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Polyphasic sleep anyone?
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{from Wikipedia}

Polyphasic Sleep (also known as Uberman's Sleep Schedule) is an alternate sleep pattern. Instead of sleeping through the night in a big chunk of hours, polyphasic sleep spreads out the long night sleep into short naps of 20-40 minutes throughout the day. It is intended to increase REM sleep and reduce sleep time.
[edit] Steps

1. Schedule sleep interval. Initially, take five naps per day. For instance, 3am, 7am, 11am, 7pm, and 11pm. There are four naps setup (8am, 4pm, 12am, 4am) and six naps setup (2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm, 6pm, and 10pm)
2. Set initial sleep time. Take 40 minutes nap initially. People have reported success on nap length between 20-40 minutes
3. Do not oversleep. It will ruin your sleep schedule and will fatigue you.
4. Tiredness is normal at the beginning. Your body and brain will struggle to adapt to this sleep pattern. After 7-10 days, your body clock will be adjusted for it.
5. Make Adjustments. Fine tune your sleep schedule and length of nap. Adjust small bit at a time and record results




{from here - http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/15/103358/720}



Background

The Uberman sleep schedule is a method of organizing your sleeping time to maximize your REM sleep and minimize your non-REM sleep. The goal of the sleep cycle is that you are actively in REM sleep within a couple of minutes of falling asleep and remain in that state until you awaken.

In essence, someone utilizing the Uberman sleep schedule is actively modifying their sleeping habits so that they can immediately jump from waking to a few minutes worth of stage 1 sleep straight to stage 5 REM sleep

It is important to note that there are no studies as to the long-term physical or physiological impact of this sleep cycle.

Essentially, the trick of the Uberman's sleep schedule is to trick your mind into entering REM sleep as soon as you drift into a sleeplike state. Unfortunately, the only real way to do this is through sleep deprivation of sorts.


What do you think about this? If you could pull it off It would seem to me to be massively beneficial. I think It might very well be incredibly taxing at first, but if you committed to it and got through the initial awkwardness of it, You would end up with one foot forward ahead of where you are now all the time. No set "sleepy time" at night, no cycle of trying to get out of bed after an 8 hour hiatus only to drag through 16 more awake before you can return to the sanctity of slumber. If you really could train yourself to fall directly into rem sleep and get up within a half hour, give or take, a few times throughout the day I think you really might end up with more active energy then what you get from the more common method of rest. Like you could sprint and rest, sprint and rest, rather than pacing yourself for an extended excursion.

Has anyone here tried this?


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Re: Polyphasic sleep anyone? [Re: emptywisdom]
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Sounds very interesting, though probably very difficult to adjust to.

I'm going to try it, I've noticed that I only sleep 6 hours a day if I split it up into two 3 hour naps.

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Re: Polyphasic sleep anyone? [Re: Middleman]
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I've actually tried this before. The only problem is if you miss a nap. You'll get really really tired and it's not good to nod off while in public.

I had to take a 30 min nap every 3-4 hours feeling very tired. I would fall asleep very quickly and wake up feeling normal.

It was interesting, I would have 20 hours a day usually on my hands and not feel tired as long as I had my nap every few hours.

Lately I've been following a more biphasic sleep schedule. I'll sleep 5 hours whenever and take a nap about halfway through my day.

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Re: Polyphasic sleep anyone? [Re: SunshineSuperman]
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I would love to try this but I could see it being way to awkward to fit into a normal life style, especially if you tend to have too many big nights

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Re: Polyphasic sleep anyone? [Re: Dark_globe]
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I did a research report into the function of many of the different sleep stages... Non-REM sleep seems to be very important in consolidating both declarative (remembering names) and non-delcarative memories (the 'memory' of being able to ride a bike). So even though im sure this would work, you might become more forgetful - and learning would be difficult.

And that's just for starters. As the post says "It is important to note that there are no studies as to the long-term physical or physiological impact of this sleep cycle" so i'd be careful if you were really serious about this. We didn't evolve to sleep the way we do for nothing.


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