How to reduce sleep hours ?

krishnaverma said:

I set it and then put it off next morning.


Do you work from home or separate office ?

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Set your router to disconnect the WIFI when its around 23:00 o'clock and reconnect at morning, this way u can force yourself sleep early, and u auto wake up early.

vinku said:

Cool tip, write in Google: "simultaneous sleep", uberman type is for you

nap, awake, nap, awake

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This is good in theory, but unless you are okay with getting zero REM sleep, I would very much suggest against this. I gave this a shot in college for a few weeks. I'd sleep for one hour every six hours. It gave me more sleep than the above pie chart Uberman cycle did. But after one week I felt sluggish all the time. Two weeks in I accidentally fell asleep behind the wheel of my car because I was driving when I should have been doing my one hour sleep. A couple days later I started hallucinating regularly. That night I stopped and started getting regular sleep intervals.

If someone was going to do polyphasic sleep, I'd recommend the siesta cycle, where you sleep for five hours at night, and 90 minutes during the day. But there are so many caveats to Uberman. Missing one "nap" will destroy your productivity for the next cycle. You literally cannot do anything for more than three hours at a time.

Fix your job problems in a smarter way. Reducing sleep will destroy you in the long run, not a smart idea - been there, done that.

sounds interesting

honestly reducing sleep hours is a bad practice mate. As a human you needs minimum of 6-8 hours sleep a day. But if you still want there are some ways of course

1. Setting up alarm
2. Taking tea
3. Walking around your home / room / roof

Please don't take any pills. It will cut a bad feedback at the end

vinku said:

Cool tip, write in Google: "simultaneous sleep", uberman type is for you

nap, awake, nap, awake

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So nap 8 times a day?

Mother nature dont like when you try to cheat on her...

I sometimes put ultimate pressure on my self, like serious deadline when I promiss something to other people and it works very well, my record is not sleeping for about 48 hours. But thats definetelly not healthy.
From my experience the best option is to manage your sleep time, like work hard on week, sleep 5-7 hours and then take a break on weekends. Also by getting older you dont need to sleep that much.

4-5 hours sleep is enough. Some people claim that you need 8 hours of sleep. But I don't agree with that. So, my idea is that go to bed around 11-12 pm. And wake up at 5.00 am. You can use a alarm app such as Alarmy. You have to get out of bed and take a photo to stop the alarm. So, you have to wake up anyway.

As you have stated, I believe that you're in house all the time. I wouldn't recommend that. Go outside, be physically active. Spend time with your friends, family, kids etc. Go to gym or do some sport such as cricket.

And most important thing is having a routine. I write a simple routine for you.

• Wake up at 5.00am
• Do some cardio or running/cycling for 30-45 minutes
• Take a shower and get ready for the day
• Working on your business/websites in the morning.
• Read a book or study a lesson after lunch.
• Spend time with your wife/kids
• Workout/sports
• Take the dinner and ready for stay up late
• Work on your business/websites again
• Before sleeping, make a note/journal about what you've done today and what you're planned to do tomorrow
• Sleep at 11-12pm

That's it. Just stick out to this for 2-3 weeks. You will destroy your patterns and change your life.

The most important things you should focus everyday are:
your business, your family, your body, learn new things/subjects

I strongly suggest you to stop using social media and TV. Also stop or reduce playing games as they are highly addictive. You will waste most of the day if you're gonna make those mistakes.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=droom.sleepIfUCan&hl=en - Alarmy app

Hope this will be helpful to you.

life2ifeless said:

What works for me is to tire myself out physically everyday.

Not only does keeps me fit, but it also ensures that I will fall asleep on time every night.

Try a jog or a run for 30-60mins (depending on your fitness level). I usually take a jog at the park near me.

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+1 on physical activity. Also, make sure to go to bed without ANY mobile device nearby. Physically place them away.

Reading a book also helps. This is somewhat funny but there's an amazingly dense and boring book I've never managed to read more than a few pages in bed before getting asleep - the trick is to not skim but slowly read and think about what you read. Thinking is a tiring process (which - as an aside - is why people rarely think ) so having a tired body & getting your mind in a state that's (actively but not intensively) thinking brings sleep fast.

I never get how people keep sleeping during the day. I have been sleeping at 9-10PM and waking up early in the morning (4-5AM). That's my schedule ever since I was a kid.

Take a look at taking b12. Studies show it can reset the sleep-wake cycle.
https://fanaticcook.com/2015/08/12/having-trouble-sleeping-vitamin-b12-may-help/

umerjutt00 said:

I never get how people keep sleeping during the day. I have been sleeping at 9-10PM and waking up early in the morning (4-5AM). That's my schedule ever since I was a kid.

Take a look at taking b12. Studies show it can reset the sleep-wake cycle.
https://fanaticcook.com/2015/08/12/having-trouble-sleeping-vitamin-b12-may-help/

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I know it is personal but can you tell how old are you now ?

If you want to reduce your sleep hours then have babies.

One more way to make your sleeping hours more productive could be to become lucid in dreams.


or "bio-hacking" for less sleeping

krishnaverma said:

I know it is personal but can you tell how old are you now ?

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25.

I regularly function on 3-4 hours of sleep.

Why? Because 24 hours isn't enough time in the fucking day. If I didn't set an alarm, I would sleep 10-12 hours. But it wrecks my back, so I have traded pain for slight fatigue and lots of caffeine.

Anyway, I set about 6 alarms, between REM periods, when I'm sleeping lighter. Why set 6? Because I'm a fucking alarmclock ninja. Before the first pause in rings, I've been known to ninja-flip kick the alarm, and land snug back into bed before my conscious is triggered.

How to combat my own efficiency? I set a series of alarms, all within ear reach, NOT arm reach. My first alarm goes off at 4:13 in the bathroom. My second alarm goes off at 4:14 in the kitchen. My third alarm goes off at 4:17, again in the bathroom. My fourth alarm goes off at 4:19 in the living room. My fifth alarm goes off again in my bathroom, at 4:26. And my final alarm is the holy fuck I'm so god damned late I'm totally fucked if I haven't been awake, I should be leaving the house right now, at 5:13.

This pattern and spacing has me running all over the house like a chicken with my head cut off. No time to get back to sleep, and the time spaced is awkward enough to rape my ears hard enough to not allow me to fall back into a deep sleep, if I snooze and run.

My wife hates it, but she cant argue with the $$$$ so I tell her to $TFU!

You don't need to reduce sleep hours, you have 160+ hours a week and it's ALOT. Stop wasting wake hours and you will get more done. Sleep proper, infact slep 10 hours and you will work faster in the wakeup hours.

set an alarm clock. if you can't do it you simply don't want it bad enough.
someone here said it right. once you are earning big numbers you do not want to sleep in late!
personally i think the whole wake up very early thing is bs
following the bedtime regime of someone else who is successful doesn't make you successful, no matter what the 'up 5am productivity' crowd says
spend less time "consuming info" more time "taking action" will fix 99% of peoples problems

krishnaverma said:

I mean there is no fixed our job for people in IM. Everyday I plan to sleep early and then wake up late. But since I do not have a compulsion to follow fixed hours, I end up breaking this promise everyday. How to get more disciplined ? Also, I would like to know some practical ways to reduce sleep hours.

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I don't think it is great to reduce sleep hours , 6-7 hours of sleep is necessary especially if your thinking about growth hormone or testosterone production .

But if you are really working hard , and need to sleep less , then make sure you are eating more vegetables and are exercising a couple of times a week .


Put 3 or 4 alarm clocks , and program each one for every 5 minutes . One can start at 4:30 am then the other one can start at 4:35 am , and SO ON .

Just have energy drinks really thats all you need.