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- xstnothing, on 10/11/2007, -0/+95Am I the only one who saw the title and was hoping to get 10 days extra sleep a year?
- ChromaVita, on 10/11/2007, -1/+33God is a jerk, and he made turning off your alarm, and going back to sleep the best feeling in the world. Better in fact, than an orgasm.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26I'm exactly the opposite, I get my best work done at 2-4am... then go to sleep. Works wonders.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+23This guy wakes up at 4AM every Saturday?
His girlfriend must love him. - darkhero, on 10/11/2007, -3/+24"When I started this self-programming, I chose 4AM and today"
That is a ***** joke. That is very early. My professor always says "doing anything before 9am is uncivilized". - bluechips23, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17Yeah. Tell that to a college student.
- Whaines, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17I think the hardest part will be willing yourself out of bed at 4am at the beginning, knowing that you have all this time you could be having guilt-free sleep.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19I prefer Kramer's style, 20 minutes of sleep every 4 hours.
- SteveRogers, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16That's nothing. With my sleep adjustment system, you can gain ten days PER WEEK. Subscribe to my newsletter today!
- petroK, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14some people only need as little as six hours of sleep.
the "8 hours a night" is an average.. like 98.6 body temperature (depending on the person it ranges from 97 to 99.5)
If you are a person who needs 9 hours of sleep, no amount of rescheduling will get you out of that... you'll either get your sleep or be tired.
Lack of sleep leads to a number of negative affects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation - bluechips23, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13I would just stare at the picture of that Snorg Tees girl and umm.....nevermind.
- intense321, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12This would never work for me. As a trauma doctor, I sleep whenever I can because I'm up at all kinds of weird times doing surgeries.
I follow the 3 basic principles of trauma surgery:
1) Eat when you can
2) Sleep when you can
3) Don't ***** with the pancreas
This has kept me going just fine for a long long time. - theredbicycle, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12Read the article:
"I am not implying that you have to be up at 4AM..."
He says it what he does, and implies you should experiment to find out what works for you and will make you more productive. - myt29, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11I wonder if the black rings around his eyes are permanent now.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12I go to SLEEP at 4am on weekends.. and weekdays. god i'm tired.
- stonebear, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Another "Add more time to your life: Sleep less!" article. With all that is known about it, why do some people continue to insist sleeping is a waste of time? Important stuff goes on, and plenty of it is much more fun than waking life. One might as well say "Lose weight instantly: Cut off your legs!"
- elbeeuk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Doesn't he just say "Frankly, I chose that time because that's when my parents went to bed when I was a kid.", not that he lives with them?
=) - Ruckgesicht, on 10/11/2007, -5/+14Wait... So I'll gain 10 days of extra sleep a year by getting up at 4:00 AM regardless of what time I went to bed? No, that just doesn't add up. If I stay up till 3:00am (or whatever time) and force myself to get up an hour later, that's called getting less sleep.
- BillyG123, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10I can atest to this type of schedule too. I get up @6am everyday, no matter what time I go to bed (although usually between 10 & 11pm). I do take sporadic naps throughout the week too (whenever my body tells me to) and I'm never without energy anymore.
- shableep, on 10/11/2007, -5/+13i find it kinda funny that "fainting" is listed as one of the effects of sleep deprivation on wikipedia.
shouldn't it just be called... "falling asleep"? - BGFeltenink, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Fainting would be more like falling asleep while performing or undertaking a task that one is usually awake for. Things like standing, making a sandwich, or getting out of a chair. Fainting is kind of an antiquated term nowadays though, most people just think of a woman in a whale-bone corset. Passing out is probably the best term for it.
- alarion, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7@chromavita
This is truth. Conversely, hitting snooze and being rewoken 5-10 minutes later is about the worst torture that doesn't involve breaking bones or drawing blood. - Optimistic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Can I use those extra 10 days for more sleep?
If not, then I'm not interested. - LingNoi, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Great read but; what if you have nothing to do in the first place? So I am sitting in my room at 6 am in the morning with all this time to kill but nothing to kill it on.
- bluechips23, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Glad your professors have soul. Mine don't. Always have to be at the class by freaking 8 am, even when it's snowing outside!
- jatkins679, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I'm betting he doesn't have kids. When you have kids, then basically none of this applies. Yet most of us will eventually have children.
- sdcarter, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4dugg because it's almost 3:15 AM (EST) and I still can't get to sleep.
- slyydrr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5That's why they invent stuff like this: http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/snuznluz.shtml
- modeless, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4That's not the logic. The logic is that your body can use the sleep you get more efficiently if you are on a consistent schedule, allowing you to spend less time in bed overall.
The way to enforce this is to get up at the same time every day (4am or 2pm, it doesn't matter). As long as you stick to that, you can keep a flexible bedtime (within reason) because your body will tell you when it gets tired. You can go to bed when you start feeling sleepy and fall asleep right away. This saves time over keeping a rigid bedtime whether or not you are sleepy and lying in bed without being able to fall asleep.
Personally, I waste at least half an hour in bed every night failing to fall asleep, but I can't do what this guy suggests because I can't force myself to get up in the morning. If I waited until I was tired to go to bed, I would sleep through my alarm and wake up after noon. - LordSkywalker, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5About a month ago I started doing almost the same exact thing, although I usually go to bed between 12 and 1 then get up around 6AM. It's really weird, but cool since I used to get up around 10-11AM every day, and this way, it seems like I have MUCH more time to get things done. Easily more than 10 days worth per year at this rate.
- jlewicki, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@intense321
how would someone go about ***** with their pancreas? - petroK, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4further: those precious 10 hours today could be cutting weeks off of the end of his life
hypertension is bad.
I sleep only 4-6 hours a night (often not by choice) and nap during the day, and trust me, the quality of my life has not gone up... sure the first couple weeks were like "wow, my energy level is just like it was before, and I have all this free time." Now if something interrupts my sleep it had better have a damn good excuse...
going to bed now. - 22justin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3the author is an old geek
- FearMEiDEA, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Another great article. I really should try to do this. I'm that guy who wakes up in the morning, jumps through the shower, and hauls ass to work. (not good)
- thoand, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I fully agree on waking up early at the same time every day.
It is only a matter of getting out of the bed.
Nothing is better to be early in the streets without crowdy traffic, angry people and so on. - petroK, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3yeah... this works perfect for people who don't have rigid schedules otherwise...
most of work, have kids, or go to school.
sorry boss, I'm sleepy. I need to nap now because my body says so and I woke up at 4 am just doesn't cut it for most of us. - Gizza, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3@modeless (#6862398)
Im exactly the same, sometimes it can take me 2 or 3 hours to fall asleep. I do get what this guy is saying though, I've given up trying to go to bed at 10pm every night, because if I do that I just lie there for 3 hours anyways, so now I just go to bed around midnight. Perhaps I should take it to the extreme like this guy and just go to bed when I'm tired.
I'm afraid that if I do that though, like you, I wont have a chance of getting up when my alarm goes off, it's hard enough already. - dandonia, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Your memory will go before mine my friend
- charlie55, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1plan: when tired, go to sleep; unless have to work, then, work first, then go home and sleep.
- Lonewolfsanscub, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1If I'm a heavy drinker and smoker, what would be the net change of days per year if I followed the regiment?
- slyydrr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1That time is an estimate based the time a majority of people goto bed. It has nothing to do with the actual time, but rather a time period AFTER which a majority of people have gone to bed.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4This is dumb logic.
By getting up earlier, his body's "natural inclination" to start to trail off will occur earlier in the night. Either that or he is taking more naps than he needs to. So he is not gaining that full 2 hours every night. He is just shifting the times that he seeps to different parts of the day. - xstarsprinklesx, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I've gone to bed late and gotten up early. I definitely don't wake up "feeling good." I don't think this method would work for everyone.. but I 100% agree that you shouldn't go to bed if you're not tired and just lay there waiting to get tired. I always wait until I'm super tired to go to bed, then I fall asleep almost immediately. It used to take me forever to fall asleep when I had a "bedtime" and had to go lie there way before I was even remotely sleepy.
- BigManOnCampus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Add my name to the list of persons who has gotten himself into a "I automatically wake up at x-am because my alarm was set that way for a while." and who enjoys getting lots of things done in the mornings.
Most people look at me funny when I tell them I don't sleep in very much and typically am awake at 5am, but I would swear by my sleep schedules benefit for me. - alarion, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I am in the same boat. I used to get up at 5am or so every morning when I was in high school. I typically trailed off at night while watching TV - usually a sports game or sportscenter. I was still a little groggy in the morning but I could actually get out of bed at that time.
Now, 10 years later, I spend a lot of my nights on the computer or watching tv. I don't get tired until 12am, 1am, sometimes 4am. But I have overslept so many times in the past several years that my current normal wakeup time is like 8-9am. I also have a very bad habit of sleeping through alarms if I set them real early. Not sure my boss would like that (not that he likes me coming in at 9/10am either) :(
I might give this a try though, if it can help me get in the office early and not feel like a ***** everytime I walk in late. Also, cutting out caffeine might help too :p
Plus, getting in the office early, means I can leave at 3pm and enjoy the gorgeous days we are having in my neck of the woods :) - alarion, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1the first week or so you wake up "early" yeah, you are going to feel like crap. The key, at least from the article, is to condition your body to wake up at a certain time every single day. Once you adjust your body to the pattern, it will start letting you know when to go to bed to wakeup refreshed at that time. I would say it's certainly not something you pickup and the first day, you are jumping out of bed with tons of energy.
- nikkesen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I find that being consistent while listening to your body is the best way to get the amount of sleep you need.
I find that I can get the best sleep when I go between 11pm-12am. Going to bed before midnight can be good for you if you get up early. I tend to get up around 7:30am. I can get through my day on the amount of sleep I get without being tired. The key to to really listen to your body and just try and develop a good sleep schedule so your body learns to go to bed and get up at the same times.
When I was younger I didn't believe my father when he told me going to bed before midnight helped the body. Now that I'm a little older I can see why he said it. There is no real benefit to staying up really late unless your body can handle it. - adamnikyo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This is great if you can just knock out a nap whenever you want. Some of us don't have jobs that allow that, or we have 14 month old children at home who decide for us when we get a break.
- MrPlug, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1awsome, i love going to bed when my brain is tired, but it only happens from 1:30am to 3am in the morning than alarm wakes me up at 7:05am and i feel semi-ok. though on weekend i go it bed at 5am and wake up when i wake up 12pm or later. I love my sleep and yet i love my internet.
- alienfubar, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I have cronic fatigue.. (ebv) so this is particularly funny to me. If I try to take a power nap I wake up 3 hours later and I'm still tired. I just try not to nap now.
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