What This Is All About.

Being the fact that I am human, I need sleep. We all need sleep. But sleep sure takes up a lot of time. As a student I am finding it harder and harder to find a good balance of working and keeping my slacker lifestyle alive. I am usually up late most nights and feeling like crap in the morning. Well a good friend of mine a few days ago proposed that together we try what is called the Uberman Sleep Schedule. In a nutshell this means replacing a gigantic block of sleep per day with a 20 minute nap every 4 hours. Yes that means about 2 hours of sleep per day.

The ideology behind this is that when you sleep you enter what is called REM sleep. This is some sort of unconscious state where your body gets its rest from along with other benefits. Well when you sleep for large chunks at a time your body only enters into REM sleep a few times, and it goes in cycles. So while you fall asleep at 12 lets say, you only enter REM sleep at about 1:30 or 2 a.m. What this Uberman Sleep Schedule is supposed to do is trick your brain in a way to go into REM sleep earlier.

The thought of having only to sleep 2 hours a day intrigued me. Being that I feel sleep deprived already provoked me to start an experiment. I am going to try said sleep schedule. They say that it takes about 2 to 3 weeks to get used to. And its very demanding in the sense of missing naps supposedly screws you up for days. Yes I know, the first several days/weeks are going to be awful. I am going to feel like crap, but who knows? Maybe this will work. Maybe someone CAN get by on 2 hours of sleep. Its going to be interesting to see just how far I can push myself to stay awake and to see how creative I can be to find ways to stay awake. Life is boring right now, I have to fill it with something. It might as well be this. I am going to be using tonight and tomorrow to research/prepare for what is going to go down. Maybe it will fail horribly and I puss out. But maybe it will work. I am not looking for anything long term here (although some people swear by it) being I do not know how this will affect my health. But hey you gotta do at least one really cool (albeit stupid) thing in your life or else why are you here?