“Hacking Sleep”
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000573063569/
Click the title of this post for a link to Hack A Day’s summary article on how to hack sleep.
My faithful readers will know this is a topic near and dear to my heart.
From the article:
Polyphasic sleep is a method for increasing the amount of time you spend awake during the day. By sleeping only twenty to thirty minutes every four hours you can stay awake longer. The short time you do spend sleeping the body is in REM sleep, which is the most restful phase. This technique has been used by many famous inventors. I first stumbled across this idea in an article on Kuro5hin. This mode of life can be very difficult to adjust to. In the first few days you probably won’t be asleep when you are trying to. You must strictly follow the sleep schedule. Skipping a nap will probably cause a major crash. With limited sleep a nutritious diet will become very important. Hack-A-Day reader [Nick Busey] is a week into his second attempt at switching to the Uberman cycle and is blogging his progress. If I were to attempt this I would probably get something like the Earlarm to help out. Of course if you’d rather sleep more you’re probably better off with the 28 hour day.
That explains the energy rush after taking that nap the other day, when I had that paper due. I don’t know if I could handle this, though—that whole schedule thing throws me. I’d rather take some Provigil. 
October 30th, 2005 at 19:22:18
Except provigil makes you feel like you’re cracked out!
December 1st, 2005 at 14:22:19
thanks alot very good blog
May 1st, 2007 at 02:33:34
Production of the EARLARM is the biggest joke. It was my original intention to present the ‘EARLARM’ in a different package design to market with assist of the Small Business Administration. A representative retained a facsimile copy of the schematic and it can only be assumed that since that time (late 1980’s) to the early 1990’s (when it appeared in the marketplace), this idea and concept became stolen intellectual property (though created with a much poorer design).