How To Do Polyphasic Sleeping
- May 20, 2009
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Kevin Veselka
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How often have you said, “If only there were more than 24 hours in a day!” By learning to polyphasic sleep—meaning breaking up a night’s sleep into a series of shorter naps—you can squeeze an extra whole day out of the week.
You Will Need
- Patience to adjust to your new schedule
- The flexibility to nap every four hours
Step 1: Pick a schedule
Pick one of two polyphasic schedules: Uberman Sleep, where you take 20 to 30 minute naps every four hours, or Dymaxion Sleep, where you snooze for 30 minutes every six hours.
Step 2: Start your new schedule
Start your new sleep schedule. Expect to suffer through sleep deprivation for the first two weeks, as your body adjusts to shorter sleep cycles.
Don’t deviate! You are training your body to fall instantly into the all-important REM sleep that makes us feel rested. Missing even one nap—or oversleeping—will throw everything off.
Step 3: Eat more
Enjoy more food! One bonus of the diet is you’ll need to consume more calories because your body will be active several more hours each day.
Expect to experience vivid dreams once you adjust to your new sleep pattern.
Step 4: Feel smug
Feel superior to all those slugs wasting 8 hours a night on sleep.
Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo Da Vinci were believed to have been polyphasic sleepers.
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Comments (17)
Nice cityscape shots...though polyphasic sleeping seems like torture to me!
over 2 years ago by HeatherM
Definitely! I'm pretty sure you'd end up either schizophrenic....or highly successful..... or maybe people who accomplish things are really just schizophrenic..... Yeah, that's my theory and I'm sticking to it: successful people are schizophrenic. Good for me!
over 2 years ago by kevinveselka
Hmmm....I'd have to think about that a bit more. You may have jumped to a hasty conclusion. ;)
over 2 years ago by HeatherMenicucci
What about the everyman sleep schedule? Isn't it polyphasic?
over 2 years ago by Seiromem
I really didn't know much about polyphasic sleeping before making this video. I just looked it up online, and I don't see why the everyman schedule wouldn't be considered polyphasic. That one actually seems a lot more reasonable than the Uberman and Dymaxion schedules in the video.
over 2 years ago by kevinveselka
Mine is.I wake up about 3 times per night and I just dont know why!
over 2 years ago by bluephoenix96
well produced :) good intro to the reality of polyphasic sleeping... the zombie shots are gold haha
over 2 years ago by Spherm_Onyxkx
well filmed. i would have lowered the music level abit. nice.
i am embarking on this.
over 2 years ago by loopepa
Interesting video, very well executed. Are you using a HVX200?
over 2 years ago by MKF
Thanks! I use a Sony Fx1.
over 2 years ago by kevinveselka
Well done video, however it could be more accurate. There is a lot of polyphasic misinformation on the net, would you consider making another version, or at least re-doing some of the audio? A resource like that would be amazingly useful if it was accurate. I can probably also get some input from Puredoxyk, the authority in the subject if you would be willing to do so.
Some of your statements can be clarified in my post here:
http://blog.aximilation.com/blog.php?p=68&;more=1&;c=1&;tw=howto&;tb=1&;pb=1
Comment or drop me an email if you would consider version two!
blog et aximilation dat com
Thanks!
over 2 years ago by Graham_Jenkins
Hmmm... I personally would be willing to re-edit audio, but I didn't write it, nor did I record the voice over, so I'm not sure if I'm in the position to do that.
over 2 years ago by kevinveselka
Hey what's the song name? Great video
Arigato!!!!!!!!!
over 2 years ago by Fox
she looks miserable, why would anybody want to do this?
about 1 year ago by legoman762005
Hi, i've never seen a howcast video so well edited and recorded looks like art, the model is perfect and gorgeous, can you tell me where can i get the video song or whats the name? Great vid!
over 2 years ago by zonikel
Amazing job!! Great photography, great coloring, nice articulation, good acting and character creation. My favorite Howcast video so far.
about 1 year ago by drodr11
It sounds okay but I couldn't do this. I'd rather have 5-6 hours every 24 hours than do either of those methods.
about 1 year ago by ablang
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