On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:53:45 -0800, Dan Abel wrote:

> In article
> >,
> PeterL > wrote:
>
>> I will be tucked away in bed some but I wonder if any of you suffer
>> from loss of sleep like I do.
>
> No.
>
> I have a reputation in my family of being a sound sleeper. I also sleep
> a long time. 8 hours is just a start for me.
>
> My wife complains to me about how she can't get to sleep and doesn't
> sleep well when she does. I just put up with her complaints. Within
> two minutes of her head hitting the pillow she is snoring up a storm.
> Every time. She is a light sleeper, though. If I talk to her, she
> responds. She understands everything. However, I have to be careful,
> because the next morning she remembers nothing.
>
> My daughter used to complain, also. She would get up in the morning
> (and she isn't easy to wake up), and complain that she hadn't slept at
> all. Now, my wife and I would check on her several times a night, and
> she was out like a light. She never even got up to pee.

then there was this guy:

"Captain Flume slept like a log most nights and merely DREAMED he was
awake. So convincing were these dreams of lying awake that he awoke from
them each morning in complete exhaustion and fell right back to sleep."

Joseph Heller, Catch-22

your pal,
blake