Modification of the Biphasic Sleep pattern

[ajw]

The second, short sleep of 1.5 hrs seems unreasonable and unsustainable. Has anyone sustained this for longer than 6 months? Has anyone tried extending the 2nd sleep to maybe 2 or 3 hours instead? I am doing half-days with 4 hrs of sleep for each, and while this still puts me out of consciousness 8 hrs a day, I feel more energized for those 8 and 8 hours I am awake and thus more productive.

[ginkgo]

Originally Posted by ajw

The second, short sleep of 1.5 hrs seems unreasonable and unsustainable. Has anyone sustained this for longer than 6 months? Has anyone tried extending the 2nd sleep to maybe 2 or 3 hours instead? I am doing half-days with 4 hrs of sleep for each, and while this still puts me out of consciousness 8 hrs a day, I feel more energized for those 8 and 8 hours I am awake and thus more productive.

Then that is good. It is like this. Catholics say there are 10 commandments but Protestants say that there are 10 commandments but they are different since the bible does not number them. The Protestants take one commandment and breaks into into 2 and combines 2 into one. It does not matter. So do not follow a sleeping religion. Do what works best for you. The more sleep you get, the thinner you will be and the stronger your immune system will be according to research. So a guy can be saving time sleeping more but wasting a lot of time getting sick a lot. Then another guy can be sleeping more but saving time by getting sleep less.

[silicon toad2000]

I'm close to 6 months bi phasic.

I'm not sure what you mean by the second 1.5 hour sleep.
Do you mean the nap on the second day?

I have been biphasic since july. provided you get a good 1.5 hours sleep during the nap and a good 4.5 hour core sleep it is quite sustainable.

The reason it works is due to the cyclic nature of sleep and the change in percentages of different kinds of sleep as the sleep cycles progress.

the body needs delta sleep to recouperate. The percentage of delta sleep is much higher in the inital cycles of sleep than in the final cycles.
By creating 2 initial cycles of sleep you are getting more delta sleep than is contained in the final 2 cycles so you cut them off.

[ginkgo]

Originally Posted by silicon toad2000

I'm close to 6 months bi phasic.

I'm not sure what you mean by the second 1.5 hour sleep.
Do you mean the nap on the second day?

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Yes when you take a nap, it is sleeping.

[silicon toad2000]

Ginko, in the std bi-phasic sleep pattern there is one 1.5 hour nap and a 4.5 core sleep.
There is no second 1.5 sleep.
I was trying to clarify the question with the OP.
Perhaps if you know exactly what the OP meant, you could be a little clearer in your explanation.

[ginkgo]

Originally Posted by silicon toad2000

Ginko, in the std bi-phasic sleep pattern there is one 1.5 hour nap and a 4.5 core sleep.
There is no second 1.5 sleep.
I was trying to clarify the question with the OP.
Perhaps if you know exactly what the OP meant, you could be a little clearer in your explanation.

I think that he meant the 2nd sleep that is 1.5 hours.