Poll: How many hours do you sleep?

Post by michaelcampbell » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 11:37 AM UTC

jergason wrote: post #39

methane wrote: post #15

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Yeah, I am a CS student too... Hope after finishing my degree I will get enough sleep.

The phrase "Hope after [anything] I will do [anything else]." seems to rarely happen, in my experience. My life tends towards more demands on my time, not less.

Post by dennisgorelik » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 2:30 PM UTC

msutherl wrote: post #29

yangez wrote: post #9

7-8 for sure. Anything less for a sustained period of time and I lose a ton of productivity. I was seriously considering going on a polyphasic sleep experiment for a while to cut down on the hours, but after doing a lot of research it didn't really seem legit. Does anyone here have any real experience with polyphasic sleep?

For about 6 months during high school I would take a 1.5 hour nap after dinner from about 7:30pm until 9:00pm then sleep again from either 2:00am or 3:30am until 6:30am when I had to wake up (multiples of 90 minutes). With 4.5 or 6 hours of sleep per night, I had more energy during the day than I ever have since sleeping 7-10 hours. I stopped because I was waking my parents at night and since then I haven't been able…