<p>I really want to adjust sleeping for 3 hours a night. Its hard as hell though.</p>
<p>if you find a nice way, let me know</p>
<p>Don't.</p>
<p>You won't enjoy high school and your performance will suffer. Sometimes you may have to pull an all-nighter, but making 3 hours a regular thing is just ridiculous.</p>
<p>do NOT try to get away with 3 hours of sleep on a regular basis. its bad enough going a few consecutive nights without at least 7 hours (unless you're one of the few people that have full energy after 6h). there are tons of REM cycles that you have to go through, and the last cycle is the one where things you learned kind of stick into your brain. hard to explain, but basically if you are a bball player or something and you learn a new move, that new move will become kind of an instinct implanted in your memory during your last REM cycle. i just saw a lecture on it by prof james maas last week, but i'm not really good at explaining it. the other REM cycles have purposes too. and being too sleep deprived is just as bad a being wasted, as far a driving a car goes. to wrap it up though: don't try to get away with 3 hours of sleep on a regular basis!</p>
<p>The most someone can get by on a regular basis is 6 hours, and that only applies to a small portion of the population.</p>
<p>If you try getting 3 hours of sleep on a regular basis, you will:
1. Do really bad at school.
2. Your immune system will be greatly weakened and you WILL get sick, and could develop something potentially life threatening. When you're not sick you'll feel miserable all the time.
3. Be more accident prone. Sleepless drivers are just as dangerous as drunk drivers. Even if you don't drive, you'll find you have more accidents in your day to day activities. You'll drop things, bump into people, stumble, and respond slower to everything around you.
4. Experience a greatly decreased sex drive and harm your growth. High school isn't the time to cut back on sleep. Your body is growing and needs all the sleep it can get. </p>
<p>If you are dead intent on getting 3 hours of sleep, you may want to look into polyphasic sleep. It still isn't recommended for young people, however.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep</a></p>
<p>What do you have that's so important to do that you want to cut your sleep back so much?</p>
<p>It's okay to stay up all night a few times when you really have to, but why do it on a regular basis if it's unnecessary?</p>
<p>yeah, why do you only want to sleep three hours?</p>
<p>I'm no expert on the subject concerning the health of that, but I could never do that. I like my sleep too much.</p>
<p>I don't think I could survive on 3 hours of sleep.</p>
<p>Don't do it. One of my friends last year started working two jobs and ended up getting 3 hours of sleep per night on a regular basis, and catching up on weekends. It got very bad very quickly. If you don't have enough time to get 6 hours of sleep per night - at least - then you need to drop a class or cut back your ECs.</p>
<p>He wants to know how to adjust his sleep for 3 hours - Not if he ** should ** do it. </p>
<p>Well..... yes you can - I can survive on 4 hours a sleep per night (And then again I am not in school where I need focus, I rarely have to leave my house during the day)</p>
<p>Heres some tips:</p>
<p>For the first few weeks:</p>
<p>All throughout the day drink as much caffeine as you can - You must measure/time this correctly so you crash right when you get on your 3 hour sleep schedule. After a number of weeks of doing this your body will adjust and all the sudden BAM 3 hours seems like a lot of sleep.</p>
<p>^^ May sound crazy but it worked for me.</p>
<p>Just my 0.02$</p>
<p>What is this "sleep" you speak of?</p>
<p>Napoleon Bonaparte, who was one of the hardest workers in history (you try conquering the known world in a few years) slept only 3 hours a night. He got lucky though and didn't die from sleep-deprivation, but im sure it still screwed him up sometimes.</p>
<p>I know someone who prides himself on sleeping 3 hours a night. He's a total jerk and sometimes he's barely there in the head. Get at least 6 hrs.</p>
<p>There may be a very select group of people out there who can get by on insanely low amounts of sleep like Napoleon. However, these people are most likely biologically advantaged in some way. It's been shown in some scientific studies that super athletes actually skip heartbeats, something that scientists believe to be genetically influenced. Chances are good you don't have this kind of biological advantage.</p>
<p>Ben Franklin was known for preaching that we only need a few hours of sleep a night and did so himself. He was also known to take naps throughout the day.</p>
<p>I had a really great teacher my freshman year who prided himself on getting only 6 hours of sleep a night. He managed to do it, and denied it affected him, but everyone could see it did even if he didn't. He was a great teacher like I said, but sometimes he would occasionally fall in and out of attention and his tests were full of typos. One example is he once spelled the popular eatery Hooters as "Whooters" :). He also wasn't the a good person to get angry and during long presentations or tests, he would put his hand down in his hands.</p>
<p>"Napoleon Bonaparte, who was one of the hardest workers in history (you try conquering the known world in a few years) slept only 3 hours a night. He got lucky though and didn't die from sleep-deprivation, but im sure it still screwed him up sometimes."</p>
<p>maybe that's why he was so short...</p>
<p>I usually get by on 5 hours a night during the school year.</p>
<p>coffee is holy.</p>
<p>I would suggest coffee, but I'm Mormon.</p>
<p>^ That's a really good article (for women) on why you need sleep and what it does for you. :)</p>
<p>don't torture your body with 3 hours of sleep. An all-nighter here or there is ok but 3 hrs of sleep everyday is asking for trouble.</p>