Thread: Polyphasic Sleeping Pattern

I was just reading about something called polyphasic sleeping. I was just wondering if anybody has heard anything about this or experimented with it? For those of you too lazy to click the link and read for yourselves, the basic concept is to reduce the amount of time spent sleeping to 2-5 hours a day by spreading sleep around the day in 20-45 minute naps.

I'm a dreamer and I love my sleep, but I have to say this sounds pretty interesting. A lot of people say their most vivid dreams come during naps. I haven't heard much about going lucid in naps, but I bet you could adapt fairly easily. If all of your sleep was in naps, would you basically be spending all your sleeping time in REM sleep? You would be disrupting the natural cycle so I think perhaps your body would adjust accordingly to get done what it needs to get done, and repair itself in the time you give it. This could, in theory, result in 2-5 hours of very very intense sleep/dreams a day, instead of like 7-11 hours of less concentrated sleep.

This would also give you more chances at becoming lucid, since you would only be sleeping for short periods at a time, a whole night would not be wasted if you went to bed without LDing on your mind or something.

Has anybody heard anything about this? I really want to try it out but it really just wouldn't work for me given my current schedule.


ps - what part of the alphabet would look like if q and r were removed.

pps - I just read that babies follow a sleep pattern like this (not surprisingly, keeping their parents up all night ) until they are forced out of it by society and their parents, and I can only imagine the crazy shit babies must dream about haha. This also kind of dispels the idea that this sleep pattern would be unhealthy, because the infant stage is when we grow the most rapidly. I dunno, but shit this is interesting! :yumdumdoodledum:

ppps - I think getting 2 hours of sleep per 24 hours would be absurd and there's no way your body could survive on that. Well, maybe you'd adjust but I feel like that would be over the sleep deprivation border. I'd probably aim for 5-6 hours of sleep a day, which is more than a lot of people normally get anyways har.

If I am not mistaken, Placebo was doing something similar to this a while back.

Do you have a link? I would be interested to see.... I just read about a guy who did this for 6 months, and he said it worked really well for him on only 2 hours of sleep a day. He said with only 20 minute naps he didn't get much dreaming at all. I would think maybe with 45min/hour long naps you might get some good dreaming in there. Also 5 chances a day to dream! oh my!