"'I just won't sleep,' I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do." Jack Kerouac

Generally, when it comes to sleep, I am an epic failure.
I have to set myself six alarms in the morning. One for 6:00, 6:15, 6:30, 6:45, 7:00 and finally 7:30. And then, somehow, I still end up falling back to sleep.
I actually don't know what the hell is wrong with me.

This is a scenario that happens every morning:

So I'm lying there asleep and my alarm goes off, and by this time it's already 6:45 and I've slept through the first three alarms. And I'm like "Yesss, still have another 45 minutes until I have to get up" So then I fall back to sleep and I start to have a dream. I swear to God, this happens every morning. So I always end up having a really vivid dream that I don't really want to wake up from. So I don't. I'm asleep, and I can hear my alarm going off, but I somehow block it out because I want to keep having this dream.
And then my dad bursts into my bedroom going "CASSIE, IT's ten past eight!" - Excellent. I start work at 8:30.

I think I've screwed up my sleeping pattern so much over the past year or so. I don't seem to sleep at night on the weekends at all. And then I have long naps sometimes, which aren't too great for your sleeping pattern either (they say a nap should be no longer than 20 minutes).

And when you really think about it, as much as we love sleep, it's a real time waster.
I want to learn to live off less sleep. I want to be able to live comfortably on 4-5 hours sleep a night.
I just think it would be fantastic to learn to feel refreshed after only 4 or 5 hours sleep. Thats a 19 - 20 hour day. Think of how much more you could do and see.

And so, with the above in mind - the training begins...