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Here's an idea. I'd be interested in fellow HNers thoughts on it. Get up really early, say 5am. Finish work perhaps 3pm. Sleep for four hours until 7pm. Go
by tome 9y ago
Here's an idea. I'd be interested in fellow HNers thoughts on it.
Get up really early, say 5am. Finish work perhaps 3pm. Sleep for four hours until 7pm. Go out, do other stuff, party as much as you like until 1am. Sleep.
8 hours sleep a day in 2 chunks of 4 hours. Would that work?
- CamelCaseName 9y agoThis is called polyphasic sleep. Wikipedia can give you a much better understanding than I can: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep From personal experience when I tried this briefly in high school, I wasn't getting very deep sleep and just kept ending up tired. Perhaps if I had continued I would have adjusted, but I gave up after just one week.
- Jemmeh 9y agoI've done this sometimes, I think it's pretty dependent on you being able to fall asleep quickly. Which you can train yourself to do. But it would usually be more of a 3hr/4.5hr split to match with REM cycles. Or just 3&3. I felt fine. If anything I prefer it, but realistically I've found it hard to do while working 9-6. I end up wanting a sleep time in the afternoon. Sometimes I do 6hrs at night and take a nap on lunch for about 45minutes. This is okay, but hard to do outside of winter as it's too hot to sleep in my car.