Sleeping twice a day!
For around 2 months at university I began sleeping twice a day for around 4 hours at a time.

It actually worked incredibly well. I would get up, go to lectures, come home and sleep, get up again and go out, come home and sleep.

However, repeatedly doing this had some dangerous effects on my brain, my mind and my head. I'd frequently forget which day it was and would drift in and out of other people's lives. It's also a complete pain in the arse when you rise from your sleep at 5 in the morning, fresh as a daisy and hungry, and then have to wait for around 3 hours before you can go to the shop and get some food in.

I generally found that my productivity increased, mainly due to being awake for several hours while no-one else was. It all came to a head (and probably luckily enough) around a month before my first year exams. Waking up at 9 and rushing to get changed for a revision lecture, I stumbled the short walk over to my course building to discover all of the doors were locked and I couldn't get in. I probably should have guessed from the strangely high amount of people walking around without bags that it was in fact 9 at night.

There ended the experiment. Conclusion: Too confusing.
( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 18:26, 1 reply)

Heh, nice one.
You should try the Ubermann sleep schedule though; 20 mins of sleep every four hours, and see what happens!
(LordMatthius http://www.justgiving.com/marathon-matt2009, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 21:47, closed)