If sleep weren't required, would you ever sleep?

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If sleep somehow became no longer required, I would definitely not sleep as much as I do now. Maybe every once in a while I'd sleep.

No I wouldn't, unless there was absolutely nothing else for me to do, which is rare. I only sleep because I have to. I would happily take back the third of my life which is wasted on sleep and put it to better use.

Only if I was bored. However if sleep wasn't required & people didn't get tired, then I probably wouldn't be able to fall asleep anyway.

Totally, best way to avoid dealing with people/things

If sleep was still possible, yes. It's my escape from the world.

I like sleeping.

I still would. I need to be awake to work and I can't work or when I have a doctor's appointment or else I'd be too tired to go in, same as when I drive.

I would, but not as much. A lot of nights I feel so relieved when I go to bed because it's the first time all day I can really relax. I like dreaming, too.

Yes, I would. I love sleep, even though I hate the time spent lying in bed trying to fall asleep. If I don't get to sleep as much as I like I often need to nap during the day, which is bad because I usually have school all day.

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Imagine the stuff you'd get done? I'd totally go without sleep!

Gimme that pill!

Nah, I'll keep sleep.

Sleep and dreams are my only escape from the real world.

Hmm... no, I wouldn't, unless I have nothing better do to.

If sleep is not required to rejuvenate our selves then yes i would party whole night after the day's hard work.

no... unless i could turn it on and of... then i would to dream and to pass the time

i look forward to my sleep every night. i only go to bed when i am too tired to stay up.
i never go to bed unless it is where i want to be.

when the time comes (usually at 3:00 am) when i am too tired to be bothered with anything, i wander in to my pre-warmed room and flop into bed and it is very very pleasant to drift off.

sleep provides a pleasant contrast to being awake. it is like yin and yang (? i think (i am not very smart about eastern stuff)).

pleasant feelings are promoted by "contrast".

if a person remains in one state for too long, they will become desensitized to the pleasurable aspect of it.

if you are outside on a cold day, and your fingers are cold and your nose is cold and you walk into your house that is warm, a sudden shroud of pleasure surrounds you as you say "ahhhhh that's better", and some people smile because it feels so relieving (i do (like people getting into a warm bath on a cold night)).

the "sauna" experience is an extreme contrast of swimming in an icy lake and getting thoroughly rigid with cold, and then going into the hot steamy cabin.
it feels like "paradise" until they get used to the heat. then they start to sweat and after a while it is not pleasant. they stay there until they can not take it any more, and they run out and dive into the icy lake again to get "fresh". then that is relieving to them until they get used to it, then off back into the cabin they go etc.

in the same way, sleep is so nice when i have had enough of being awake. it is the perfect compliment to my worn appreciation of wakefulness.

then, when i have had enough of being asleep and relaxed (after about 8 hours), i surge back into wakefulness, and it is fresh consciousness, because it seems "new" every day i wake up.

if i was to stay awake for all my life, i would get desensitized to being awake.
i would be like a zombie through being sick of seeing things constantly without a break.

Yes. I like sleeping.