Browsing the web the other day i stumbled across an article on cracked.com (linky) which described the so called "ubermann sleep schedule". Basically the idea behind this is: you sleep every four hours but only for 20 to 30 minutes. It sounds crazy at first, but it seems to work.
When trying this, after two or three days you basically become a sleep deprived zombie, but your body starts to adapt. After another week or so, you've basically made it and the schedule works. You automatically get tired after 4 hours and, after another few weeks, even start waking up automatically after 20-30mins. Getting used to the schedule is the hardest thing about it all. I read that you should have a list of at least 100 things you want to do, otherwise you'll just fail really early into the whole deal because of pure boredom.
While doing more background reading I stumbled upon a site of someone who had done this for a 6 month period and thought it was basically super awesome - because: the important thing is the so called REM phase of your sleep. When sleeping 8 hours at night, you get roughly 1.5 hours, but when following the idea of polyphasic sleep you train your brain to drop into this phase instantly every time you sleep. Do the math and you'll quickly find out that by sleeping LESS (2 to 3 hours per day) you actually get MORE of the important sleep, which in turn - following the theme of the cracked.com article here - hacks your brain into awesomeness.
People doing it actually feel better and more efficient / capable than before.
Nobody is quite sure about the long-term effects of this, because everybody who's done it hasn't been aple to keep it up for more than 6 months, due to having a life and a job and the schedule doesn't allow ANY delays (you HAVE to sleep every 4 hours, else you're destroyed for at least a day...).
To make the whole deal more "useful" they managed to work out their so called "everyman schedule" which allows more room for shifting your sleep around and, basically, having a life / job.
It consists of 3hours "core-sleep" at night and another 3 "naps" of 20-30min spread around the day. This I might actually give a go after my exams, just for the fun of having an additional 4 hours of free time each day. It takes longer getting used to than the uberman, but it should be easier to follow and get used to.
Riiight.... I think I'm finished here :lol:
Anyone who's interested or needs a bit of a read head over to http://www.puredoxyk.com/ , which is basically a site dedicated to the whole deal.
Also:
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Anyone on here ever try anything similar or know someone who's done it?
Anyone want to tell me how stupid I am for wanting to try something like this out?
When trying this, after two or three days you basically become a sleep deprived zombie, but your body starts to adapt. After another week or so, you've basically made it and the schedule works. You automatically get tired after 4 hours and, after another few weeks, even start waking up automatically after 20-30mins. Getting used to the schedule is the hardest thing about it all. I read that you should have a list of at least 100 things you want to do, otherwise you'll just fail really early into the whole deal because of pure boredom.
While doing more background reading I stumbled upon a site of someone who had done this for a 6 month period and thought it was basically super awesome - because: the important thing is the so called REM phase of your sleep. When sleeping 8 hours at night, you get roughly 1.5 hours, but when following the idea of polyphasic sleep you train your brain to drop into this phase instantly every time you sleep. Do the math and you'll quickly find out that by sleeping LESS (2 to 3 hours per day) you actually get MORE of the important sleep, which in turn - following the theme of the cracked.com article here - hacks your brain into awesomeness.
People doing it actually feel better and more efficient / capable than before.
Nobody is quite sure about the long-term effects of this, because everybody who's done it hasn't been aple to keep it up for more than 6 months, due to having a life and a job and the schedule doesn't allow ANY delays (you HAVE to sleep every 4 hours, else you're destroyed for at least a day...).
To make the whole deal more "useful" they managed to work out their so called "everyman schedule" which allows more room for shifting your sleep around and, basically, having a life / job.
It consists of 3hours "core-sleep" at night and another 3 "naps" of 20-30min spread around the day. This I might actually give a go after my exams, just for the fun of having an additional 4 hours of free time each day. It takes longer getting used to than the uberman, but it should be easier to follow and get used to.
Riiight.... I think I'm finished here :lol:
Anyone who's interested or needs a bit of a read head over to http://www.puredoxyk.com/ , which is basically a site dedicated to the whole deal.
Also:
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Anyone on here ever try anything similar or know someone who's done it?
Anyone want to tell me how stupid I am for wanting to try something like this out?