Thread: Drug that replaces sleep - hypothetical

There was an American Dad episode about this.

Originally Posted by Heavy Sleeper

There was an American Dad episode about this.

Haha, yeah, I watched that a couple weeks ago and it's what made me start thinking about it.

I get what people mean who are saying the question doesn't make much sense. It's hard to know how much of that 'wanting to be away from the world' feeling is just a craving for the brain to organize its thoughts. And now that I'm awake, I almost feel as though I could take the drug.

And there would be strange political implications. Perhaps sleeping would even be made illegal because it wastes time, and we probably would be required to work for longer hours. That relates to another question I was going to put in the OP. If the drug existed, but there were some minor consequences, maybe like those similar to not exercising and eating poorly, how common would sleeping be? I'm guessing that, like those other bad habits, society would do them anyway. People who slept every night would be considered a weird fringe and be looked upon as lazy. Sleep would be advised as a cure for depression and other things, but popping the pill would be so easy that hardly anyone would actually do it.