly in the winter.

[murielm99]

19. I love to sleep because I have

such a hard time with it. My husband sleeps like a log. Not me.

[Skittles]

21. aw isn't that the worst, being with someone who sleeps like a log?

heck, even my cat, blissfully sleeping in full sunlight while laying on my car keys drives me nuts

[a la izquierda]

22. Me!

But I have awful insomnia.

[In_The_Wind]

24. That makes two of us.

[Quantess]

23. 8 hours is what I aim for

Not 8 hours of rest, or trying to sleep. I mean, 8 hours of sleep if I can make it happen. And I usually do!

I'm so lucky.

[In_The_Wind]

25. I enjoy sleeping. I just wish I wouldn't wake up every two hours.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

26. I am a gifted sleeper.

[OriginalGeek]

27. Le ft to my own devices

I will often sleep til noon.


Which sucks since I'm "supposed" to be at work by 10.


The alarm clock holds no power over me. I hear it - I just refuse to acknowledge it.


The only time in my adult life I can remember waking up on time and refreshed is several years ago while staying at a cousins house up in Maryland. I assume it was that mattress - no matter what time I went to bed (And I was staying up there because I was attending a 3-day concert event so was up late every night and had to wake up in time to drive into town to find good parking for the day's shows.) I woke up BEFORE my alarm went off and I felt absolutely wonderful. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and ready to take on the day. I attended the festival three years in a row and all three years the bed served me well and the rest of the year was the usual grumpy, tired, sucky chore of waking up. Unfortunately, my cousin said the bed itself was very old and he didn't have a clue where to get another mattress like that. It was his sister's bed from when she was a kid and lived there originally and she's almost 60 now.

My current mattress is one of those memory foam dealies but I'm not completely sold on it yet - it's about 6~8 years old I think. It doesn't leave me feeling great like my cousin's bed did but it's a damn sight better than most of the hotel beds I sleep in (I work overnight out of town fairly often so I get to sample many hotel beds).

I can tell you this, Marriott's aren't worth the price. Sadly, because of the company credit card and corporate rate deals we have I get stuck in a Marriott more often than not and, even with our super-de-duper fancy points upgrade scheme, the beds I get are just plain uncomfortable. It galls me to give Mittens any money but often it can't be helped. Hilton Gardens are usually pretty good though.

And either I don't know how to work them, or you just have to sleep in them more than a couple nights to find the right setting, but those sleep number beds are just gimmicks. Didn't like them a single bit.

[KMOD]

28. I would love to sleep 7 hours, in a row.

[Populist_Prole]

29. Big time! It's as important as air and food/drink to me

Except in rare cases where I have no choice, I always provide for 8 hours of sleep, very often an hour or two more to compensate for brief periods of waking up to drink water and/or urinate or just short bouts general sleeplessness. Like others too, I love the feeling in the morning of just rolling over and getting more sleep...much as I feel like.

I set this time aside; everything else be damned. There are only so many hours in the day, so be it: I'll never wake up early to do chores, projects etc. I'll just schedule that stuff for another day. If I have to get up very early, like for certain events or to catch a flight, I try like hell to make sure to arrange on the previous day I can be off work to prepare and get a good night's rest.

I understand people who are desperate and have no choice have to get by on little sleep, and empathize with them. Those that burn the candle at both ends by choice, I sneer at. My workplace is filled with dingbats who just shy of brag about how little sleep they allow themselves. They all, to a person, look like shit, display frequent absent-mindedness, and are slow to recover from colds and such.

I feel like I'm 10 feet tall all day long.

[bikebloke]

30. Learning to sleep again.

For a year, I had a foreboding feeling that something bad was going to hapen with my job. At least 1 - 2 nights without sleep a week. In September it amplified. Even less sleep and more restless nights. Finally, I was told my job was being eliminated at year's end. Big time stress. Now that I'm unemployed, sleep is gradually returning.

[olddots]

31. I was going to take a nap after reading this thread

now I'm worried about penquins legs lacking knees .

Do humans sleep the least amount amoungst animals ?

[In_The_Wind]

33. Hahaha

[Manifestor_of_Light]

32. Refreshing sleep is lifesaving.

People who brag about how little sleep they can get by on are missing the point. Lots of health problems are made worse by lack of sleep.

I got a CPAP machine for serious sleep apnea and discovered what being truly oxygenated and rested was for the first time in my nearly sixty years of life. I've had it a year and a half. Now I feel rested even if I don't get enough hours in. I don't have that overpowering urge to crawl back in bed if I have not gotten enough sleep. I thought I just wasn't a morning person. I was stumbling around blindly for hours. I found out I wasn't fully oxygenated. My O2 saturation was at 85% which is not good and I had numerous episodes of not breathing, probably almost one every minute. If you don't get enough deep REM sleep you don't get rested.