To date, the greatest scientific minds in the world are still unsure as to why humans need sleep to function. Ants, for instance, do not sleep. Instead they simply stay stationary as a way to relax. An individual ant is only moving and doing the work for the anthill 20% of the time. The other eighty is spent staying still, but they never actually enter an unconscious state. Don't ask me how an Entomologist can measure the conscious state of a ant, I just repeat the random knowledge I acquire in my life. The particular fact of never sleeping was given to me at the end of a Nickelodeon commercial when I was ten. The percents on the ant activity was found out during one of those timed reading test practice ACT articles. It wasn't a question on the test, but I remember being interested on that paragraph.
Last night, I went to bed at around 3:30. I had class at 9. Now before you start to get upset (mom), I normally sleep 7-8 hours a night. During the last four years of high school, I slept about 5-6 hours a night. At this point, I don't know what to do with all my extra sleep. I'm taking 17 credit hours this semester and I will start working a few hours a week in the near future. As a result of this surplus sleep, I listened to music and watched youtube videos with some people until I finally went to sleep. When I did go to sleep, there were still four people awake in my cluster.
Many people have been complaining about how much less sleep they get in college. I do not have this problem. Victor, as an architect major, sleeps about five hours each night. Last night, he had nearly seven hours of sleep. Good for him. Others, however do not get this sleep normally. I was invited to a Bollywood movie night last night. To give you an idea, they wanted to watch two movies. A short Bollywood movie is still over two hours in length. I was invited twenty minutes before it started. This invite was given at 1:30AM.
In short, if you ever need to talk someone at anytime of the day or night, it is never too hard to find someone who is up and awake.
