Polyphastic Sleep Schedule

[kman2949]

Hi everybody,
I am interested in knowing of others opinions and experiences with sleep cycles other than monophastic, such as a polyphastic sleep schedule. I was thinking of trying it but I have also heard that there are potential health disadvantages. Please let me know what you all think of this. Thanks!

[forevernade]

Hi kman!

I have been lucid dreaming with the help of polyphasic sleep since 2010 and it has helped me a lot.
If you are interested in finding out more then check out our beginners section http://www.polyphasicsociety.com/polyphasic-sleep/beginners/ and you will realise polyphasic sleep (some kinds) are actually very natural. The WBTB technique is almost a derivative of the segmented sleep schedule, and I am sure you can benefit from it if you adapted to the sleep schedule.

I would highly recommend the dual core schedules, as you have the oppertunity of doing both WBTB and WILD in a single day!

I have been using huperzine and choline between my two segmented sleeps to help induce lucidity and it is a great experience and feels very healthy

forevernade

[Lence]

Cool website, I registered yesterday. I happened to be planning to start a siesta schedule, but then I read about segmented sleep on the site and figured that might be a better initial transition.

So I have a mild polyphasic schedule now: http://i46.tinypic.com/35k3bip.png
Like you say, excellent schedule for lucid dreamers!

I'll be sure to report back on how it goes.

[alppdcjr12]

My brother had a polyphasic sleep schedule for a while, and he said it made it harder to lucid dream, but he never applied much to it so it's hard to tell. I've done a biphasic schedule and had it work very well. You still have long periods of sleep, but they're broken up, which of course helps. It's also a lot easier to get into than the very broken up schedules.
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[MarkHolland]

Polyphasic sleep is quite widespread in animal kingdom. In a recapitulation of phylogeny, human babies also sleep polyphasically, and gradually lose their nap slots until they become roughly biphasic around the age of one. Human adults, as much as all great apes, are largely biphasic..

[SimoensS]

Polyphasic sleep had caught my interest for some time now. In fact it is how I first came in contact with lucid dreaming. My work scheme has never allowed me to give it a try though. If I ever find myself in a position where polyphasic sleep is possible I am sure I'll give it a go. Apart from a supposedly increased change of lucid dreaming the extra time you acquire is all the motivation I need.

[zeeshan]

An example of polyphasic sleep is found in patients with irregular sleep-wake syndrome, a circadian rhythm sleep disorder which usually is caused by head injury or dementia. Much more common examples are the sleep of human infants and of many animals. Elderly humans often have disturbed sleep, including polyphasic sleep.

In their 2006 paper "The Nature of Spontaneous Sleep Across Adulthood," Campbell and Murphy studied sleep timing and quality in young, middle-aged and older adults. They found that, in freerunning conditions, the average duration of major nighttime sleep was significantly longer in young adults than in the other groups. The paper states further:

Whether such patterns are simply a response to the relatively static experimental conditions, or whether they more accurately reflect the natural organization of the human sleep/wake system, compared with that which is exhibited in daily life, is open to debate. However, the comparative literature strongly suggests that shorter, polyphasically-placed sleep is the rule, rather than the exception, across the entire animal kingdom (Campbell and Tobler, 1984; Tobler, 1989). There is little reason to believe that the human sleep/wake system would evolve in a fundamentally different manner. That people often do not exhibit such sleep organization in daily life merely suggests that humans have the capacity (often with the aid of stimulants such as caffeine or increased physical activity) to overcome the propensity for sleep when it is desirable, or is required, to do so.

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