There’s a great new post over at the Zeo blog by an experienced polyphasic sleeper – instead of sleeping in one 8 hour chunk, he breaks it up into three segments throughout the day. In his post he shows how he used Zeo to help optimize sleep quality and create a polyphasic schedule that feels better for him than the more common monophasic sleep.
It’s also part of a larger Polyphasic Sleep Experiment involving 11 polyphasic sleepers – Zeo is asking them to document their journey of adapting to polyphasic sleep with writing, sleep data, and video footage. I believe it’s still open to anyone who wants to join, so if you’re interested in going polyphasic, ask Derek at Zeo for more details.
Sweet dreams!
For further reading, Gary Wolf (@agaricus) just tweeted:
Sleep and learning self-experimenter Piotr Wozniak’s updated critique of polyphasic sleep: http://bit.ly/bbPsqB
I am not doubting that polyphasic sleep may produce more restful sleep than monophasic sleep, but I do doubt the feasibility of incorporating a polyphasic sleeping schedule into a normal work-day without problems. For example, let’s say that I work for five hours, and then sleep for about three. By the time I get back to work, everyone will be on their way home, not to mention the time I would lose on commutes. So, confused and perplexed, I am left wondering what I am missing and how this could work.
The idea is to sleep the three hours BEFORE you go to work, work for 5 hours, then nap 20 minutes (in a work break), then keep working or doing what you please for another 5 hours, then nap 20 minutes, then go home and do whatever you want…. Repeat this cycle As long as you have a 20 minute nap every 4-5 hours, and have your 3 hour sleep in the morning before work.