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Originally Posted by Phi  I get by with 4 hours per night. Used to sleep 7-8 hours, but managed to reduce my need for sleep after some biphasic/polyphasic experimenting.
To get by with only 4 hours, I do 3 hours core in the night and 2-3 20 min. naps during the day (around 6 am, 1 pm and 6 pm). My core is usually from 10 pm to 1 am. |
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Originally Posted by Trustme just curious - how long have you been doing this? My core at night is around 4.5 hours + a nap in the evening of 60 minutes. It somehow feels strange to me to try to reduce this further. |
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Originally Posted by Saidin I just went from 8 hours a night to 6.5 hours a night of 'normal' sleep. No naps. What helped is having something to do in the morning. I (want to) work for myself a few hours before I (have to) go to work. This helps getting out of bed immediately when the alarm goes of.
I'd like to try biphasic sleep. However, my understanding is/was that the nap needs to be 90 minutes because of the 90 minute cycles you're supposed to sleep in? |
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Originally Posted by Trustme same situation for me - I work for myself before I go to work.
You don't have to be that religious with the nap time. I hardly ever nap for 90 minutes, usually I wake up after 60 minutes or more. Even a small nap is very refreshing and beneficial in my opinion. |
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Originally Posted by Phi Answering some of the questions from above:
Been doing if for about a year. Started biphasic (3 + 1,5 hours), went polyphasic for 2 weeks (no fun if you have a family and enjoy being with them). Ended up with current schedule which I have maintained for about 8 months (except for a month long holiday where I was monophasic like everybody else).
Totally agree with SuperStar's girlfriend... it's a question of attitude. If I tell myself I'm tired, then I really am tired. So I usually tell myself that I'm totally fresh and ready for anything 
I work on my own business in the morning before going to my normal fulltime job. My plan is to live on my business within a year or so, so I'm very motivated in the morning hours. I don't think I could pull it off if I weren't motivated. |
Good morning!
It's 4:26, I got up with alarm at 4:00am this morning. Decided to give this a try yesterday after reading these posts and the ones on another thread, this board "post your polyphasic sleep logs here".
I've been getting up at 3:45am in order to practice my music for 2 hours in the morning before getting to work early, which I also really like to do--going to sleep anywhere between 9 and 10:30 depending upon how I felt--that's been a habit for maybe 2 1/2 to 3 months now, over the 30 day mark for sure. Now, in order to see if it will feel healthy and work right to go from somewhere between 6:45 hours and 5:15 hours a night--(PLUS a 30 minute nap during the day so should add that)--to 4:30 plus 1:30 = 5 hours per night, I'm trying this new thing. To be clear, I think I was most often closer to 6:30 to 6:45 hrs than 5:15 before.
David Hausladen on the polyphasic log thread has been very active and seems to also have gotten very much into this. His information is like what you said here, Saidin--90 minutes being an important duration since it encompasses a solid sleep cycle (including both REM and deep sleep as I understand it).
So last night, I took a 90 minute nap 630 to 800 and then slept as above through the night. We'll see how this works. The folks on the other thread who are actively trying these things out have tried to log their attempts at this, to compare notes and experiences, etc.
Phi, you said you "Ended up with current schedule which I have maintained for about 8 months..." I guess you mean what you mean what you had in an earlier post: " 3 hours core in the night and 2-3 20 min. naps during the day (around 6 am, 1 pm and 6 pm). My core is usually from 10 pm to 1 am." You have a lot of experience with this! May I ask you, if you couldn't do the 1pm nap because of time related stuff, what might you do instead?
All best, I'm going to log in my daily experience with this on the thread set up for logging but will check in here as well.....really fascinating stuff and sounds like many of you have a good amount of experience with it!
Ati