I got some good questions from a friend this morning so I decided it'd be a good idea to answer them here. Feel free to post your own questions in the comments or email me at bklauck@gmail.com
What's the point of it? Does it let you be more productive? Cause in a work environment outside of college it seems kinda ineffective
It definitely lets you be more productive. At this point in time, I'm taking six 30 minute naps a day. That's just 3 hours of rest a day. I say rest because the first couple days thats really all you're getting. Your body isn't getting into REM at this point so you're not really getting any sleep. Once your body learns to fall into REM right away, rather than after 90 minutes which is the normal amount of time, you get deep sleep all 30 minutes, making it feel like you're getting 1-2 hours of really good sleep. And you're doing this every 4 hours. Once your body adapts, it starts needing less. You can even get down to about 15-20 minutes per nap, totally only 90-120 minutes of sleep a day! For anyone that hasn't tried it, and I mean tried it to the point that youre actually getting REM during your naps, which I started getting the majority of the time yesterday (I got my first nap with REM on the 3rd day) its hard to imagine that you could actually function on that small of an amount of sleep, but trust me, its possible. Yesterday I got my 3 hours of sleep and I felt quite alright. And this is on the 4th day! I'm still recovering from sleep deprivation that you can't even imagine! By the time I took my nap at 2:30 last night that I overslept on, I had gone just shy of 90 hours since the last time I had taken a full night of sleep. The sleep deprivation was really adding up, but it forced my body to learn how to enter REM quickly, making my most recent naps help me recover from the sleep deprivation. To answer your questions, with 5 extra hours a day of available working time, I have an abundance of opportunity to work on things. But it really seems even more than that. 30 minutes out of your day every few hours for a nap is nothing. How many times a day do you find you've wasted 30 minutes doing absolutely nothing or doing something that was completely pointless? I know I found myself doing that all the time and for longer periods of time. Because these naps are only 30 naps, it literally feels like I'm up all day long, that there is never a time I can't work on something. And because I'm sleeping every 4 hours, I'll be just as awake at 3am that I am at 6pm. I don't have to worry about a long day of classes (which I have made this year; my Tuesday/Thursday classes run from 930-5 with a break in the middle of the day), because I have all night to study or have fun. Its amazing. Not only that, but I'm never too tired to work out and I have even more time to work out. I'm working out twice a day, every day now!
I chose to try this sleep cycle strictly out of curiosity. Not only did I want to see if I could do it and how I could fit it in my schedule, but how it would change the way I live and if it would benefit me. After 4 days, I'm really starting to see how it can. I have tons of time to be more productive, to get the things done that I need to get done while still having tons of time for the things that I want to get done. I agree with you on the fact that outside of college, it doesn't seem very effective, but if your schedule allows for it, there's nothing better. Once I get accustomed to it (which I will, I'm not giving up), I plan to continue with it til the summer and then try to adapt to the Dymaxion schedule, which is 4 naps a day (every 6 hours). This should make it a lot more applicable to more types of schedules. That's a long ways off though. I'm completely happy with how it is turning out so far. I hope that answers your questions.
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