How to Sleep Less and Do More

do you get eight hours of sleep a night prepare to be enlightened hi I'm Jamie I'm sorry BC let's talk about that good mythical morning today's episode is brought to you by royalty-free music library comm that's where we get most of the backing tracks that we use for our videos link royalty-free music library comm thanks for joining us today and for being your mythical best in the mythical morning even if the sign in the morning is a mythical morning whenever you watch it because that's what makes it mythical watching this yeah that was my head exploding if you want to see yourself in an intro to good mythical morning well then make one as a video response and then there you go we'll take it from there I've been thinking about making one I probably won't choose it but I'm not really in charge of choosing it if you are like most of the people in the world you my friend sleep for about six to eight hours a day I love to sleep and I love to do it every day and I love to do it for at least eight hours now I I'm ashamed to say that there are many times that I'll sleep to nine hours in it you know it all comes down to the children you know like I do not use an alarm clock and I just wake up to the kids well I have used an alarm clock in eight years since we had our first child me my wife is that you so is that what you're going to talk about how to use kids as an alarm clock no I'm talking about the fact that you and I like most people in the world we operate on what is called a mono phasic sleep cycle Manto phase it no mono phasic like one yes mato I don't know what that is that's another kind of sleep that's a Latin prefix I'm not familiar but basically monophasic sleep cycle this is when you sleep one time in a given 24-hour period not you may take another nap at some point but you generally you have this one set of hours that you sleep and most people do about six to eight hours that's what has been determined to be healthy if you get less than that you start getting a little bit too tired if you get more than that you actually hurt yourself too so six to eight hours is what the doctor recommends it hurts yourself yeah you can yeah you so if I get nine hours of sleep you start tripping on things yeah yeah I start accidentally cutting yourself in I don't know how you guard your selfies but well it's to eight I think I think it does make you sleep here it makes you more droopy uh but you become droopy did you know the cartoon character that this mono phasic sleep cycle is actually only one of five major sleep cycles that have been used successfully throughout history no there are four other sleep cycles and you know there's more Latin here polyphasic sleep cycles that means multiple phases and more than one yeah and the reason that most of the there's actually four we're going to go through those four and then we're going to kind of consider what would it be like to actually to do this personally maybe there are some of you out there who have experimented with these other phases and we would love to hear from you in a video response but essentially but what's the motive for this this is you know this is how to what how to sleep less and accomplish more kind of like can we adapt listen to a book maybe that's probably already a book well but there are the people who are proponents of these other phases of sleep basically say they are more productive more creative and ultimately most of these cycles end up causing you to sleep less and to be more energetic more alert more creative more productive in the awake hours because we we have had the discussion you know what what if what if I didn't need sleep I can accomplish so much more and of course you said that to yourself too because you like to accomplish things you miss a call that's right now here's here's the thing that makes these polyphasic sleep cycles difficult and most of the time people would never commit to them and get into them that's because it takes approximately an hour like forty five to seven seventy five minutes to get to REM sleep rapid eye movement sleep that's when your eyes are moving all inside your head like this but I think your eyelids are closed yeah but then they couldn't see a move I'm demonstrating REM sleep while awake for the people at home now the idea is when you get to REM sleep that's when you dream first of all but that's also when you get restful sleeeeep that means something to your body now if you're one of these people that has sleep apnea and you have a difficulty going to sleep when you're drunk you wake yourself up with snorts and stuff like that it's a serious condition I don't mean to make light of it but I just did know I was laughing it you making me I don't know if that's exactly how it works but those people have difficulty getting into that deep REM sleep and so therefore they wake up there first of all they're not healthy they live as long they're tired etc etc so most of their time if somebody says you know what I'm gonna change up my routine and I'm gonna go to I'm gonna sleep I'm going to take a certain number of naps per day you actually have to do that for about 10 days because you can actually train your body to instantly go into REM sleep when you go to sleep and that's what happens when you embark on these polyphasic sleep cycles is you develop the ability to nap and go almost immediately into REM sleep and get deep restful sleep and then come out of it and fill very rested I'm gonna go through a couple of these sleep cycles because this is fascinating and there are people who've tried it and there's one guy what just good guys one guy who went through it yeah well there's more than one guy but the Obermann cycle this is 20 to 30 minute naps every four hours resulting in six naps each day highly efficient and usually results in feeling healthy feeling refreshed upon waking and extremely vivid dreams how long are the naps twenty to thirty minute naps every four hours 6 6 x 6 20 minute naps a day and that's it yes so if you do if you let's just say you did six half hour naps you're only sleeping for what three hours a day right yes that's three hours a day and if you do 20 you're doing even less than that do you think about how productive you could get and there's a guy a blogger how sleepy you could get I Steve Pavlina this guy did this several years ago he did it consistently for five and a half months and he had amazingly positive results and then he ended up going back to the mono phasic thing because it's just so impractical because he's got a wife he's got kids he has a life and everyone else in the world appointments everyone else is on these things because the problem is is once you get into you do this the Obermann cycle you have to be incredibly committed to it like if you miss your nap not only if you miss your nap but if you miss approximately the time that you're supposed to do the nap it throws everything off your life has to be pretty insulated in order to do probably any of these I mean you you know and then if you want if you have appointments or if you need to have a social life yeah I mean in the least you constantly have Bed Head you look like you've just woken up all the times like you know Fred the guy who's always just woken up yeah the cat Napper the guys constantly napping but the guy who comes to my house and then takes a nap in my bed he's like at the party I'm having a great time guys everything is great love this party I gotta take a nap I'll be back in half an hour and I'll be very productive they now have betted but see cries what's another one nice another one I think that this particular cycle would be for someone if you if you were like an artist who is insulated totally insulated you were just trying to get out as much creativity have as much productivity like if you were going through a project cuz it took Steve like ten days to get acclimated to this and not only did he have an extremely efficient work schedule because he's up for so long he's doing so many things he was rested and he was having lots of vivid even lucid dreams where he could control his dreams because he was going into REM sleep so quickly for twenty to thirty minutes and then when you wake up from a nap a lot of times in the afternoon when you're having REM sleep that's when you can remember your dreams so we had this like and for somebody who's creative these lucid dreams these vivid dreams can be can help with your productivity Keith Richards wrote the riff for satisfaction in a dream right yeah but he did heat but he slept like a normal person as normal as Keith Richards can sleep I mean he didn't he didn't just take power naps and that's it I can't imagine only taking power nap so what are my other options everyman cycle this is when you take about a three hour nap at one point in the day okay and then you take three 20-minute naps or one one one and a half hour nap with four to five 20-minute naps okay mmm that's kind of difficult to understand but this is basically you've got one larger time where you sleep and then you've got like three or four other little small you take a 3-hour nap at night and then other than that you take three more power naps yes okay and you can kind of vary that a little bit but specially saying okay I'm going to try it be a little bit like the world and take a longer nap then you've got the Dymaxion cycle this is invented by Bucky fuller I've not heard based on his belief that we have two energy tanks the first is easy to replenish whereas the second second win is much harder so Bucky began sleeping for 30 minutes every six hours I've never done an autopsy on anyone but I'm pretty sure that there aren't two energy tanks in there so Bucky began sleeping for 30 minutes every six hours that's two hours a day and he was studied by doctors and they said the dude is completely healthy he was sleeping two hours a day and then there is the siesta cycle or the biphasic cycle this is pretty much what every college student in America is on and that is four to four and a half hours of sleep at night then taking about a 90-minute nap around noon yeah I did that I had a class at a 8 a.m. class and then I had a 1 p.m. class I would come home at like 11:00 and I get you back in my bed and I'd sleep for like two more hours yeah I I was on the same schedule and I don't remember being remarkably remarkably efficient at that time of my life or just markedly efficient yeah remarkably markedly efficient so if first of all this is something that's so impractical in our lives I mean you know we've constantly meeting with people and then we've got the kids and we got the vibes there's a catch-22 though because it's impractical to do it yet you've become so much more productive that you know it can very quickly become practical in terms of if you if you're if you need isolated productivity if your productivity depends on a lot of other people and their schedules and conducting meaningful relationships you know I think you're kind of stuck with the eight hours a night yeah but I would I would just love this in this episode I'm gonna take a nap here in a second but hey but not along yeah but if you are willing if you're a mythical beast in your out there near like listen I'm at a time in my life when I could experiment with this I could do this I could do one of these phases let us know that you're gonna do that we would like to maybe watch a video yeah if you do that you document it on YouTube we will point people to that okay you heard it here let's end this episode I can't say that I'm personally challenged I mean I want to do it right it just takes such a time commitment I'm gonna do it in my old age like an 80 year old man who takes a lot of naps you can you can constantly look like you have bed head when you're like 80 already care here we go up link is James Bond Rhett is a villain I'm gonna be that the guy with the metal teeth he got shocking them out little balky I'd like like a martini on the rocks shaken not stirred uh-oh I got this water and discard 7up BRR which is I'd like it on the rocks I can fix the water in this avatar shaken nuts hold on oh you a barkeep or are you an evil villain I've been exposed I'm going to cheer you with my metal teeth I'm gonna shock you in the mouth see you tomorrow I need some 7up you're watching good mythical morning with Mondays the fire Oh

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Length: 12min 33sec (753 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 09 2012