You know what I hate? Having to go to bed. What a waste of time.

I am 100% a night person, I usually stay up until at least 2 AM every single day. But the past two nights I’ve stayed up later than I normally do, about 4:30 AM and 5:30 AM. And you know, I had absolutely no idea what time it was until I saw it on the clock. And it was great, I was cranking away at some work, and got a lot done. The problem is that the next day I still have to be functional to work when normal people do, to do things like take calls and meetings.

And that sucks. Most nights, it’s not so much a feeling of tiredness, as much as it is a feeling of needing to be normal, that makes me go to bed. When it gets to be around 11 PM, no matter what I’ve done during the day, my brain comes alive, and I just don’t feel tired at all. I feel like I can do so much more, especially without the typical distractions of the day. But still, when 2 AM rolls around, I get this feeling that as much work as I’m getting done, I’m going to have to quit soon, so I can be functional the following day. It happens almost every single day. And it’s frustrating because I feel like I’m wasting so much of my time literally doing nothing (sleeping).

I would love it if someone could cure the need to sleep. I don’t mean by taking crazy drugs or drinking an insane amount of red bull or coffee, all of which you will crash after. I mean just not actually needing to do it. And being perfectly fine just staying awake all the time.

Just imagine if people could stay up 24 hours a day with no bad side effects. The world would be a completely different place. Even if it wasn’t more productive (I’m not saying everyone has to work all that time), you could get so much other stuff done with an additional 6-8 hours of awake time every single day. That’s a day’s work for a lot of people. And imagine if your sleep time was actually work time, and you could use the other 16 hours to do whatever you wanted. It would be excellent.

Someone needs to cure sleep.

I’m fairly certain it’s actually impossible, but if I didn’t hate sleeping so much, that’s what I would dream about.

Instead, I’m staying up late to write about it. And I’m looking at the goddamn clock because I only have 10 minutes before I have to start thinking about going to bed.

[photo: flickr/flowery luza]