The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes...
...hmmm...I wonder how this amount of time was determined...there are several things that cause a person to fall asleep...exhaustion being the first and foremost...when a person's body gets tired it begins to shut down slowly...over the course of time..usually a day...in which most AVERAGE people spend 16 hours awake...therefore under these circumstances one could argue...and quite convincingly...that it takes the AVERAGE person 16 hours to wear themselves out and require rest or sleep...significantly longer than the 7 minutes indicated...on the other hand the things we do during the day have a direct impact on how and when we sleep...alcoholics for instance...subject their bodies to intense absorption of foreign objects in the form of liquid...this has a direct on vision...equilibrium as well as sleeping habits...some drink until they pass out...a process that can take several hours...or a matter of minutes depending on other factors...people like me...who partake of medical marijuana...usually find that our sleep habits are modified according to how much medicine we take...some of us use the same process as an alcoholic...by smoking until our eyes shut...personally I don't see how a 7 minute sleep system is even determined...how can you accurately measure the amount of time it takes for a person to fall asleep...whaddaya sit next to the bed with a stop watch and shake the subject every thirty seconds to see if they are still awake??? Kinda defeats the purpose doesn't it...and I'm pretty damn sure there isn't some silent alarm signal...sent from the subjects subconscious when they have fallen off the edge of alertness into the vast empty reaches of slumber...I'll bet I can get the average person to fall asleep in less than 7 minutes...a small sharp knock on the back of the head usually does the trick...or a WWE style choke hold...and just how many of you out there fall under the category of AVERAGE as it applies to the sleep situation??? That's what I thought..there are very few of us that actually lay down...shut the lights off...and fall directly into dreamland...if we did there wouldn't be as much night time criminal activity...nor would there be a need for entertainment beyond a certain hour of the evening...there also wouldn't be a niche on the shelves of pharmaceutical supply stores for SLEEP AIDS...nor would there be a sleep center of every corner in each and every metropolitan area on the planet...I'd almost be willing to bet that the AVERAGE person that falls asleep in seven minutes also doubles as a diphit tidbit creator...I personally have fallen asleep in much less time...put me in a classroom with some mental midget monotonously mentioning something useless from a text book...I'll bet I'm asleep before the first page of the book is turned...put me on an airplane just before the doors close and before they can back away from the terminal...my eyes are SHUT...and NOT because I fear flying...but rather as a direct result of inactivity at the controls...same thing applies to vehicles...put me in a seat other than the drivers and I'm done before the motor gets warm...wake me when we get there...I either have to be the one operating the machinery...or you've lost my services until the next stop...it's as simple as that...and it NEVER takes me seven minutes...just ask Momma...the last plane trip we took together was from Metro Detroit to Amsterdam...prior to boarding the plane I was asked if I was going to remain awake long enough to keep her company...to which I replied..."Of course"...needless to say I do NOT recall taxiing away from the terminal or traveling down the runway...what I do recall with vivid memory is being woken up and asked if I was gonna get off the plane...once we were in Amsterdam and ALL of the other passengers had departed...NOTHIN left but Momma...me and the crew...same thing happened on the way to NC for Thanksgiving...I NEVER left the back seat for more than 7 minutes to take a piss break...the rest of the time was spent in silent...non-snoring slumber...it works so well for me that when my kids were younger I used this same method to put them to sleep when they were cranky...quick trip around the block in a car ride...and lights out...it's a thing of beauty...it seems to be the only time I do NOT suffer from some form of insomnia...to be honest it works better than any medical marijuana I've ever tried...the only problem with it is that I cannot afford to fly every night just to fall asleep...and by the time I am usually ready to go to bed...my kids are already asleep...and since falling asleep at the wheel is frowned upon...I must seek other GREENER medical methods of procuring the rest I need...so there ya have it...the 7 minute sleep cycle exposed...the ONLY thing average about it is the mind from which it sprang!!!
