I’ve been doing this 4-5 hours of sleep thing for four weeks now, and honestly, I haven’t noticed a fragment of a difference from my previous experience on 7-8 hours of sleep. In fact, if there’s been any change at all, they’ve been POSITIVE changes:
- I blast out of bed far more swiftly than I ever have.
- When I do go to sleep, I don’t toss and turn, I’m out fast.
- I am awake for an additional 3 to 4 hours each day!
Seriously, its hard to see why I ever slept for 8 hours.
At the same time, I have this odd feeling that this MUST come back and bite me at some point, everyone tells me it will and my entire life I’ve heard that we need a solid 7-9 hours of sleep per night to function at our best.
Well, we’ll just have to see about that. If I end up developing permanent raccoon eyes or find myself hollucinating, it might be time for a nap :}.
I’m starting to think about it like this:
If I work on my reading / typing speed for 3-4 extra hours a day, how will that affect my ability? If I study behavioral psychology for an extra 3-4 hours a day, how will that affect my understanding? I have SO much more time to allocate, and since I don’t feel drained this is perfectly good time for studying. I feel like if I lived like this and used my extra hours to study finance, I could start a Scottrade account a confidently buy and sell within 6 months or so.
Its 3 or 4 EXTRA hours. Mind boggling, but in the coolest way.
But UNITL THEN it seems like frankly… I’m getting more juice out of life by NOT SLEEPING.
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