Hello,
Today, I will be starting my journey with Biphasic sleep. For those who don't know, normally you sleep monophasically, or once every 24 hours. This means, of course, that Biphasic sleepers sleep two times in a 24 hour period. The schedule I'm using is as follows:
2:00am - 6:30am - Core Sleep
7:00pm - 8:30pm OR 7:30pm - 9:00pm (not sure which) - Nap
This gives me a grand total of 6 hours. The benefits of this are numerous. Firstly, I normally got 7.5 hours, so this saves 1.5 hours per day. Also, even IF I did get 7.5, I was groggy. If I got 6 hours monophasically, forget it. After only one day of that I was definitely going to fall asleep at some point during the day. However, with Biphasic sleep, I expect to be totally alert and awake, which will save me tons of time, but will allow me to stay alert enough to do any task.
The reasons I chose Biphasic sleep are that I still go to high school, and I am 15. As far as high school, I simply cannot take a nap (even 20 minutes) during school, so everyman and uberman are out of the picture. Also, only 2 hours (or 3 hours) are not good for the body of a growing kid. Perhaps when I'm older I might switch to everyman, but for now I am content with the benefits of Biphasic Sleep.
I will keep a progress log of the first 30 days of Biphasic Sleep, and then will report a final analysis. I hope you guys enjoy, and if you have any questions, please feel free to let me know!
Also, I forgot to add, but for those who don't understand how it works, it goes a little something like this. When we sleep, we go through different cycles before reaching the major restorative sleep, or REM. When we use a Biphasic Sleep cycle, during the 1.5 hour nap, we fall directly into REM, giving us a full 90 minute cycle. Also, we enter it much more quickly in the core sleep. That being the case, we need less sleep since we do not have to go through all the other cycles.
Thanks for reading!
Brandon
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