so i don't sleep all that much. for lots of reasons, really. one of them is purely logistical. look at it this way: the average north american sleeps almost 7 hours per night. by the time Mr Average turns 85 he'll have slept for over 200,000 hours, or 9000+ days (that's almost 25 years for the mathematically challenged). so yeah. anyway. people keep telling me if i continue to only sleep 3-ish hours a night, i'll die younger than had i slept more. ok so really - when we're sleeping we're not really doing anything fun. how much younger am i going to die because of my poor sleepitude? 2 years? 3? 5? so what? by gaining an extra 4 hours per night, each year i live 60 more days than most people. so by the time i'm 70 i'll have been awake for 11 more years than most people at the same age. what makes it even better is that i'll get to have those extra years while i'm young.
so yeah. there's that.