June 17, 2011

• good ole sleep.

  For whatever reason the idea of sleep has been on my mind and thought I'd be less of a downer than yesterday's post. I decided to crunch some numbers. I'm not often the kind of person that wonders something and leaves it at that, if it can be figured out, I'll do my best to settle my minds wanderings.

  365 days in a year x 23 years = 8,395 days x 24 hours a day = 201,480 hours

  8,395 days x 7 hours (average of sleep per day, obviously give or take) = 58,765 hours/ 24hrs = 2,448 days

  2,448 days of 8,395 days I've essentially spent sleeping. Amazing isn't it?

  Give or take, of course. As babies, all you do is sleep and growing up you "get to" take naps...wish I appreciated that more as a child. I can't remember the last time I've had a consecutively good amount of sleep since probably before HS. I know that's probably sad. High school through Sophomore year of high school I'd stay up to 3-4 in the morning no problem, get a couple hours of sleep and be fine all day. Sometimes by choice, often because of doing something or I simply couldn't sleep. Junior year through the present, I just don't sleep well. Around 9 pm I get really tired but it's too early to go to bed, so I force myself to stay up longer. When I want to head to bed...I'm wide awake and am wide awake numerous times throughout the night, it's a vicious circle. 

  Is it strange to anyone else that we literally just give up all control of our bodies for hours at a time? It's absolutely amazing to me. You may be sleeping and the world around you is still going on. Fascinates me. All those hours, all those DAYS of doing nothing and yet it is absolutely essential for our body to have. God could have easily made us to not need to sleep...not need to rest yet He decided it was important. 

  No, I'm not going to turn this into an over-spiritual post about why God made us need sleep and rest...and touch on the importance of the Sabbath. Although I'm sure I could. Instead, just revel in the fascination of how much time you have spent sleeping in your life. Pretty interesting to think about once the numbers are actually crunched.  

  • 1:01 pm
  • Comments Off