There are numerous health benefits associated with sleep, and on your day off here are some reasons that together can build a case for a few extra hours of shut eye instead of tackling that job around the yard you are just going to have to do again anyway.

7.  Sleep improves concentration:  If you have to turn that big pile of limbs in the yard into a neat stack of firewood, a little concentration go go a long way towards protecting your own limbs as you operate a chainsaw.

6.  Sleep isn’t mere rest:  When you sleep, your body is having a celebration not unlike an old fashioned barn raising where all these tasks it can’t accomplish while its busy being awake get done.

5.  Daytime television isn’t very good:  If you don’t have anything to do during the day, by being awake you put yourself at risk of encountering brain rotting attention span killing daytime TV.  Daytime TV can lead to thinking you can sue a rude cashier, because you saw something similar on Judge Fill-in-the-blank once.  Having watched so much daytime TV though, you forget that both sides lost.  Being on TV is no meaningful stamp of quality.

4.  Sleep reduces stress:  Stress is linked to ailments as varied as mild irritation, gnawing insecurity, homicidal rage, and all around grumpiness.  Acting on the impulses produced by any of these ailments in the wrong context could lead to wearing handcuff.  Especially in the case of general grumpiness anywhere around an airplane.  Grumpiness is taken very seriously by the TSA and DHS when national security is involved.

3.  Sleep helps to preserve memory:  Memory might not be a big deal for a lot of people.  The people who programmed computer models to predict financial market probably though so at least, and subsequently forgot to include parameters for executives involved in decision trees leading to their maximal personal as opposed to institutional benefit.  See Richard Fuld, Barbara J. Desoer, and Bernard Madoff.

2.  Naps consume time:  In order to nap during the day to catch up on sleep, one has to go through the initial wake up routine associated with their normal sleep.  Then they have to do some sort of nap preparation before the nap.  Once arising from the nap it becomes again necessary to do some sort of activity to clean up after the nap (straighten clothes, fix hair, etc).

1.  Dreams remind you that though experience is real, it is truth neutral:  Of course one can accept they really had a dream about panda’s losing the right to be called bears after a run in with some polar bears, and that it was epic.  As an experience the dream was real, even if it is lacking in a determination of truth.  Really out there dreams can make a decent reminder to keep our judgments in perspective.