Just a thought – for those interested in Tesla in particular or polyphasic in general, is/are there any topic/s you want me to cover? Any questions you want answered?
My eventual goal here is to get as much information about polyphasic sleep as I have access to out on the Web, and I’d like to know what is of most interest.
So suggest away. :)
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hey im a monophasic looking to experiment with other sleeping patterns. ive done a bit of research and while your tesla method looks fascinating im not sure i could keep it up at school and im thinking of taking up the uberman pattern, do you have any suggestions for convincing teachers that you NEED THAT NAP! otherwise the world as you know it will implode and you wont be able to do that series of films.
Hey, I’m prepping myself to start polyphasic very soon. I am very curious as to how this all will work. However I do have one big question. I lift weights daily and, while I’m likely going to stop during adjustment, I was wondering how this much exercise will effect my level of drowsiness throughout the day on polyphasic, and Tesla more specifically.
Thank you for your time.
@Gareth:
You could cite improved performance; I just mentioned my bipolar diagnosis and they were willing to be flexible.
@Dean:
I’m not sure how that would affect you (if you go ahead with it, please write it up!), but I do recommend not stopping during adjustment. I’ve found that it’s best to have as little variation in activity levels as possible – makes it a lot easier.
Hello,
I’ve been dying to try some of the polyphasic sleep schedules for quite a while, but I am facing some issues.
As a student, I have some pretty unsteady schedules – I start class at 8:45 every day, have a lunch break from 12:15-1:15 and then go till 4:30. On some days, I have class all the time, on others I have free periods, but they’re never at the same time, which makes it kind of difficult to figure out where naps would fit in. I have a thirty minute commute to and from school.
I’d love to try something like Uberman’s, but there’s no way they’d fit into school hours…Everyman’s seems decent too, but I don’t know whether I can do the naps at the right time or not either.
I’m doing a crazy non-regular sleep schedule at the moment because I need to – I’ll go to bed at about 1AM (sometimes up until 3AM) and get up at 7 if its a regular day. When I have a lot of work, I’ll wake up early, so that I sometimes sleep at 3 and get up at 5:30 to keep working..this is generally okay for most of the day, I’m high as f*ck on sleep deprivation, and then I sometimes crash – I have caffeine pills that I take if I really need to. On weekends I’ll sleep in till about 12, still sleeping at 1AM or so. Sometimes I have naps, because I can feel that I’m tired.
I really do want to try out a schedule, but don’t know which would be best. Also, since I have a ski break coming up next week, I want to try and start it then so as to be into the swing of it by the time class starts again. Any suggestions? They would be very very very appreciated!
Thank-youuuuu!
:)
Hey dancing.ostrich,
The good thing about Everyman is that it’s flexible. If you need to reschedule a nap sometimes it won’t mess up your schedule. I’d say try Everyman for at least a couple of weeks, see what nap patterns work for you. Puredoxyk has written much more about Everyman than me – check out her blog at http://puredoxyk.com.
It’s a lot easier if you can sleep during your commute – is that possible?
Good luck! :)
Sharif
@Gareth:
You could cite improved performance; I just mentioned my bipolar diagnosis and they were willing to be flexible.
@Dean:
I’m not sure how that would affect you (if you go ahead with it, please write it up!), but I do recommend not stopping during adjustment. I’ve found that it’s best to have as little variation in activity levels as possible – makes it a lot easier.
@Gareth:
You could cite improved performance; I just mentioned my bipolar diagnosis and they were willing to be flexible.
@Dean:
I’m not sure how that would affect you (if you go ahead with it, please write it up!), but I do recommend not stopping during adjustment. I’ve found that it’s best to have as little variation in activity levels as possible – makes it a lot easier.
Hello,
I’ve been dying to try some of the polyphasic sleep schedules for quite a while, but I am facing some issues.
As a student, I have some pretty unsteady schedules – I start class at 8:45 every day, have a lunch break from 12:15-1:15 and then go till 4:30. On some days, I have class all the time, on others I have free periods, but they’re never at the same time, which makes it kind of difficult to figure out where naps would fit in. I have a thirty minute commute to and from school.
I’d love to try something like Uberman’s, but there’s no way they’d fit into school hours…Everyman’s seems decent too, but I don’t know whether I can do the naps at the right time or not either.
I’m doing a crazy non-regular sleep schedule at the moment because I need to – I’ll go to bed at about 1AM (sometimes up until 3AM) and get up at 7 if its a regular day. When I have a lot of work, I’ll wake up early, so that I sometimes sleep at 3 and get up at 5:30 to keep working..this is generally okay for most of the day, I’m high as f*ck on sleep deprivation, and then I sometimes crash – I have caffeine pills that I take if I really need to. On weekends I’ll sleep in till about 12, still sleeping at 1AM or so. Sometimes I have naps, because I can feel that I’m tired.
I really do want to try out a schedule, but don’t know which would be best. Also, since I have a ski break coming up next week, I want to try and start it then so as to be into the swing of it by the time class starts again. Any suggestions? They would be very very very appreciated!
Thank-youuuuu!
:)
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