I was going to use a “Sleepless in Seattle” picture for the image on this post, but it looks way too romantic and most of you would get distracted by the longing eyes of Tom Hanks so I decided against it.

This is why you’ll see sheep jumping over fences above.

Anyway, on to the topic of less sleep:

Recently I’ve been getting occasional nights of 6 hours of sleep. I find that I can probably run on 5.5-6 hours perpetually, while 4 hour nights are only doable for about a week at a time (otherwise I feel a subtle sense of tiredness and as soon as I lie down by body wants to shut off).

The last few nights I slept for 4 and 3.5 hours, and I felt fine. I know what I’ll get 6 tonight though, because I realize that otherwise I’m running myself into the ground.

I have become increasingly interested in wether or not this project will have tangible, detrimental effects on me later in life. As I said before, I feel like the negative effects in the present are far outweighed by the positive benefits of getting more done (so long as I sleep enough to remain awake and creative).

Hence, I’m planning on doing some homework and figuring out what doctors think. I get all kinds of statements from all kinds of people about this sleep project of mine, but I’d definitely want to ask someone qualified.

Until then, I’ll be sleeping between 4 and 6.5 hours per night, and getting a heck of a lot done in terms of awesome research and writing (I’m working on an ebook right now).

I’ll keep this thread alive, however, if anything crazy happens with my project, or if I pick up some good facts or advice from qualified medical professionals about my sleep patterns.

Who needs sleep.

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