Polyphasic Sleep Experiment – Day 1
Recently I was reading a lot about learning methods and how sleep effects the learning process. Many people claim that free sleep is the best way of sleeping for optimal learning progress and memory retention. I am a big fan of the learning software Supermemo whoes author did quite a lot of research on sleep and also suggests this method. I have tried free sleep for about a month and must say that I felt indeed very alert during that time. The problem was that I was sleeping really long and that did not change after weeks. My wakeup-time varied +-2 hours each day, which made it very difficult to stick to my morning-routine. After reading How to Become an Early Riser on Steve Pavlina’s Blog I tried his suggestion to get up at a fixed time and go to bed when sleepy. That worked quite well for me. He later blogged about his polyphasic sleep experiment to which he adapted very successfull. I was curious about it and did some research on the net. There are very different opinions available. Some people say they adapted to it and feel alert and energetic. Others say it is not even possible to stay on this schedule for more than a short time. So I just decided to give it a try by myself 
I will use the Uberman schedule which consists of six 20-30minutes naps in 24h. My nap schedule:
2:00 – 2:30
6:00 – 6:30
10:00 – 10:30
14:00 – 14:30
18:00 – 18:30
22:00 – 22:30
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February 19th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
This really sounds crazy. I doubt that this way of sleeping allows you to work with 100% of your physical and/or nonphysical capabilities on a long term. I’m very corious about further reports on that.
Keep going bob!
regards
marius
February 20th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Where is day 2 and 3?
Already fallen asleep?
April 1st, 2006 at 1:30 pm
[...] Da ich nicht der einzige mit diesem Wunsch bin, gibt es im Netz der Netze viele interessante Ansaetze dazu. Eine davon nennt sich “Polyphasisches Schlafen” (bereits erwaehnt). Externe Informationen hierzu gibt es am Ende des Beitrags. Es gibt eine Menge an Literatur ueber die Erforschung des Schlafs, sei es beim Menschen oder bei Tieren. Ich weiss nicht genau, was ich davon halten soll. Vielleicht ist es alles ja nur Humbug, vielleicht ist es aber auch moeglich den “Wach-Tag” zu verlaengern. Wie man an meinem aktuellen Tagesplan unschwer erkennen kann, nimmt die Schlafphase ca. 1/3 (also 8h) des gesamten Tages ein. Das ist definitiv zu viel! Wieso sollte man 8 Stunden pro Tag schlafen, wenn 3 Stunden (vgl. bobo23) ausreichen wuerden. Dies waere eine Ersparnis, und somit ein Zeitgewinn, von 5 Stunden – pro Tag wohlgemerkt. Dies waeren 35 Stunden pro Woche bzw. mind. 140 Stunden pro Monat bzw. mind. 1820 Stunden (=75 Tage) pro Jahr. Hoert sich also auf den ersten Blick recht verlockend an. Leider Gottes hat dies auch einige Nachteile: [...]