How to add four hours to your day without bending space-time

[chikuru]

At a party last night, I met Lori who introduced me to the concept of polyphasic sleeping, which she has been successfully doing for a whole 10 days now. She says it's working for her so far--that she has more energy and time. Ideally, she has three 20-minute naps during the day and sleeps just three hours at night, from 3am to 6am. Her husband

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[chikuru]

Sounds like she tried the Uberman schedule. I don't think that would work for me. Today my lunch was delayed, but the Everyman schedule is supposed to be pretty tolerant of moving the naps around a bit.

I'm planning to take the acclimatization slowly rather than going cold turkey since I really don't need a lot of sleep deprivation this month at work.

[polydad]

One trick of my own: I nap with two pillows, one under my head and one over it. Took this up when my now-22-year-old son was a fussy infant and it was my night off; original purpose was acoustic isolation, but it helps in blocking out ambient light also.

best,

Joel

[pure_doxyk]

Hey, I loved your chart! Can I post it on my site, with credit?

-PD

[chikuru]

Sure thing, PD.