Most people don't
sleep enough. It isn't that we don't like to sleep;
most of us do. It's just that we have so much to do that we end up
staying up too late, like
noding our asses off on
E2 when we should be in bed already. Unwilling to put aside pleasurable activities to get our important work done, we fill up our day and lose most of our night. And then we're left
groggy in the morning, hugging the pillow and hating the
alarm clock, wishing to slip back into
dreamland forever (or at least five more minutes).
Well, there's a solution, if you can master it.
It's called doublesleep.
This is something I invented when I got sick of being told it was obvious I wasn't a morning person; when I kept hearing that I looked "tired" (translation: like crap); when starting the day seemed so hideous that I dreaded it the night before.
I decided if there was a way to get two minutes' worth of sleep for every one minute I was actually asleep, perhaps I could reap the benefits of double sleep!
It's all about tricking yourself.
Go to sleep at night and settle into the bed (or couch, or floor, whatever you sleep on), and try to feel as if you've actually already been asleep for a while. Concentrate on making every moment in the bed before you fall asleep seem like an eternity. And time will seem to slow down; you will keep looking at the clock and noticing with surprise that the numbers haven't changed; the hands haven't moved. Time is molasses. Drift into slumber just knowing you'll wake up rested. When the alarm rings in the morning stretch and know you had a great night's sleep in only three and a half hours. You can trick yourself into doing this; I've done it many times. The only downfall is the fact that you very much want a nap when you get home.