How to Sleep Less and Do More

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being your mythical best in the mythical. morning. Even if it's not in the. morning, it's a mythical morning. whenever you watch it because that's. what makes it mythical is watching this. Yes, 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 6 to 8 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. I I'm ashamed to say. that there are many times that I'll. sleep to nine hours and it you know it. all comes down to the children. You know. I I do not use an alarm clock and I just. wake up to the kids. Well, I I haven't. used an alarm clock in eight years since. we had our first child. Me and my wife.

and 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 monopasic sleep cycle. Montophasic? No. Monophasic like one? Yes. Monto? I don't know what that is. That's. some other kind of sleep cycle. That's a. Latin prefix I'm not familiar with. Uh, basically monopasic sleep cycle. This is. when you sleep one time in a given. 24-hour period. Now, 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. 6 to 8 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, 6 to 8 hours is is what the. doctor recommends. You hurt yourself. Yeah. You can Yeah. You So, if I get. nine hours of sleep, you start tripping. on things. Yeah. Yeah. start. accidentally cutting yourself in. I'm I. I don't know how you guard yourself. It's just 6 to 8 hours. I think I think. it does make you sleepier. It makes you.

more droopy. Uh but you become droopy. Did you know the cartoon character that. this monopasic 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 what? There's more. Latin here. Polyphasic sleep cycles. That means multiple phases. That means. more than one. And the reason that most. of the Okay, 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 in a video response. But essentially, but 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 this into a book? Maybe. It's. probably already a book. Well, uh, 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 could. accomplish so much more. And of course, you've said that to yourself, too, because you like to accomplish things. You're mythical. That's right. Now, here's the 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 45 to 70 75 minutes to get tom. sleep, rapid eye movement sleep. That's. when your eyes are moving around inside. your head like this. But I think your. eyelids are closed. Yeah, but then they. couldn't see them move. I'm. demonstrating RAM sleep while awake for. the people at home. Now the idea is when you get tom sleep. that's when you dream first of all but. that's also when you get restful sleep. 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 and you 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. No I I. was laughing at you making it. I don't. know if that's exactly how it works, but. those people have difficulty getting. into that deep RM sleep and so therefore. they wake up they're first of all. they're not healthy they live as long. they're tired etc etc. So most of the time if somebody says you. know what I'm going to change up my. routine and I'm going to go do I'm going.

to 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 RM 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 RM sleep. and get deep restful sleep and then come. out of it and feel very rested. So, I'm going to 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. Well, just.

go just go through it. There's one guy. who went through it. Yeah. Well, there's. more than one guy. But the Uberman. 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? 20 to 30 minute naps every four hours. Six times a day. Six 20-minute naps a. day and that's it. Yes. So if you do if. let's just say you did six half hour.

naps you're only sleeping for what? 3. hours a day, right? Yes. That's three hours a day. And if you do 20, you're doing even less. than that. So you think about how. productive you could get. And there's a. guy, a blogger, how sleepy you could. get. Uh Steve Pavina. 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. monopasic 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 is.

appointments, everyone else is on these. things because the problem is is once. you get into you do this the Uberman. 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, I mean, in the least, you. constantly have bed head. You look like.

you've just woken up all the time. It's. like, you know, Fred, the guy who's. always just woken up. Yeah. The. catnapper, the guy who's constantly. napping. or the guy who comes to my. house and then takes a nap in my bed. He's like, "Uh, at the party, I'm having. a great time, guys. Everything is great. Love this party. I got to take a nap. I'll be back in half an hour and I'll be. very productive and I'll have bed head.". But see, what's another one? Give us. 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, and 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 10 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 sleep so quickly for 20 to 30. minutes and then when you wake up from a.

nap a lot of times in the afternoon when. you're having 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 in a dream right. Yeah. But he did he 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 naps. So what. are my other options? Every man cycle.

This is when you take about a threehour. nap at one point in the day. Okay. And. then you take three 20-minute naps or. one one and a half hour nap with four to. five 20 minute naps. Okay. Hm. 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 smaller. naps. You take a 3-hour nap at night and. then other than that, you take three. more power naps. Yes. And you can kind of vary that a little. bit, but it's basically saying, okay,

I'm going to try to be a little bit like. the world and take a longer nap. Then. you got the Dimaxian cycle. This is. invented by Bucky Fuller. I've not heard. of based on his belief that we have two. energy tanks. The first is easy to. replenish, whereas the second second one. is much harder. So Bucky began sleeping. for 30 minutes every 6 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 6 hours. That's 2. hours a day. And he was studied by. doctors and they said the dude is. completely healthy. He was sleeping 2.

hours a day. And then there is the. siesta cycle or the bifphasic cycle. Uh. this is pretty much what every college. student in America is on. Uh and that is. four to four and a half hours of sleep. at night, then taking about a 90minute. nap around noon. Yeah, I did that. I had. a class I had a 8 a.m. class and then I. had a 1 p.m. class. I would come home at. like 11 and I get 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 in my life or. just marketkedly efficient. Yeah, remarkably marketkedly efficient. So if. first of all, this is something that's. so impractical in our lives. I mean, you. know, we constantly meeting with people. and then we've got the kids and we got. the wives. It's a catch 22 though. because it's impractical to do it yet. you become so much more productive that. you know it could very quickly become. practical in terms of if you're 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 to let's end. this episode. I'm going to take a nap. here in a second but Not a long one. Yeah. But if you are willing, if you're. a mythical beast and you're out there. and you're like, "Listen, I'm in a time. in my life where I could experiment with. this. I could do this. I could do one of. these phases." Let us know that you're. going to do that. We would like to maybe.

watch a video. Yeah. If you do that and. you document it on YouTube, we will. point people to that. Okay. You heard it. here. Let's end this episode here. Yeah. I can't say that I'm personally. challenged. I mean, I I want to do it. real fast. 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 could you could. constantly look like you have bed head. when you're like 80. Nobody cares. Here. we go. Up. Link is James Bond. Rhett is.

a villain. I'm going to be that the guy with the. metal teeth. He got shocked in the. mouth. Hello barkeep. I'd like a martini on the. rocks. Shaken, not stirred. Uh, all I got is. water and this uh seven up. Well, just I'd like it on the rocks. I. can fix the water in the seven up. Shaking nuts. Hold on. Are you a.

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