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If you could remove your need for sleep, would you?

Poll: Would you take the pill?
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Never
15.79%
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26.32%
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Often
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Never Sleep Again!
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If you could remove your need for sleep, would you?
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#11
RE: If you could remove your need for sleep, would you?
November 10, 2015 at 5:00 pm
(November 10, 2015 at 4:57 pm)mediocrates Wrote: I put off sleeping for as long as possible at night! It's such a wasteful period of unconsciousness! 

I fought sleep as a child and never outgrew it. My typical cycle involves three nights of fighting sleep tooth and nail and then crashing hard on the fourth. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
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RE: If you could remove your need for sleep, would you?
November 10, 2015 at 5:00 pm
(November 10, 2015 at 4:57 pm)mediocrates Wrote: I put off sleeping for as long as possible at night! It's such a wasteful period of unconsciousness! 

Only for some fascinating video game.
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#13
RE: If you could remove your need for sleep, would you?
November 10, 2015 at 5:03 pm
Not using pills, no.

I do wish I could get by on two hours a night.

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RE: If you could remove your need for sleep, would you?
November 10, 2015 at 5:04 pm
(November 10, 2015 at 5:00 pm)abaris Wrote:
(November 10, 2015 at 4:57 pm)mediocrates Wrote: I put off sleeping for as long as possible at night! It's such a wasteful period of unconsciousness! 

Only for some fascinating video game.

That's a wasteful period of unconsciousness too.
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RE: If you could remove your need for sleep, would you?
November 10, 2015 at 5:46 pm
No.

A several-hour unconscious break between dealing with idiots is required.

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RE: If you could remove your need for sleep, would you?
November 10, 2015 at 6:32 pm
Only occasionally to avoid drowsiness when driving and so on. Otherwise I'm with Vic.
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#17
RE: If you could remove your need for sleep, would you?
November 10, 2015 at 6:33 pm
I love sleep too much. Only when necessary.
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#18
RE: If you could remove your need for sleep, would you?
November 10, 2015 at 8:16 pm
That would have to be one fucking magical miraculous pill.

My skeptic radar is up. I doubt I'd ever take it.
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RE: If you could remove your need for sleep, would you?
November 10, 2015 at 8:46 pm
I would have jumped all over it when I was young. Now, I'm not so sure.
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RE: If you could remove your need for sleep, would you?
November 10, 2015 at 8:48 pm
I like a good sleep every now and again, but yes I would.

As long as it wouldn't make me look tired or feel like shit, yeah. Why spend a third of your life sleeping when you could be living? Byeeee.
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