There are lots of different plans for reducing the amount of sleep you need. Most of them call for several short “power naps” or “disco naps” throughout the day. How does one go about measuring the amount slept?
For example, if a plan calls for 20 minute naps every 4 hours, so as to increase the percentage of REM sleep (from a tiny blurb in WIRED, based on a study from the Chronobiology Research Institute (who sounds like they probably run late night infomercials, to give you something to do when you aren’t sleeping)), how do you measure the amount of sleep you get? Do you simply lay down for 20 minutes and then get back up, even if you’ve only slept 0-15 minutes? Or do you wear a device that will monitor your body and then only start measuring once you are actually asleep?
This is more of a technical question, and I was just asking about the logistics of doing this; I don’t really want a discussion of whether sleep plans like this actually work. But if that happens, oh well…
lol my friend and i were stoned and talked about this a few years ago. according to him, if you feel really tired and need to be fully awake in the next few hours. what you do is drink a cup of coffee and got to bed and set your alarm clock for like 30-45 minutes. when you wake up you have all the energy you will need. its probably not true though, we were pretty high and hes been known to make stories up… you can try it though, i doubt it will have any bad side effects. but if you plan to just reduce the amount of sleep in general and still be comfortable in normal activities that should be hard to do. you memory will be serverly effected since rem sleep occures about 2 hours into sleep i think. unless you just take 2 long naps in the day, more then 3 hours and slowly reduce the amount over time. then you should get used to it.