Sleep Hacking
Sleep hacking aka polyphasic sleep is an interesting but hardly new topic in the sleep world. We see that, in actuality, everyone at several times in their lives are sleep-hackers. Meaning that they sleep for short periods of time, almost napping throughout the day as opposed to having a longer, continuous bout of sleep. When are these times? Infancy and old age. As infants we move in and out of "naps" quite frequently and the same thing occurs as older adults when there is little else to do.
Sleep hacking appears to be taken from the notion that there were several very famous people who would sleep for short periods of time, create wonderful and miraculous concepts or items ( DeVinci, Einstein, etc). There is now a small movement to "hack" sleep or try to only nap for a certain period of time, then get up and continue the day in the hopes of only getting the most needed sleep in these small bouts and being incredibly productive when awake.
In truth when doing this all that you are doing is causing sleep deprivation to your system. Awhile back a blogger conducted a sleep hack experiment, logging his results. His was a very interesting experiment with somewhat expected results. He consistently had a difficult time waking up at the right time, he felt as though he is a little sick, and is not as productive as he is normally. I really like that he is honest in his experiment and that he has told at least one person to seek medical advice before trying this program. In all likelihood the people who in the past have done this are what sleep researchers call "short sleepers". People who just do not need more than about 2-4 hours at a time.
In my next blog post I will explain why sleep hacking may work for some short sleepers but be fighting the forces of Mother Nature for the others.
Related Topics: Sleep Studies, Sleep Disorders
Sleep hacking appears to be taken from the notion that there were several very famous people who would sleep for short periods of time, create wonderful and miraculous concepts or items ( DeVinci, Einstein, etc). There is now a small movement to "hack" sleep or try to only nap for a certain period of time, then get up and continue the day in the hopes of only getting the most needed sleep in these small bouts and being incredibly productive when awake.
In truth when doing this all that you are doing is causing sleep deprivation to your system. Awhile back a blogger conducted a sleep hack experiment, logging his results. His was a very interesting experiment with somewhat expected results. He consistently had a difficult time waking up at the right time, he felt as though he is a little sick, and is not as productive as he is normally. I really like that he is honest in his experiment and that he has told at least one person to seek medical advice before trying this program. In all likelihood the people who in the past have done this are what sleep researchers call "short sleepers". People who just do not need more than about 2-4 hours at a time.
In my next blog post I will explain why sleep hacking may work for some short sleepers but be fighting the forces of Mother Nature for the others.
Related Topics: Sleep Studies, Sleep Disorders
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