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Originally Posted by N1
Interesting thread. I have done this many times now - go to bed early, get up around midnight for observing session, work or whatever, then back to bed between 3am and 4am, to wake well-rested 3 to 4 hours later. It does work. Somewhere I've read that 7 or 8 hours per day is about right for most. Those hours can be had in whatever portions you like, as long as one of them is 4 hours or more.
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Thanks for sharing your experience of segmented sleeping.
As for how much sleeps one needs, during the Cold War, NATO did tests and found that people could work efficiently on 2 or 3 hours sleep a night. But there was a catch - they had to work their way down to it. The technique was to sleep for one week at 7 hours, the next at 6 hours, the next at 5 hours and so on. The problem was, if one then slept one night at 6 hours, one was right back at the 6 hour mark and it would take another 3 weeks to get back to 3 hours sleep.
Cheers,
Renato