I don’t sleep.

Well, okay, I do sleep.  Just not nearly as much as most people.  An average night is probably five hours.  It’s not all that unusual for me to get by on three, even for a number of nights in a row (especially when I travel).

It used to bother me quite a bit, and I remember reading once that you had to make up lost sleep eventually.  That made me figure that, if the eight hours per night “rule” was correct, I’d eventually need to be Rip Van Winkle.

So I figured out a long time ago what this article tells us — you generally need as much sleep as you get.