Thread: Less Sleep Is Better? Then What About Lding!?

Originally Posted by lvlindless

I read this book called "powerful sleep" and the guy basically says shorter periods of sleep (around 5 hours or so) will make you sharper, more energetic, and overall healthier. Of course he said the sleep has to be better, by improving it with comfort, diet, and all this stuff along with it.

So, skipping the later REM periods doesn't matter? The guy says the common misconception is that 8 hours is too long, and that we really need only about 5 - 6 hours or something. Well... Then wouldn't you not be able to have lucid dreams? But... You would have a better sleep schedule and it would improve your life quality I'm guessing.

What do you guys know on the subject?
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It varies from person to person. I cannot function a full 14-15 hours then without having take power naps if I only sleep 5-6 hours.

But you can also adjust. Like during highschool, I used to function fine off 7 hours of sleep. Now I need atleast 8-9 hours of sleep because that's what I've become used to during college.

I wouldn't give up dreaming to have "more time" - those hours are my get away from the stressful reality of the waking.

And actually, if you sleep only 5 hours or less a night, you risk gaining weight even more than those who sleep over 10 hours. I remember reading some study about it the newspaper a long time ago.

I only get around 6-7 hours a sleep most days, and I've been able to have lucids. That doesn't mean I have lucids quite frequently, it's about once a week or so.

It just depends person to person I guess, and if you value your sleep or your dreams more.

Sometimes I get lucid dreams when I've only slept for 5 hours.

It's not that you won't get lucid dreams when you only sleep for 5 hours. The chance to have a lucid dream is just less big. However... around 7.30 hours a day is healthy. You are more likely to wake up during REM sleep and you also get less fat when you would only sleep for 5 - 6 hours.

I can work well with 6 hours, but I prefer to sleep at least 8. I wouldn't say it is healthier to have less sleep; the body & mind is taken care of during the sleep after all.

For some reason I think 8 hrs is a massive waste.. maybe when I was younger.. but now I function fine with just 5.

If not having enough enjoyable stuff to do during the waking hours, dreaming for long is nice.

I can only sleep like 5-6 hours during the week, and i function with school + working like 30hrs a week but by friday im toasted, unless i get a little alchohal or some girls around me, im in bed at like 9 lol.

I just wanted to point out that as an extreme insomniac I get roughly two hours of sleep a night. I can go to bed a midnight, 1:00, 1:30, 3:00 am, really doesn't matter what time of night I almost always fall asleep after the sun has rised. For these past couple of days that time was between 7:30 to 8:00. And I would wake up roughly around 10:00. . So two real hours of sleep.


It actually hasn't gotten in the way of lucid dreaming too much. Actually this morning within that time frame I had three dreams and I was lucid for one of them. Was very refreshing

only problem is I'm still very sleepy and the dreams feel a lot shorter than normal. I imagine a regular sleep schedule yields longer dreams.

Go to http://polyphasic.org , They got lots of information on polyphasic sleeping, which is when you train your body to go through a full nights worth of sleep phases in a matter of a few hours, its done by forcing yourself to only sleep by taking 20 or so minute naps throughout the day for several weeks, at some point your body adjusts and makes an entire sleep cycle happen within 20 mins, typically it takes about 90 mins. Then you go back to a single nights sleep and you supposedly only need a few hours of sleep from that point on. I attempted this once but I couldn't pull it off for several reasons, mainly because I didn't have the will, I don't have a reason to need shorter sleep.