pretty sure that's just one of the theories and it hasn't been proven yet to be the right one.. or has that changed?
For the record, I chose sleep.. to me, it seems like a dumb question. I mean, all I would get out of either one is increased time if we say that we'd have zero needs arising from not performing the activity. Would I rather have some increased time, or MORE? Easy enough.. I hadn't thought about the impact of fat and stuff. But I don't think you can consider that. I mean, if you stop eating, you're not considering the fact that you'll waste away getting zero nutrition.. so you can't consider that if you DO eat, you can gain weight and eat poorly. It's funny because I usually am the one who says I wish there was a way to get by without eating. It can be good and all, but I'd rather have the time back to do other stuff. Especially if that meant there was a way to not have to worry about nutrition.
I have always found eating an inconvenience...drives the wife crazy. Thought about living without sleep, briefly...I'd be pissed to have to eat yet another meal or two. So I'll loose the meals.
when folks complain that the quality of ClutchFans has declined over the years . . . well . . . this thread
Eating is one of the greatest pleasures of man. Sleeping is after the other greatest pleasures of man.
Ok, that's true, it's still a PITA. I worked about 22 hours of that. Granted, it's a desk job but still brain drain.
Need more info.... Does the "no need for food" also mean that I would never again need to pee or poop? Would I still have the option to eat food for flavor, even if I didn't need to? Could I eat and drink anything I wanted without gaining weight? Does the "no need for sleep" also mean that I always feel refreshed and rested? (of that I can feel refreshed and rested effortlessly and quickly after getting tired?) Please be more specific about this fantasy world you're proposing.
That's nothing I pulled 36 hrs straight at work because people called in when I worked detention as a PO. And that was after getting ****-faced all nightclubbing. I have done a lot of **** sleep-deprived **** drove straight through by myself from Texas to Virginia going back to school about 18 hrs.
BIG props to you teachers. My wife pulls crazy marathons all the time. She takes lots of weekend naps and has a day every month she just passes out at 5pm and the kids know it's momma's sleep day. I went for 26 hours tue/wed, working about 22 of that, slept for two hours, then worked 8 hours more. I slept 12 hours last night and I'm back to normal. Definitely wasn't measuring misery here, just remembered this thread and what a PITA sleeping is and how I'd love to just not -have- to sleep.
I'm sorry but what does "PITA" mean? Apparently I have already voted in this thread but I didn't post in it 14 years ago (nice bump by the way Xero of a really old thread). I voted sleep but I do like eating so I am not sure which one I would pick now. I remember when I was separated from the wife, I worked this construction job that was like 2 and a half hours from where I lived. I had to have an apartment close to the worksite because I was not going to drive 2 and a half hours one way every day to work and then drive that back. We usually had to be at work at 6:30 in the morning and we worked until at least 5. My job was to work in the warehouse/inventory and let the guys know what supplies we had on hand. It was actually sorta an easy job but with sucky hours but I got paid well and got time and a half for any hours worked over 40 (and we usually worked 60 hours a week, 6 days a week). After work, I would drive to Nashville and play bridge (this is when I first started playing) and we wouldn't finish until 10:30 and then I would have to drive back to my apartment and usually go to sleep right at midnight. I was averaging 6 hours of sleep a night for about a year and that is something that I would never do again.
You sleep for around 1/3 of your life. You'd be gaining 50% the time you have currently. I'd then have time to workout. I'm also an extremely fast eater.
Not having to sleep all goes back to quality of life, IMO. The more time you have for leisure or self-fulfilling productivity, the better. Commuting is pretty high on my list of things to avoid, especially growing up and working in H-Town. It drives me bonkers how ****ing slow people drive as a rule when they're commuting to or from work. I was in rush hour traffic driving to a kid function last night and just couldn't believe how ****ing slow people were, like under the speed limit. I personally just want to -be- where I'm going, especially after a long day in the office. I can't conceive how people just mosey along when home is waiting for them. Unless home sucks, I guess. So I love WFH. **** commuting.
