I think that's sort of what I do when I drive more than 8 hours.

It's like most of my brain is awake, but parts take turns in deep rest. I've called it packet sleeping. At home, I don't nap. I stay up late but fall into very deep sleep with no problems. In college, there was too much to do. I was definitely sleep deprived but every few weeks, I'd sleep for 24 hours and that seemed to work for me. Crazy Guy says that if sleep becomes an olympic event, he's entering me.

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Posted: 12/20/2017 at 12:08AM

Anyone ever try the polyphasic sleep schedules? -- psychobilly 12/19/2017 12:50PM

I think that's sort of what I do when I drive more than 8 hours. -- TechMomof2 12/20/2017 12:08AM

Interesting article and I haven't slept well since Quaaludes were gone :) ** -- grill to chill 12/19/2017 1:52PM

I've read about that, and seem to have a habit myself -- `lag 12/19/2017 1:39PM

I find myself in that same pattern. Asleep by 10, up at 2:30-4 -- HokieinTampa 12/19/2017 2:00PM

Yep, that's pretty much me, too. But I wake up exhausted. ** -- MP4VT2004 12/19/2017 2:12PM

Yeah, thankfully I'm ok, but I WFH and there's almost ALWAYS a nap @ lunch ** -- HokieinTampa 12/19/2017 3:28PM

I often sleep like that. -- EDGEMAN 12/19/2017 2:49PM

I had a roommate as an undergrad that slept from ~4-8 am/pm -- BB Hokie 12/19/2017 1:39PM

Sounds like it worked for him. ** -- EDGEMAN 12/19/2017 2:50PM

Not intentionally, but I seem to have recently slipped into that routine. -- MP4VT2004 12/19/2017 1:37PM

Supposedly before electricity everyone on the farm -- Tombo 12/19/2017 1:36PM

And we know they were slaves to DST ** -- TomTurkey 12/19/2017 4:13PM

I nap for 3 hours in the late afternoon, then sleep 5 1/2 hours overnight -- darnellm 12/19/2017 1:25PM

I just drink till I pass out. It's working out wonderfully. ** -- HokieGator 12/19/2017 1:23PM

Didn't Kramer do that? ** -- 48zip 12/19/2017 1:21PM

Good luck trying to a girlfriend or wife into that ** -- HokieDan95 12/19/2017 1:01PM

True. But, the same thing could probably be said re: most things men like. ** -- MP4VT2004 12/19/2017 2:01PM

I think that's sort of what I do when I drive more than 8 hours.

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