What would the world be like today - If humans never had the need to sleep

[Scott]

I was just wondering about this. What if throuought human history the human body never had the biological need to sleep. Would the world be doubly worse or better?

[Nerdy Knight]

That's an interesting thought you've got there. Well, if the biological need to sleep wasn't needed, then I suppose we would all get super stressed out and end up killing ourselves. :P

[Scott]

Well I'm sure that tons of people would be out of a job too. Poor matress factory people :(

[LiNuX]

sleep refreshes our minds and bodies - without sleep we'd just be machines - no point in living then lol

and the mind would probably start wearing out early so we'd probably still be in the 15th century technology these days - this is jus what i think :)

[rukisuto]

We probably wouldn't live as long.
We'd spend all the time we would sleeping doing other things, like working.
It would wear out our bodies and minds.

Sheesh, I would hate to be up forever.
lol.

[MilkshakeNinja]

We would work ourselves to exhaustion, and probably die sooner because we aren't letting our bodies rest. Though, it might be good for those to spend more time on building new technology, finding cures for illnesses, and other things. Another dark side to not being able to rest would be that more crime and loitering might happen, and damage the economy.

So overall, I think it's hard to say whether the world would be better off be able to stay as it is and rest or not going to sleep at all and staying up all day.

[jakncoke]

I think you guys are thinking too much inside the box, If we didn't need sleep our bodies and minds would defiantly compensate for what sleep does for us.. so I don't see how we'd run ourselves into exhaustion, I also don't think we'd turn in robots or go crazy from boredom.. personally If you can't find things to amuse yourself you need to smack yourself in the face cause your not creative enough. I think it'd would be awesome if we didn't have to sleep, it seems like there isn't enough hours in a day to do things I need to do, also another thing that could happen if we didn't need sleep is cut down on work days in a week so more free time.. imagine only working like 2 14 hour days and 12 hour day and then having the rest of the week off...would be great.

[KittyCat72]

The world would probably be worse... everyone would be staying up all night and that means the electric bill would be a lot higher. :-P