Sleep, Belief & Motion — 3 Life Hacks That Can Drastically Improve Your Day-To-Day

1. Hack your sleep.

Did you know that there are ways to only need 4 hours of sleep? How about 2 hours? And did you know that there is also scientific evidence showing you how to feel awake no matter when you get up?

These hacks all involve knowing about your sleep and its cycles.

During sleep we go through different stages known as REM and non-REM sleep. At first you are awake, then you enter the stages 1–5, stage 5 being REM sleep.

You need to reach stage 5 to feel completely rested (the details of why that is are still studied) and it usually takes you about 30 minutes to get there and 60 minutes to get back to stage 1, which is your lightest sleep phase.

If you try to wake up during the REM stage you will wake up tired, not well rested and feel like you just fell asleep, while waking up during stage 1 sleep especially makes you feel well rested, although it is a relatively short interval to catch.

These phases occur about once every 90 minutes, although your exact time differs slightly from everybody else.

To hack your sleep always plan in 90 minute intervals and try to wake up right at the mark. Add 10 minutes to your sleep or subtract 10 minutes every…