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Sleeping & Thinking:
Q. “Do you practice meditation? Is there a kind of Dymaxion sleep?”
RBF: "I have never practiced it and I have never used either of those terms. I try to comprehend what my faculties may be. I can go to sleep in 30 seconds. Animals can go to sleep and still spring instantly into action. I thought this might be a good way to make the most of your time and energy, as a runner has a second wind–drawing on his reserve tanks. But it takes much more time and piping to replenish the reserve tanks.
"So I decided to try and see if I could sleep at a higher frequency than the daily and nightly periods of the earning-a-living game. So I slept whenever I felt like it. You cannot put out unless you are putting in. After two years I found that I was sleeping only a half-hour every six hours, or getting only a total of two hours sleep a day and all the while I was incredibly healthy.
“That may be something like the idea of meditation… we have all these messages coming in… I like to focus on some”
