December 15, 2007
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What would you do with your extra time if you did not need to sleep?
I’d sleep. Really, I very rarely sleep just because I have to. I sleep because I enjoy it. Because it feels good and it gives me peace of mind and because I like to dream and because I enjoy the feeling of having just woken up in the morning.
What would I do with my time if I COULDN’T sleep? That’s a different question. Sadly, depressingly, I think that I’d do nothing different. There’s plenty of free time that I have now that I don’t use to do anything productive. I just stair off into space and think and wonder and dream. Or I play games or chat with people or blog or otherwise waste time. I’d just do more of all that.
And when I think back to the busier times in my life, it’d be no different then. Again I’d just do more of what I was already doing. Even if I was the only one with that advantage in the world and there was no competitive reason for me to work harder, I’d still probably spend much of that extra time working hard on the same stuff I was working hard on during the rest of the day. Once I get into the habit and the mindset of working toward a goal I usually find it difficult to take a break or disconnect from the goal and try to do something else. Nor can I focus my attention part of the time on other goals. I just do what I’m doing. The extra time wouldn’t influence my decisions in the least.
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