Old “Doc” Plume, the local hardware store owner, who was known for his miraculous cures for arthritis, had a long line of “patients” waiting outside the door when a little old lady, completely bent over, shuffled in slowly, leaning on her cane.  When her turn came, she went into the back room of the store…

Ancient Zen masters said “When hungry eat, when tired sleep.” Modern societies have the first part down pat since the majority of people in western countries are overweight. These busy people seem to have missed something in the translation of the sleep part. This carries over to fitness where many are too tired or say…

Get tired in the middle of the day? You might not need a proper sleep, but rather just a quick nap to get back in gear – because we can’t be productive when we’re tired. Micronaps are those moments you catch yourself having fallen asleep, usually for somewhere under 5 minutes. However, if you schedule these…

Hey, I’m not being lazy. I’m napping for 20 minutes so I’m killer productive for the next few hours. That makes sense, right? No use being drowsy and irritated for those hours, I’ll be an attentive, productive part of the workplace. Here’s how to get a good nap: 1 The first consideration is psychological: Recognize that you’re…

Sometimes, we may not sleeping well, even if we never suffer from insomnia before. Good sleep does affect our productivity during day time, so as a hacker we should look into ways to sleep better. Ririan gathers 11 ways to have a better sleep at night: Create A Sleep-Conducive Environment Avoid Caffeine, Alcohol and Tobacco Exercise Regularly Have A…

Kurt Kleiner talks about his love towards napping and looks for reasons to take his nap. With all those negative perceptions in the modern world on napping, he wants to prove that it may not be bad thing at all. He found many studies recently shows napping improve productivity. How useful is it for a 10…

How many hours do you sleep at night? Sleeping is always a good topic to talk about at lifehack.org, because potentially we may find out our optimal hours of sleeping to use and enjoy more hours awake. But sleeping is important to our physical health, how to justify to decrease our sleeping time? RelentlessProductivity.com has a suggestion…

There is a study on sleeping positions which scientist believes closely related to personality. Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service, has analyzed six common sleeping positions. The article has not mention how he came up with the result, but it is pretty interesting to see the position and the relevant…

Stanford University Center of Excellence, William Dement has written a FAQ on how sleeping is affecting the daily life. He realized there are many Stanford undergradulates who have not get enough sleep and he saw the importance of educating students (and adults) on sleep. Here are some of the topics that he have talked about: How…

Brad Isaac at Achieve-IT has noted down a technique called Caffeine Nap from the Field and Stream magazine. The technique involves with drinking a caffeine drink (such as coffee) and take a 15 minutes nap immediately. The sleep researchers at the Loughborough University in Britain tested couple of different techniques to stay awake in…

In modern life, we usually get robbed by our commitments and other demands in our life. We tends to sleep less and less. It maybe your worry that prevents your sleep, or you got insomnia. Psychology Today has a great info on how to get great sleep. It addresses couple of good info or concerns…

Brightsurf has a good article recently on the relationship between brain, sleeping and learning. The article is pretty technical, but two good pieces of information you can grab from it which are benefit for our readers: Learning appears to rejuvenate the brain; and lack of sleep undoes the rejuvenation benefit from learning. Hence it is…

Christopher Ketcham at Men’s Journal has written a article on power nap. In our previous introduction of power nap, polyphasic sleep involves the sleep pattern of 90 minutes. In this article, they have looked into compressing the nap into 20 minutes, by going through first two out of five of sleeping stages: … Here’s how…

One of our favorite blogger, Steve, has completed his full 30 days of using polyphasic sleep. Inspired by our post on polyphasic sleep, he has started his polyphasic sleep journey since October. He has experienced his physical adjustment on the first week, mental adjustment on the second and third week, and now he feels…

Recently we have a wave of resources and posts about sleeping, we introduced some posts on polyphasic sleep, the sleep cycle, and an extensive sleeping reference. I highlighted in the sleep reference that alarm maybe harmful for your sleeping cycle. Here is another experience from Vincent Cheung on alarm clock. He suggested…