A theory on initiating polyphasic sleep

[Valwen]

Perhaps, for the harder sleep schedules to get into (everyman and uberman) you could go through a sequence? I realize this probably won't actually work well for uberman since you have to sleep at perfect intervals, but it may be easier to get into if you've been on everman for a while, or I may just be making a fool of myself. I'm going to try biphasic for a while and then I'll move onto everyman if I feel comfortable. The steps for any progression would be: Monophasic sleep: consists of 6+ hours of sleep per night Biphasic: has like 4-5 and an hour nap (correct me if I'm wrong) Everyman: 1.5-3 hour core and multiple 20 min. naps Uberman: 6 20 min. naps every 4 hours So what I'm planning on doing is: Sleep 7 hours per night monophasic for a while (done) Sleep less than 7 hours (pref 4 or 5) for a few days. If I feel tired on a given day, I'll start taking 1 hour naps starting that day and thus initiate biphasic sleep Keep cutting down my core time gradually and add a nap (while reducing time of each individual nap) until I get to everyman If I'm right, I could potentially keep gradually cutting down my core sleep and adding short naps to my day until it evolves into uberman. Anyone have any thoughts? Is this idea completely doomed? I'm not sure it'll work for the further progressions like uberman but I'm sure it'll work for biphasic and fairly confident it'll get me to everyman.

[punkstar]

i do think that your plan is very good for your body to get accustomed to the sleep pattern changes. but i mean, i dont know how different sleeping schedules can effect your dreaming if you're hoping you'll imediately have lucid dreams during your naps while on the uberman.... lol

[Kromoh]

I'd say the other way round. Get your body into a situation worse than Uberman, and once you drift back into uberman, you'll adapt to it way sounder. I worked for me with everyman.

[Valwen]

i dont know how different sleeping schedules can effect your dreaming if you're hoping you'll imediately have lucid dreams during your naps while on the uberman.... lol I didn't say anything about dreaming. I actually feel like I'll be sacrificing LDing for extra time if I do polyphasic sleep. Kromoh, I can see how that would work, really push yourself for a few days and then the rest seems easy. I guess you'd probably fully adjust more quickly but I think it would require much more will power. Kinda like getting in a cold bath, I guess: harder to just jump in but it'll be over more quickly. What was your initial schedule to settle into everyman? Did you do uberman or just less total sleep?

[Kromoh]

I just passed some time (a day???) without sleep. Then the very first day of everyman was still extremely tiring, but then I adapted in less than a week.