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Would You Try This to Increase Productivity?

by Joseph Robinson Banned
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It's funny how sometimes you can find useful tidbits in the weirdest of places. Today, I was wasting time on Cracked.com, and came across this useful tidbit...


Most Efficient Way to Sleep


Let's start with the biggest time-waster of all: sleep. Every night, you have to bend to Big Slumber's twisted whims, sacrificing perfectly good video game and pornography time just to lay completely motionless in week-old laundry for eight hours. We need to gut sleep like the little b***h it is, and for that, we turn to something called polyphasic sleeping. The basic idea is that there are five stages to normal sleep, but only one of those is actually important: the REM phase, where dreaming happens. By cutting out the chaff, you can shake down your brain until it gives up and learns to slip directly into REM sleep the second you close your eyes, thus streamlining the process. It's basically mugging the **** out of your own mind, and then pilfering the sweet dream-meats within while it lies beaten and bloody on the floor. There are several types of polyphasic schedules, but for the purposes of this test, I will be using the Uberman system, which consists of sleeping only 20 minutes per session, once every four hours.
Uberman: Terrorize your brain.
Ideally, once you've grown accustomed to that schedule, you'll only need a total of two hours of sleep for every 24-hour period. I started this last night, and it's working pretty OK so far. I'm a bit tired now, but I find that the naps refresh me just enough to keep going. However, it is supposed to take roughly a week to retrain your brain for optimal sleeping habits, so this is more of a passive test for now. We'll see how it progresses as time passes.
Sure, it's from a comedy site but it actually talks about a pretty interesting brain hack. I'm going to try the Uberman System, as I'm finding I never have enough hours in the day with both IM, a full time job, and uphold (some form of) a social life.

Would any of you try something like this to give yourself a few more waking hours in the day?
#increase #productivity
  • Profile picture of the author WebPen
    I would... but don't think the day job would really like it!

    I have heard of this before though- Tim Ferris mentions it in his book 4 Hour Body

    The weird thing is that from what I understand, your body gets in a routine doing this. If you break the routine by say doing this for a month and then get one long session of sleep (like 6-8 hours), it really throws your body for a loop.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Robinson
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    Yeah, the brain is a crazy thing like that. Apparently whenever you try to change something like your sleeping patterns your brain really tries to fight it and you can be pretty frazzled for a week or two. I figure though that if there was ever a time to try it then it would be now (since I'm still very young and otherwise healthy; and would only do so until I can quit the day job and work solely online). It will be cool to see if it really works and study how the brain adapts to such an extreme change.

    I'll be happy though when something like this won't need to be a consideration lol...oh and if I start babbling nonsense you guys will know why
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesGw
    I used to have a sleep schedule somewhat like that. I'd do three one hour sessions a day. It seemed to work out alright.
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