Surprisingly, you can get them! And upto 6 hours extra!
Consider this, we spend a large chunk of the day sleeping. If you could change that sleeping habit, we, obviously, more hours! This does not mean depriving yourself of sleep at all.
Most adults sleep in one stretch. Kids sleep in several stretches. And infants nap all the time! Animals don’t sleep in a chunk either. That we need to sleep for 8 continuous hours was apparently a recent habitual development, before we had bulbs and the likes around.
So this girl (Rachel something) and her boyfriend decided to get to the bottom of this and see if they could stagger their sleep and get those extra hours.
Their theory is: take a 20 to 30 minute nap every 4 hours. So in a day, you’d grab about (less than) 3 hours of sleep. After about a week, your body rhythms adjust to this new sleep pattern so every time you nap, you slip directly into REM sleep. And you’re totally rested and fresh all the time!
They call it “polyphasic sleep”. She’s experimenting this theory, and I hope to whoever is upstairs that it works!
You can find her experiment here.
2 comments:
wow....this can be a fantastic discovery for all those time-crunched people out there...where is the link to the experiment?
ps...i like that your blog posts are more useful than mine :)
Thanks Sue!
But then, all knowledge is useless knowledge!
The link is just at the bottom of the post.
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