Polyphasic sleeping is when instead of sleeping just once a day (generally at night for about 7-9 hours) a person sleeps multiple times a day. The two most popular examples of polyphasic sleeping are the Everyman and the Uberman cycles. The Everyman is based on one core sleep (about 3 to 4 1/2 hours) at night and three naps throughout the day. The Uberman consists of six 20 minute naps throughout the day at intervals of 4 hours. I first learned about these methods a while back from a friend and then again from the internet just 3 months ago. Since then I have researched them and now I am beginning to try to live under these schedules! I have posted logs of each day I have been on this schedule so you can look and see how it has been trying to adapt to the weird schedule. I originally kept the logs just for myself, not for a blog, so the first ones are not all very organized. However I think they give a good idea of what was going on through the process and have certainly helped me to understand what it is that I am going through.
Here is a little bit of information on why and how I became interested in trying a polyphasic schedule.
Here are the links for my polyphasic journal:
Day 1: Polyphasic Sleeping
Day 2: Polyphasic Sleeping
Day 3: Polyphasic Sleeping
Day 4: Polyphasic Sleeping
Day 5: Polyphasic Sleeping
Day 6: Polyphasic Sleeping
Day 7: Polyphasic Sleeping
Day 8: Polyphasic Sleeping
Day 9: Polyphasic Sleeping
Day 10: Polyphasic Sleeping
Day 11: Polyphasic Sleeping
Day 12: Polyphasic Sleeping – asleep while awake?
Day 13: Polyphasic Sleeping
Day 14: Polyphasic Sleeping
Day 15: Polyphasic Sleeping
Day 16: Polyphasic Sleeping – finally adjusting?
Day 17: Polyphasic Sleeping – I slept in.
Day 18: Polyphasic Sleeping – a little bit of catching up and a good day
Day 19: Polyphasic Sleeping – and a few conclusions on my experiences
