Screw the Circadian Rythm

[Jenny A]

Sleep is overrated, but highly necessary.  I spent a week and a half in Mexico a few years ago, I don't think I got more than a couple of dozen hours of sleep the whole time.  Wheeeeee!  I was manic though, that might have had a thing or two to do with it. 

So does age.  I think I slept about five hours a night in my twenties and felt fine.  Now I need eight even though I spend the middle two half awake.