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Subject : Re: LUG: polyphasic sleep

From : Alex <akdom2001@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:36:53 -0400

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Honestly, my experience with sleep is that I feel most rested and conscious with the longest single stretch of sleep possible.  Though I applaud some people's choice to be test subjects in this regard (thus pushing forward our understanding of sleep) I would like to just throw out a warning:

Given _my_ current understanding of sleep, 20 minute sleep segments won't bring the same benefit as sleep periods broken into something which fits cleanly with your natural full sleep cycle (mine is almost exactly 3 hours).  20 minute sleep periods don't allow for the full depth of sleep that a full cycle will, which as far as I remember translates into significantly reduced rejuvenational benefits from sleep.  Do your own research, but just keep in mind that there _are_ reasons most everyone sleeps during one single period....

Also, I'd be curious to hear the experiences of those who actually do try to pull of polyphasic sleep for more than 14 months.

~Alex Kesling

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jonathan Vogel < jonathan@friedpancakes.[redacted] > wrote:
For those who don't know, I'm an adapted polyphaser.  I have been on the Everyman (3 hour core, 3x20 min naps) schedule for almost 3 months now.  I intend to hold this schedule through at least the fall semester.

You can find me on on freenode/#ncsulug (jvogel) if you have any questions.  There is also an active polyphasic sleep IRC channel #polyphasers which you can find on freenode.

Although I haven't been to a lug meeting, I'd be happy to go to one to answer any questions about my experience/knowledge on polyphasic sleep.

@ Brian: The everyman schedule is fairly flexible, if you'd like to talk about it more on IRC just let me know.

~ Jonathan


Alexander Ray wrote:
Interesting topic that's come up (at least for me) online, in Wired
Magazine, at the most recent BarCamp RDU and most recently in IRC.

Polyphasic sleep is in a nutshell, breaking up your sleep schedule so
you sleep for shorter periods more often (as opposed to one huge
stretch per day).
The end goal is that you sleep LESS overall time than you would in one shot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep

I'm definitely interested in trying a Month-long sleep experiment on
myself sometime during the spring semester (no way that'd work w/
marching band in the fall semester).

Is there any other interest in the group for doing something on this?
We could definitely have a talk/session on polyphasic sleep and what
resources there are currently out there as well as what people have
already found.

~Alex


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