Going on with minimal sleep? Possible? - Page 5

On July 01 2008 05:13 Integra wrote:


If i have to pick boredom or lseep I choose sleep.

On July 01 2008 05:17 Klockan3 wrote:

Yeah i feel exactly like that! When I'm bored I can sleep like 18 hours a day!


But you are seriously questioning who he is, how he is and all these kinds of stuff, and I say that to me it does not seem that improbable as some here might think it is.

On July 01 2008 03:15 Funchucks wrote:
Integra's story is a good example of something to be suspicious of.

"I sleep 15 minutes every third hour. For a total of 2 hours per day."
"It's okay. Yes i'm still polyphasic. I'm about to sleep now for 20 minutes"
"During the weekend I actually get 5 or 6 hours sleep during the night"

So is it 15 minutes, or 20 minutes? (that's a pretty big difference when you're taking 8 naps per day) Is it always only the planned amount of time? Is it only on weekends that he has long sleeps? Does he really only sleep 5 or 6 hours in those times, or does he crash for 10 or 12 hours?

Nobody is watching him and recording it. This is apparently a bragging point for him, so he's probably exaggerating to some degree. He probably considers the times he oversleeps as a failure of discipline, and dismisses each occurrence as an isolated incident.

It wouldn't surprise me if an impartial observer who could watch him continuously would find out that he averages over 4 hours of sleep per day, and that he himself would be shocked and disbelieving to hear it. ("Well, I knew I slipped up now and then, but I didn't think...")

That is just the way self-reported data works. You can't trust it.