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[center]Alright, found it at ToTSE.
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=892542
I'm planning on trying it, seeing as how I don't have enough free time on my hands.[/sarcasm]
For those too lazy to click the link:
What it is is a sleep schedule that takes you off the 16 hours awake and 8 asleep schedule. The one you end up with is 22 hours awake per day, but still getting MORE actual sleep than you do on the 16/8. The way it works is you sleep for 20 minutes every 4 hours. 20 minute nap at 4AM, 8AM, Noon... you get the idea. After you adjust to the new schedule you end up getting 2 full hours of real REM sleep. The kind you die without. On the old 16/8 you only get 1.5 hours of REM. Many famous-ish people slept like this, and I'm planning on trying it out.[/center]

My mom dont let me do that kind of things I'll try it next time I'm home alone for a few days

[center]It probably wont work if you only commit for a few days. You'll probably need a week to get adjusted. Well, it's just about 4:00AM, so I'm gonna get this thing started right now. Off to sleep, back in 20ish.[/center]

Damn I'm totally going to try this over the summer, or maybe earlier if I can manage it.

[center]I just tried the 20 minute power nap and I actually got about 3 minutes of sleep before I was deafened by Nirvana - Dive
From what I can see this should give me alot more time to do useless stuff. Probably more chances of getting arrested again, but oh well.[/center]

More like a month to switch over to that. And I seriously doubt it will work.

For one, it will take a lot of effort to get up again assuming you don't sleep through your alarm clock.

Kramer (However you spell it) tried doing something like this on Seinfeld... I recall him losing a job or something like that. I jus remember his life being screwed up.

I thought REM only occured DEEP into the sleep. I thought twenty minutes wouldn't be enough to get any REM at all...

I usually don't say something is stupid, but this just crossed the line. It generally takes 10 minutes to get to sleep in the first place, you don't just lie down and fall asleep, also, it's going to be a little disruptive going to sleep every 4 hours. Most people are happy with the 16/8 sleeping scheduele, it works out for most people, I don't see why you would want to change it.

Okay, I just did a crapload of research and I'm really thinking about starting this kind of schedule. I will probably attempt it over the summer because I still have school and it's really hard to get a teacher to let you nap through their class

Some of you may know it's already known as polyphasic sleep (opposed to monophasic sleep). Here's the Wikipedia article about it with many log links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep

If I do start this I will definately be making a log.

ADDITION:
Not if you're seriously REM deprived.

LOL! I've seen this on Seinfeld, that crazy Kramer!

However, it was like 20 minutes every 3 hours, and he called it like the leonardo da vinci thing or something like that.


Btw, as for myself, I don't think I could possibly stay up that long. Not even 24 hours without sleep.

[center]Yeah, Da Vinci slept like that, so did Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Henry Ford.
I've decided to put off starting this schedule until then end of the month. I have alot of things I need to do and don't want be super tired because I'm still going through the adjustment stage.
I'll keep you guys updated when I do start it.[/center]

I suffer from da Vinci syndrome, would doing this make it worse or better?

[center]Syphon, you'd have alot more time on your hands, so it may cause the problem to get worse, but you'd have more time to complete the projects you walked off from. I think it'd be about the same.[/center]

This is too delicate to be of any practical use. It can only really work if the schedule is followed completely; as the periods of time into which the "days" are broken up are shrunk, the importance of even a small deviation is increased proportionally. Simultaneously, the margins for an acceptable amount of sleep are cut away to basically nothing. Thus, even a small problem, like having one nap removed by loud music playing, can lead to greater tiredness, which can lead to oversleeping, which leads to more difficulty getting required sleep phases from later naps, which takes one back to all the difficulties of the initial adjustment.

Besides, if you need more time in the day, caffeine, loud music, and the occasional stimulation of fast-paced and violent computer games in between work sessions will get you that time, at least for a short period (note that you will require recovery after that period, and that this technique, if properly applied, will lead to limited blindness and deafness during the first part of the recovery period).

i atempeted to do this and it failed cause it was near to impossible to adjust too. most of the naps went overtime cause i couldn't naterully wake myself. and i would end up spending more time seting an alarm then it would take to fall asleep. besides, when ur doin somthin fun, you wont to sleep. but in school when it gets boreing, i sleep. ( i've trained myself to sleep with my eyes open) im here to tell you that unless you got nothin to do all day then it's really hard to do it.

I'm partially adjusting!
1st and 5th periods are now my nap times!
Btw, if I fail Spanish and Biology, I'm sueing you.

I say sleep for a week and stay awake for a month.

Or do what I do right now, 1 day of sleep a month.

[center]If that were true, you'd be dead. 24 hours of sleep per 720 hours of awakedness is nowhere near enough REM to keep you living.
What I USED to do was awake for 24-36 hours, then sleep for 16. It seemed to work out pretty well, but it didn't seem to agree with the school schedule.
I normally sleep for 9 hours, like DTBK was saying, 25 hour day.

Oh and, 500th post.[/center]

Relax, I was joking. The longest I've ever went without sleep is 5 days.

Oddley enough we go by 25 hours, yet the day isn't even 24 hours long.

You must have been acting really weird if you have been awake for 5 days straight.

Yeah, pretty much the way I act now.

I will not sleep... Starting now.

I'll tell you guys when I fall asleep.