Hacking Life

This is the first of a few posts that is going to take on the basics of "hacking life" or applying reverse engineering, shortcuts, troubleshooting, and

It seems logical to start off with the process we start and end each day with. Sleep...

The Uberman Style of Life:

The Uberman sleep cycle refers to a style of life to which you cannot commit yourself that would require more than 4 hours of your time. The basics of this lifestyle is that you're awake for 4 hours then you sleep for a half an hour. Since your body is then only getting 2 hours of sleep a day then your mind tricks itself to entering REM sleep sooner to where as soon as you fall asleep you begin to dream and replentish your reserves for the day. This allows a 16 hour work day. This lifestyle requires that the nutritional value of the food you ingest is higher than the average person's. This lifestyle is often referred to as "polyphasic sleep" as there are multiple phases of sleep each day.

AKiratima's Cycling Lifestyle:

This is a process in which you lower your body's required sleep time to the point in which you are awake for 48 hour periods then sleep a normal sleep schedule. This requires training your body to endure long periods of high energy useage without a replentishing phase. This is normally believed to require lots of sugar for energy but it's quite the opposite. This requires protein, carbohydrates, a high calorie intake, as well as a grand supply of fruits being put into your system. The food regiment usually required for this entails :Salad with whatever you want on it(cheese, meat chunks, pepperoni, black olives, etc.) This also goes for the salad dressing you're going to put on it. Anything you want; Meats are next on the menu...beef, chicken, pork, and if you like it, which I don't, some fish. You'll skip desert and instead take another meal in per 24 hour period. You will now be taking in 4 meals a day and roughly 6-7 snacks regularly. These include beverages. Snacks usually entail a ham sandwich or an orange or an apple or something to that nature. Food can be prepared any way you want...grilled, fried, baked...whatever works. Once you start changing your food schedule to this you will begin staying up a half an hour later every 2 days. Be sure to wake up at the same time every day, just go to sleep a bit later. This will change your sleep pattern to something similar to mine. This is more of a Bi-Annual phasic sleep. Since you sleep once every 2 days in the end. This can be pushed further. At one time I was sleeping only 3 hours every 2 days so test the limits of this if you feel froggy.

28 Hour Days 6 Days a Week:

This is a system adopted by quite a few people, and even a few that I know personally. This Requires changing your workday to 10 hours, personal time to 7 hours, and then you get 9 hours of sleep. Both the 24 and the 28 hour day allow a 2 hour period in the morning to prepare and commute to where you need to be. This still allows you to work 40 hours a week since you repete this 28 hour day 4 times a week (in regards to work). This does however cause one of your days to be contained within a period of darkness, unless you are to make that day a day off and you move your work day closer to the modern weekend. This would be considered a monophasic sleep cycle since you'd be changing the period of time that the day would be considered and shortening the week to 6 days. The other two work withing the 24 hour day idealism.

All three of these are much more productive than our current lifesyle which is the 24 hour 7 days a week 9-5 work day 5 day work week. Personally I run the AKiratima cycling lifestyle...but I'm not gonna try to persuade you to another random one which wouldn't benefit you nearly as much as the one I created.

AK