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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1957.

ATTENTION ALL WHO INSIST ON EIGHT HOURS A DAY

How to sleep less

and

live longer

REPORT No. 1 ON

AN EXPERIMENT

IN GETTING MORE

OUT OF UFE

WEARY of waiting for show any signs of physical or W

exhaustion. Some 01 the scientists to pro- mentul

the mout industrious and

vide a pill to lengthen my creative people I know life span, I have taken, chronic lusomniocs. action to grab myself some

are

extra years in another way. Oul of 500 distinguished Americans quixred by a doclur nearly 100 sleep only six hours

or lean,

Barring accidents and bad luck, I cuin lengthen the rest of my life expectation - further, 30 years, ap- cording to the statisticians

by at least two and a half years and probably more.

All I have to do is to eut down my sleep from seven and a half hours a night to five and a half. That will give me two hours of extra living a day which adds up to an additional month year.

So instead of having only 12 months to enjoy life every year I shall have the equivalent of 18.

When the sleep of anuals was forelbly curtailed they put

a better performance kaning experiments than other allowed unlimited slumber,

IF YOU'RE TEMPTED

TO JOIN IN

-TEST YOURSELF AGAINST

THE VITALITYGRAPH DA

'FALSE-

"AFTER-LUNCH'

ALERT

TROUGH

PRE-LUNCH

CUP OF TEA

LOW**

CUP OF TEA

BED

T

6 a.m. 8 10 12

2

4

6

8

10

12 2

посп

12-30 3.m.

THIS GRAPH charts Pincher's vitality as assessed by his feelings of alertness or lassitude. The regular loss of two`hours' sleep causes Д mid-morning de pression und what Pincher describes as an “abyss" after lunch, Vitality then rises steadily through the late afternoon and evening until midnight when there is a period of exceptional mental clarity. This proves to be a "false alert** 11.4 it rapidly fails off into a sensation of drained-out exhaustion.

to

tite after-lunch

at each end-going to sleep at addicted

You red will power at first 12.30 instead of midnight and snoozu whenever possible. I to overcuins the “withdrawal getting up at six or soon after have nal found this sleep- symptoms." (Note that phrase "getting up. rationing easy, Many people boast that they never take more than six hours sleep but they Flay dozing in bed for an hour or more.)

But both bring their re The feeling of tassitude that we in well-being and assalled me about 11.30 am. and extra life. again after lunch was over- whelming at Arst. But, 13 I find that an early attuck on Messel promised, it is getting doubt whether So, in the absence of medical the day is worthwhile in itself, easier, though evidence against altering the for the psychological sense of I can get my physiology tuned superiority over to less than five hours sleep a moded moste to: "Late to bed. triumph and

night.

Getting your sleep down Is As I previously slept seven hours or more ond we like getting your weight down.

decided that with hat my life and early to rise..." have the sluggards which it brings

already gone seven and a half Bouts sleep a night is a luxury I can no longer cord. (His a luxury the nation probably

anal fford.)

Appalling.

10

IT is not pressure of work:

which has induced ne take this netlun. It is just that I am so appalled at te way

After 30 of these "baker's dozen" year, if I last that long, I shall have lived two and a half years during which 1 should otherwise time is dying. have been unconscious. If I can get my sleeping time down to five hours, my gain in living time will be more than three years.

1

days. And steep, though plea-

"The weeks are ticking by like | sant for the few moments while you are entering it, is nothing inmore than living deathi

Apart from

dreams,

which

What about the ill-effects of "burning the candle at both last only a few seconds, it In ends"? Is there no danger that Impossible to enjoy steep itself.

by consistently depriving my- self of sleep I shall reduce my life-span by as much or even

more than I gain?

After studying almost every medicul report on the subject I um sulished that there is Go worthwhile evidence that abortage of sleep, unless it la extreme, reduces longevity or causes ill-health.

Remember the air raids? For six years the sleep of millions of Britons was disturbed almost nightly. Yel there. is Do evidence that anyone's health suffered from loss of sleep.

Indeed one of the anedical lessons of the war was to emphualso fliat 'most people, can manage on five or six, hours night Indeânitely with no health penalty.

A luxury

A

a com THE psychiatrista

unanimous that Insonnia is injurious only if you, wOSTY, about it.

People who habitually sleep

only, five hours a night because

life exciting I have resented the As one who has always found third of it wasted in sleep. But with civilised society organised on the oud assumption that we each need eight hours nightly. it is all too easy to conform to the national pattern of idleness,

Thie immediate dividendn from cutting down on sleeping in were revealed to me when a human fireball called Pro- fessor Harry Messel stayed with me last month.

I had seen how much this Canadian-born scientist parks

to his life while visiting him at Sydney University, where he has achieved wonders for Australian acimice.

I

When he stayed with me found out that he rarely sleeps more than fours hours a night because he has gradually còn- ditioned himself to do so.

On his advice I began to cus

my sleep down and have re-

duced it to six hours, with no inach-time naps or dosing in the

train allowed.

..

I vld it Messel-fashion, cut-

they cannot get more rarely ting half an hour off my sleep

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• Pincher is now merely

at the beginning of his

Experiment with Sleep.

Watch for a further report from him in three weeks' time.

"I beliare Mr. Dulles wanted to know how long

one con exist in a roisfied atmosphere before coming down to earth."

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