Or, in other words, I'm a student - watch how crazy I can be.
So, this is an idea that I believe came off
katoki's blog of which I've since been completely intrigued by, and now am going (or rather, am in the proccess) of trying it for myself. The basic principle is that instead of sleeping (or trying to sleep) a full 8hrs, you take a series of naps throughout the day, and are able to cut down the hours you have to
waste spend asleep. There are several different systems of doing this, but I am going to try for 4x30min naps a day, aka one thirty minute nap every six hours, aka the Dymaxion sleep cycle. Now for the question you're all asking: If you are only having two hours sleep a day how are you possibly going to have enough sleep to function properly? That, my friends, is the beauty of it.
For a bit of Layman's science on the thing (that is no doubt better explained else where on the net), there are five stages of sleep that you go through in a night. Only in the fith stage of sleep (REM deep sleep) do you recouperate energy, something which lasts approximately 1hr30mins in a standard 8hr sleep. The Dymaxion sleep cycle works by having your body skip out the first four stages, and jump immediately to the fith stage, thus in the two hours a day you spend asleep, you spend 2hrs recouperating energy and thus, in theory at least, you should be more refreshed and alert then if you slept a full 8hrs. How does your body learn to do this? In adapting to the sleep cycle (i.e. staying awake all night and only sleeping in 30 minute slots) your body gets so sleep deprived it "realises" that it has to make use of the thirty minutes you are staying asleep to rejuventae
otherwise you'd eventually pass out and die. Thus, 8hr sleep can supposedly be left behind in the dust.
After timetabling my naps around my classes (easier said then done), figuring out a (ha, ha) foolproof alarm system with my IPod and, finally, stocking up on Kit kats, sucky sugar sweets, tea bags, and, only to be used in emergencies, caffinated chewing gum (caffine filled, but apparently 'sugar free'), I was ready to give Dymaxion a try...
( Dymaxion Adventures Continued... )