>> Hey look at it this way - with age comes wisdom riiight? So I'm 47 but have been awake 10 years longer than most 47 year old's, so I'm as wise as a 57 year old riiight? hahahaha It must be true - girly told me just this morning that I was a 'wise-ass' sooo see it's working! hahahaha
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>I've learned to do it, accidentally. I took some acupuncture, and lying motionless for 30 minutes every other day was a great exercise in keeping still, and actually relaxing. When it was over, I started taking those power naps. Now it's more than ten years since the last needle session, and I still fall dead asleep for ten to fifteen minutes, and wake up fresh. It's usually about half an hour after lunch, or after dinner. Sometimes I do this every day, sometimes once or twice a week. By my measurement, replaces between one and two hours of night's sleep.

Yep exactly. The trick of course is if you can get your brain to move though the sleep cycles quicker you can replace more time with the naps.
There are a lot of things they know about sleep these days - from wikipedia says this is what's generally needed:
Newborns (0–2 months) 12 to 18 hours
Infants (3–11 months) 14 to 15 hours
Toddlers (1–3 years) 12 to 14 hours
Preschoolers (3–5 years) 11 to 13 hours
School-age children (5–10 years) 10 to 11 hours
Adolescents (10–17 years) 8.5 to 9.25 hours
Adults, including elderly 7 to 9 hours

Now supposedly this is just an average ..and an average if you sleep all in one block. .but those numbers sure don't apply to me. First of all they're all way to high and I myself needed more sleep as an adolescent than I did as when I was a school-age child. And 9 hours a night? Who in their right mind sleeps nine freakn hours a night? Geeze I'd feel so guilty about sleeping my life away...that I wouldn't be able to sleep at night! aaaahhh!