28 hour days - doable?

[Dale Dough]

I came up with this myself as a solution for wanting to go to bed later everyday, pull the occasional long marathon session live, but still spend time with my girlfriend during the weekend days.

Then I googled '28 hour day' and found this. This guy wants to switch to 9 hours of sleep and 19 hours of awake time every 'day'. I was thinking more along the lines of 10.5 hours sleep, so that I end up with the equivalent of 7 9-hour periods.

Anyway, apparently our circadian rhythms don't like getting messed with. Harvard students did a study and found that subjects' bodies went through approximately 24-hour cycles anyway. Then I read some random stories on the Net about people who did it and were OK, and people who did it and became depressed.

All in all that doesn't look too good, but then again I'm sleeping pretty irregularly now, and that isn't good either. It's pretty hard to juggle the occasional all-nighter at the casino, staying up late doing pointless [censored] every day, having to run office-hour errands every once in a while, and still be awake during weekends to spend time with the girlfriend.

So, I'm going to try it out for a while. If anyone is interested, I'll give updates on my sanity here. I have set my schedule to waking up at 10 on Saturday, and 2 on Sunday. This is fairly close to what my girl and I are doing already.

Because I was recovering from said all-nighter in the casino, I already went to bed early the other day, and woke up at 3:45 (AM) (It's 4:45 now, Moscow time). I'll ease into it over the next few days. Here's the times I plan to be sleeping:

Monday 7:30 - 18:00
Tuesday 11:30 - 22:00
Wednesday 15:30 - Thu 2:00
Thursday 19:30 - Fri 6:00
Friday 23:30 - Sat 10:00
Sunday 3:30 - 14:00

I figure 17.5 hour days shouldn't be too hard, unless my 24-hour cycle has me consistently waking up early. My hope is that I'll also have more dreams, due to increased amount of REM sleep with each cycle etc.

Any input is appreciated, since I'm not that knowledgeable on the subject of sleep!