Polyphasic sleep involves taking multiple short sleep periods throughout the day instead of getting all your sleep in one long chunk. A popular form of polyphasic sleep, the Uberman sleep schedule, suggests that you sleep 20-30 minutes six times per day, with equally spaced naps every 4 hours around the clock. This means you’re only sleeping 2-3 hours per day. I’d previously heard of polyphasic sleep, but until now I hadn’t come across practical schedules that people seem to be reporting interesting results with.
How can this sleep schedule work? Supposedly it takes about a week to adjust to it. A normal sleep cycle is 90 minutes, and REM sleep occurs late in this cycle. REM is the most important phase of sleep, the one in which you experience dreams, and when deprived of REM for too long, you suffer serious negative consequences. Polyphasic sleep conditions your body to learn to enter REM sleep immediately when you begin sleeping instead of much later in the sleep cycle. So during the first week you experience sleep deprivation as your body learns to adapt to shorter sleep cycles, but after the adaptation you’ll feel fine, maybe even better than before.
This book is composed of the articles from StevePavlina.com website. It contains Polyphasic Sleep series with additional related articles.
Steve Pavlina (born April 14, 1971) is an American self-help author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur. He is the author of the web site stevepavlina.com and the book Personal Development for Smart People.
List of Articles:
Polyphasic Sleep
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 1
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 2
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 3
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 4
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 5
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 6
Polyphasic Sleep – Response to Reader Feedback
Polyphasic Sleep Log – A Wife’s Perspective
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 7
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Days 8-11
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Days 12-18
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Days 19-20
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 21
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 22
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Days 23-24
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Days 25-30 (Final Update)
Polyphasic Sleep Seinfeld Episode
Polyphasic Sleep Update – Day 60
Polyphasic Sleep Update – Day 90
Polyphasic Mutants
Polyphasic Sleep Put to Shame
Polyphasic Sleep 2.0
Polyphasic Sleep in USA Today
Polyphasic Sleep: The Return to Monophasic
Live consciously.
How can this sleep schedule work? Supposedly it takes about a week to adjust to it. A normal sleep cycle is 90 minutes, and REM sleep occurs late in this cycle. REM is the most important phase of sleep, the one in which you experience dreams, and when deprived of REM for too long, you suffer serious negative consequences. Polyphasic sleep conditions your body to learn to enter REM sleep immediately when you begin sleeping instead of much later in the sleep cycle. So during the first week you experience sleep deprivation as your body learns to adapt to shorter sleep cycles, but after the adaptation you’ll feel fine, maybe even better than before.
This book is composed of the articles from StevePavlina.com website. It contains Polyphasic Sleep series with additional related articles.
Steve Pavlina (born April 14, 1971) is an American self-help author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur. He is the author of the web site stevepavlina.com and the book Personal Development for Smart People.
List of Articles:
Polyphasic Sleep
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 1
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 2
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 3
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 4
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 5
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 6
Polyphasic Sleep – Response to Reader Feedback
Polyphasic Sleep Log – A Wife’s Perspective
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 7
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Days 8-11
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Days 12-18
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Days 19-20
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 21
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 22
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Days 23-24
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Days 25-30 (Final Update)
Polyphasic Sleep Seinfeld Episode
Polyphasic Sleep Update – Day 60
Polyphasic Sleep Update – Day 90
Polyphasic Mutants
Polyphasic Sleep Put to Shame
Polyphasic Sleep 2.0
Polyphasic Sleep in USA Today
Polyphasic Sleep: The Return to Monophasic
Live consciously.
