The Day Is Always Longer Than The Night
The interesting thing about vampires in the True Blood universe is that they for all intents and purposes *must* go to sleep at dawn; staying up during daylight hours severely weakens them (similar to Vampire Hunter D, vamps), and they get “The Bleeds”. Bill suggested in last weeks episode that his maker, Lorena could only stay awake 2 or 3 full days before becoming weak enough for him to overpower her. This claim is strange considering Lorena is significantly older than Bill, possibly even older than Eric, i.e. >1000 years as suggested in season 2 ep. 6.
The only way that Bill’s comment could be true (assuming he knows what he’s talking about) would be that if True Blood vamps stay up long enough their strength eventually decreases to a base level. If this base level is the strength they possessed as human beings, then Bill would be able to overpower Lorena’s slim build.
Anyway, back to sleeping.
Since vampires wake up at sunset and go to sleep at dawn their days are significantly shorter than a normal humans, who normally wake up sometime after dawn and then stay up until well past sundown. The average time between sunset and sunrise in almost every part of the world is ~10 hours. So vampires, possessing eternal life, spend more of it asleep than regular humans do.
10 waking hours per each 24 hour day comes out to 0.41666666. Meaning that every vampire only spends ~42% of each day awake (or ~58% of each day asleep).
Now lets say that the maximum lifespan for a vampire is about 5000 years (I’m probably being optimistic), at which point the chances of dying some way approach 100%.
5000 years of life at only 42% of actual living comes out to only 2083.33 years. A vampire spends over half their life asleep!
Compare this to the average human being who spends only 33.333% of the time asleep over the course of its life.
