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Polyphasic Sleep

A couple days ago, I saw a post about polyphasic sleep on LifeHack.org. Since then I’ve been emailed about this topic as well, probably because I’ve written previously about becoming an early riser. Polyphasic sleep involves taking multiple short sleep periods throughout the day instead of getting all your sleep in one long chunk. A popular form of polyphasic sleep, the Uberman sleep schedule, suggests that you sleep 20-30 minutes six times per day, with equally spaced naps every 4 hours around the clock. This means you’re only sleeping 2-3 hours per day. I’d previously heard of polyphasic sleep, but until now I hadn’t come across practical schedules that people seem to be reporting interesting results with. Under this sleep schedule, your sleep times might be at 2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm, 6pm, and 10pm. How can this sleep schedule work? It requires some discipline to successfully transition to this cycle, as well as a flexible schedule that allows it. Plus it’s just plain weird. Sleep well!

Polyphasic Sleep Long-Term Consequences One long-term consequence of the polyphasic sleep experiments I did in 2005-2006 is that I still retain the ability to fall asleep very quickly. Enough time has passed that I suspect this is a permanent change. These days when I decide to go to sleep, I can typically fall asleep within 30 seconds or less. Sometimes I can be asleep within just 2-3 seconds. As Rachelle can attest, this is no exaggeration. This isn’t narcolepsy. This is true for falling asleep at night as well as for taking naps if I so desire. On many occasions I’ve been startled awake while Rachelle and I were lying in bed together. This sometimes happens 2-3 times in a row. When this happens a few times in a row, sometimes I’ll re-enter the same dream and continue where I left off, but usually I’ll enter a different dream that doesn’t seem related to the first dream. This has happened more times that I can count. Normally I start dreaming immediately as I’m falling asleep, sometimes even before I’m asleep.

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How to Adopt a Polyphasic Sleep Schedule: 4 Steps Edit Article Edited by Wes Platt, Cryptic_k, Jack Herrick, Ben Rubenstein and 26 others Polyphasic sleep is an umbrella term that refers to a few different sleeping patterns that reduce sleep time to 2-5 hours daily. Each type of polyphasic sleep breaks up sleeping time into smaller parts throughout the day, allowing people to sleep less but feel alert. Ad Steps 1Are you ready? 4Start by staying awake for 24 hours.Begin to take twelve 20-minute naps, each spaced exactly 2 hours apart, for two to four days. Video Tips With polyphasic sleep, the first few days to weeks your brain will struggle to fit in, but when it does, you will theoretically get the necessary aspects of sleep in the naps, leaving you feeling refreshed. Warnings It is not fully known if there are physical or psychological risks involved with this procedure.

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