Sleep Time!
If I had a picture of me sleeping it would probably be as cute as this.
With Daylight Savings, I thought it would be appropriate to write about sleep since today may the day where people get more sleep than usual.
Sleep is such a wonderful thing. While it seems like I don't dream as most people, it is still very relaxing. Even when I am thinking about some of my crazy ideas in my sleep. Dreams are such a mysterious place but not completely since everything can be controllable. It's truly like Inception but I don't play around with physics of the Earth.
Do some people sleep just to dream? With re-energizing being a secondary benefit? Well, I don't. Sleep is for chumps that like wasting most of their day sleeping. Guess, I'm a chump on the weekends. During the week, I usually go to sleep when I'm dead tired, leaving me only a few hours to sleep. But I feel like I get so much time to get things accomplished. This is what UConn Engineering taught me, especially junior year (21/22 credits semesters, what was I thinking?!). I learned the miracle of the my body and the limits it can go beyond.
I would call myself a sleeping expert. I've gone through the toughest of tests throughout my life. The training started as a child. Growing up in a Chinese family, the woman (At least in all of my experiences) speak quite loudly in any situation. So, I would be awaken up in the mornings with loud Chinese coming from outside. After some time, I realized if I didn't learned how to sleep through the high pitched screams, I would never be able to sleep in. This was a quick lesson.
I was a kid that would pretend to sleep to avoid some chore my parents wanted me to do. Occasionally (Most of the time), I would actually fall asleep. You know how it is, you get bored pretending so you just end up truly sleeping.
College further enhanced my sleeping abilities. After waiting endless hours in the freezing cold outside of Gampel for the basketball game, I realized I could be more efficient with my time. So, I decided to catch up on some sleep in the rough conditions (Including the screams of crazy (drunk) fans). I found that the roll in a ball technique to be the best position to sleep in, keeping most of the heat close to my body. Best part about sleeping waiting at games was probably how time flew by.
The hardest part about sleep in public is getting over the fact people may watch/judge you. As an electrical engineer with a decently packed course load, sleep was not very abundant. So, you quickly learn to try to get sleep/naps whenever you can and not care about what other people think (Actually, it could be seen as "Leave me alone, I'm an engineering student sleeping. You're just jealous. Jealous I'm an engineer or you're an engineering student and jealous I'm sleeping"). So this quickly led to naps in ITE (The best Engineering building ever) and computer labs, whether between classes or in the middle of the night of work. Maybe my comfort level of sleeping anywhere has gone too far, but it certainly helped me get through the toughest weeks (I'm proud to say I've never pulled an all-nighter for academic reasons, always got at least hour of sleep in my comfortable dorm bed). Who knows, to some people I may have become that "Asian kid that's always sleeping" (I'm pretty sure I became that guy at Gampel).
Overall, I have become really good sleeping in any condition. But my ability may have past what I can control and has gotten out of control. Now, I sleep whenever I feel tired or just plain bored. And I mean whenever. This would include during movies, while having people over my place, and napping through premade plans. I am sincerely sorry to anyone that has been affected by my sleeping habits.