4 Hour Sleep Training – Less & More Effective

After I read this amazing interview with Dean Karnazes “On Changing Your Life” by Outside Magazine, I was absolutely captivated. Several things grabbed me with a Kung Fu Death Grip and was compelled to pay attention to. I was reading how he trained himself to sleep on only 4 hours of sleep a night and almost without hesitation, I knew I was going to go for it myself.

My average night sleep is about four hours. I absolutely believe that diet is huge in that, and learning to sleep that little was also about a month’s process. It was really, really tough. I used to set my alarm and force myself to wake up, and I’d be groggy. But what I’ve found is that now, those four hours of sleep are a really good, solid four hours, where I used to have seven or eight before, and a lot of that was restless stirring around. Now when I sleep for four hours, it’s very restorative sleep.

Dean’s famous for running 50 Marathons in 50 states in 50 days! Ok, Just think about it. Here’s an ultra-endurance runner that is only sleeping 4 hours a night!

It doesn’t make sense with everything that I’ve ever been told! And that’s why I love it so much. It’s revolutionary, it’s an adventure, an exploration into the potential of the human body and mind. And who better to be a guinea pig than myself under my own motivation into training myself first, then into my mission of training others to succeed.

So here it is. I’m committed to training myself to get all the rest that I need in 4 hours over the month of February.

I’m giving myself a time of 1 month since that’s what he says in the interview. I’ll have to see what info I can find on the subject as well. And of course if you have, or see something, hook me up and leave a comment.

Doubts? yep. The usual suspects are there and I can see the same thoughts come up for me that you probably have. But that is where I’m going to have to build focus and courage to see the doubts and still choose to redirect my attention toward knowing that I can do it. Whe

Fortunately, I got a head start since I read this article yesterday as I was writing a post I haven’t quite finished yet. And last night, this happened almost automatically, surprise surprise. So this morning I woke up at 3:30am and felt good (which is not my expectation as the month goes on). So day 1 is a success. Stay tuned.