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Vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh

Everyone should aim to lower the amount of sleep we have so that more time can be spent doing Naam abyaas and gurmat activities, soem examples of non sikhs who have been abel to reduce there sleep requirments are listed below .... so no excuses Gursikho :-

1. Jay Leno – four hours

"He subsists on four hours' sleep per night. Out of fifty-two weeks, he gets

four weeks off, during which time he is miserable. "I hate those weeks off," he

tells me. "To me, a week's vacation just means you're now a week behind."

http://www.bergsoe.dtu.dk/~pbk2512/article1.htm

2. Madonna – four hours

"Madonna has revealed she only grabs four hours' sleep a night because she

constantly worries about everything that is going on her life."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/music/newsid_1420000/1420364.stm

3. Florence Nightingale – four hours

"Florence Nightingale only slept four hours a night"

http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/insomnia/insomnia.html

4. Anton Ballard – four hours

"Ballard keeps pushing himself to get better. He averages around four hours of

sleep per night, and works about 12 hours each day between his meat counter and

his studio."

http://www.deep-end.com/bfacts.htm

5. Michelangelo – four hours

"Both aboriginal peoples and highly creative people (such as Thomas Edison and

Michelangelo) rarely sleep for more than four hours at a time."

http://www.susunweed.com/Article_Anthrax_Interview.htm

6. Napoleon Bonaparte – four hours

"Napoleon Bonaparte learned to live with the fact that he was only existing on

three or four hours sleep a night and got on with his grand schemes."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A294031

7. Bill Clinton – five to six hours

"President Clinton grabs 5-6 hours"

http://www.powersleep.org/sleepmatters.htm

8. Winston Churchill – six hours

"It was claimed he only spent 6 hours in bed every night. However, he wrote

that one needs to take a complete nap every afternoon, to get fully undressed

and really go to bed. No "halfway measures". He claimed the reward was to "get

two days in one - well, at least one and a half, I'm sure." He claimed this nap

was absolutely neccessary to cope with his responsibilities during the war. His

naps were 1.5 to 2 hours long, for a total of about 8 hours a day!"

http://www.mysleepcenter.com/FamousSleepers.html

9. Nikola Tesla – two hours

"He is said, by some of his followers, to only have slept 2 hours a day. He was

definitely a night owl. But his staff has told of him taking many naps during

the day. And it seems he may have been narcoleptic, and able to sleep with his

eyes open."

http://www.mysleepcenter.com/FamousSleepers.html

10. Leonardo Da Vinci – 15 mins every four hours (ie. 1.5 hours)

" It was said that he would sleep just 15 minutes of every four hours."

http://www.mysleepcenter.com/FamousSleepers.html

11. Margaret Thatcher – four hours

"Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister, was famous for getting by on

only four hours a night."

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/15-2-19102-0-37-6.html

12. Martha Stewart – four hours

"“There’s not enough time in the day,” complains the woman who says she needs

no more than four hours’ sleep a night."

http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/marthastewart/

13. Thomas Edison – four hours

"Thomas Edison slept 3-4 hours at night, regarding sleep as a waste of time"

http://www.powersleep.org/sleepmatters.htm

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I only sleep 4 hours at night and if I can Ill take a nap during the day.

I see it as if you sleep too much then you waste your life away sleeping. I know a guy who sleeps like 12 hours a night and he is a major lazy person. Seriously he is good for nothing. He is a drug addict and intoxication makes people sleep too much, they waste their life not sober and then if somewhat sober they are asleep, so they a rarely even in their right mind.

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i sleep 8 hours a day and i think i do everything a normal person should as a sikh ... everyone has a mind and body and sleeps according to it ... if u dont sleep what ur brain needs it will accumulate it for days and u may end up sleeping while driving alone ... a person doing more physical works needs more sleep without a question ... a rikshapuller will sleep long enough then a vehla banda doing nothing ... the thing should be avoided is oversleep on an average it is 8 hours it may be less or more when it comes to individual ... listen to ur brain and body do they feel fresh all day after u wake up in morning ... dont follow the bhed chall ... i dont see any logic in sleeping less hours in night and feeling sleepy rest of day ... its better to waste 8 hours then 24 hours ... so its better to find to out how many hours of sleep you need then stick to any hours and proud of it ...

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i sleep 8 hours a day and i think i do everything a normal person should as a sikh ... everyone has a mind and body and sleeps according to it ... if u dont sleep what ur brain needs it will accumulate it for days and u may end up sleeping while driving alone ... a person doing more physical works needs more sleep without a question ... a rikshapuller will sleep long enough then a vehla banda doing nothing ... the thing should be avoided is oversleep on an average it is 8 hours it may be less or more when it comes to individual ... listen to ur brain and body do they feel fresh all day after u wake up in morning ... dont follow the bhed chall ... i dont see any logic in sleeping less hours in night and feeling sleepy rest of day ... its better to waste 8 hours then 24 hours ... so its better to find to out how many hours of sleep you need then stick to any hours and proud of it ...

Do you get up at Amritvela???? If you get up at 4am then you will have gone to bed at 8pm?????? thats earlier than when I do Reharaas paat in the summer might as well eat dinner after paat. If you get up at 3am then youll have gone to bed at 7pm????????? Too much sleep

in a month you will have slept 240 hours in a 30 day period. 4 hours of sleep is only 12o hours of sleep and that gives you more time to battle the panj doots and do simran and paat.

What does a normal person do as a Sikh????????? :BL:

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Jassa is right, if you have a hard labour job, you will get more tired than say a person who has a desk job and thus you will require more sleep. If you are like me and workout hard, then you will NEED to sleep more or in a few days your body will simply crash.

Also, it could be the quality of sleep not quantity. A normal person needs only 4 hours of deep sleep/night; problem is it takes 2 hrs to get to deep sleep and 2 hrs to come out of it (roughly speaking). Perhaps a better suggestion would be to figure out how to go into and come out of deep sleep faster.

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I used to be a carpenter for a living and I still slept the same. Some days all I would do is carry lumber from one spot to another. Carrying 12(fresh wet) 10foot 2x4's about 30-40 times an hour for 8 hours after work I would just sit on my buttt for 5 hours straight but didnt need special sleep hours. Sometimes my friends would call me lazy after work but I was allowing my body to re compensate for the crazy labor etc. The guy who always said I was weak or lazy tried to work with me and only lasted 1 1/2 days before he quit because it was too hard (he was big guy 6ft 4 and 250lbs and Im skinny 6'1 and 150lbs and triple timed him with lifting labor) So the "big strong guy" couldnt keep up, he sleeps 10-12 hours and I sleep 4 hours a night. If ya had a heavy labor job you would laugh at people that do un-needed weight lifting for free and very hard on the body, because if they built houses or something similar is for one productive and just as good training wise and you get paid for it :lol: (not talking trash but it is phunnie)

Do some hard work and thats the same as training but I feel the sleep mode comes with the persons habit not needs etc......

Now I know how to push papi's buttons so Ill start calling him body-buildah :p

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problem is it takes 2 hrs to get to deep sleep and 2 hrs to come out of it (roughly speaking). Perhaps a better suggestion would be to figure out how to go into and come out of deep sleep faster.
That's a really good point, it takes me ages to doze off and even though I try to time how much I actually sleep, most of the time I don't know and am probably usually sleep deprived!

I do try my best to live by this line though:

खंडित निद्रा अलप अहारं नानक ततु बीचारो ॥८॥

Kẖandiṯ niḏrā alap ahāraʼn Nānak ṯaṯ bīcẖāro. ||8||

Sleep little, and eat little; O Nanak, this is the essence of wisdom". ||8||

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