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Are Alternative Sleeping Patterns Effective?
shmookey asks: "Some people have adopted some unusual sleeping habits, which they believed help them work. The concept is simple: be active for a few hours, sleep for half an hour, wake up and then repeat. This supposedly maximized your effective REM sleeping time and cut back on wasted hours of idleness. Hack-a-day has a nice article and some links on this, which re-ignited my interest. Does anyone on Slashdot actually do this? How do you make it fit in with earning a living? What sacrifices do you have to make to live this kind of lifestyle?" Called polyphasic sleep, or "The Uberman's sleep schedule", this is not something to dive into lightly, as it requires rigid scheduling, and there may be unexpected complications and other issues. Has anyone tried this? What were your experiences?
We all know how well this stuff worked out for Cosmo Kramer.
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this is not something to dive into lightly, as it requires rigid scheduling
Pfft. Just have a kid. I guarantee that at least one parent will automatically do this.
You know I can never go to sleep immediately after programming. I have stupid 'for' loops going through my head I can't make them stop!
:wq
Although the jury is out when it comes to how to break up 60 minutes of sleep ...
when it comes to sex, everybody agrees 3 quickies in the afternoon is just right.
If you forcibly deprive someone of sleep, they end up with physical brain damage and then die.
So it is true that my boss is trying to kill me. I though I was just being paranoid.
"It ain't a war against drugs.it's a war against personal freedom" --Bill Hicks
I know my children like the naps during the day, even if it means they only get 8 hours of sleep at night instead of 10. It's called a 'siesta'. It's an incredible new invention by children - all part of their plot to take over the world!
Well, we'd all fall off, for one.
That is a complete lie! I don't sleep more than an hour a night, and I feel great! I do not loose any brain function, in fact I once had a dog that kept peeing on the floor. We cured him by when I went to the office party and got really drunk. What were we talking about?
Try a break. /coding joke
The correct delivery of your joke would have been:
Thanks.
If you forcibly deprive someone of sleep, they end up with physical brain damage and then die.
But my favorite blogger said it's just like fraternity hijinks, and the liberals are making a big deal out of nothing! You're on the terrorists' side, aren't you?
It's an incredible new invention by children - all part of their plot to take over the world!
Someday they're going to be successful.
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So we're naturally martians.. who'd have thunk it?
Since I discovered meth, I don't NEED melatonin. But I do need a new set of teeth. And I still write great code after being up for 96 hours straight, like the time I wrote most of Internet Explorer. Sometimes I make mistakes though when I fixate on the spiders on the ceiling and all those noises outside make me jumpy but nosirree I don't need sleep. I'm thirsty. Where's my Jolt?
I have chron's disease
You mean you have to batch-schedule your sleep?
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It turns out that I naturally fall into a 28-hour day, with 20 hours waking, followed by eight hours of sleep.
I had a similar experience, but my wake/sleep ratios were the opposite.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.