Hi rohank.
If you haven't read it already, there's quite a bit of info at the start of this thread on biphasic sleeping itself; including pointers to several other sources of information.
In answer to your questions :
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Originally Posted by rohank  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. |
The idea of an afternoon nap is fine. Personally I find it more difficult to sleep during the day, but that's due to environment more than anything.
One thing to keep in mind is that you'll feel refreshed and alert following this nap, but only for 4-5 hours or so (about 5 hours in my case, but I'm sure it varies from person to person). Because of this you might want to keep the nap toward the end of this period; say, 4:15 - 5:45.
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Originally Posted by rohank 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? |
The biphasic sleeping won't actually reduce the time it takes to fall asleep (although the sleep itself is deep and refreshing), so this is something to address before making the switch. I wrote a
piece on sleep hygiene recently which may help.
Incidentally, 20 mins isn't too bad. 45 may be a bit much
