Sleepingschedules.com. (99+) Polyphasic Sleep. Polyphasic Society. Polysleeping: lavalamp’s official adaptation guide « lavalamp's sleep diary. This is a post about the process of adapting.
You really should first prepare; this post is not about that, except for the part about workable schedules. My writing here will sound absolute, but it is obviously only my opinion. The single most important thing when adapting is consistency . I did not realize this when I first started, but by taking your naps at specific times throughout the day, you are hijacking your body's circadian rhythm system. Your goal is to train it to make you sleepy at specific times, and let you be awake at other times.
Why is this so important? So training your body to sleep at specific times is most important. After you are adapted, then you may skip a nap once in a while without un-training your body. One note: there is a condition where one's circadian cycle doesn't sync up with the day. A large part of consistency which deserves a word all to itself is avoiding oversleeps . One last note under the heading of consistency. Polyphasic Sleep Diary. Oversleeping is one of the major problems of any polyphasic attempt.
Usually it requires serious willpower, creativity and sometimes even outside help to stay awake during the early adaptation. I constantly see people asking questions about it in the IRC, so I will try to sum up different ideas here that I tried myself or heard of. I have a couple major categories that will make sure I am waking up: Audible (alarms, obviously)Physical (ultimately – my wife, works the best, but not always available)Psychological (a bit of preparation to ensure there is an imprint to stand up at once when I wake up, and other little tricks, like affirmation, which work quite well, in my opinion)Environmental (lights on, colder room, no blanket, sleep sitting, that kind of stuff) Oh God, the Chicken! » Blog Archive » A Successful Year of Polyphasic Sleep. I would first take a moment to thank the StumbleUpon community.
Collectively over 23,000 of you have stopped by my little blog in the past year. I am flattered and overwhelmed by the interest and hope I have provided some useful advice to everyone, and to those kind enough to leave a comment or some feedback. Now on with the story. Exactly one year has passed since beginning my first polyphasic sleep schedule. I wanted to take a moment to reflect on my experiences and share with you some of the results. The other day, I was thinking about how much time one could reasonably expect to gain using a polyphasic schedule. What is Reasonably Possible? I personally have fallen in love with the Everyman sleep schedule of 4.5 hrs core, and one or two 20 minute naps throughout the day. The calculations are simple, but here they are if you haven’t done the math yourself already. 1095 waking hours per year. You read that correctly – 1095 hours. My Personal Results And That’s Not All Making it Work for You. Polyphasic sleep, 2010 edition - sliced lime.
Long-time readers will remember my experiments with polyphasic sleep last summer.
For a few weeks I tried adapting to a new sleeping pattern, an equiphasic pattern with 6 naps per day and no longer sleep, known as the Uberman sleeping pattern to some. I failed. 6 Tips and Tricks for Polyphasic Sleep. Jordan has written some excellent articles on polyphasic sleep.
So good in fact that I couldn’t resist trying it out for myself. I always tried to understand my own psyche, whether through meditation, putting myself in situations that are challenging or confronting my own strong held beliefs. Next stop was, going poly! There’s only one thing I was more excited about than going to be a polyphaser and that is doing a Ayahusca ceremony, which has a strong connection with meditation, sleep and lucid dreaming, with three Peruvian shamans in April, extensive blog report will follow! It took me three tries before I succesfully went polyphasic. I’m two weeks in my third try and I’m feeling great. 1) Start SLOWLY!
Don’t go from monophasic to polyphasic in one go. 2) Don’t cut down on caffeine IMMEDIATELY! Morning coffee is one of those modern sacred rituals of the human race. 3) Don’t wake up at the WRONG moment! 4) Its all about ENDURANCE! 5) Going LUCID! Testimonials. Hack Your Brain: Polyphasic Sleep. Have you ever wondered why humans, the most advanced species on Earth, need so much sleep?
You may say that it’s needed to repair and replenish our body tissue, but that can’t be the answer. Giraffes, for example, can weigh upwards of 4,000 pounds yet they only sleep on average 1.9 hours per night. Then it must be for our brains! You may say, but that’s not true either. Humans have been shown to function fine on only two (yes two) total hours of sleep per 24 hour cycle. Scientists really don’t know much about our sleeping patterns, which is a shame because we spend about a third of our lives sleeping.
Imagine how much more you could accomplish in your life by sleeping less. You may know that sleep is divided into five stages. Polyphasic sleep cycles basically cut out the other useless phases, giving you an additional 4 to 6 hours of time awake. The trick involves tricking your brain into immediately entering the REM stage of sleep, skipping the other four. *Transcendental *Logic. Submitted with comment by puredoxyk …My comment being, yes Randall of xkcd agrees with me.
Everyman Sleep Schedule. Most recent update, 2010: Everyman, along with other types of polyphasic sleep, has accumulated quite a body of information since this article was written.
I myself have been on the Everyman 3 schedule for over four years now. Mechanics of Polyphasic Sleep. Adopt a Polyphasic Sleep Schedule. Edit Article.
