I can’t fall asleep
November 13th, 2006
It’s 4:33 am, and I’m up now because I haven’t been able to fall asleep. It seems to me that sleep is overrated. You’re not conscious during sleep, so it’s not something you enjoy the same way as you enjoy a good movie or an ice cream sundae. About one third of your life is spent in sleep, so if you’re 30, you’ve really only been awake about 20 years. Medical science is spending its time trying to prolong life by curing diseases, but they could give everyone an automatic 33% increase in lifespan if they could just cure sleep.
