We sleep for about 8 hours a day. Nothing special. But 8 hours a day implies that we sleep for one third of the day. On a larger span of time what it means is that we sleep for one third of our life. Assuming our lifespans to be 75 years it would mean that we spent 25 years of our life doing nothing but sleeping. In one way or another sleep does have a significant role to play, yet it gets ignored. The prevalent outlook is that sleep is for the weak. We idolize the ones who sleep less, which, to an extent, implies that sleep is an inconvenience. The recent outburst of productivity techniques, mobile applications, gadgets and gizmos have a very narrow vision. We have all our attention to the 16 hours when we are awake and care little about the rest 8. Sleep is necessary, but is it? What if we don’t sleep? Ok, it is important but what about the 8hr a day rule, does it have to be continuous or can it be broken into parts? We can break it into two parts , 6 at night and 2 du