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Originally Posted by Ramses  This post has two purposes. First, I just want to introduce myself to the community. I've been on a polyphasic schedule since August, and it's become a pretty natural sleep regimine to me, and much more flexible than I would have guessed. |
Sweet! I've been waiting for a well-adapted polyphasic sleeper to show up on this thread, mostly because I know micth and Jm4362 were planning to start their 30-day trials of polyphasic sleep soon. If you have the time to keep track of what goes on here, I think your experience would be an invaluable asset to the little group of experimenters here.
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Originally Posted by Jm4362 Hello again--my Polyphasic 30-Day Trial is coming up in just 5 days, and will begin on December 11th. |
Here's wishing you the best of luck on that!
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Originally Posted by Jm4362 The plan: Start out with 8 naps daily of 1 hour length and over a week, remove time to minimize sleep deprivation. I anticipate some anyway, though, since 1 hr. isn't long enough for a normal sleep cycle in the first place. |
That's going to be tough to wake from, but the longer naps mean you may be able to get deep sleep even in the early part of the adaptation (usually polyphasic sleepers survive on
only Stage 1 and 2 sleep--no deep sleep--until two or three weeks into adaptation). So the benefits of longer naps may outweight the problems if you can wake yourself up from them.
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Originally Posted by Jm4362 On a related note, I've decided to record the results using an Excel spreadsheet. How do you post an Excel spreadsheet? can you just cut and paste, or what? |
I can't think of any good way to post Excel spreadsheets directly on the forums. If you've got online file space, you could upload it there and link to it from your posts here.