Why We Nap - Book on Polyphasic Sleep
Hi!
I just recently got interested in polyphasic/ultrashort sleep and it seems it would be a nice experiment to try (if you have time) which might help with becoming lucid... Not because it helps with lucid dreams per-se, but because you shoot straight into REM, which may prove helpful with WILD techniques.
In short, polyphasic sleep is a pattern in which you sleep in several blocks equally distributed throughout the day (it's found in a lot of mammals (86% the book says), and in humans at birth). Growing up, we slowly go towards monophasic (one block of sleep per day). It also seems to allow us to sleep a lot less (3 hours/day for instance) without (as far as current studies show) major impact on performance, etc. A typical polyphasic sleep patern is the Da Vinci ultrashort variant, in which you sleep between 15 and 30 minutes 6 times a day (at 4 hours intervals). When you use this, apparently you go straight into REM sleep (well, not straight, but a lot faster) and you skip the deep sleep part (which is needed if you're sick or growing up, so don't try this if you're not a healthy, in-shape adult)
There are pros and cons for this, and for those who want to try it as a means of becoming lucid the info available on the net is not so vast.
There is a however a book called "WHY WE NAP" by Claudio Stampi (editor) which is devoted to this. If you've looked for it you've probably realized it's around 160$, which is a lot. It's also not very available in libraries... I did however found it in my uni library, so I've decided to (as illegal as it may seem) to post some of the interesting parts. Now as a student i'm allowed to scan/photocopy 10% of a book without breaking copyright laws... which is what i did so far. But we're all lucid dream students here, so if we all get 10% of the book... ;) well you see where this is going.
So, scanned for my own personal use and posted here at your own discretion, this is chapter one of Why We Nap:
"Evolution, Chronobiolog, and Functions of Polyphasic and Ultrashort Sleep: Main Issues" by Claudio Stampi
http://hybrid.concordia.ca/~victord/Issues.zip
if there are no objections from the admins/mods following this post, i'll post two other articles as soon as i get them done:
"The Effects of Polyphasic and Ultrashort Sleep Schedules" by Claudio Stampi
"What Is the Limit for Prolonged Sleep Reduction? An Objective Evaluation of the Leonardo da Vinci Ultrashort Sleep Strategy" by Stampi as well.
and if there's a demand i might keep on scanning some of the evolutionary, growth related or other articles from the book. i figure knowledge should be free and not limited to the wealthy anyways.
