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A brief theory of Sleep

“Oops … I overslept”
“I am going to catch on with some sleep”
How often we do we heat these words!

Sleep is one thing that often eludes us when we need it the most, and is always there to greet us when we least want this bug to hit us.
This result can be derived by applying Murphy’s Law to sleep.

Similarly, applying Parkinson’s Law,
“All the possible post-activity time available is filled with sleep”.
This may hold true even if the available time is as high as 16 hours.

Most of the oversleeping occurs when we desire it the least, and have some important task lined up immediately after the ‘brief sleep’, which we miss because our sleep ends up not being brief.

For the sleep to be sufficient, it has to be for optimum time. This optimum time may vary from person to person. If you sleep less than the optimum time, then you will feel sleepy due to lack of proper sleep, while if you sleep more than this, you get trapped in the vicious cycle of sleep and thus continue to sleep more or feel sleepy.
Also, by applying Murphy‘s law, this optimum time never is.

If by luck, we happen to get the “optimum sleep”, we are inevitably greeted by some extremely boring task, like attending a lecture, or some monologue in a teleconference or a meeting or studies or something and we continue to feel sleepy.

This precisely explains why we most of the time feel sleepy.

OK. I am ending it here. I overslept yesterday, and am now feeling sleepy. So got to sleep.
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  1. Nikesh Rathi2:09 PM, September 25, 2006

    Yup
    Law of sleep is just another varient of the Murphy's law.

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  2. Anonymous12:58 AM, October 05, 2006

    whoever says wat i dont care.............coz i just love sleep

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