Sleep: Redefine Your Rest, for Success in Work, Sport and Life: Littlehales, Nick: 9780241975978: Amazon.com: Books (original) (raw)

I think this book might have changed my life. I've been such a bad sleeper for so many years I just handled it - waking in the night and being awake for hours affected everything else so much - sport, work, partner etc. I'd have 1 or 2 good sleeps a year! So while reading this I decided I was going to 'hack' my sleep.

Some of the points. Sleep is broken up in to 90 minute lots, and waking up at the same time is important - I've always been an early riser so 5am works for me. So for the first week I was going to sleep at 12:30, getting up at 5am, 4.5 hours of sleep a night and then a 30 minute power nap around lunch. When you only get 4.5 hours of sleep a night, you definitely sleep through. Suddenly I had lots of extra hours in the day...

Then after a week I started moving back my sleep time back 90 minutes, then a bit more but still kept the same waking time. Been sleeping like a baby for a whole week - unheard of!

There's lots of other pointers/tips and advice to heed to help make it all work. So get this book - it's a great investment. Once you start sleeping properly, life starts to be normal again.