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Considerate · 11-12-2006, 07:34 PM

I've heard about polyphasic sleep for a long time and circumstances have made it easy for me to try. I work from home, I live alone so all the time will be mine to manage.

I tried starting yesterday, with scheduled 20 minutes naps at 1, 5, 9 am and PM. By my calculation, that would be 2 hours of sleep per 24 hour cycle.

It started well but I overslept badly from 5 am to 1 pm, basically a night's sleep.

This time I had only one alarm clock which I think I managed to close while sleeping.

I'm curious to hear suggestions about this sleep schedule and about how to prevent oversleeping. Multiple alarms are a must as I see, but is there anything else in our arsenal?

11-12-2006, 07:34 PM	#22 (permalink)
Considerate Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 8	I'm starting I've heard about polyphasic sleep for a long time and circumstances have made it easy for me to try. I work from home, I live alone so all the time will be mine to manage. I tried starting yesterday, with scheduled 20 minutes naps at 1, 5, 9 am and PM. By my calculation, that would be 2 hours of sleep per 24 hour cycle. It started well but I overslept badly from 5 am to 1 pm, basically a night's sleep. This time I had only one alarm clock which I think I managed to close while sleeping. I'm curious to hear suggestions about this sleep schedule and about how to prevent oversleeping. Multiple alarms are a must as I see, but is there anything else in our arsenal?