Everyman Sleep Schedule

[Flyingwithoutwings]

I plan to begin the everyman schedule, for those with no previous knowledge of this, lets see I should give an online account:
Everyman Sleep Schedule@Everything2.com

the advice I found was here:
Mechanics of Polyphasic Sleep

or possibly from looking up the doctor mentioned in the above post.

Also: I would guess that there are others doing the everyman sleep schedule if there is mass place for these plans then please tell me, otherwise, feel free to post your own accounts

The advice I have is to have many activities (hopefully as many physical as I can muster up), my ideas are that I can do my school work (summer school physics and MCAT prep course), checking out a moving/standing meditation system I am interested in, reading, watching netflix which i get 3 at a time, visiting friends, exercising, swimming, I do not wish to take up video games though if i could find a similar thing that was teaching me something useful then maybe, web browsing, possibly library visiting, and a light -20 min per session- weight training system.

green tea will be my only caffiene and stevia my main sugar though i do have icecream and no big plan to have a specific diet.

My schedule: 3:30-6:30 -- 12:00pm-12:20pm -- 5:00-5:20 -- 10:00-10:20 -->
5.5 hrs 5hrs 5hrs 5.5 hrs

3 20 min naps spaced relatively evenly across the day.. 4 total hours of sleep time per day.

I will try this for one month which is up to a family trip I'll be taking on june 28th to ireland. I know, its quite sad i'll only have about 1-2 weeks tops to enjoy it with little discomfort. Its possible that if I enjoy it I'll start it again after the 10 day trip but otherwise I intend to try a raw food detox with as much sleep as I desire... maybe i'll save that for next summer...

I am 20 and currently living at my mother's home without a job awaiting my 3rd year of college. I'll be using my cell phone which can be programmed for various alarms, as well as a personal alarm clock and a watch timer that can take 20 min naps very well. On possibly a side note I hope to have my lucid dreaming ability and recall increase, we'll see how this goes aswell, I'll try to keep this updated if I can find the time ;-p.

Any advice? Anyone want to tell me how bad of an idea it is (it is your right)? Tell me about your experience of something similar?

[Flyingwithoutwings]

first thought upon waking: "Thats all the sleep I get? I give up!"

Luckily I had another alarm to turn off and after 30seconds-min of sitting I was feeling better and weight training not long after, now I have my tea, the first full day begins.

[Flyingwithoutwings]

going well, a note: save yourself some headache and don't tell anyone that hasn't atleast read some pavlina. (learned from experience)

[Kaspian]

I've tried a variety of polyphasic sleep schedules over the last 11 months, and when life is (relatively) normal, Everyman with a 3-hour core is my favorite, though I take 4 naps instead of 3.

There's a lot of good info at the Google Group on Polyphasic Sleep, not just in the discussions, but in the pages, too.

Good luck!

[Flyingwithoutwings]

Thanks for the info.

For anyone following along most is going quite well. Yesterday I skipped a nap, and moved back my last nap due to events with friends and ended up oversleeping till this morning, this isn't too unexpected, no big, I just jumped back on.

A bigger and more important change was that from 2:30-3:30 I was useless and my 12pm nap after my physics class was easy to get to so i'm moving it back to 3-6 because I still think on weekends i'll end up out sometimes until the 3am nap time. So, I was able to tweak my times a bit to fit my lifestyle.

Also, I often move my naps around 10-20 mins either way of the nap time and that usually goes just fine. One helper is putting the alarm clock nexto the light, and a planned activity.

Also, with the short naps it has made it very easy to destroy any kind of insomnia, right now, taking more than 4 minutes to get into a regenerative brain wave (possibly not unconscious but regenerating (not thinking hard)) is the exception to the norm.

One helpful thing for quick naps for me is encouraging my mind to entertain passive (not created completely by intention) images which mirror dreams in their ability to run on their own (whether I am awake or not). Thinking hard during a nap just wont cut it.

As for the most recent change my alarm has recently changed from BEEP BEEP BEEP to meditation music by the frantic worries of thine mother, more on the recieved social commentary during the change, possibly the subject of another thread. In short: people think PD, while good in theory, possibly executed over a very long period of time, WILL harm you if sped up and gotten over with.