Alternative sleep schedules - 36/12

I usually stay up for 36 hours or more, then crash for 10-12 hours. It doesn't lead to more productivity, but if you have trouble sleeping it sure helps.

My motivation to work usually clobbers me around the 24 hour mark, but if I fight through it, I can usually squeeze 4 or 5 more hours of work out of it.

I personally prefer to work for 20 hours or so, then do things I enjoy for 8 or 10 hours til I crash. This avoids feeling like your life is all work and no play, which will eventually lead to insanity. :D Plus, it's easier to do marathon work sessions when you really need to since your mind is trained to stay awake that long.
 


Crynos said:
Wouldn't you end up sleeping through the day sometimes with that ratio? How does that work out for you?
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Yea, I sleep thru the day all the time. I woke up today at 7PM. Tomorrow I will probably wake up about 9PM, day after that I will wake up at like 11PM. The cycle will continue. It takes like 1 1/2 weeks for me to cycle completely thru.
 
You people have some weird sleep schedules. No matter what time I sleep (usually around 2-4am) I have to wake up by 10am or it just feels like I wasted half the day.

Anyways, I used to take 3 Nyquil gel caps to fall asleep every night.
Now I just drink a Bob Marley drink and it gets the job done. The first time I tried it I thought it was bull, but it really works.
marleybeverages.com
 
While I usually just don't like waking up early, I find you can really get the most done, as far as traditional business goes (meetings, errands, phonecalls etc.). This is obvious.

If you read and look at most of the most successful people, they're super early risers (5 or 6am) who'll start their day with a workout or bike ride ftw. This is the best way to live. Fucking try it.

Doing this and then working late into the night works out if you have 3 different alarm clocks so you can rise early the next day no matter what. Then usually if I'm extremely tired, I'll nap in the evening at 5 or so.

Many analytical thinkers/programmers and independent entrepreneur types such as ourselves get really productive after midnight and I find I'm a mix of the two, thus this works best!
 
I wouldn't mess around with trying to "game" your body into sleeping a weird schedule.
As the poster above mentions the best thing for your body is "early to rise and exercise".
That, and getting a MINIMUM of 8hrs sleep/day. 9-10hrs would be better for most, but not everyone.

Bottom line is that a healthy rested body, means a rested and ready to go brain that makes better decisions. Better decisions = more money in your pocket.
 
Grindstone said:
What's that feel like when you blow the sequence? Are you all fucked up until you get a good 8-10 hours or what?

I've been running 17/7 for the last month after about 5 months of 18/6. I'd ideally like to get to like 20/4 but not if I feel like shit and don't have energy to workout and crush life.
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The uberman was an extreme sleep schedule, so if it gets fucked up you're extremely tired for the next day or two, mainly cause you missed that 20 minutes of sleep, which happens to be 1/6th of your sleep for the day so it takes a while to regain that energy. If you oversleep a nap you feel very lazy/tired for the next day or two also because you brain put you in a different sleep mode after like 20-30 minutes of sleep. It mainly just makes you tired for the next couple days, maybe longer if you mess it up.

20/4 isn't as strict though
 
>trouble falling asleep

Had trouble with this my whole life - even as a kid. I'm not knocking your 36-12 plan - if that makes you more productive, go for it. But if you are doing this because you have trouble shutting down after a 16 hour day, I'd recommend getting a bottle of melatonin at the drug store in the vitamin section. Its a hormone your body naturally produces when you're sleeping. I split the 3mg pills into quarters. So I take a .75 mg dose about an hour before I want to go to sleep. Anything more than that and I have trouble waking up the next day. I don't know why .75 mg seems to be the ideal dosage for me and it comes in 3mg pills (or even 5mg pills) so you may need to experiment with that. But one thing I do know is that I always get to sleep within 90 minutes after taking it.

bonus: vivid dreams
 
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