How to need less sleep?

CalvinRichland · 2018-09-18T15:06:12+00:00

Better sleep. No alcohol, no tv, no phone, go to sleep at the same time every night. Your body will start naturally waking up when its ready shorter.

oytrp · 2018-09-18T19:18:37+00:00

I’ve always figured out that there 24 hours a day. You sleep six hours and have 18 hours left. Now, I know there are some of you out there that say well, wait a minute, I sleep eight hours or nine hours. Well, then, just sleep faster, I would recommend.

-Arnold

FixYourselfFirst · 2018-09-18T15:19:25+00:00

Sleep is very important for recovery of both of your mind and body. You can't make your body need less sleep. Getting enough sleep will also help with your Depression and suicidal thoughts.

EDIT: you don't have any plates/girlfriends. What are you spending your time on? TV, video games, internet?

bosshawg502 · 2018-09-18T21:40:46+00:00

Some people are naturally inclined to run on less sleep than others. I read an article that had some special name for it but can't remember. I can comfortably run on 4 hours sleep just fine. But I'm totally fucked if I get 3:55 hours of sleep lol it's crazy. My advice is wear yourself the hell out. I'm a welder/fabricator and my job is very hot, physically demanding etc. some days when I get home I feel like I can't make it up the steps. When you get that end of the day drowsy almost drunk feeling of "I literally can't stay awake another minute" that's how you know you've worn yourself out good and proper. Hop in bed and stay off your phone/Tv/computer at least an hour prior to getting in bed and you'll sleep so unbelievably hard that you'll feel fairly fresh even on low hour counts of sleep. I mean it about the phone the blue light fucks with your sleep hormone production. I can tell a huge difference when I get stuck in my phone right up until I try to go to sleep. I toss and turn for hours. But unplugging about an hour before hand and I'm pretty much dead in about 15 minutes lol.

Also if you haven't heard of ASMR I suggest you google it. You might not get the tingles that most people who are into it are able to get but the videos are still extremely relaxing and knock you out with ease. My favorite YouTube channel is Dr. Tingles. It's weird at first if you don't know what it is but trust me just give it a chance.

TLDR: either lift or work until you are physically drained and wobbly, unplug from phone/tv at least an hour before sleep time. Sleep a HARD sleep not long

Throwaway-242424 · 2018-09-18T23:48:19+00:00

Sleep is extremely important. You can't just train your body to magically not need it.

bonerpotpie · 2018-09-19T00:13:25+00:00

Do not fuck around with sleeping less. There is increasing evidence it plays a much larger role than just physical rest, including clearing out damaging metabolic waste out of your brain, hormone regulation, and more. Check this out if you're interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig

pame12 · 2018-09-19T02:29:41+00:00

A while ago I was researching different types of sleeping cycles, how to train yourself to sleep less, etc...

Some information I found out was that there were some people in the past (Leonado? Shakespear? I forgot) that would sleep 4 hours or less a day. Now I thought that was pretty cool and wanted to do it myself, but sadly after reading more scientific studies I found out that sleeping for so little a day was just bollocks. There was a good scientist that did multiple experiments and his results were no good; though apparently there are some individuals that need less sleep (like the ones I've mentioned above); also, apparently a lot of highly successful (very rich) people sleep less, my guess is this is just genetics on their part.

From reading your post, you're not the type of person who can run on 4 hours a day, so you're probably not cut out for it. Though might be worth a try to do this for a week or two, though your gains will suffer if you do exercise, and might have other problems like you mentioned with sleeping at work.

FieldLine · 2018-09-19T04:00:16+00:00

You need to sleep. No way around it.

For example, on Sunday night, I slept only 4 hours

work, improve, and sleep. And deep relaxation time certainly wouldn’t hurt, either.

Why are all of these mutually exclusive? What were you so busy with Sunday that led you to only sleep four hours?

GhostRecon08FX · 2018-09-19T09:12:26+00:00

Polyphasic sleep.

Fenrir_123 · 2018-09-19T14:39:37+00:00

A day has 24 hours. You have 8 hours to sleep, 8 hours to work and 8 hours to do everything else (in your case improvement).

Please for the love of shit do not fuck up your sleep. You can thank me later.

PS: I think you may have a problem with your sleep quality. Search around the web and consult your doctor. Things like environment where you sleep, drugs you take, things you do before sleep, alcohol, can have an impact on your sleep quality. If you must, consult your doctor to take sleeping pills.

Title	How to need less sleep?
Author	bossplayaintraining
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Date	September 18, 2018 2:52 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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