Polyphasic Sleep
I heard about polyphasic sleep — such as sleeping 20 minutes every 3 hours — many years ago. But now I can learn about it in much more detail — and with much more suspense. For example:
[Before starting] Having always been a night-owl, and never having a sleep pattern that fits with others, I feel drawn to try it. I foresee a problem in that I have always felt that I need 8 hours of sleep per day, but on the other hand I can stay up until 5 am without a problem when I am mentally engaged, so it has seemed to me for quite some time that a 28 or 29 hour day is what my system is tuned for. . . . I can feel it energizing me already.
[Day 15] Yesterady was a disaster. Sleep is a funny thing - sleep deprivation had been accumulating and I wasn’t really noticing it. I was just happy to be awake and productive so many hours in a day that I ignored the weird feeling in my head, just going with it, thinking I would adjust and it would be all ok. Well yesterday morning I blew up at my SO for a ridiculous reason. . . . What went wrong? I was following all the sleep patterns pretty much to the letter.
More examples listed here.
March 7th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Have you seen Steve Pavlina’s experiments with polyphasic sleep? There’s an index of his experiment here:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/
Here’s a comment that sums up duration/type of polyphasic sleep pursued by Pavlina from one of the last days he did it:
March 28th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Hello,
Regarding “Polyphasic Sleep” you might find my new app I just made for the iPhone called SNOOZEBOT. It’s a snooze button whenever you need one. Here’s the link to the iTunes store if you’re interested. http://bit.ly/snoozebot
or just search the iTunes store for: Snoozebot
You can basically set up various sleep sessions. The custom button can only go up to 60 minutes, but that seems to fit well for 20-30 sessions.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:24 am
I have a blog documenting how polyphasic sleep fits into my lifestyle, I have done it for nearly three years, and do not view it as a short term experiment as many of the blogs on the net are about. Feel free to come by and send me a message, good luck if you decide to give it a go!