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Polyphasic sleeping

submitted by Her0n to AskUpgoat 8 monthsSep 23, 2024 01:05:50 ago (+2/-0)     (AskUpgoat)

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/biphasic-sleep

I am a biphasic sleeper. Have been since I was a teen. I function much better on five to six hours of sleep a day. Every third month I will switch to three 1.5 hour naps a day for about three or four weeks straight. After that I switch back to a biphasic sleep cycle for two months.

Does anyone else here sleep like this?

I find a night time stroll to be very refreshing and peaceful, and I do my best design work in those 0dark30 hours before the sun wakes up the farm, and I like to cook breakfast for my family.

If you do apply this style of sleep to your life, what do you like/hate about it?


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[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 3 points 8 monthsSep 23, 2024 01:11:28 ago (+3/-0)

I’m not sure, but I’ve been tired and dragging all day on my one day off. I take a one hour nap in the recliner and all my aches and pains are gone and I’ll be up til 1 AM now.

[ - ] Her0n [op] 0 points 8 monthsSep 23, 2024 04:17:24 ago (+0/-0)

How do you like that scenario, does it work well for you?

It sounds like your body gets the rest it needs.

I'll sleep in the afternoon for about 1.5 to 2 hours. Awake until 9 or 10 at night, up at 1 or 2 in the morning until it's noon-ish again.

Right now I'm on the triphasic, starting tonight. I'll be going to sleep again around 8 or 9 this morning. I have some self-promoting to do for my business. I make fiat currency during the winter since I can't grow much, and I only have one project set up this year.

I've been slacking a little, spent most of my time with the neighbors building an additional room on the house.

Mrs Her0n demands a third baby and I'm very inclined to agree with her.

[ - ] puremadness 1 point 8 monthsSep 23, 2024 05:17:39 ago (+1/-0)

Impossible to maintain in an apartment while working from home.
But yea I love working though night and sleeping less than 8.

I probably avg about 4-5 on the good nights.
Sometimes get exhausted though and then I sleep uncontrollably longer.

[ - ] Her0n [op] 0 points 8 monthsSep 23, 2024 05:40:37 ago (+0/-0)

Reminds me of when I lived in a duplex next to a couple that was fighting 24/7.

Dude was dating a single mom who moved herself and her 7 year old boy into his side of the house.

I knew way too much about those retards.

Every stereotype applied except her kid was actually White.

[ - ] puremadness 0 points 8 monthsSep 23, 2024 05:44:59 ago (+0/-0)

They called this place a condo but its just a mid-tier apartment.
I got the ghetto couple I think

[ - ] Crackinjokes 1 point 8 monthsSep 23, 2024 02:58:20 ago (+1/-0)

"Every third month I will switch to three 1.5 hour naps a day for about three or four weeks straight."

Have you ever noticed that that aligns with some physical phenomenon or have you ever noticed any kind of trigger in your environment that might cause this to happen every third month or so?

[ - ] Her0n [op] 0 points 8 monthsSep 23, 2024 04:09:10 ago (+0/-0)

I was trying various sleep schedules to see which type worked best for me. I knew biphasic felt most natural to me so that is my baseline. The only other sleep cycle that works well for me is the three naps cycle, but after about a month my body just naturally switches back to the baseline. I'll stay groggy and less productive if I try to force the triphasic for more than a month at a time.

I just do what feels best to me in the moment since I can get away with it due to my lifestyle.

[ - ] Crackinjokes 1 point 8 monthsSep 23, 2024 02:57:35 ago (+1/-0)

You know it's interesting that your sleep habits change in a cycle like that. I think maybe a mistake I've made is thinking I just have an unusual sleep pattern without recognizing that maybe the sleep pattern itself changes over long periods of time and longer cycles.

The modern world is not really set up so that we can choose our own sleep cycles. Instead we get forced into time frames that may not be natural at all.

They're definitely long periods of time where I feel like I've gotten enough sleep and then they'll be a long period of time where I can't seem to get the right amount of sleep. So I may be going through these long phase sleep cycle changes like you apparently have.

[ - ] Her0n [op] 0 points 8 monthsSep 23, 2024 04:11:30 ago (+0/-0)

If you can try different schedules out I suggest you do it. Normally I see others struggling that first few days, maybe a week, but after that time they feel much better.

You can't be drinking coffee or other stimulants during that time. No sleep aides either, it'll mess up all your efforts.

[ - ] Drstrangestgov 1 point 8 monthsSep 23, 2024 01:09:49 ago (+1/-0)

Leonardo da Vinci was said to sleep like this.

[ - ] Her0n [op] 1 point 8 monthsSep 23, 2024 01:10:46 ago (+1/-0)

I was unaware of that, but to be fair I haven't looked into any historical figures sleep habits, other than the general population of the middle ages.