I think you're looking at it wrong. However much magical reality fluid there is in you going to sleep in an orderly universe, there's the same amount in you waking up in one.
I think we can refine this problem by imagining that someone sets up a machine to 1) fully scan your brain and surroundings, 2) kick off a simulation of you, 3) spend a real second running it for a subjective second, 4) end the simulation and idle for a real second, 5) goto 1.
You could respond with terror at the 50% probability of death you face every two seconds. Or you could think it was pretty neat that half your subjective moments get double reality fluid. Personally, I think if you're going to count a decrease in MRF as a loss you should count an increase as a gain.
So if sleep is a large temporary gain in MRF, savor that. You're communing with a vaster, stranger experience-set, and all the MRF you send in will come out. You can't change how much MRF you send to the 'yourself waking up' experience, but you do have some ability to redirect it between 'yourself waking up groggy' and 'yourself waking up well-rested'.
Apologies, I've no idea what you are saying. What do you mean by 'all the measure I send in will come out?' Why shouldn't I be terrified if I faced a 50% probability of death every second?
(That scenario wouldn't work in any case; I'd just wind up like Durham's copy).
Dust theory implies that everything outside of my perception is in flux. Your experiences have to find themselves in a world in which they could have conceivably formed. Of course, you exist in every possible world which would produce that mindstate, but some are 'vaster' than others, leading you down the most probable courses.
Suppose that going to sleep or losing grasp of your surroundings opens a wider space of worlds you could exist in, which jumps you into another reality along with consistent memories of it. I can't figure out if this would be the case, or if my consciousness would most likely just dissolve, with only those beating trillion-to-one odds waking up in the morning. Or maybe my pool of 'experience' stays active when I sleep, even if I'm not aware of it. Either way (though I think Dust Theory is probably false) I'm afraid to go to sleep anymore.
I also do not understand the argument being made here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1jm/getting_over_dust_theory/. Can someone explain to me please?
I posted these questions on other threads but I didn't get many answers. Sorry.
EDIT: Look, the first question boils down to: does my unconscious mind affect my measure? If so, than it isn't much different from being awake. If not, then all my problems seem to apply.
It occurs to me that not only would signing up for cryonics and then killing yourself before you could sleep is rational under these circumstances, but that the death of the universe can be escaped by simply rearranging your mind to believe it is in a universe where eternal life is possible, then ceasing its activity.