i sleep like Thomas Edison.

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I sleep in spurts. An hour to three hours at a stretch. I've heard Thomas Edison had a simlar sleep pattern.

That means you will invent the lightbulb!! !

Apparently, this used to be common in medieval times - there are lots of old documents that talk about people having a "first sleep" and a "second sleep". The idea that you're supposed to get all of your sleep in one long 8-9 hour session dates mostly from the industrial revolution when people started having to fit their sleep around working long hours in the mills and factories (12 hour working days, 6 days a week, were common back then.) These days, that kind of sleep pattern is called "polyphasic sleeping" (it has lots of Google results.)

You sleep on a big pile of Nikola Tesla's money?

Impressive.

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I used to sleep like that. Unfortunately I can't anymore, because I got a job that requires that my day-night-rhythm is the same as everyone elses. But I really prefer the spurt-way of sleeping. Because I work best very early in the morning and very late at night, but with the normal 8-hours-a-night-pattern I can't have them both.

I've been doing that lately cuz me & my girlfriend go to bed late & have been getting up early alot cuz of things going on. We take naps after we're done & sometimes had a chance to wind down, & we go to bed late again cuz we're not that tired since we had the nap, & the cycle continues.

I sleep like Thomas Edison too. Maybe this means we are both geniuses.

I once read somewhere that Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. I don't know if that's true, but I can almost imagine him there desperately trying to get his first light bulb to work, "C'mon, c'mon, please work, it's only a half-hour until sundown!"

i'd sleep like a log for at least 8 hours [like when I was younger] if not for my need to empty my bladder every 2 hours or so.

I used to sleep like that when I was younger too. Because I'm more productive very early in the morning and since I got up too early I would feel the need to sleep in the afternoon which would keep me awake late at night.

I looked up Thomas Edison's sleep patterns. He reportedly slept 3 to 4 hours a night and took naps in the day time. This is hardly a first sleep second sleep pattern.

For what it's worth, I went about ten years sleeping about 2 hours a night and taking no naps at all. I never got very far asleep - I had maybe one or two dreams a year and could become instally fully awake at the slightest impulse. There was no grogginess while waking up.

The only exception was if I took medicine that made me drowsy as a side effect (antihistamines, for one). I loved all the extra time I had, but I hated it as well.

This can be very dangerous, though. Supposedly while you are awake your body allows amyloid proteins to accumulate in the brain. They think that during your deep sleep, the body is able to remove much of those proteins. If you have little or no deep sleep, then they just keep building up.

The resulting amyloid plaque is one of the two characteristics of Alzheimer's Disease -- the other is neurofibrillary tangles. I think that it is generally considered that Alzheimer's is due more to the amyloid plaques although some neuroscientists think that it might be the neurofibrillary tangles, instead, that is responsible for Alzheimer's.

Consequently, I very rarely use an alarm clock at all. I want to get lots of sleep to help avoid the buildup of amyloid plaques in addition to whatever may already be there.

From https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17853-lack-of-sleep-linked-to-alzheimers/:

i'd read somewhere that the few cases of people losing the ability to sleep, cut their lifespans short, to less than 50 years.