If it was possible to never feel tired again, would you?

SuprSi · 15-01-2012 01:26AM #1

Say you were offered a free, 100% safe operation that ensured you would never feel tired again, never needed sleep (and could never sleep) and would add 5 - 9 hours to your 24 daily hours without suffering from tiredness or fatigue, would you do it? Obviously you'd still feel physically tired from exercise, but I'm talking about the normal desire to fall asleep in the evening after a long day.

Personally, I enjoy sleeping, and particuarly dreaming - I really look forward to it. Having said that, I hate feeling tired, and I feel tired quite a lot. It affects most things in my life and if I had the chance to never feel tired again, and never crave sleep, that would be difficult to turn down.

brummytom · 15-01-2012 01:30AM

I don't think I could go the rest of my life without sleeping. Sometimes we just need to sleep, and get away from everything for a while. Things are always better in the morning. Without sleep, the world would feel, I think, like a horrible place. Everyone would always be doing something, and if they weren't - what would be the point in giving up sleep?

Doing absolutely nothing is severely underrated.

Liam Byrne · 15-01-2012 01:30AM

No

There's nothing quite like the feeling of relaxation and satisfaction that comes from hitting the sack at the end of a productive day or a hard workout.

Now, if it was a way of avoiding random and no-reason tiredness, then maybe.

bicardi19 · 15-01-2012 01:30AM

No way, it would be like selling your soul, I love to go to bed. What would you do after sex?
What would you do when everyone else is asleep?

Manach · 15-01-2012 01:31AM

No dreams, no thanks.

policarp · 15-01-2012 01:32AM

What would be the point in sex then if you couldn't just roll over afterwards and start snoring?. . .

Insect Overlord · 15-01-2012 01:33AM

bicardi19 wrote: »

What would you do when everyone else is asleep?

Browse Boards, like I do most nights when people are asleep. :cool:

Yakult · 15-01-2012 01:34AM

For 6-8 hours a day I can escape this **** world, no body is taking that away from me. EVER!!

Insect Overlord · 15-01-2012 01:34AM

policarp wrote: »

What would be the point in sex then if you couldn't just roll over afterwards and start snoring?. . .

Reproduction. /buzz-kill

:pac:

RickRoll · 15-01-2012 01:34AM

Yes because I wouldn't have to get up for work.

gurramok · 15-01-2012 01:34AM

Alot of fantasys happen during your sleep so a no to some techie solution to us not sleeping

Mr. Incognito · 15-01-2012 01:35AM

hmmmmmmm,

No- that feeling on Saturday when you realise you have no work and get to wake up and go back to sleep is one of the best feelings in life.

ygolometsipe · 15-01-2012 01:35AM

I am pretty sure my boss dreams about this and me signing the dotted line! are you my boss?, just cos im not sleeping right now, doesn't mean I dont need sleep - I'll see you on monday at 9 11

starbelgrade · 15-01-2012 01:36AM

I'd drive myself demented if I didn't get to sleep of a night.

At the end of the day, it's a good thing that you shut off & sleep for a few hours.

Liam Byrne · 15-01-2012 01:37AM

gurramok wrote: »

Alot of fantasys happen during your sleep so a no to some techie solution to us not sleeping

Now - a techie solution where you could control your dreams (e.g. relive a great day or night 100%, or even break away from the actual memory to take a different - albeit virtual - path) would be cool!

efb · 15-01-2012 01:37AM

Sleep is awesome!

later12 · 15-01-2012 01:37AM

Of course I would. I'll probably spend about a quarter of a million hours of my life unconscious. That's almost a third of my expected life... one in every three minutes totally out of it.

No thanks, I'd rather enjoy what time I have.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 15-01-2012 01:38AM

Sleeping is the best part of my day. That's kind of why I stay up all night.

Chuck Stone · 15-01-2012 01:46AM

I like being tired. Feel sharper in my mind when I feel tired for some strange reason. More quick on the reply if you know what I mean?

Disclaimer: I'm half pissed.

carfiosaoorl · 15-01-2012 01:48AM

No way I would rather feel tired forever. I can remember when my kids were babies getting up for night feeds, it feels like you are the only person in the world awake, such a lonely feeling. I would hate to suffer from insomnia.

Ewo · 15-01-2012 01:53AM

No. To sleep, perchance to dream, ay, there's the rub.

gurramok · 15-01-2012 02:20AM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Now - a techie solution where you could control your dreams (e.g. relive a great day or night 100%, or even break away from the actual memory to take a different - albeit virtual - path) would be cool!

Is that you Tom Cruise aka some 90's film i can't remember the name of?

Yeh if we can control our dreams would be uber-cool. Often i've gone to bed imagining a positive situation only it to switch to something utterly different by the time I woke up several hours later, now if that can be controlled via some Harvard grad techie inventor would be well the best since they invented electricity

Temptamperu · 15-01-2012 02:21AM

Yes I get all my best plans laid at night when your all tucked up but then I get all tired and cant finish my enemies lists

Liam Byrne · 15-01-2012 02:36AM

gurramok wrote: »

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Now - a techie solution where you could control your dreams (e.g. relive a great day or night 100%, or even break away from the actual memory to take a different - albeit virtual - path) would be cool!

Is that you Tom Cruise aka some 90's film i can't remember the name of?

Yeh if we can control our dreams would be uber-cool. Often i've gone to bed imagining a positive situation only it to switch to something utterly different by the time I woke up several hours later, now if that can be controlled via some Harvard grad techie inventor would be well the best since they invented electricity

Vanilla Sky, maybe ?

gurramok · 15-01-2012 02:46AM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Vanilla Sky, maybe ?

You're asking me at this hour of the night whilst under the influence? :P

Yeh, probably was Vanilla Sky, just imagine if we could manipulate our dreams into something positive? Think of the feelgood factor!

Kev.OC · 15-01-2012 02:53AM

SuprSi wrote: »

Say you were offered a free, 100% safe operation that ensured you would never feel tired again, never needed sleep (and could never sleep) and would add 5 - 9 hours to your 24 daily hours without suffering from tiredness or fatigue, would you do it? Obviously you'd still feel physically tired from exercise, but I'm talking about the normal desire to fall asleep in the evening after a long day.

Personally, I enjoy sleeping, and particuarly dreaming - I really look forward to it. Having said that, I hate feeling tired, and I feel tired quite a lot. It affects most things in my life and if I had the chance to never feel tired again, and never crave sleep, that would be difficult to turn down.

That part right there is where you lost me. It'd be handy at times to not need sleep, but I'd hate to not be able to ever sleep again.

44leto · 15-01-2012 02:56AM

Yeah
I always hated going to bed, I regard sleeping as a waste of life.

wilkie2006 · 15-01-2012 03:07AM

I hate going to bed. I do everything I can to delay it. For me, there's nothing more depressing than getting home from work and only having a few hours to enjoy before sleep and it all beginning again.

In fact, I find that the early hours are when I'm at my most productive. I used to write my best college essays at 2am (and, unfortunately, now some of my work stuff too).

Although I hate going to bed, I enjoy it when I'm there. I f3cking hate getting up in the mornings....

gurramok · 15-01-2012 03:11AM

wilkie2006 wrote: »

In fact, I find that the early hours are when I'm at my most productive. I used to write my best college essays at 2am (and, unfortunately, now some of my work stuff too).

How's the essay going now as its just past 2am? Perhaps write an AH novel?

Lady von Purple · 15-01-2012 03:12AM

I like my lie-ins too much.

Also, what would you put in the bedroom in place of the bed? And what would you call the bedroom?

Weird idea OP. Weird idea.

El Guapo! · 15-01-2012 03:12AM

ygolometsipe wrote: »

I am pretty sure my boss dreams about this and me signing the dotted line! are you my boss?, just cos im not sleeping right now, doesn't mean I dont need sleep - I'll see you on monday at 9 11

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