Submitted by pearl (not verified) on Fri, 2009-04-24 08:19.
After Don explained about the disorder I looked it up, that it is something that newborns experience. I also checked out all kinds of articles and blogs from people who purposely attempt to change their schedules like this, attempting to squeeze a few more hours out of their day.
One of the more famous guys for it, Steve Pavlina, for 5 1/2 months he choose to sleep 20 minutes every 4 hours. He later went back to regular sleep patterns, but claims that the experiment helped him get to the (paraphrased) "good part of sleep" much quicker, and overall it seems to be affecting him in a positive way.
I thought it was all very interesting, although I'm not interested in squeezing in a few more hours of awake time a day.
I read that ...
After Don explained about the disorder I looked it up, that it is something that newborns experience. I also checked out all kinds of articles and blogs from people who purposely attempt to change their schedules like this, attempting to squeeze a few more hours out of their day.
One of the more famous guys for it, Steve Pavlina, for 5 1/2 months he choose to sleep 20 minutes every 4 hours. He later went back to regular sleep patterns, but claims that the experiment helped him get to the (paraphrased) "good part of sleep" much quicker, and overall it seems to be affecting him in a positive way.
I thought it was all very interesting, although I'm not interested in squeezing in a few more hours of awake time a day.