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If you could have magical powers, which would you time control power would you prefer:
- Ability to need no sleep – You get full 24 hour days and never get sleepy.
- Stop time – Perfect for if you need a 12 hour nap during work.
- 48 hour day – All of your deadlines stay where they are but you get 48 hours per calendar day. For this to work, that would mean that nobody added new things to your schedule to fill your newly found time. You would also still have to sleep an extra time each day. And kids under 18 would need 36 hours of sleep a day.
- Leave time alone. Everything is perfect.
I’m voting for the 48 hour days for a little while. I would abuse the stopping of time and I don’t really need that much sleep anyway so the first to would be pointless. But, for the rest of the month during this work project, I would love to have a couple extra hours to work on the project and then another 10 or so to do fun projects which would mean that I would actually have time to do the things I should be doing around the house.
Which would you pick? Or do you have your own person magical time power that you’d prefer?
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I might have been tempted to stop time when my children were small but, I love how my children have grown into such amazing people. I wouldn’t want to miss that. Also, I wouldn’t want to miss meeting the people they married, my new children. And then there are my beautiful grandchildren which I just adore. So, I would keep things as they are and just always be behind on my schedules.
I think I would like the ability to stop time. Running late for work? That’s fine, just stop the clock until you get there. Rewinding would be nice too. That way if you said something dumb, you could rewind and do it over. It would also be fun to go back and do certain stuff that was just a blast.
I think I would have to go with needing no sleep. I already don’t require much, but I’m bad about staying up working until all hours and then crashing for a few days (becoming totally useless) from exhaustion. If my body and mind didn’t need the sleep, I wouldn’t do it at all. I would use at least some of the time to clean my house and do all the stuff that “has” to be done while everyone else slept, and then when they were awake we’d have all family time on the weekends!
I would like the ability to go without sleep….with no consequences. Sleep is a waste of time. I would love the downtime while the rest of the world left me alone.
I TOTALLY agree with Mamaw. I also like what Rachel said about rewinding. Love MOM
I would combine all three…no sleeping, 48 hour days, and the ability to stop time. Life is too short and I spend way too much time doing the mundane things in life instead of enjoying it.
As an insomniac, I’d be picking the Not Needing to Sleep option as I rarely do anyway. At least this way, I’d have no sleep deprivation issues.
I would definitely go with “stop time.” Wow, that would be great when I’m up late at night typing, and I have an early morning deadline.
hmmm… I would most likely say go with no sleep, but sleep provides such wonderful things as dreams, and accelerated cell restructuring and regeneration!! So maybe I would leave everything the same because it would be to big of an adjustment and I’d have to work longer days!!! How does an 80 Hour work week sound, that’s before overtime!
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