Guys how do you manage sleeping while you need to wakeup at 6 AM to work on a project? if you slept at let's say 3 AM can you wake up at 6 AM then take an hour nap at 11 AM until 12 PM ?

I have to get around 8 hours or I cannot function. I also have to drive and don't want to die.

Go to bed earlier?

You need to change the employer, that's how.

@Demolishun exactly this for me as well

Been there, done that.

Don't be too smart. Your body needs sleep. You can make it a few days without sleep, but then your batteries start getting empty.

1 hour nap can't replace your sleep. You also need to take into account deep sleep, REM and stuff like that, which I think is hard to get in 1 hour of sleep.

I need around 7 hours of sleep, to be able to make it through the week.

Sleep when you can, be awake when you must. Don't overthink or stress about it.

@WildOrangutan have a good point about the naps. you have to account the sleep cycles. some ppl recomend you do either a short power nap ( as they call it ) 4 30m or full cycle of 1h and 30m, b/c if u wake with alarm breaking a cycle in the wrong time u can feel even more tired than before the nap. but whichever approach of sleep u choose it's highly recomended to give your body and mind at least 8 hours of sleep per 24h and if u skip a day or 2 better compensate later for it =]

I worked at a job that I had to do time tracking for (Hubstaff).The pressure there was so high with timelines that I had to wake up at 8 am and start working and log off at 11 pm.

Needless to say, I didn't end up working there for long. I quit after 2 months.

Never again.

I can do that once, maybe twice and still be functional.

For me it's roughly like this:

Ideally, I need 8 hours of sleep, and that's the default my body takes, but I can manage 7

If I sleep anywhere between 4-6 hours I will feel groggy and tired for half a day

if I sleep less than 4 I will feel perfectly fine, It's more like a long nap than a sleep, but this only works for the first day, the second day it's manageable but I start feeling it

You can't replace sleep with naps. Human sleep has several phases, REM and NREM. And the amount of time you spend in each of this phases changes during the sleep. They keep swapping back and forth, but at first you get much more NREM sleep with very short REM phases between, while towards the end of your 8 hours you get shorter and lighter NREMs with longer REMs... This is why you can't replace entire 8 hour sleep with just power naps, you'll be starving for REMs which will affect your memory performance a great deal

@Nanos yeah, that sounds suicidal a bit, hope he was not driving himself to work and back. my worst work-sleep schedule was when I worked for the 1st american guy ( the 1 I rant most about ). I had to work @ night and find ( under the bed ) some time 2 sleep in the day...and was more than 5 yrs in a row...but hay, I survived it ( on some cost ) and now u just can't tie me to do it again ( unless the compensations are realy REALY gooood... and even then or should I say exactly by same reason it won't last long )

Medical interns (doctors in training) do it when they're in school. Just be careful that you don't do something like drive with your eyes open but you're actually asleep. If you do it long term you'll develop psychosis. You'll be in a meeting and start hysterically crying. I'm being serious and telling you what I've witnessed. Of course you could fake psychosis so your boss gives you medical leave!

@Nanos ops, my bad. Take my apologies to the person in question :)

@Nanos only eunuchs complain about this shit.