There is a considerable number of people here who view sleep as an errand that keeps them off doing more important things like fapping to Netflix and stuffing their faces with ho-hos. I am talking about people who experiment with grotesque sleep schedules like 36/12 or who try to cut under 6 hours. And even though some rare people may be able to get by with under 6 hours of sleep a day FOR A WHILE, most normal people can't.

It is not about discipline. It is simply bullshit. It is against common sense and science and everything. A healthy adult needs 7-9 hours of sleep a day to stay a healthy adult. Ask a bodybuilder and he will tell you why sleep is an internal part of getting ripped. Ask a neuroscientist and he will drop you a library of articles and books explaining why. Ask a psychiatrist and he will tell you how a fucked up schedule usually correlates with a fucked up mental health.

There is no way around this. You do not discipline yourself into sleeping less than a healthy person to make up more time because it will drive down your productivity to half. You also do not need to unless you have awful time management or burdening yourself with an ungodly amount of work which is a subject for a whole book in itself. Also again, just like how you can not discipline your body into requiring less food or water by not eating or drinking, you do not do that with your sleep neither.

And about schedules, unless you are in a room most of the day without seeing the sunlight, your brain has a thing called a circadian rhythm. Which means it will make it more viable to sleep in certain periods, which also coincidentally happen to be hours where there is no sun. At night. Nocturnalism is bullshit.

If you have a negative attitude towards sleep, let's consider these benefits I won't bother to find a source for because it is fucking everywhere:

• It is an internal part of learning. A healthy amount of sleep always positively correlates with how much knowledge you retain.

• It is necessary for healthy thinking. Go with insufficient sleep for a day and see how blurry your thinking feels and how your confidence plummets.

• It is critical for healthy development and aging. Bad sleep in early ages means an increased risk of mental disorders and even physiological disorders like Alzheimer's.

• Sleep is fundamental for bodybuilding. It is in the same category as lifting and eating in importance. Lift and eat meat twice your basic calorie requirement and you will still find it difficult if you sleep pitiful amounts like less than 5 hours. Ask anyone here.

• Good sleep also allows you to function well socially. Your speech, facial expressions, posture even your skin color will be harder to retain without sleep.

• It is crucial to maintain a high metabolic rate. It is not a coincidence landwhales also sleep bad. It is part of the starvation mode cycle that includes starving&binging, sedentary lifestyles and short amounts of sleep throughout the day as opposed to a distinct period for sleeping. Which end up with the awfully low metabolic rate of a whale.

• It is as important for your general health as hydration and eating and exercise. Go bad with your sleep and it will show. You will look unhealthy because you WILL be unhealthy.

Shortly, sleep is something you do not mess with. You need to respect it and embrace it or your lack of respect will be enough to fuck you over just in a week, I promise.