Confessions of a Sleepaholic

If somebody were to ask me what I did last weekend, I'd have one very simple answer for them: I slept. Now, a lot of the time that's just what people say when they didn't do anything particularly exciting. But I actually spent about 95% of my time in bed. I think I left my house once. For an hour.

The weird thing is, no matter how much sleep I get, I always wake up tired again. What is that about? That's not fair at all. It's like, I put in all this effort and spend my time resting up, only to have nothing to show for it? I don't even do anything that could possibly be tiring me out.

But that's ok. You know why? Because I love sleep. I love my bed and my 8 pillows and my 7 layers of blankets. I love burrowing down and shutting out the world for a while.

The other night at dinner my parents said they were trying to plan vacation stuff for this year and wanted to know what I wanted to do for March Break. I'm sure you can guess my response. I didn't say I wanted to go away or anything, oh no, I simply replied, "Sleep." the funny thing is they didn't really question it.

Maybe I sleep so much now to make up for all the times I haven't slept. When I was little I had huge issues with getting to sleep and I've always had a lot of dreams, which makes me feel more tired when I wake up. I still have a lot of nights where I get very little sleep. When I was at science school I averaged about 4-6 hours a night. Usually closer to 4 than 6, but I dealt with it.

These days I can get a good 11 hours and wake up feeling exhausted. I can spend entire days doing nothing but laying in my bed reading and napping and still wake up the next day feeling so tired. I think that if I could sleep forever more I'd be ok with that.

Imagine if our cycles were reversed. We'd sleep all the time, only waking up for (on average) about 8 hours a day. Wouldn't that be great? I think that people would be a lot nicer and they would have way less stress. Don't you agree?

Man, just thinking about sleeping this much makes me tired. Nap time...

UPDATE: 
Ok So I actually wrote this like 2 months ago, maybe more... You'll all be happy to hear that my relationship with my bed is just as strong as ever. I've spent the last god knows how many Saturday nights in bed. I realize how pathetic this is, yes, especially considering one of these Saturdays was St. Patrick's Day, but y'all can deal with it cuz I'm (mostly) ok with it!!

Are you guys tired of hearing about my weird lifestyle choices yet? I mean, I probably won't stop talking about them if you are, but it would be interesting to know what you think.