My new sleep schedule, implementing today

[Popinjay]

I just thought of this new sleep schedule and I'm pretty damn excited. Here's how it goes:

3AM wake up / six hours
9AM sleep / two hours
11AM wake up / six hours
5PM sleep / two hours
7PM wake up / six hours
1AM sleep / two hours

This will give me six hours of sleep everyday. The plan is to be very active during my hours awake so I can fall asleep quickly. I think this will increase my productivity a crapload. Thoughts? I will update this thread with results.

[Borknagar]

you will not get enough deep sleep, which is the part that you need the most. So when you're awake you'll still be tired and wont be able to do as much that you want. You'll become grumpy too.

Just be human, and take those 7-8 hours a night.

[Popinjay]

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you will not get enough deep sleep, which is the part that you need the most. So when you're awake you'll still be tired and wont be able to do as much that you want. You'll become grumpy too.

Just be human, and take those 7-8 hours a night.

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I figure this will be true during the first few days. But as my body adjusts I should start dreaming during every 2 hour session. It worked for Da Vinci and he only slept 20 minutes at a time.

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you will not get enough deep sleep, which is the part that you need the most. So when you're awake you'll still be tired and wont be able to do as much that you want. You'll become grumpy too.

Just be human, and take those 7-8 hours a night.

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I figure this will be true during the first few days. But as my body adjusts I should start dreaming during every 2 hour session. It worked for Da Vinci and he only slept 20 minutes at a time.

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Supposedly Thomas Edison didn't sleep at all.

But actually, it was found out that he took many short naps of 10 or 20 minutes or more throughout the day. He apparently didn't discourage the idea that he never slept.

I expect you may be vulnerable to stories like these of how you can change your natural genetic human patterns. If you try, you'll doubtlessly have many hazy waking hours where you feel far less than energetic, and be taking lots of naps.

For what it's worth, I've known a few people who have tried to be clever with sleep in such ways. They all looked at least 20 years older than their real ages. It beat the hell out of their bodies, and I'll be surprised if they don't die much younger than they should and live with less health. They also didn't seem to have a lot of joy or energy in their lives.

The fact that you're even trying this seems to me to indicate a lack of focus and an unhealthy search for panaceas or magical approaches or solutions to life. This is very not good.

If you want more energy and productivity, work out and get fresh air, eat and drink better and cleaner and keep the boozing very moderate, cut way back on the caffeine or drop it, drop smoking if you smoke, drink more water, read more books and watch less t.v., and cultivate your concentration and good attitude and mental hygiene. Clear your mind of crap to the best of your ability. Don't go searching for more to pack in there unless it's going to be very high quality. And get enough normal sleep.

Unless you want to look like a reasonably healthy 65 when you hit 40.

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you will not get enough deep sleep, which is the part that you need the most. So when you're awake you'll still be tired and wont be able to do as much that you want. You'll become grumpy too.

Just be human, and take those 7-8 hours a night.

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I've heard that the National Foundation for Sleep is funded mainly by sleeping pill companies, which is why 8 hours a day is the recommended amount of sleep.

I've found, that unless I'm run down, 5 to 5.5 hours is all I need.

[Go Blue]

Yeah right. Good luck on that one. This is just like what Kramer tried to do and we all know what happened there.



Actually, I'd be quite interested to know if this works for more than a week. Keep us posted.

[waffle]

the initial adjustment period is very hard, and it's tough on outside responsibilities. you can do some research online, try google searches for these terms:

uberman's sleep schedule

polyphasic sleep

[Popinjay]

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the initial adjustment period is very hard, and it's tough on outside responsibilities. you can do some research online, try google searches for these terms:

uberman's sleep schedule

polyphasic sleep

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Yes I've read up on these a lot. I'm not trying to sleep a lot less (Uberman is something like 2 hrs or less everyday) but rather spend my time more efficiently.

[waffle]

oh, ok. a year or two ago i fell into a similar schedule by accident: a 3.5-4 hour sleep in the early morning and a 3.5-4 hour sleep in the afternoon. i didn't plan on it, it just happened. i kept it up for a semester and i liked it.

[DougOzzzz]

When I was in high school I typically slept from 3-6 am and from 4-7 pm. I hated it. I was exhausted all day at school. At lunch period I would eat really fast then go to the library and try to sleep.

I hope this works out for you but I know for sure I would never, ever be able to keep this sleep schedule.