1 … 2 … 3 … Sleep
March 3, 2008
Objectives: start on color version of painting
Accomplishments: none
Physiology: Everyone has influenza, except me.
Provisions: I’m preparing sausage and rice jambalaya tonight.
Music: KTBG (90.9 mHz)
Humans possess a remarkable ability to function without sleep. A normal human requires eight to nine Earth hours of sleep to operate consciously for the next 15-16 hours. But humans push that requirement a lot. I tested it this weekend when, in another weekend filled with flu-bitten workers, my boss asked me to produce our station’s Sunday morning newscast. I slept one hour Saturday afternoon, then three hours after returning home Sunday morning before going to bed at the normal time. My species must recharge in a similar way. We even dream the same way you do.
Um, I operate on a few hours of sleep each night. Come work the morning shift. Ask Sharita how she does it. That crazy girl goes to the gum at 1 a.m. BEFORE work. Amazing.