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What if you only had to sleep 2 hours per day? Would you be interested in having 22 hours free per day instead of 16?

I'm going to tell you how to do it. This will work if you can commit to it all the way!!!

First of all, it is suggested that you take 2-3 weeks for the transition, time where you don't have much to do or many obligations. This system may not work with your lifestyle, particularly a work schedule. Polyphasic sleep is certainly not for everyone.

Polyphasic sleep means sleep in many phases, more simply put it means you sleep in intervals instead of all at once. It can be argued that polyphasic sleep correlates more to natural rhythms than the traditional 8-hour monophasic sleep schedule. Babies are polyphasic sleepers. So are most animals (like your dog or cat!). It's not unnatural and it's not bad for you. I don't think.

Sleep Cycles
We've all heard of REM sleep, or the stage in a sleep cycle where you experience Rapid Eye Movement. It's when dreams happen. That is the deepest level of sleep, and it is the phase where psychological and physical repair are taken care of most efficiently. As you sleep throughout the night, you move through sleep cycles.

Most 8-hour sleeping sessions see you through 4-5 intervals of REM sleep, lasting an hour or so each and bookended by light and medium levels of sleep. Picture a rise-and-fall mountain road...the high points are light sleep, and the lowest points are REM sleep. If you wake up in the midst of REM sleep, you feel kind of groggy and wake up more slowly. If you wake up during a light phase you will feel more refreshed and alert.

All that light- and medium- level sleep is just fixings on the burger. The REM sleep is the beef, it's the most important part. We need to train your body to cut the extra stuff and just eat the beef.

Transition
It's going to be tough at times, because you cannot oversleep. You can and often will undersleep until your rhythm is reestablished. That's why the recommendation is two weeks where you don't need to do anything!

You will be sleeping in 20 minute intervals every 4 hours. That's it. The key is to maintain that schedule of 4 hours off, 20 minutes on. If you miss a nap, catch the next one. Don't take one off-schedule.

Example: Sleep 8:00am-8:20am...awake at 8:20am until 12:20pm...sleep 12:20pm-12:40pm...Awake at 12:40pm until 4:40pm. And so on.

For 2 days you will swing back and forth between extreme exhaustion and unreasonable bouts of energy. The next week will be very tiring, but you will feel more and more normal as the two weeks ends. You should feel totally great sleeping only 2 hours per day within 3 weeks of starting this process.

The Idea
Have you ever been so tired that you fell asleep in a car or watching TV for less than a couple minutes...but you had a dream in that short time? You were so tired you dropped straight into REM sleep. We want you to drop straight into it every time you lay down.

You are teaching your body to sleep super-efficiently by depriving it of sleep so often that it starts entering REM as soon as you lay down. Before the two weeks is up, you will be on that cycle naturally instead of under the duress of being exhausted.

The Lifestyle
It seems like the most difficult part would be that 8 hour timespan from 9-5 when most people are at work. I suppose if you had a lunch hour you could pull off eating and taking a 20 minute sleep at once. Or if you take a half hour, you could take a nap in lieu of eating.

Questions
I wonder if you eat more since you are up and about more.
What do you do from 3am-7am every single day?!
Could you work a FT job and a PT job...and have just as much free time as before?
How does a date work? Sleep 6-6:20. Dinner 7-9. One hour until sleep time. Then a movie after that.