Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-satan!clayton From: clayton@satan.DEC Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Excessive sleep Message-ID: <1178@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 07:36:35 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1178 Posted: Thu Oct 31 07:36:35 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 03:25:21 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 21 > How about starting with curing > ... > need for excessive sleep (over 5 hours per 24), > ....? > > Frank Silbermann > Now, I realize this was just one of several items on a list that Frank was wondering why there wasn't a 'cure' for, but it really caught my eye. Is needing more than 5 hours sleep really considered excessive??? If so about 85% (at very rough estimate) of the people I know need 'excessive' sleep. Personally, I find I need 7 hours in the summer and 7-1/2 in the winter, and always thought that was average/normal. How has it been deter- mined that over 5 is excessive, or, conversely, that one should only need up to 5 hours? According to whom? E.A.Clayton ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-nisysg!clayton