Have you ever dreamed of saving a few hours a day that you spend on sleeping? Have you ever felt that lying in bed takes too much of your free time? Luckily, there is a way that can grant your precious wish called polyphasic sleep. Polyphasic sleep is a method that implies sleeping multiple times a day for different periods of time. The term was first used in the beggining of 20th century by psychologist J. S. Szymanski, who observed daily fluctuations in activity patterns. The method had wide popularity among many famous historic personalities, for example, it was used by Leonardo Da Vinci and Nikola Tesla. The polyphasic sleep is considered the idyllic schedule of sleeping for animals. Currently, there are several popular schedules: So how exactly this method is not harmful you might ask? The answer is hidden in the mechanism of human sleep. Human sleep is divided into two phases: slow sleep (stage 1-4) and fast sleep (REM, also known as rapid eye movement). The fast sleep phase is believed to be the most important step because the phase of slow sleep is defined as preparation for it. During the REM, people usually see dreams and it is the period of time when the human brain is most relaxed, what makes it more important than any other stages. The polyphasic sleep method implies that the slow sleep phase can be "skipped" by replacing it with schedule of sleeping multiple times a day (polyphasic schedule). Human brain soon adapts to the schedule and the slow sleep stops existing for "polyphaser". Many people experience "zombie behaviour" during the first 2 weeks: people describe it as the period of extreme tiredness and emotional dryness. After that stage the mental state of polyphaser recovers from the sleep schedule changes. The majority of people who tried polyphasic sleep schedules are satisfied with the results: they write that saved hours allow them to accomplish more tasks. Some people are unsatisfied with the results and tell that their efficiency dropped over the time. This may be caused by violation of schedule. Overall, the polyphasic method is considered efficient for people with tense timetable. Using polyphasic sleep method may increase your efficiency and most importantly save up to 6 spare hours a day.
This is something Id so like to try out for quite some time now, yet my work schedule is oriented towards monophasic sleep. Biphasic would already be fine, but it's not seen well in Germany to sleep in the afternoon. Even less at work.
Glad to enlighten you with new knowledge. The polyphasic sleep schedules are mostly suitable for students or people working on certain project(s). I wouldn't say it is suitable for workers, since you can't divide 24 hours day into 6/5 major sleep episodes with one power nap and work at the same time.
i'll probably attempt everyman 2 when i start high school since changing my schedule before then seems annoying since i'll have to readjust >~> i hope it works tho o3o
I heard about this not that long ago by this video by Buzzfeed[Blue] who attempt this, I'm kindof tempted to take this on myself but eh
I wouldn't trust Buzzfeed, it is kind of a source where all the clickbait articles are collected. But yea, feel free to take it, it is totally worth it if you want to save yourself some time.
I remember our Skipper on a sail cruise actually practicing polyphasic sleep. This was the first time I actually saw it in practice. Last time I read about it the article said that there is no proof (sleep laboratory experience) of someone ever Managing to adopt the uberman sleep schedule on the Long run. This is only theoretical as for now and would require a very high discipline. Meaning there may be no excuse to Interrupt the schedule, whatever happens (like unsuitable Situation for sleeping, switching timezones etc...). Sabbath are you actually practicing any Kind of polyphasic sleep? Actually I know there are employers who promote afternoon nap. What I was saying is, it is not well seen in Germany. Maybe there are such employers, but it's not the case of mine. On the other Hand, I never asked... I know of countries where this is seen differently. Like in Spain, there you may have an afternoon nap, noone will bother. In Japan, it is even well seen to sleep at work, at it is interpreted as a sign of Exhaustion at work. It is clear to me that the People having the least Troubles for adopting polyphasic sleep are students and in most cases artists or any freelance or self-employed.
Honestly if I could hit lucid dreaming just right most of the time I wouldn't care about losing time sleeping. I'd be Monophasic since I just go to sleep for a single period and wake up, never napping. I'd say on average I sleep 7 hours, give or take, and for me it works best since I can't afford to sleep at any point during the day.
i think most of us are monophasic, it's the normal sleep schedule, basically you sleep from around 12am to like 8 for most people
This seems pretty cool. Hopefully it will help me with my sleep schedule. I get 4 hours of sleep at the most everyday.
