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Two more hours in the day?
experimental | Feb 16 2006
I have a problem: six months ago, I gave up caffeine. Since then, my body has insisted on having eight hours sleep a night instead of five or six. The change in my health is enough that I'm not going back, but I really miss those hours. Specifically, between ten and midnight I used to get a lot of reading and writing done, but nowadays by ten I can barely keep my eyes open. I've tried quite a few ways of cutting back my time expenditures, and I do seem to have gained some time back, but it's fifteen minutes here and ten minutes there. I can't seem to get back the time I really want-- a couple of hours when the house is quiet and still, and I'm feeling peaceful, reflective and productive. Has anybody been there and hacked that? 13 Comments
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 Polyphasic sleepSubmitted by Borganizer on February 17, 2006 - 8:21am.
(This is probably a bit too "far out", but anyway...) NOTE: No long term studie have been made on the effects of polyphasic sleep. I have not tried it - this post is intended as information, not a recommendation. Some people in the "lifehack" community have taken up something called polyphasic sleep, which means that they sleep for 30 minutes every 4 hours, and apparently, that is enough to feel refreshed. The most common schedule seems to be to go to sleep at 4, 8 and 12 (AM and PM) because it is easy to memorize. The most common criticism seems to be that since you never sleep long enough to reach deep sleep, some bodily functions requiring deep sleep (such as the production of certain chemicals) never are carried out. Steve Pavlina has tried it and written quite a lot about it. » POSTED IN:
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