Hacking Your Brain: Get Full Nights Rest in 20 Min

[metacomet]

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What do you think?

The Uberman schedule seems almost impossible to pull off unless you are fully self-employed and have no risk of people interrupting you...

The Siesta however is easily manageable for all of us and could create 2 hours of more free time during our day!

[codie]

Looks interesting.
I do find if I have a 20min nap I feel really awake once i make myself wake up, but the key is to wake up, this is the hard bit. Plus due to work I can't do this anyway. I do agree about the 24 hour thing being slightly out of sync with my body clock. If I was able to sleep when I wanted to sleep as opposed to the "8 hour night time slot" I would have a very different sleep pattern indeed, as I always find I become more alert at about 11pm(after being up all day), and its always been a massive struggle to force myself to sleep, and end up having about 3 hours sleep.

[zarah]

But how can you train yourself to nap? Whenever I try to sleep during the day I just end up laying there day dreaming but not actually sleeping.

[metacomet]

But how can you train yourself to nap? Whenever I try to sleep during the day I just end up laying there day dreaming but not actually sleeping.

It helps to be physically active so that you'll be tired enough to sleep.

If you wake up early, stay super busy all day, and get some form of exercise, a nap will come easily.

[asevaaamas]

But how can you train yourself to nap? Whenever I try to sleep during the day I just end up laying there day dreaming but not actually sleeping.

Have patience while your brainwaves slow down and you start to feel sleepy. Cover your eyes while trying to sleep, breath calmly and fully, slip into the spaciousness of your mind, effortlessly leave behind the waking mind and waking world while you enter sleep.

I get under the covers completely, the heat that is generated and darkness make it perfect for falling asleep immediately. Very relaxing, like crawling into your mother's womb for an hour. :eek: ;)

[marisabia]

But how can you train yourself to nap? Whenever I try to sleep during the day I just end up laying there day dreaming but not actually sleeping.

try working nights, thats how i learned. course not everyone wants to work nights.

[marisabia]

All info is contained in this image (http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/49/ubersleep.jpg)

What do you think?

The Uberman schedule seems almost impossible to pull off unless you are fully self-employed and have no risk of people interrupting you...

The Siesta however is easily manageable for all of us and could create 2 hours of more free time during our day!

i would miss my sleep too much, i love to get a good nights sleep, or a good nap in the day, i have great dream recall so it's not like a waste.

i to used to have trouble going to sleep until i started doing dream work in an attempt to become lucid, which i did have a few lucid dreams,(they're great!) i have a baby now so it;s hard to do because of my busy schedule, but as a result of the dream work i can now fall asleep pretty easily.

[rosix]

haven't clicked the image yet but it sounds like polyphasic sleeping which works but as highlighted already is only a viable option for few

[mythmath]

Edison thought it was a good idea to get his bearings straight:

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He would nap with his hand propped up on his elbow
while he clutched a handful of ball-bearings.
Then he would just drift off to sleep, knowing that his
subconscious mind would take up the challenge of his problem
and provide a solution. As soon as he went into too deep a sleep,
his hand would drop and the ball-bearings would spill noisily
on the floor, waking him up again.
He'd then write down whatever was in his mind.



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And it was easy as pie for Salvador Dali:

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Extremely brief nap (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nap) as devised by Catalan (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Catalan) Surrealist (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Surrealist) artist (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=artist) Salvador Dali (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Salvador%20Dali).
He would slide off to sleep in a chair (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chair) with his arm (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=arm) over the side,
holding a spoon (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spoon) over a plate (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=plate) on the floor (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=floor).
The instant he fell asleep, his hand would loosen up and the spoon would
fall out and hit the plate with a clatter (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=clatter) that woke him up again.
He claimed that the brief rest thus afforded him worked wonders.

[scaredycat]

Problem is the theory in the article is based on the outdated idea that REM sleep is only 'good' sleep. Stages 3/4, aka slow wave sleep or deep sleep, are actually the restorative stages of sleep. People who are awaken every time they enter SWS end up really screwed up after a couple days in lab studies.

Stages 1 & 2 are transitional stages and really don't serve much of a purpose then like a on ramp to an expressway. Its just that you have to make sure you take shortest way to the ramp and not get stuck on silly loop-to-loop one where you can get on go around in circles if you're not careful.

Understanding the sleep cycles and how you can work with them can help shorten your sleep needs too....but its getting past my bed time so that's all for tonight....

[metacomet]

[CENTER]Edison thought it was a good idea to get his bearings straight:

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:JnzbIhoRNzfReM:http://bizgov.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/light-bulb.jpg

He would nap with his hand propped up on his elbow
while he clutched a handful of ball-bearings.
Then he would just drift off to sleep, knowing that his
subconscious mind would take up the challenge of his problem
and provide a solution. As soon as he went into too deep a sleep,
his hand would drop and the ball-bearings would spill noisily
on the floor, waking him up again.
He'd then write down whatever was in his mind.


That's fucking amazing.