polyphasic sleep and lucid dreaming
So the past few days I've been looking into polyphasic sleep, and I am honestly a bit confused as to why this is discussed so little in the lucid dreaming community.
It seems that even attempting uberman for maybe a week will bring interesting experiences like shifts of consciousness that could be (IMO) helpful for lucid dreaming.
Even more interesting though, is that when using exaptation or naptation (I'll explain them in a bit) you quickly (+- 3 days) gain the ability to quicksleep (fall asleep withing minutes) and get a 20 min nap full of only REM.
The lucid dreaming implications of this seem fairly obvious to me, as this would make remembering dreams easier, and also seems great for WILDing.
+ you get a lot more opportunities because of the polyphasic nature of your sleep.
I tend to think of it as the better/more extreme/advanced/*insert superlative* WBTB (and to my knowledge WBTB is still the most efficient technique for inducing lucid dreams) --> you do the math.
Quick note: even people that don't know about lucid dreaming and adapt to uberman report having lucid dreams, more vivid dreams and dreams that seem to last forever (even if you only sleep 20 minutes).
One person even reported that upon waking from a 20 min nap and looking at the clock, she thought she overslept a whole day because the dream seemed so long. (!!)
So what is Exaptation?
Basically it is training yourself to take efficients naps. How to do it:
- Stay awake 24-36 hours to induce sleep deprivation
- Start taking 20 minute naps every 2 hours (so 12 naps a day)
- After about 3 days you have quicksleep and REM naps
The problem then becomes getting slow wave or deep sleep into naps, which makes uberman so hard.
Personally I will try to go on everyman 3 so that i can introduce a core sleep of 3h to get SWS
For more information on polyphasic sleeping i would recommend visiting polyphasicsociety.com
let me know what you think about this!