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rohank · 12-30-2006, 12:19 PM

Hello to all,
I am a new college student, and am very interested in getting my sleep schedule to be more efficient. I'm typical in the fact that I sleep very late, and get up very late. Or just get up early for 8am classes and feel horrible for the rest of the day. I recently stumbled across the biphasic sleep schedule and was wondering if I could get a bit more information about it.
1)While I like the idea of getting up so early in the morning, the location of the 90 min nap time is what intrigues me the most. Most of my evening classes/activites are centered around 6-10 pm, and as that was the labeled time for a good first nap I was wondering how feasible it is to instead take the nap somewhere between 2 and 6pm.
2) My second concern is that I have a very hard time falling asleep using the monophasic sleep schedule, and was wondering if that would carry over or be alleviated by changing to biphasic. If it does would it then be productive to take 20-45 min to fall asleep twice, effectivly getting rid of the 2-3 hours gained from changing?

Any help with these questions would be appreciated
Thanks!

12-30-2006, 12:19 PM	#50 (permalink)
rohank Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 1	Hello to all, I am a new college student, and am very interested in getting my sleep schedule to be more efficient. I'm typical in the fact that I sleep very late, and get up very late. Or just get up early for 8am classes and feel horrible for the rest of the day. I recently stumbled across the biphasic sleep schedule and was wondering if I could get a bit more information about it. 1)While I like the idea of getting up so early in the morning, the location of the 90 min nap time is what intrigues me the most. Most of my evening classes/activites are centered around 6-10 pm, and as that was the labeled time for a good first nap I was wondering how feasible it is to instead take the nap somewhere between 2 and 6pm. 2) My second concern is that I have a very hard time falling asleep using the monophasic sleep schedule, and was wondering if that would carry over or be alleviated by changing to biphasic. If it does would it then be productive to take 20-45 min to fall asleep twice, effectivly getting rid of the 2-3 hours gained from changing? Any help with these questions would be appreciated Thanks!