stevepavlina.com — Steve Palina tried switching to a polyphasic sleep cycle 5 1/2 months ago. This involved taking six 30-minute naps per day, instead of one 7 hour sleep at night. He has now switched back to the "regular" way, and he explains why it didn't work for him.
Apr 14, 2006 View in Crawl 4
danpsmithApr 14, 2006
Do people have s**t for brains? There's a reason why we sleep the way we do, and it's not social pressure or anything of that sort. Why the hell would you bother doing this? It took him weeks to figure out that being up when everyone else is sleeping for hours upon hours sucks? Sometimes people get a little too intellectually eccentric for their own good. With 30 minute naps you never really hit the good part of sleep at all...
lazyplayboyApr 14, 2006
'Polyphasic Sleep Experiment' - it seems to me that polyphasic in this context is being used as an adjective. Or am I overdue my 30 minute nap?
midoriginApr 14, 2006
Edison did it.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep#Attributed_polyphasic_sleepers">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep#Attributed_polyphasic_sleepers</a>
eaglefireApr 14, 2006
It's not quite so arbitrary as you propose. Cats and babies are polyphasic sleepers.I've read Claudio Stampi's Why We Nap and it asserts that in addition to the monophasic rhythm there is a biological rhythm that repeats every 4 hours. The book is heavy on science but he did studies of activity of monophasic sleepers and he noticed that their activity dips every four hours.It's a good read, check it out at your local university library!
durinthalApr 14, 2006
I feel like that's my natural schedule. I'm consistently up 18 hours a day and sleeping for 6, but I know I could go 20/10 easily. It conflicts with the rest of society and thus my classes/activities, though, so I never have the chance.
Closed AccountApr 14, 2006
Trust me dude. Once you get married, there's a huge difference between 'sleeping with your wife' and 'sleeping with your wife'. There's alot more sleep than anything you would normally consider 'sleeping with' associated with the presence of a woman in your bed.
djs1117Apr 14, 2006
I'm pretty sure the main reason we sleep at night time is because back in the day when we didn't have any (useful) way to have light during the night, we slept. People could've slept during the day and carried a torch or lamp around all night, but that would've been stupid. So it became normal and everyone did it, and so did their children, etc etc. If we had the technology we have today, it could be totally different
kramer3dApr 14, 2006
yes. and me :)
reitoeiApr 15, 2006
Heh... also known as Uberman's Sleep Schedule (Dec 29 2000)<a class="user" href="http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=892542">http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=892542</a>
vinkyApr 24, 2006
anyone here understand how circadian rhythms work? It's regulated by daylight, so regardless of if he's getting enough sleep, at night his biological clock will secrete melatonin into his bloodstream, which would greatly inhibit his ability to function.