I'm also squarely GenX. While studying mechanical engineering, one of my roommates was in psychology. He said "we" didn't need sleep. He said one of his professors told them that. I said, "But we ALL do it." He said it was just a convenience thing.

To his credit, he decided to test his theory. By not sleeping. During FINALS WEEK. He said, by the third day, he saw Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn walk across the pages of the book he was reading, and decided it was time to take a nap.

But, hey, I tried smoking banana peel, ala the Anarchist's Cookbook, so I don't have any room to talk.