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Trustme · 11-06-2006, 08:02 PM

good question
you read the same blogs I read. There is some truth in the cycle stuff. We all know it - you wake up and feel groggy even after you got "enough" sleep and the next day you wake up and feel great after a lot less total sleep. I hardly ever feel groggy in the morning any more unless I sleep too long - which I sometimes do just for fun, especially when I am not alone in bed

In my earlier days when I went to bed late and got up late (or when I went to bed early and got up late) I was devastated in the mornings. That's gone now.

I still experience some kind of grogginess after a nap. For me that's natural up to some extend. It goes away after some minutes. That's something that might actually disappear completely if I stuck to the 90 minutes for a complete nap cycle.

Anyway - the 90 minutes are no dogma, at least not for me. I only suggest you don't try the 3 hours core + 90 minute nap that is described in the blogs unless you don't have to do something important to do that day. In my experience the bi-phasic thing is something you can convert to in small steps and it does feel natural along the way (compared to the polyphasic sleep that really seems to turn you into a living zombie for a couple of weeks).

11-06-2006, 08:02 PM	#9 (permalink)
Trustme Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Vienna, Austria Posts: 159	good question you read the same blogs I read. There is some truth in the cycle stuff. We all know it - you wake up and feel groggy even after you got "enough" sleep and the next day you wake up and feel great after a lot less total sleep. I hardly ever feel groggy in the morning any more unless I sleep too long - which I sometimes do just for fun, especially when I am not alone in bed In my earlier days when I went to bed late and got up late (or when I went to bed early and got up late) I was devastated in the mornings. That's gone now. I still experience some kind of grogginess after a nap. For me that's natural up to some extend. It goes away after some minutes. That's something that might actually disappear completely if I stuck to the 90 minutes for a complete nap cycle. Anyway - the 90 minutes are no dogma, at least not for me. I only suggest you don't try the 3 hours core + 90 minute nap that is described in the blogs unless you don't have to do something important to do that day. In my experience the bi-phasic thing is something you can convert to in small steps and it does feel natural along the way (compared to the polyphasic sleep that really seems to turn you into a living zombie for a couple of weeks).