I don't need sleep for three days straight! Gifted?

Question:

Do have a problem or am I just gifted. I've been like this since I was little and noticed that I have an extremely long wake period....roughly 30+ hours of wake for every 8 hours of sleep....otherwise I just have to force myself to sleep. I can go 3 days easily before I start to fall asleep very easily. 2 days awake straight and I start to yawn and get tired like a normal person at the end of the day. A 1-2 hour nap will also suffice for an entire day if needed.

During said time, I can act just like any normal person. I'm always high enegry and happy even after days of no sleep...I work out in the gym, party, dance, talk to people, etc.

I don't have insomina becuase I can make myself go to sleep relatively easy every night. I"m just rarely tired though...

Far as diet and health; no drinking/drugs, Very rarely intake any caffeine or energy supplments, drink mucho water, usually a low calorie diet, I get ample physical activity(varries), I have ADD, good self-esteem.

Any ideas?

Answers:
Its unusual but not abnormal in the sense of being a pathology.

Its a myth that the body "requires" sleep. It doesn't. A few examples exist of otherwise healthy people who, for reasons that are not understood, simply don't sleep at all.

Indeed, in the animal kingdom there are many species which never sleep and studies have demonstrated that there is no physiological differences can be observed between a sleeping subject and one that is awake but not exerting themselves.

Sleeplessness MAY be a symptom of certain abnormal conditions but when it is not a change from the individual's usual routine and is not associated with other symptoms it is harmless.

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