Hacking your napping; want to hack your sleep schedule? So do these guys + FREE ebook.

Posted on January 24, 2010 by The Engineer

Sleeping might be everyone’s guilty pleasure nowadays. Imagine if people can consume a product that would guarantee them longer waking hours without losing their vitality or without feeling sleepy and lethargic.  Redbull would go out of business.

Longer waking hours will almost always translate to more time for work and leisure. In fact, when you ask what productivity means to most people, you’ll get suggestions relating to time, that is – more time.

So what if you could transform your usual eight-hour sleep to a two-hour sleep at the minimum? Impossible? Maybe.

Richard Buckminster Fuller, the futuristic inventor of the Dymaxion House has tried it. He’s one of those, apart from Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, and Samuel Johnson, who considers sleep as a bad habit. Think you can relate?

Consider this, you don’t need to be a scientist, a polymath, or a lexicographer to adopt a two-hour or four-hour sleep. More and more people are interested in what psychologist J.S. Szymanski coined as “polyphasic sleeping,” or multiple naps a day in replacement of a straight core sleep.

Blogger Puredoxyk and productivity coach Steve Pavlina has tried a variant of polyphasic sleep called “Everyman.” Puredoxyk eventually switched to “Uberman” sleep and has even written an e-book about it. Think you can manage sleeping polyphasically?

Polyphasic sleep is not for everyone. We’re living in a society that almost always prevents us from sticking to our napping schedules. We can’t nap if there’s a meeting, if the boss is on his vacation, if the laundry isn’t done yet or if the children need something from you. But if you really think you can manage, here’s a quick look at how Everyman and Uberman operates:

Everyman:

• Six 20-minute naps (or a minimum of 15 minutes and a maximum of 30 minutes) every four hours.

Uberman:

• The most common involves a three-hour core sleep plus three naps (approximately 20 minutes) spread throughout the day.

Other variants involve a 1.5-hour core sleep plus four naps and a 4.5-hour core sleep plus two naps.  So, are you going to start hacking your sleep?

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