You will doze while walking down the street in broad daylight. By day three, you will start falling asleep standing up. Extreme sleep deprivation is a crash course on how fragile our mind actually is. What’s difficult are the second and third and fourth nights. Especially if there are deadlines and/or drugs involved. Not sleeping for one night is not that difficult. You have probably pulled an all-nighter before. For years, I obsessed with achieving the Uberman Sleep Schedule.Īnd for years, I continually failed at it. Imagine everything you could accomplish with an extra decade of life, all while everyone else is asleep. That’s insane! Over the course of one’s life, that’s over a decade of extra waking hours. That’s like having an extra two days each week, or an extra three and a half months per year.
Therefore, the Uberman Sleep Schedule became this kind of decathlon of willpower among internet self-help people-an ultimate test of one’s self-discipline with the ultimate pay-off: an extra 20-30% of productive waking hours per day, every day for the rest for your life. And if at any point you screwed up and overslept your nap, all would be undone and you would have to start over. You had to stay up all night, every night, forcing yourself to only sleep for 20 minutes at a time, six different times per day. But there was a catch: supposedly it took 1-2 weeks of intense sleep deprivation to properly “adjust” to the Uberman Sleep Schedule. Congratulations, you were now an Uberman. As long as you continued to take 20-minute naps every four hours, you could effectively stay awake forever. Then, once your REM sleep was over, you would feel rested and restored for the next 3-4 hours. The idea of the Uberman Sleep Schedule was that if you took 20-minute naps, every four hours, around the clock, for days and weeks on end, you would “train” your brain to fall into REM sleep instantly the moment you lay down. People on the internet decided this was incredibly efficient. It does this in order to compensate for its lack of rest. 
What the military scientists (supposedly) discovered is that if you’re severely sleep-deprived, your body will immediately fall into REM sleep the second you pass out. 3 People on the internet decided this was inefficient and needed to be fixed. Thus, when you sleep eight hours during the night, only 80-100 of those minutes are actually causing you to feel rested and restored. 2 That means for every two hours that your body is asleep, really only the last 20 minutes or so is “useful” sleep. This uber-efficient portion of sleep is called REM sleep and only lasts approximately 15-20 minutes at a time. Conversely, 80% of the time you’re asleep, you’re a lazy piece of shit. Sleep follows the 80/20 Rule-that is, 80% of your recovery comes from 20% of the time you’re unconscious. 
The scheme was called “The Uberman Sleep Schedule,” and here’s how you did it: Supposedly, this was all true and verified and somehow made sense. Supposedly, all we needed was enough willpower to barrel through days of sleep deprivation and “acclimate” to this new superhuman schedule. 1 Supposedly, anybody (i.e., you and me) could achieve this state of daily hyper- productivity. Supposedly, great historical figures like Napoleon and Da Vinci and Tesla followed the same sleep schedule and it’s why they were so productive and influential in history.
They were testing the limits of sleep deprivation on soldiers and made this startling discovery. Here’s how the story went: There was a hyper-productive sleep schedule that had been discovered by military scientists.
Keep in mind, this was back in the early 2000s when we all still believed random shit we read on the internet. When I was in college, there were some people on the internet who claimed that you could train yourself to sleep as little as two hours per day.
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