I was just reminded of the definition of insanity that goes: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results each time." Or something like that.
I go to bed way too late. What I do most of the time is stay up until 3 or 4 or 5am (with a rare 6am) and then expect to wake up at 8am, ready to go about my day. What happens, almost without fail, is that I hit the snooze for hours, or accidentally turn off the alarm and wake up at 10am, 11am, 12pm, or 1pm (in general, substantially later than I intend to).
I am trying to figure out a connection between these two thoughts, but it's not coming to me.
Insanity a Legal Definition: Not knowing the nauture of the act, and not being able to distinguish right from wrong at the time of the act.
ReplyDeleteYou're not insane. You know what you're doing (not going to bed) and you know it is wrong (or you wouldn't feel guilty or write about it); ergo you're not insane. I convict you of intentional acts of delayed somnia.
As you learned as a child every hour before midnight is worth two after. You are burning what little life force you have up.
PS Eating mustard is tantamount to satanism.
I've never understood that, why is sleep before midnight worth more than those after? I don't quite believe that people actually think that there is some magical sleeping resonance before midnight. I want to think that an early wake-up time is assumed, therefore it's an odd way of saying that getting a full 8 hours sleep is much more beneficial than getting 6 or 4. I mean they can't have thought that sleeping from 8 to midnight would leave you feeling more rested than if you slept from midnight to 4 right? Right?
ReplyDeleteEh, I don't know. Maybe at some point there was some test done and the subject's circadian rhythms were such that the hours of sleep before midnight were more restful than those after. Perhaps it does have something to do with the solar day, or the phase of the moon, or tides, or some shit. On the surface, however, it does seem a little irrational.
ReplyDeleteI don't tend to worry about it too much. I know when I'm expected to be at work, and if I don't get to bed by a certain time, then I'm useless at work.
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ReplyDeleteIt has to be based on the personal circadian rhythms of the subject in question. If it has any meaning at all. Midnight is the product of a watch spring. An arbitrary point that can be sprung forward or dropped back at the behest of the legislature.
ReplyDeleteI once picked a jury where this guy in the pool was wearing black clothes head to toe including gloves, a baseball cap, and Bono shades. He was obviously sleeping, and the judge asked him to remove his shades. Underneath his eyes were pinkish like a lab rat.
"I'm a day-sleeper." he said. The day-sleeper took off his hat, and his head was covered in kinky white hair. He was an albino African-American.
Doomed to roam the night, shunning the day always having to sleep while the rest of the world lived. So there's your answer HB3K: pink contacts, bleach your hair and tell people you're a Day-Sleeper. Stay up till the cows leave home.