>>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.
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>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 :)
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>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.

Back when I was in college - I went to school 'full time' and worked in the family business full time. We bred and sold toy poodles, and as anyone who has dealt with live things will attest - it's a 27/8 job. There were many weeks that only had 3 days in them since, to me, it wasn't a new day until I could close my eyes and get more than 10 minutes of sleep in a horizontal position. The first 24 hours awake wasn't bad, the second was the hardest, the third 24 hours awake was actually the easiest - 'cuz you were too tired to sleep by this time.

As a result I can tell you that when the Marlboro Man (yeah, I just dated myself) comes galloping off the billboard along side your card and starts talking to the giraffe and the pink zebra in the back seat....it may be time to get some sleep.