Thread: Segmented Sleep
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Old 18-07-2014, 11:10 PM
Renato1 (Renato)
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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.
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
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