Polyphasic sleep study

[birdmannan]

I did the Dymaxion sleep cycle for a couple of weeks, which is only 2 hours sleep. It wasn't actually that difficult.

[symetricbody]

Have anyone tried the single nap with 5 hours ?

[BeYourPotential]

Cool, I am on day 27 of uberman and documenting it on my channel.

[shadowgrail]

He's probably just bad at math.

[DarklightALBANIA]

One single sleep cycle is 1 hour and 30 minutes (+-10 other minutes )

I bet they didn't have that knowledge back than so they did only 30 minutes sleep ,I haven't seen the video yet but i think it failed

[miiiikku]

Its not sleep schedule its a lifestyle

[Heartpathcoach]

Thank you for doing a study! We need more of them!! Started sleeping 6 hours no naps and now my core is 4 hours w/ 2 naps and I feel great! Will move to 3 hours w/ 3 naps in Oct. Please do more studies as there isn't as much information to go on other than personal experience...if we all waited for science before we experimented there would be no science!

[Anythingwilldo0000]

I am trying Polyphasic Sleep and recording all my results, and how I'm feeling. I am specifically doing the Dymaxion Sleep Schedule(2hours a day) which is every 6 hours, you sleep for 30minutes. I discuss tips that I have found out from experience that can make the experience way easier to accomplish! Sorry if you call this spam, I thought that if your watching Polyphasic Sleep videos on youtube, you might want to read about my experience as well. Stop by!

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[Th3SMS]

The 10 hour "boost" was not a smart idea. His brain reverted back to that type of sleeping, and in the lab, he was simply in the most deep sleep stage. It's extremely hard to wake up from that stage.

[UNR3S7]

Lol at failing at math.

[Spinfuze]

Be careful:

In the long run, you will pay with your health. Your immune system and recovery from physical exercise plummet from insufficient sleep.

[AVScilian]

@Spinfuze The point of Your body adapting is that it finds a new way to get the rest it requires. Therefore sleep insufficiencies wont be a problem once your body has adapted.

[Link9164]

@Spinfuze

Impossible, I sleep 20 min every 3 hours, have been doing so far over a year and my immune system haven't been better and i feel alot better than i used to

[Takkun5656]

@Spinfuze where are you getting that data from. i would very much like to see it.

[MrFaulconbridge]

I like the idea of this because I think sleep is a waste of time. There is so much more I could be doing. I wish humans had a brain that could rest while awake.

[04mittald]

@MrFaulconbridge like two brains one rest while the other is active and vice versa

[EvekoRogue]

I sleep Biphasicly , 4:30 hours core at night and 90 minutes at the afternoon . So 2 hours extra each week so i have 14 hours extra with not grogyness =)

[rcknroll35]

nice computer

[Malthizar]

personally i've been starting polyphasic sleep and its great. i dont see why you would want to waste so much time sleeping when you dont have to

[think41c]

@Malthizar Are you still doing it or did you stop?

[nepalihercules]

@think41c i've been doing it for 3 months now, and it is great, 22 hours of waking time every single day. i've become twice as productive and still got time to play all the games i've ever wanted. its the best thing that has ever happened to me. only drawback is u need to be on schedule and sleep within 30 mins of the scheduled time.

[zukodude487987]

He was doing well because his an artist.

Ive heard that during drawing or painting (anything with your hands) can lower the brain waves and gives a motion that your brain is resting.

[soccom8341576]

@SLee1337

Personally I can't say it's good for everyone. People are all different in how much sleep they need. I find this regimen to be unsustainable, as in I still need a 1 hour sleep at night.

I doubt there are many who can completely override all sleep pressure due to changed light conditions.

[soccom8341576]

The main issue is that sleep pressure increases as a result of polyphasic sleep, for some people (including me).

It is possible to do it in the long-term, but I can't say one can do that for decades without any effect on health. It's not just brainwaves. It's also organs, hormones and circadian rhythms...

I wouldn't do that, simply because the naps are not exactly convenient.

[halneufmille]

Incredible how he extrapolates out of his single data point...

[YayJike]

whats with this douche thinking he is a doctor??

[areallylongassname2]

I live next to train tracks and can wake up any time and feel just fine, the only time i feel tired is after a full night of sleep.

[bykuzplastiku69]

Perhaps it would be easier to stay on the schedule if there was no pressure from the outside and he actually wanted to do it himself. Anyways, even a person on normal sleep schedule would have a hard time putting up with being observed all around the clock.

[jonson787]

look at these fuckers

[purplepinaple6]

The test was "indicate how well the adjective describes you now. 'Physically Tired.' 'Alert.' Really?

[dannelchannel]

what a lazy shit.

[ciyean]

Day 20 for me... easy breezy... prilozadavDOTwordpressDOTcom is my daily journal on the past 20 days.

[micikas]

@ 8:30 he must be thinking "screw this shit, I'm getting me some sleep"

[izjustlilme3]

I can't stop polyphasic sleeping. Is this bad? I didn't mean for it to happen but it did because I stayed up late too much during college years.

[ListenerOfShadows]

It could be that he wasn't performing as well at the end as he was at the beginning because he was sick and tired of being tested and observed all the time...

[JWebb38222]

I've only done this for a week but I quickly found that 25 minutes allowed me to wake up. Any more than that and I would find it extremely difficult to awaken. I did this every 4 hours. I suspect it had something to do with deeper brainwaves after the 25 minute mark.

[CameronLeeCrowhurst]

Day 1 for me.

[yoyo4real21]

old ass computer!!! 2:32

[galewgleason]

Is it possible that his increased scores after the 10 hours rest was due to practice effects?

[PinkZeppelin65]

If you have no other way than polyphasic sleep to cope with work or college, I'd advise you POLYPHASIC SLEEP + at least 2 hours of core sleep at night... That schedule will most likely let you maintain your mental abilities. At least thats what I've been doing for more than 3 months and dealing quite well with calculus and economics classes

[gabzramires]

I'm impressed with the number of reports of polyphasic sleepers (probably most fake, but still many) and so little studies in this matter. How can someone subject himself to such a dangerous regimen without being certain of it's impacts?

[wbeaty]

I accidently got stuck in polyphasic for a few months back in 1992. I had heard of "Thomas Edison Sleep Mode" but didn't realize people could turn it on and off. Yes, it's hard to stop it once it's going. Perhaps many insomnia complaints are actually episodes of polyphasic sleep (can't sleep at night, keeps falling asleep at work? Familiar?)

One thing not mentioned: it makes you very sensitive to food, and if you continue a normal American junkfood diet, polyphasic will badly screw you up.

[charybdisxv]

Basically, it is preferable to the total sleep deprivation that results from only getting a few hours of monophasic sleep. If your choice is that or polyphasic... people who know about it usually choose polyphasic.

[Remaspil]

time runs out...so as health, but nevermind xD

[RobotBadger]

The problem with this experiment was the fact that the subject was an artist. There needed to be a greater span of subjects. If you told me to do what he did and type into a keyboard simple math all day, I'd probably want to fall asleep from boredom. If you told me to do build a GNU/Linux OS with a T2 system, I'd stay awake, interested, trying to embed an AI system inside of it; perhaps I'd call it "Skynet."

[aeia]

Im artsy and I'm a polyphasic sleeper, maybe it takes a certain type.

[RobotBadger]

What I wanted to know most out of this experiment was the relationship to REM and HGH. I think that you might be able to pull out the diff. types of sleep periods, but HGH doesn't work that way. I think this experiment shows remnants of survival instinct in humans. As a side note, I've been told interesting stories about intellectuals and professionals (people before the civil war) who've had intermittent sleep schedules. I think the nap-and-move survival instinct has been mostly eliminated.

[RobotBadger]

I've slept only two hours a day for the past four days. Those weren't spread out. And I don't think any period was for more than 45 minutes. Interesting experiment. I have problems falling asleep, but acting like a psycho is so much easier.

[Abbyy0Normal]

He was doing fine until they through in that 10 hour sleep. He couldn't get up, so I guess his brain had to start all over again with the Polyphasic schedule.

[aeia]

Whenever I have overslept in my three months as a polyphase it is SO HARD to get back to normal, I long to sleep twice etc. After a few days of strictly sleeping on schedule it goes away but I truly think it was the oversleep that did it.

[fatboy2oo]

@Abbyy0Normal Yeah I agree. I am not sure what the real effects are. But it just seems like the experiment was screwed up when they put him through a 10 hour sleep. They should have done that at the end.

[InvictusAucTor]

I think 4 hours a day would make a difference. I was amazed to see how the brain would spread out an average sleep pattern into the 1/2 hour segments. REM, Deep, etc. Also, I think a full night of sleep might be necessary 1-4 weekends a month. Lastly, I'd opt for 3-3/12 consecutive hours of sleep with a 1 hour nap or two 1/2 hour naps. Oh yeah! One way to make naps more productive is to use a sound and light machine. A 1/2 hour session with one of them is like 1 or 2 hours of sleep!

[eeddssxx]

very informative. i wish they had more on the first week though as that is the hardest part

[aeia]

The second week was hardest for me!

[TehRahk]

Yeah I was thinking about doing this too, but his inability to wake up from the blaring noises scared me a lot too! I'm not sure I want to try this any more.

[aeia]

It goes away shortly after a few weeks of being on it. Its the transition of being sleep deprived that gets yah!

[7ochka]

I'm three days into the experiment now, and it seems to work pretty fine. Its amazing to have this much awake time. The subjects "crash" at the end of the video scared me a little. If those sounds can't wake you up, would a fire or burglar? On the other side, his 10 hour sleep and the positive effect of it gave me the courage to carry on.

[0ceanwind]

well how did it go? are you polyphasic now or did you go back to monophasic?

[7ochka]

Hi. I went back to monophasic sleep after a week or two. I had very low energy throughout the experiment, and couldnt think clearly. Despite this I have been doing in once in a while since then. I dont recommend using these sleeping patterns more than a week at a time, and it shouldnt be done during times in which you use your muscles or brain a lot, since the body wont be able to rebuild cells in the way it naturally should.

[0ceanwind]

7ochka, thanks so much for taking the time to reply! This is great info, as I'm thinking of doing the experiment myself and I'm aware that the failure rate for this sleep is high- at least from all the blogs I've read. Makes sense what you say about energy. I've read from that energy levels get back to normal around day 5 - 6 or so. But I'm a bit confused, what do you mean you've been doing it once in a while? I thought the whole point was to stay poly for as long as day to day reality permits?

[7ochka]

When I say I do it once in a while I mean over 2-3 lazy days in which I dont work out, study or anything. I dont follow any pattern at all, I just go to sleep when I'm tired, set the alarm, and get up 30min - an hour later. This way I can sleep a total of 3-4 hours a day, if I manage to get up from bed when I'm supposed to.

[0ceanwind]

Got it, that makes sense.

[aeia]

Its only 20 minutes they would have to sneak in lol

[charybdisxv]

I agree that it's disturbing, but I sleep like that when I'm getting 9 hours of monophasic sleep a night. Basically, if I'm disturbed at night, I act as if I am awake, but I'm not. I may get up in response to something, but will immediately go back to sleep and have no memory of it. I haven't had this experience with polyphasic sleep.

[charybdisxv]

Did you ever experiment with this?

[GoWithTheFlo99]

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