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I’ve been on a really weird sleeping schedule lately, it’s due to a lot of things but mainly because there’s so much I want to get done these days and not enough hours to do it in.
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It seems like life is moving faster and faster …and I could keep up with everything if only I could live on a couple hour’s sleep a night. Unfortunately I can’t (oh I’ve tried though) live on such little sleep but I do end up staying up for over 24 hours straight a lot due to different scheduling overlaps and just being really into what I’m working on.
I feel so tired by the end of it that I’m a walking zombie stumbling around the house trying to take care of everything that needs to be done before I get into bed. Although in a lot of ways the more I do it the easier it gets I can’t imagine functioning after staying up even longer than that.
I know a lot of people really do it though, usually because they’re in college and they have a lot of papers to write or have to cram for finals or something like that. Pretty hardcore stuff but I think the sleep deprivation award by far goes to Navy SEALs recruits during Hell Week.
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During the fourth week of their initial training SEALs recruits go an entire five days with only about four hours of sleep while constantly undergoing physical stress. It’s less of ‘training’ and more of an endurance test to sort out only the most committed and mentally strong.
It determines who in the group wants to be a SEAL enough to not only outlast being tortured with things like never ending PT and battling hypothermia while laying in cold surf that rakes you over sharp rocks, all on no sleep.
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The recruits eat over 7,000 calories a day during that period but still lose weight and they often end up hallucinating by the end of the week.
They learn to steal little bits of sleep whenever they can like when they’re standing at attention or even running. I saw a quote by someone who went through Hell Week that went something like ‘I learned I could sleep while running and carrying a heavy boat over my head.’
Hey maybe that’s the answer to my time management troubles …all I have to do is learn how to sleep while doing housework or something similar and I’ll be all set ;).
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