Want to sleep 2 hours a day? Try this..

Hi Michael,

Yesterday I slept like 3 hours.

I did an interview with Reed who is in US and we are 13 hours difference. By the time is over, I can only sleep at 4am after tidying up.

And I woke up at 7am.

Now I have a splitting headache. Help!

John

Hi Chris,

This is a friendly reply from someone who has been there!

You mentioned that you recently ate for dinner ...

"One large bag of Funions
One Skittle found under the stove
One burnt Hot Pocket eaten over the stove
One bottle of Root Beer"

(Were you kidding perhaps? I hope??!! At least about the Skittle??)

If not, I don't think it's at all surprising that you felt tired the next day!

What you described as your dinner was a meal VERY high in over- processed carbohydrates, full of fat, salt, and sugar. Pure "junk food." More precisely, pure junk.

You also took on a load of highly-unnatural, added chemicals - including MSG (monosodium glutamate) which is a neurotoxin (poisonous to brain / nerve cells). Your body wasn't designed to have that kind of stuff on the inside.

There was very little in the way of good nutrition for your body in that meal; very little protein; virtually no enzymes; and next to nothing in the way of other nutrients that your body actually needs in order to function correctly, except carbs, and those were of the lowest quality possible.

There was very little actual food in that so-called "food"!

If you eat like that very often, I can virtually guarantee that you'll end up overweight, unhealthy, with bad skin, feeling tired, with poor digestion, and having rotten moods much of the time. And possibly addicted to other substances such as caffeine or nicotine as your body & brain seek relief from the internal chemical storm, low energy, and biological / neurological stress.

You might want to read one or two good books on food and nutrition by authors such as: John McDougall, Dean Ornish, Susan Powter, or Gary Null. Any one of them will get you off to a good start.

These folks tend to be vegetarian, so you may or may not differ with them in that regard. But they will certainly give you a boatload of very solid knowledge about what is healthy and why. The vast majority of books on nutrition are misleading, so you have to be judicious in what you read. (Who was the famous author who said something like, "80% of everything is crap!"? Well, that goes for nutrition books, too.)

"The McDougall Plan" is one book that I've used extensively. McDougall is an M.D. (which isn't a guarantee of anything because they seriously do not teach nutrition in medical school) and each chapter ends with a long list of references to the scientific studies supporting his conclusions. That guy does his homework. He specializes in nutrition and has been doing it for perhaps 25 years now.

Best Wishes,
David Campbell / rainbow21

P.S. I've spent a LOT of time studying nutrition and fitness over the years, and used to work in a preventive & stress medicine clinic, where there was an emphasis on nutrition. I was talking with a close relative who had recently graduated from Baylor medical school - one of the top med schools in the country. I asked him, "how many courses did they give you on nutrition?" He gave me a wry look, made a circle with thumb and forefinger, and said, "Zero!" That's the norm, not the exception.

LOL!

Hi David,

Yes, it was a joke. I also write a comedy blog and that was adapted from a post I had previously written.

I was hoping to get some laughs but it seems that everyone saw it and assumed it was true which I find even more funny...hehe

Chris Elliott
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I haven't slept more than 3 hours a night for the past 3 years.

I have 4-5 meals a day (not normal sized meals, smaller), and try to eat healthy. For the post dinner snack/meal it's normally some type of ice cream or something cold. Gives you some extra sugar, and makes for a great desert too.

Maybe i'm just really weird.

I'm a strong DISBELIEVER in sleep deprivation. In college, I saw friends try those crazy 3-hour sleep regimens with all sorts of promises but nothing good ever came out of it.

Here's what wikipedia has to say:

"Sleep deprivation can adversely affect brain function.[4] A 2000 study, by the UCSD School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in San Diego, used functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to monitor activity in the brains of sleep-deprived subjects performing simple verbal learning tasks.[5] The study showed that regions of the brain's prefrontal cortex displayed more activity in sleepier subjects. Depending on the task at hand, the brain would sometimes attempt to compensate for the adverse effects caused by lack of sleep.

... A 2001 study at Chicago Medical Institute suggested that sleep deprivation may be linked to more serious diseases, such as heart disease and mental illnesses, such as psychosis and bipolar disorder."

Sleep deprivation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Interesting thread.

One thing that's always kept me awake even to the point that on a couple of occasions I don't end up sleeping for the whole day is dark chocolate. It must be the cocoa or the sugar. I'm not exactly sure, but when eating that, especially late at night, I'm always wide awake and alert.

A couple days ago, I saw a post about polyphasic sleep on stevepavlina.com

You can read it here:
Polyphasic Sleep

I've been sleeping for 3 hours a day since the last few days. I don't know, I just can't sleep well, I keep thinking about all the things I could do (internet marketing!) at that time instead of sleeping. I get so excited I could not sleep, and surprisingly I'm well refreshed the next morning.

But it may not work for long, I suspect.

4 hours for me for years... eyes pop open at the 4 hour mark and there's no use in even trying after that. Gonna try the cayenne trick just for the mid afternoon hours that start to get rough.
Great thread!

My sleep times vary...

It depends on how much coffee and caffeine I've taken in for the day...

Sometimes I can sleep for only 2 hours...fall asleep at 4am and wake up at 6am...

bright as a light...

other times I'd be asleep at 11pm and wake up at 7pm...

NOT 7AM...

7pm...

Pavon

i slept at 2am and woke up at 5am well i think i slept at 2 am could of been after. I am pretty tired. I wish i could sleep for 4 hrs a day and be energetic. Ill give it a try for a couple of days and see if my body can get use to it!

I don't know that I could function on just 2 hours of sleep a day. Most folks I know that sleep less than 8 hours a day also have add or adhd, and quite a few of them don't mind it a bit. Alas I don't have that, and I love to sleep. I also love to listen to the rain early in the morning, preferably on a weekend so that I don't have to get up.

Hi,

I'm also the person who believe that a good sleep is crucial to a healthy life as sleeping is the time when our body "fixes" the "wrongs".

But in not-so-rare time when I have to awake longer (deadly deadlines, etc.), I will sleep first - one hour or two, at most - wake up, wash my face and eat a little, then take my time until the morning or even the next day to finish whatever I have to finish.

This way I can work more fresh, not sleepy, and more focus; compared to forcing myself to work first and sleep later.

The caveats: you have to be sure you can wake up after the short sleep (using really loud alarm or ask your spouse to poke you with a needle or something less brutal), and you have to have a very strong will power to stay awake. If you can get through the first half hour, you'll be save.

hmm... well, i haven't slept a wink since like uh... 20 hours already? ahah...

I really need a method to get good sleep at anytime. I spend about almost 4hrs in bed before I can even sleep.

I think not eating for about 3-4 hours before bed is a good way to be relaxed. And you'll wake up hungry and ready to eat a good breakfast. Many people skip breakfast because they're eating too late.

you might sleep well, but what will that do to your stomach and eventually your colon?

Sleep only 4-5 hours straight and do "power naps" (google it) the rest of the day. Of course do this on heavy workload days only, max of 2 weeks.

Yep, a bowl of strong chilli will keep me up all night, but I normally spend the time sitting on the marble throne.

Tried polyphasic sleep because of the promise of less sleeping time. But I felt like hell, and pretty spaced out during the extra waking hours, so decided to stop.

I think we have all evolved with the need for about 6-8 hours of sleep, so no point fighting it. There could be really serious consequences as in the medical studies mentioned earlier.

I bought an ebook before on how you can sleep only 4 hours a day and it's perfectly fine. Sailors have only 4-5 hours of sleep and they are still looking fine.

It has to do with the rhythm of sleep. Each of us will start with state one, go to state two, state three. At state three it is considered the deep sleep. state four is the sub-consciousness. State 4 should be the state of waking up.

One has to fine the right hour of waking up everyday, which is the state 4 of sleep.

Then, everyday, you have to be in contact with the sunlight at least one hour.

And, if possible, at least 30mins of nap in the afternoon.

If you can do that, you can achieve 4 hours of sleep per night.

I never tried that, but I do agree with the 4 states of sleep rhythm.

I am not an expert in sleep disorders but from what I know meditation can really help you reduce the time of sleep with some hours. However I am absolutely sure that trying to reduce this time by to much, might cause seriously health problems in the future.

Not to talk about the hot spicy noodle thing. Maybe it works for you now but imagine the problems you will have when you are at an old age.

Once I had no sleep at all during the night,
and had to work the next morning. I went to work
and the one thing I can remember is that during the
work someone brought me a Spicy hot chilly dog and
a cup of Turkish black coffee both very HOT and
I was boosted to a whole hour of RoadRunner kind energy.

I ran around the office and had no clue what to do!

lol!

~Igor

Sleep is a routine for me...the more i sleep the more i need it...the less, less

Sometimes, the body sees it as a "Stress" situation and overcompensates by pumping more adrenalin into your system. So, you feel more alert and awake.

The Human body is an amazing biological machine and it sometimes works in strange ways.

Jay
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Doing this regularly will kill your metabolism and cause you to gain weight, reduce the clarity of your skin, and lead to a bunch of other nasty side effects. 8-9 hours of sleep is natural, don't mess with it.

hmmmmm I actually like sleeping. I need to sleep
at least 9 hours every day.

i remember the last time i slept for 1 hour is during my final year project.I have no other choice because i have pass up the project.But that time i dont eat any chili foods.may b next time can try this.

If only I could survive on 2 hours a night, I'd get so much more done. If I get less than 7-8 hours I struggle by the afternoon.

I know some guys in the army who did some sleep deprivation training and after a couple of days kinda lost it, took off their clothes and started to walk home (was in the middle of the bush).

Definitely not something to be messed with long term

Sean

Regular sleeping is good to our health, so don't abuse your body,give more time to sleep.

I once had a business partner who used to sleep just 3 hours per night and he used to tell me that anything after those 3 hours was not needed as in his opinion that time was simply spent dreaming

I've been sleeping 5 hours a night for years. I do yoga postures and/or jogging at least 6 days a week. And mentally keep fit also. When your mind and body are both in great shape, it keeps you from being sluggish mentally and physically.

This is all such good advice, I really appreciate it all. I have such anxiety and can't sleep at night. It's of course, all about money. Thanks for everyone's information on here.