Anyone Try to Adapt Polyphasic Sleep?

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Has anyone tried to adapt polyphasic sleeping? It is basically altering your sleep pattern by substituting with naps through out the day that will get the REM part of sleep. Cutting down sleep time needed, thus increasing awake hours.
Here's a link

How To Hack Your Brain, Part 1: Sleep | Dustin Curtis


I dont plan on trying anything extreme. I want to try biphasic sleeping though.
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As for benefits, time is the major one.
 


I've read about this but never cared to try it. I get away with 4-5 hours of sleep at night with one of those 20 min power naps using pzizz(.com). Taking a 1.5 hour nap would be overdoing it. When I take more than the 20 min and fall into rem I'm useless for about an hour after I wake up anyways.
 
-Matt- said:
I've read about this but never cared to try it. I get away with 4-5 hours of sleep at night with one of those 20 min power naps using pzizz(.com). Taking a 1.5 hour nap would be overdoing it. When I take more than the 20 min and fall into rem I'm useless for about an hour after I wake up anyways.
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how is pzizz anyway? is it just sound?
 
aim high said:
how is pzizz anyway? is it just sound?
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I love it. It is just sound, a bunch of pieces randomly put together each time you hit generate so that it's different everytime. If you decide to buy it get the bundle so you can get the nighttime version too. I rarely use it as I prefer to fall asleep reading or watching tv but I'm glad I have it sometimes. When I bought it I found a 20% off coupon on google but that was over a year ago so....
 
I posted about polyphasic here a while back.

Bi-phasic was much easier for me to adapt to but needed more time benefits that polyphasic gave. However, it does work better within the typical lifestyle (you know family and social stuff).

For me it was important to use metrics to see if all this sleep hacking was worth the disruption of normality. So, I created a method that measures my productivity along with my moods and such.

Being in the net biz world has made me obsessive (or perhaps I just need something to blame) about measuring shit.

It took me Eleven days to fully adjust to biphasic Sleep. The more you hack your sleep the more disciplined you will need to be with sleep/wake times.

Here is a great blog/portal about all things sleep hack from two chics who have been on weird sleep schedules for quite a while.
 
I tried polyphasic a few years ago, it worked in that I only had to sleep a few hours a day, but it was horrible for my schedule because you need to nap every 4 hours, so I gave it up after a couple weeks. Plus I had nothing to do with 20 hours of free time in a day.
 
Fuck I am jealous of you guys that can do with 4-6 hours sleep a day. I am a half on half off guy and I fucking hate it. If I somehow drag my ass outa bed before getting my 12 hours I actually feel sick for a few hours.

I am a very very heavy sleeper though, I live beside a hospital and friends can't sleep in my house without being awake all night with the sirens from the ambulances me I never even noticed it.
 
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Dude, if you're seriously drinking 5+ redbulls a day, that's FUCKED UP.

Just try to get a prescription of Adderall/Ritalin or a similiar stimulant. (If you haven't already)

Take it in the morning and you'll have 5x more energy/focus a redbull will give you and it will last ALL fucking day. Not to mention, you won't have all that sugar and shit destroying your health.
 
Danc1122 said:
Dude, if you're seriously drinking 5+ redbulls a day, that's FUCKED UP.

Just try to get a prescription of Adderall/Ritalin or a similiar stimulant. (If you haven't already)

Take it in the morning and you'll have 5x more energy/focus a redbull will give you and it will last ALL fucking day. Not to mention, you won't have all that sugar and shit destroying your health.
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Just be careful not to abuse it and end up with amphetamine psychosis.
 
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