The sleep-need saver

I didn't quite know where to put this page and topic but it really looks at how you can reduce the hours you sleep but still gain quality sleep. Its purpose is to give you a little more time with your day so the time management section seemed to be the place for it to go.

Lie flat on the floor with no pillow. Hand's and arms by your side. Support your lower legs on a chair or other support (a sofa for example). Make sure your lower legs are supported as far back as the underside of the knees. This is a gravity aided brain circulation enhancing posture (that was a mouthful) similar in ways to a yoga headstand. Now the next step is to do a relaxing technique or a meditation if you prefer or you can just lie there quietly not thinking of anything in particular.

If you do this for approx 15 minutes just before bedtime and then go directly to bed it seems to satisfy about 1 to 3 hours of normal sleep need each night although when you first begin its more towards the 1 hour than the 3. It increases slightly each time you do it but you don't lose any quality of sleep and you don't feel tired the next day. I would advise you though to start it perhaps on a weekend first for the sake of experimentation and then extend it into the week.

The theory behind this is that the first few hours of sleep are spent realigning the circulatory system after the days verticality - and by satisfying that need for circularity readjustment and doing so rapidly, meditating in the gravity position satisfies a reasonable portion of sleep need.

The above explanation cannot be the whole story though because if you do not go immediately to bed following the fifteen minutes the effect disappears. If you do the meditation without the gravity position the effect also disappears

I have used this method before and it did knock off about an hour of sleep for me with no tiredness the next day but I only did it for a week as an experiment.

Hey try it and if you get decent results let me know