>Well true of course - but who wants to waste 1/3 of their life sleeping? haha. I mean look at it this way - if you sleep 5 hours instead 8 from age 18 to 65, ..lets see that's 3 hours a day times 7 days a week times 365 days a year..thats 1095 hours per year - or and extra 45.625 days per year you're awake. 65-18 = 47years times 45.625 days thats 2144.375 days! ..so that's almost an extra 6 full years of life you just gained! Orrrr if you were using that 1095 yearly hours as billable hours to do work - hey you just added a big chunk of bread to your income.

That is assuming you do not crash and die, or worst you survive and cannot pay your medical bills, after 1 months of sleep deprivation :)

In 2000 or 2001 there was a transit strike so I needed to drive my daughter to the nanny, then cross all the city to drive my wife to her work, cross two cities to get into my work all of this in very very heavy traffic. Of course I was always a night owl, I rarely go to sleep before 1 AM, so I was sleeping 5 or 5 1/2 hours per day and the strike lasted a long time. Two or three weeks into it, I stopped in a red light behind a Toyota Corolla, the light turned green so I started and the next thing I remember was my wife shouting at me to stop, which I did but unfortunately using the back of the Corolla as emergency brakes :) Till today I do not know what happened between the green light and across the street, for the car stopped just after crossing the street for there was a huge line of cars, as every day during that strike.