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bladebrood
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So it is pretty natural! | ||
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Deleted User 3420
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On March 25 2009 03:12 bladebrood wrote: Don't forget that every human follows a polyphasic sleep pattern (babies) until their parents/society forces them into a schedule. So it is pretty natural! wait a second. de ja vu. was your post a joke? | ||
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Jaskwith
United States197 Posts
I also took psych 101, and if I remember...wasn't it like... your body sleeps with the intent of gaining proportional amounts of REM and DEEP sleep? So...say you have been taking several naps as such is explained in the polyphasic cylce...then eventually(long term) won't your body seek out deep sleep, and so your REM sleep would be skipped altogether and this sleep cycle would be counter productive because you would be taking 20 min naps of deep sleep, thus waking up exhausted? i dont know... seems like a optimistic idea to live your life more, but not totally applicable with the majority of most normal cultural perceptions of when you are suppose to sleep.... | ||
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Marradron
Netherlands1586 Posts
ans also babies sleep polyphasic (though with much longer sleeping times) | ||
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Deleted User 3420
24492 Posts
On March 25 2009 03:45 Marradron wrote: Well i dont agree about it being not natural. there are animals that sleep in this kind of pattern. ans also babies sleep polyphasic (though with much longer sleeping times) what kind of argument is that? there are animals that do lots of stuff, it doesn't make it natural for humans to do it. and comparing how babies sleep to this is just... silly. | ||
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Railxp
Hong Kong1313 Posts
http://www.minussleep.com/ Who can guess the result? | ||
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Cloud
Sexico5880 Posts
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D10
Brazil3409 Posts
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tribal_warfare
Australia3 Posts
The adjustment period wasn't too bad. I'd feel a bit slowed down between 7am and noon but after the midday nap I'd be fine for the rest of the 'day'/night. Perhaps the wakefulness between 11pm and 4am was a result of my spending that time programming (bright screen + time vanishes). Adjusting back to monophasic was terrible however. It took me nearly a week and a half before I could make it through the day without napping/feeling awful. While the extra time in the day was pleasant I think the main benefit I got from it was having my day broken up so strongly into sections. Every so often I'll have a day where I'm not feeling particularly inspired and will just goof off reading the internet to see if anything has changed. With the nap based break, I'd tend to wake up and get back to work. So rather then lose an entire day I'd only lose a 5 hour window and still get 15 hours of useful stuff done. In the army you can follow a routine because someone is yelling at you, in polyphasic you can follow a routine because sleepiness is yelling at you. In the end I stopped for a number of reasons, all of which were external. The pain of trying to nap at uni, a monophasic girlfriend and a "why risk mental illness?" mother. Additionally, while 22 hours a day sounds great on paper, I didn't perceive 20 hours a day to be all that much better then the normal 16.5. For the last couple of mornings I've been woken up to my alarm clock asking "Would you like an extra 30 minutes of awakeness today, or will you just keep sleeping?" and every time I've slept in. One of your questions seemed to hint at going out clubbing late at night to pass the time and while I never tried it I'm not sure if it'd be worth the effort. For me that would mean stuffing around with buses on a hour round trip in and out of the city. Having to fit that all in within 3.5 hours between waking and sleeping. *shrug* It might have been more feasible in the 5-hour wake period version of everyman that I was doing, but again, I never tried. Under uberman you're forced to only do things for 2-3 hours or go to places which you can nap at. More time in the day but a smaller range of activities you can do during it. | ||
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Jonoman92
United States9103 Posts
It does sound like a cool idea but for many in normal school/job days it's pretty tough to try out. And I'm not sure if I could do it anyway. I generally take a long time to fall asleep unless I just don't go to bed until I can barely keep my eyes open. | ||
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