hey all…i was just wondering whether any of you have tried or heard about polyphasic sleep. There is stuff online about it and supposedly it is supposed to be easier for people who are very healthy to adapt to it. Basically it is spreading sleep out throughout the day instead of all at once. The schedule im adapting tot is 30 minute naps every 6 hours. But another which is pretty popular is 20-30 min naps every 4 hours. i’ll supply some helpful links if anyone is interested and wants to join me on a fun adventure. haha. i have looked up tons online so if anyone wants more information i can point them in the right direction. -zack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyph…
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yea i agree with you, one of the main reasons i quit (haha i quit after like 2 weeks) was because i didnt have much to do at night. i would defnitely be happy reading for like 5 hours a night, but i never fully kicked the early day drowsiness, and i couldnt read without falling asleep. it was an amazing experience, and i think i wana try it again. it was really fun. mabye when my friend will do it with me ill be more motivated. ive never slept through a double alarm before, and woken up 3 hours late, noticing that i turned both alarms off, and had no recollection of it whatsoever. hahahh. it was really fun though i promise. o yea, another reason i dont think i fully adapted is because i am a cross country runner, and i went fairly mellow with my mileage but didnt quit for the transition period. fairly mellow was 5 miles a day. so mabye i should quit for a couple weeks to transition? i dono.
emmie21~~ all you are getting from this kind of sleep Would be REM. and i believe you are mistaken, REM is not deep sleep. i dont know where everyone gets that from. it is the brain wave state when you have dreams and such and they are easily remembered. REM is the lightest sleep state you are in at night, aside from mabye the half in half out of alpha, which is what you do right before you drop into sleep(greatly relaxed). DELTA, on the other hand, is a brainwave state that is our deepest (most peoples, people can go deeper) brain wave state. it is an extremely peaceful state of the mind where the most restoration of the body takes place. and that is what you would not be getting on this schedule (supposedly).
i know people can drop into delta within minutes with practice, and can sleep for this long and it would be as restorative as a whole nights sleep. but thats a whole different story, the background i found behind polyphasic sleep is your mind learns to bypass the sleep before REM, and you go into REM right away. that is why some people might find it no so easy to get into this schedule, because their mind is not adapted yet. but i dont know. REM sleep is the most restorative, for the time aspect of normal sleeping. it is the greatest burst of restoration, and delta is the most restorative but it takes much longer to get into, regularly. alright ive gotta go, but ill talk more later. haha
by the way, i quit this a while ago, i didnt explain everyhting but there is a short answer above. good luck all