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Insomniacs - CM style - 5/24/2010 6:25:19 AM

Termyn8or

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To preface quickly - I am fighting three legal battles and I intend to win. I've always had a problem with sleeping, that is I tend to sleep in spurts. Lately these cases go through my mind and I think if my brain feels like thinking about the issue now, it's a good time to do it. Eventually I get tired of thinking about it and then rather than lay there like a bump in the bed, I might sign on for a bit.

But I've noticed a pattern of sorts here, well not so much a pattern, perhaps more of a lack of pattern. Looking at the time of posts, and seeing who is on at like 4 AM has proven quite random. People on in the middle of the night who I know are like from at least the same time zone, or maybe one adjacent to me. What is it ? If it was all the time I would simply conclude that some people work different shifts. But the pattern does not fit. In fact no pattern seems to fit.

So what gives ? Do you sometimes get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and decide to log on and see which way the wind blows here ? I mean that would be a CM addict kinda, and I would have to admit to being one. But usually after draining the vein at 4 AM I find I can't get directly back to sleep, so many times I'll get on just to see what's going on if anything. On certain nights this forum moves faster than even IRC could hope to, other times it is so dead it's unbelievable, you could hear a pin drop - on plush carpet.

So what gives ? Has sleeping become erratic for many ? I can see that happening. In the old days you might not have much choice, at night it was dark and during the day you had to work because you were "burning daylight". Has the advent of the electric light and internet changed us ? Well, no, I didn't mean the question to be so broad, of course it has. But has it actually changed the way we sleep ? Is this becoming more common now ?

Perhaps a mundane point, but sleep is important*. And I did want to bring up something other than politics.

*I read of a person who never slept, IIRC it was clinically proven because nobody would believe it at first. Assuming that wasn't an elaborate hoax, is it possible that we really do not need to sleep but have been conditioned to sleep ? And of course one person in six billion does not proof make of course, but then there may be others. If the need for sleep is not innate, all the environmental and societal conditions for such conditioning are there. I know sleep is real, that it can be evidenced by an EEG and so forth, but not everyone is wearlng the electrodes when they bed down for the night. Is it possible that more people than we might realize never really sleep, but they are just relaxing their body and their eyes ?

Any thoughts on this folks ?

T