While this website will not debate the healthiness of such ventures (many doctor-certified healthy individuals engage in some of them,) we want to give a brief overview of how alternative sleeping schedules go.

Some people recently coined the term "sleephacking", referring to modified sleeping patterns and schedules that do away with the regular eight hours a day every night.

There are a lot of folks now devising their own sleeping schedules. Some do it out of necessity, like night-shift workers or touring musicians. Others want to do it out of personal challenge. Some do it to allow more time for things that mean more to them than closing your eyes every night with the lights turned out.

Here's our current list of available subjects:

No Sleep At All

Sleeping Every Other Day

Polyphasic Sleeping