In Praise of Narcolepsy

Contrary to common belief, the human body is not very well designed, at least not for modern life. Take sleep for example. When we are forced to sleep very little for a few days, we can usually do it without too much trouble. Once we are done with that and got to sleep, say 8 hours, we do not tend to wake up tired instead of rested. Scientists tell us that this is for survival. We are able to stay up when we are danger and rest when we are out of it. That is very well and good when we were living on trees and dodging sabre-tooths. But in the modern world, this special quality actually works against us. Think if we simple drop off to sleep like clockwork, there would be no overtime, no 24 hours financial markets, nothing to conspire to keep us up. Live would be so much better. But at it is, this whole thing just keep us worked to the bone and not able to have any fun on our time off. The world would be so much better if we were all narcoleptic.