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aslkdzm · 10-06-2008, 05:24 PM

Ok. I am..

Country : Malaysia
Age : 21
Gender : Male
Occupation : Student
Time flexibility : Rather flexible

I will start my Polyphasic sleeping pattern today.
DAY : 0

I have search throughout the web, but it seems that only a small number of experimenter persists on it, mostly gave up.

And sadly, due to no apparent reason, there is no even a single serious reasearch done on this topic, which may benefit a particular band of mankind ( except that of Mr.Stampi ).
I have no blog, so yup, I will have my progession updated here.

If I am not mistaken, there are 3 kinds of Polyphasic sleep pattern, namely,
1. Everyman
2. Uberman
3. Dymaxion
Dymaxion can be considered as the most extreme form of practice, the pattern is 4 times of 30mins sleep distributed throughout the day (4x30mins), and what now I am aiming to do is to adopt this pattern.

From my medical and biology knowledge and the whole bunch of information garner from the Internet, I think it is rather plausible for mankind to adopt this practice.

It is just that our cultural context limited polyphasic sleeper from doing so, since you will be labelled as weirdo among your peers.
It also requires great amount of courage to live quite a "different" way from the whole society, so to speak.

Thinking about the extra time. Well, as every wiseman know that time is the most valuable asset, even the Christian Bible dictates us to treasure the time.
I am planning to use the extra time ( if I successfully adopt this lifestyle throughout my whole life), to read more books, help others and achieve much more things, and this is the reason why I want to try this out.

Okay my schedule will be estimately like this :

7.00AM - 1.00PM (Working hour. For everybody, this is primetime,nobody seems to get away from work at this point)

1.00PM - 1.30PM (Sleep. Commonly,I believe that most of us will be spared from our work to take a break, lunch or something else at this point, so if you are able to squeeze in a sleeping period here will be awesome, but the problem keeps bothering me is - I don't have anything like portable bed ( haven't created on earth), am I really expected to sleep on the sofa/chair found in office/school/organization or even any eating table in the cafeteria? Luckily now I am in a holiday, so I don't have to bother it right now)

1.30PM - 7.30PM (Working hour. This is still prime time,though some occupation like morning section school teachers are off)

7.30PM - 8.00PM (Sleep. I try to have my dinner about 6pm-7pm, and most of us already get home at this moment, so a comfortable bed is easily accessible for you to sleep.)

8.00PM - 2.00AM (Working hour. This is the treasure time and most tempted time. Treasure because others will be resting and playing and mixing with friends/ socializing, your hardwork at this point will definitely paid off. On the other hand it is very tempting since you can easily slacken at this moment if your are not alert.)

2.00AM - 2.30AM (Sleep. I called this the ENDING POINT of the whole cycle - this is very important, I will give the reason later. Ok, I think this is the easiest part in the whole process,unless you have a night shift or you occupation working time is at night, then you have to adjust your schedule accordingly. MAKE SURE I/YOU SLEEP DEEPLY this step, plus most of the medical knowledge state that this is part of the time period when your inner organ get recover and rest completely (somewhere around 12am-3am), so it is of utter importance to get sleep here.)

2.30AM - 6.30AM (Working hour. This is the STARTING POINT. The silence of the enviroment make you focus, thus the best time to work, and note, this step is not the usual 6 hours but only 4 hours, you can't fit the whole cycle if you insist on 6 hours )

6.30AM -7.00AM (Sleep. For most of us, we are still at home in this point ,unless you are some News anchor need to host an early program or the like, most probably you will still at home and the bed is accessible, so...sleep.

I think I have to remind myself :
For most polyphasic sleeper, it is important to view the length of time as a unit of day. Meaning: many polyphasic sleeper will fall into the trap that as if the time is, in a sense, continuous, rather than viewing them as a day discretly. It is important to realize that we must hold the concept of there is a new begining of the day and an ending of that same day, you can't view the time from a standpoint that it is continuous, without a new starting day and a closing end.
This is quite psychological. We, as human being, tend to find it challenging if we start a new and fresh day, and knowing that it has an end. Without knowing this and treat the time "continuously" without the seperation of one day from another, you will most probably doom to fail to adopt this sleep pattern.
So a fresh and new start of the day is 2:30 AM, and the end of that day is 2:00AM.

So from now on I will post updates here daily, as long as there is no accident event or any computer crash-down.

I hope my personal experiment can somehow become first-hand data and contribute to the knowledge pool on the research of Polyphasic Sleep, since research knowledges in this aspect are scarce.

Peace

10-06-2008, 05:24 PM	#270 (permalink)
aslkdzm Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 4	Ok. I am.. Country : Malaysia Age : 21 Gender : Male Occupation : Student Time flexibility : Rather flexible I will start my Polyphasic sleeping pattern today. DAY : 0 I have search throughout the web, but it seems that only a small number of experimenter persists on it, mostly gave up. And sadly, due to no apparent reason, there is no even a single serious reasearch done on this topic, which may benefit a particular band of mankind ( except that of Mr.Stampi ). I have no blog, so yup, I will have my progession updated here. If I am not mistaken, there are 3 kinds of Polyphasic sleep pattern, namely, 1. Everyman 2. Uberman 3. Dymaxion Dymaxion can be considered as the most extreme form of practice, the pattern is 4 times of 30mins sleep distributed throughout the day (4x30mins), and what now I am aiming to do is to adopt this pattern. From my medical and biology knowledge and the whole bunch of information garner from the Internet, I think it is rather plausible for mankind to adopt this practice. It is just that our cultural context limited polyphasic sleeper from doing so, since you will be labelled as weirdo among your peers. It also requires great amount of courage to live quite a "different" way from the whole society, so to speak. Thinking about the extra time. Well, as every wiseman know that time is the most valuable asset, even the Christian Bible dictates us to treasure the time. I am planning to use the extra time ( if I successfully adopt this lifestyle throughout my whole life), to read more books, help others and achieve much more things, and this is the reason why I want to try this out. Okay my schedule will be estimately like this : 7.00AM - 1.00PM (Working hour. For everybody, this is primetime,nobody seems to get away from work at this point) 1.00PM - 1.30PM (Sleep. Commonly,I believe that most of us will be spared from our work to take a break, lunch or something else at this point, so if you are able to squeeze in a sleeping period here will be awesome, but the problem keeps bothering me is - I don't have anything like portable bed ( haven't created on earth), am I really expected to sleep on the sofa/chair found in office/school/organization or even any eating table in the cafeteria? Luckily now I am in a holiday, so I don't have to bother it right now) 1.30PM - 7.30PM (Working hour. This is still prime time,though some occupation like morning section school teachers are off) 7.30PM - 8.00PM (Sleep. I try to have my dinner about 6pm-7pm, and most of us already get home at this moment, so a comfortable bed is easily accessible for you to sleep.) 8.00PM - 2.00AM (Working hour. This is the treasure time and most tempted time. Treasure because others will be resting and playing and mixing with friends/ socializing, your hardwork at this point will definitely paid off. On the other hand it is very tempting since you can easily slacken at this moment if your are not alert.) 2.00AM - 2.30AM (Sleep. I called this the ENDING POINT of the whole cycle - this is very important, I will give the reason later. Ok, I think this is the easiest part in the whole process,unless you have a night shift or you occupation working time is at night, then you have to adjust your schedule accordingly. MAKE SURE I/YOU SLEEP DEEPLY this step, plus most of the medical knowledge state that this is part of the time period when your inner organ get recover and rest completely (somewhere around 12am-3am), so it is of utter importance to get sleep here.) 2.30AM - 6.30AM (Working hour. This is the STARTING POINT. The silence of the enviroment make you focus, thus the best time to work, and note, this step is not the usual 6 hours but only 4 hours, you can't fit the whole cycle if you insist on 6 hours ) 6.30AM -7.00AM (Sleep. For most of us, we are still at home in this point ,unless you are some News anchor need to host an early program or the like, most probably you will still at home and the bed is accessible, so...sleep. I think I have to remind myself : For most polyphasic sleeper, it is important to view the length of time as a unit of day. Meaning: many polyphasic sleeper will fall into the trap that as if the time is, in a sense, continuous, rather than viewing them as a day discretly. It is important to realize that we must hold the concept of there is a new begining of the day and an ending of that same day, you can't view the time from a standpoint that it is continuous, without a new starting day and a closing end. This is quite psychological. We, as human being, tend to find it challenging if we start a new and fresh day, and knowing that it has an end. Without knowing this and treat the time "continuously" without the seperation of one day from another, you will most probably doom to fail to adopt this sleep pattern. So a fresh and new start of the day is 2:30 AM, and the end of that day is 2:00AM. So from now on I will post updates here daily, as long as there is no accident event or any computer crash-down. I hope my personal experiment can somehow become first-hand data and contribute to the knowledge pool on the research of Polyphasic Sleep, since research knowledges in this aspect are scarce. Peace Last edited by aslkdzm; 10-06-2008 at 05:56 PM.