The IDF foobar'd my sleep forever, or so I thought. When you're in the army the first few months is boot-camp -- they give you exactly six hours a day, that's

The IDF foobar'd my sleep forever, or so I thought. When you're in the army the first few months is boot-camp -- they give you exactly six hours a day, that's including the time it takes for you to fall asleep. Teaches you submission or something along these lines. Thing is, I really like sleeping. I love it. So after a few years that this was done with, I tried to recover the joy I used to find in downtime. You know -- getting the rest, seeing the lucid dreams, waking up renewed and refreshed -- that sort of thing. Turns out my "natural cycle" was permanently shortened by the way we were being worked, or so I feel. I can't go 18/6 or 16/8, and even 14/10 doesn't feel any more refreshing. So I started doing 12/6. That's twelve hours to do what you've got to be doing and six to sleep, not including the time to fall asleep. If you stop consuming and producing information about an hour before you go to sleep you can fall asleep real fast, under 10 minutes. The downside is that you'll have to be self-employed, or it won't work for you (sometimes your sleep will fall during the day). Even if I feel it works for me, it does not necessarily mean you should do it. Try it for a week, and see.