#monophasic

[10weeksofnosleep-blog]

New blog post should be up shortly....

[else-self]

Ideas worth trying if the normal pattern of our sleep doesn't suit you. Try something new.

[writtenart]

Day 1

The first night I couldn't sleep at all until the next morning, then I overslept on my 6 a.m. nap and woke up at 7:30. I felt very refreshed, the next nap at 10:00 a.m. went well, I assume. I don't really remember falling asleep. I must have because here I am at 1:00 p.m. and I have more energy then I have ever before with monophasic sleep. I feel wide awake, but my body feels a bit lagging and my mind is more clear (probably because I'm to tired to think to much). 

As I type this its technically the second day, but I'll give it a separate post later on because I still have several naps to go and I'm going to see how exercising effects my poly-naps  Also, smoking cigarettes shouldn't be a problem after I'm adjusted but right now they just make me tempted to sleep. 

[mayaaaaful]

Monophasic V's Polyphasic sleep cycles

A friend posted a link on an article about the different sleep cycles on his facebook wall a few minutes ago. And as it's just gone 4am I thought I'd better give it a read.

I've been researching into different sleeping patterns for a while now, looking at polyphasic sleep cycles, lucid dreaming and what dreams mean. It's sort of an interest of mine.

Being a university student I am finding it difficult to come up with a sleeping pattern that works with my studio and extra curricular activities schedules. Also if you ask any of my coursemate's or my tutor, they will tell you I am terrible at making it on time, I've made it in on time twice since starting in September!

I have been going to sleep about 4:30am every morning and waking up about 11am-12pm everyday, but as it is the christmas holiday's I'm allowing the lazy late morning's, but when the new term starts this is going to have to change. I am wanting to find the optimum sleep pattern to start the new year off well.

And who knows, maybe I'll be a morning person this time next year. Anything could happen.

http://www.highexistence.com/alternate-sleep-cycles/

[afanofthings-moved]

I Hate Sleep

Always have, probably always will. We'll also ignore the fact I sleep in for hours but it's like smoking: You don't want to do it, but you love it at the time.

I basically sleep about 6 hours a day. At least, when I check my watch, six hours have passed. I probably get closer to four or five. I usually get by on that quite well, though.

My hatred of sleep got me thinking about other sleeping patterns back in May. I did some reading beforehand and skimmed past something called "polyphasic sleep". Most people sleep with a monophasic sleep cycle: once every night for about 6-12 hours. A polyphasic sleeping schedule splits up that one block and spreads it across more than one "block" of sleep.

The beauty of sleeping like that is that the more often you spread out your sleep throughout the day, the less actual time you need to sleep. You can get away with about 2-3 hours of actual sleeping time- about 6 blocks of 30 minutes devoted to sleeping. This is called the "uberman" sleeping schedule. I read this fantastic blog where one Steve Pavlina kept a journal of his experience sleeping like this and it's fascinating (found here: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/).

Now, sleeping this little does have side effects. Obviously, you can get more done throughout the day, but the biggest problem is that missing one block leaves you like a zombie until you get back on schedule. And making the change from your current schedule (assuming you sleep monophasic) leaves you in a zombie-like state for a couple of dies through the change. Once you've made the change, the body has adapted and get's the necessary REM sleep it needs during those small naps.

I will try it, but it'd have to wait until after I finish college. Unfortunately my current timetable just makes the uberman sleep schedule impossible.

I want to do it, though. I want to.

[dymaxion-sleep-log-blog]

26.08.12

My first day hearing about alternate sleep schedules, and perhaps my last full monophasic sleep for the foreseeable future. I slept from 5:00-15:00 and an hour later I am feeling dead tired, not expecting it to get any better as the day continues either. I have decided my goal is to start my all out dymaxion sleep cycle on September 1st, and until then gradually take chunks out of my monophasic sleep until it disappears completely. In regards to naps I think I'll take them as I feel needed until September 1st,  but when I do have them only be half an hour to adjust myself to short bursts of sleep. Wish me luck!

[theeverymancycle-blog]

Polyphasic sleep bad for growing?

I found out some more information on living in a polyphasic sleep cycle before you are done completely growing. Apparently it can be bad for growth to change to polyphasic sleep (I reiterate, CAN, as might be). There are many different opinions as for why this is, as with most things that have to do with sleep. One theory is that in the switch between monophasic sleep to polyphasic one becomes very sleep deprived before one’s body becomes accustomed to the new system. Another theory is that the stages of sleep that are shortened to make room for the “more important” stages of sleep are actually the stages that are useful in growing during youth. 

Scientists believe that 90 minutes is the length of time it takes to go through one sleep transition. So, since it MAY be bad. (nothing is known for sure, so it could be totally fine) I will continue to attempt a polyphasic schedule starting Tuesday night May 22, but I will be adding 90 minutes to my core sleep. Eventually I will experiment with taking this 90 minutes away and other things.

[veiredame]

So I'm thinking of adopting a polyphasic sleep schedule

Because I cannot keep to the normal monophasic sleep cycle the rest of the world is on. Even when I have a job it just doesn't work out.

The Everyman sleep cycle requires less sleep and is a lot less harsh during the adjustment period than other polyphasic sleep cycles. It also includes a core nap instead of just being made up of a ton of little naps throughout the day, which I feel would mess with me and my going to bed ritual a lot less. Also, I would probably actually use my bed for that one. I tend to just use a blanket and lay on my bed backwards when I take naps.

I get the blanket thing, what with naps being short and all, but have NO idea where the laying down backwards thing came from. Or when it started, for that matter.

And I can't do it at night. I always end up waking up at strange hours. Being backwards on my bed must inherently create a naptime effect where I don't sleep for long periods of time. I don't know. =P

Point being, I'm officially nocturnal as of this week and every single time I try to get back to not being nocturnal it fails horribly.

So why not screw nature and stay up all night without actually being a frikkin' vampire, says I.