Comments on stones as water flow: Polysleep

The theory is that your body can sleep more effici...

2009-09-01T00:56:28.647-05:00

The theory is that your body can sleep more efficiently if you space your sleep throughout the day. The penalty for the increased efficiency is decreased flexibility. On 8 hours of sleep you can go 16+ hours without sleep; on a biphasic schedule (6 hour core + afternoon nap) you kinda need the nap, on everyman 3 (my schedule) supposedly you can move the naps by an hour, and on uberman you can move the naps by only a few minutes.

Unfortunately this hasn't been studied well at all, so most of this information is anecdotal. But enough people have done this that it seems certainly possible. The people who have stuck with it more than a month or two seem to report that they feel better than they did before. I have more to say on this but it deserves a post of its own in a few days.

At the moment, I feel normal or better than normal most of the day, and perhaps more tired than normal at night. It's still hard to stay awake at 4:30 when I get up but it gets easier every day.

And hopefully with a bit of extra time I'll feel more inspired to post stuff here :)

How healthy is it to only sleep a total of four ho...

2009-09-01T00:00:18.853-05:00

How healthy is it to only sleep a total of four hours and twenty minutes a day? Even if you adapt to the point that you "feel" ok, is your body really getting the rest time that it needs? I am very interested. I don't really feel that well rested most of the time anyway so if it works I might as well have some extra time to burn.

P.S. You're lucky I still check your blog. It's been sparse :)

I thought you might be interested in this... The ...

2009-08-31T14:12:48.069-05:00

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The theory is that having a 3 hour core sleep at night gives your body the flexibility to move your naps by +/- 1 hour after you're completely adapted. (As opposed to the "uberman" schedule: 20 mins every 4 hours, no core sleep. That reportedly leaves very little flexibility about nap times.) We'll see if that is true for me, I'm not quite ready to push it yet.

I'll make another post about this in a couple weeks. I should be completely adapted by then.

Hmm... Interesting! I could definitely use an extr...

2009-08-31T10:27:13.412-05:00

Hmm... Interesting! I could definitely use an extra 4 hours. What happens if you have a special circumstance and can't do one of the 20 minute naps? Are you like the living dead after that? I always have a hard time going to sleep and getting up. You'll have to give me another update after you have been doing this longer.