Well I got to Thursday morning at 4am and decided to end the sleep experiment of 30 minutes sleep every 4 hours. I would have thought I would have quit due to being tired, but by the third day I was coping very well and was probably at 90% effectiveness while awake. I decided to give up for the following reasons, between 2am – 7am it was hard because:
- the missus was asleep so I had to creep around the house quietly
- the house was cold!
- I was pretty bored!
There isn’t much to do between the hours of 2am – 7am apart from work, and after a full day of work anyway that was the last thing I wanted to do!
I’ve got to say though getting into the routine I found pretty easy to get used to – but then I generally work and sleep odd hours anyway. There were a number of great positives from doing this routine:
- I got a hell of a lot of work done over the three days!
- 3.5 hours between a sleep is a great period just to focus on a single bit of work. Due to being able to break the day up into sizeable chunks and focusing on one product/task during that period I was able to move a number of things along a good amount.
Overall conclusion – if I had a big deadline impending that needed a lot of work to do – I would definitely consider doing this pattern again. Oh and also if I was single! :-) I have decided to try to segment my day more though to focus on specific tasks so I think I have learnt enough from this try out to see if it was worth it.