6 X 20min = 8 hr sleep per night??

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Noriaki
REM sleep isn't the only important part.

You also need Delta wave sleep to rest and rebuild your muscles.

REM sleep is for your brain. I suppose if you have a very unactive lifestyle this techique might work.
But Delta Wave sleep is very deep sleep, and if you are in Delta sleep it's very difficult to wake you up from it before your muscles are finished resting themselves. I'm quite sure it takes longer than 20 minutes as well.

If you are just going for a brain refresher though it's an interesting idea.

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If you have proper nutrional intake, breathe right, have a good resting heart rate, and walk at least 30 minutes a day to keep your lymphatic system flowing 3x the normal rate, then your muscles should be okay with this. The reason that muscles get sore is because of a buildup of wastes and lack of sugars.

I just might have to give this a try. My muscles tend to be sorer when I wake up for a long sleep anyway. The biggest problem thie method faces is the melatonin rates. Your body's melatonin sky rockets as soon as the sun goes down. Maybe for starter's you could take a mild sublingual melatonin supplement between each sleep cycle. Then perhaps your body will start producing it at intervals on it's own.

Wasn't there a study that shown people who sleep less tend to live longer lives, compared to those who got a lot of sleep?

 

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Wasn't there a study that shown people who sleep less tend to live longer lives, compared to those who got a lot of sleep?

Yeah, but it indicated those who sleep between 6 and 7 hours per night lived longer than those who slept like 8 - 9 hours. What the study did not attempt to answer was whether any statistically significant number of people were sleeping longer because they have underlying medical conditions or poor general health, if they have unhealthy life-styles which might account for sleeping longer (smoking, drinking, using drugs, not exercising, depression, etc.).

IOW, sleeping less may not be 'healthier', but unhealthy people may sleep longer and healthy people may sleep less.