[eweissenbach]

I occasionally wake up in the night, usually in the middle of a strange dream, but I go right back to sleep and, unfortunately, pick up the dream where I left off. My problem, if you want to call it that, is that I wake up around 6 am and cannot stay in bed and go back to sleep even if I have absolutely no reason to get up. Like 2B, I need at least 6-7 hours of sleep to feel good. I have always thought that people who can get by on 4 hours of sleep or so are lucky in that they get a lot more conscious life than most of us, but recent studies have seemed to imply that lack of sleep affects mortality adversely. Besides, I like to sleep!