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Old 12-12-2007, 09:28 PM
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Default Polyphasic Sleeping patterns

So, here I am - A new experiment to test the boundries of my body. I'm not sure if anyone's heard of polyphasic sleeping, but pretty much you tune your body to eliminate the more unneccesary parts of sleeping by napping throughout the day. My schedule is 2 hours of core sleep 2-4AM and three 20 minute naps during the day. Adding up to be 3 hours of sleep, over the course of a week or two my body should get adjusted to and have a more effecient sleep cycle Has anyone else heard of this or have tried it?
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Old 12-12-2007, 09:44 PM
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let's see how you do in two weeks....if this works, I'm so in....
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Old 12-12-2007, 09:58 PM
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Heh exactly. I did some extensive research on it and though there isn't any scientifical research there are lots of blogs and historical evidence. It's been nicknamed Da Vinci sleep because I guess he was one of the first who had written down the sleep cycles. Pretty much you get used to sleeping anywhere you need to and you jump right in to the REM cycle. People that I've read who have adatped it completely said they feel much better, their perception of time increases, and of course they have much more free time. Though, most people had to give it up because of their work schedule. Luckily mine is flexible Someone (that includes you Roto) should try it with me so I have someone to compare effects with and to talk to during the night when the rest of the world sleeps - sleep is *sooooo last year :P
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Old 12-13-2007, 03:25 AM
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I'm not one to try things when I first hear about them.
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Old 12-13-2007, 03:55 AM
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I have too much free time as it is. I couldn't imagine all the time I'dd be sitting around completely bored off my ass if I only slept 3 hours a day. Course I only usualy need 5-6 hours anyway. Most people I know sleep 8-10 or more.. and I just cant do that. I actualy feel better with 6 hours sleep than I do with 8 or more. Making sure you wake up during the correct cycle, to me, is more important than how long you sleep anyway. For me if I make sure to go to bed at, or at least around 6 hours til my alarm clock will go off I usualy wake up right near the end of a REM cycle. Today I had about 5 1/2 hours of sleep and while I'm not -really- tired I can feel the effects of missing that last REM cycle.
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Old 12-13-2007, 06:46 AM
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True true, your body is amazing at adapting, but will work best when it's on a rigimate plan like that. The first day over and my alarm clock reset while I was asleep for my core sleep (2-4) and I woke up at 9 X(
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Old 12-13-2007, 07:07 AM
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*thinks back to the Seinfeld episode where Kramer does this* i can see this ending badly
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Old 12-13-2007, 07:08 AM
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Yea, you really have a lot of time on your hands, lol. The way i look at it, a normal person isn't gonna be able to take those required naps during the day due to the whole work thing. If it works though, good job.
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Old 12-13-2007, 07:20 AM
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well i kind of have a sleep schedule like that... i work from 830 to 330 and got to school from 7 to 10 so in between that i get a good hour nap... most would say if you nap too long durin the day you mess up your sleep at night but actually i get a better sleep and fall asleep faster if i get a nap rather than trying to stay up which will make me tired when i wake up
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Old 12-13-2007, 07:50 AM
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*thinks back to the Seinfeld episode where Kramer does this* i can see this ending badly
hahaha, my thoughts exactly!

You really want to have fun in your sleep? Try Lucid dreaming!

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