On Gremlin Sleep

Gremlins do sleep. The claim that they do not appears to have originated with landlords. Their sleep is, however, unusually fragmented: rather than one long consolidated period, many Gremlins naturally sleep in several shorter intervals distributed across the day and night, and the pattern persists even when they live among species with conventional nocturnal sleep schedules.

The practical consequence is that a Gremlin household member may be active at two in the morning, asleep at breakfast, awake by midmorning, unconscious again after lunch, and nevertheless insist that he slept perfectly well. He may be correct.

Attempts to force Gremlins into Human sleep schedules often produce irritability, poor concentration, and increased accident rates. Factory owners discovered this during the early industrial period and responded, characteristically, by accusing Gremlin workers of indiscipline before eventually inventing shift systems which happened to suit their biology. The revised schedules improved productivity, whereupon management congratulated itself for innovation.