<p>It is kinda interesting...has anyone tried to sleep one hour, wake up for one hour. sleep for another hour.etc etc etc? I usually go to bed around 11:30pm, 1:30 am during weekends.</p>
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has anyone tried to sleep one hour, wake up for one hour. sleep for another hour.etc etc etc?
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<p>That would fail miserably. You wouldn't even get one proper sleep cycle in. Plus you wouldn't get any significant work done. Also you would feel awfully grumpy.</p>
<p>Personally I'm a strong proponent for biphasic sleep. If only my parents would let me actually try it out..sigh.</p>
<p>...I can't believe some of your parents moderate how you sleep. I mean, uh, not enough freedom to pick your own sleeping time?</p>
<p>I tried biphasic sleeping for a while and uh I don't like it much, I'd rather just sleep the straight10~11 hours on weekdays and 12~16 weekends nonstop which is more refreshing and relaxing imo than sleeping once and waking up, sleeping in between and etc...</p>
<p>freedom? what freedom? lol...</p>
<p>Yeah I've tried the 3 hrs of sleep on weekdays and 11 hours on weekends. Just doesn't work out. Just feel really out of it 60% of the time...</p>
<p>I sleep 7 hours a day during weekdays and about 9 during weekends.</p>
<p>ACTUALLY. The "sleep one hour, wake one hour" thing is quite close to polyphasic, although to be more successful it's like... "sleep ~20 minutes every ~4 hours?" I think. I can't remember the exact number of hours that it is, but I think it would be a SPECTACULAR thing to do, since you end up only sleeping like 2-3 hours a day. But with school/regular job it just doesn't work.
But it wouldn't fail miserably - you body adapts to the shorter periods of sleep, forcing yourself into REM sleep almost immediately, and that's the only sleep that you actually need. Once you get into the swing of things, it's SUPER effective and you actually get a lot more done...</p>
<p>If you're interested, read these articles, they're amazing:</p>
<p>Polyphasic</a> Sleep</p>
<p>It starts there and goes through the journal of the guy's polyphasic sleeping "journey"/adventure/whatever, it's fairly interesting, and quite an easy read, so it would only take like 30 minutes max to read the whole bit.</p>
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<p>I tried biphasic sleeping for a while and uh I don't like it much, I'd rather just sleep the straight10~11 hours on weekdays and 12~16 weekends nonstop which is more refreshing and relaxing imo than sleeping once and waking up, sleeping in between and etc...
Lol, my parents could care less, and I can hardly see how anyone's parents can actually REGULATE how they sleep.. lol.</p>
<p>Hm, you must not have done biphasic long enough or regularly enough [huh.. sounds familiar.. I can't stay on a biphasic schedule long enough really for it to be as effective in the long run as it could be, but it works most of the time just fine], because just like with polyphasic, you should eventually get to the point where your net hours of sleep is < that with monophasic, and your body enters REM faster, you're actually MORE refreshed, etc.</p>
<p>Yeah guys I'm pretty sure it's detrimental to your health to have abnormal sleep patterns like that. A lot of people in my family worked weird hours at casinos and I've heard about this.</p>
<p>Anyways: Bed at 10:30, up at 5:45. Or weekends, Bed when I'm tired, wake up when I'm done sleeping.</p>
<p>Uh, it's actually not detrimental to your health - maybe short-run health, as in.. you're uber exhausted for the first few days that you get into it? Try doing some research next time. If you show me an article that explicitly states the long term health detriments of "abnormal" [and by abnormal you're actually referring to standardized patterns that just don't happen to be what the majority of the population follows? and, would sleeping for the "normal" amount of time during the day, and then staying awake all night be detrimental as well?!] sleeping patterns, then I'll give you some credit.</p>
<p>Apparently polyphasic sleep helps if you want to become a sailor:
Polyphasic</a> sleep strategies improve prolonged sustained performance: A field study on 99 sailors - Work & Stress!</p>
<p>Health</a> Ministry: Working night shifts raises cancer risk - Haaretz - Israel News
Kerala</a> Online - Life-style - Night Shift Health Effects</p>
<p>But yeah I looked into it and it seems like this biphasic stuff may be okay...for now (evil cackle). I guess they don't know if there's long-term effects.</p>
<p>Okay, in the cancer risk/night shift article, it says that the "chronic disruptions" to the biological sleeping cycle are to blame - however, it seems to me more like these disruptions are coming from the individual's inability to stick to a set sleeping pattern [not that I can blame them, since I'm the queen of flip-flopping on sleep policies heh heh], rather than the actual "sleeping at a different time." Dunno though, any ill-effects I've ever felt have been from my inconsistencies in sleeping, not in a changed pattern of sleeping.</p>
<p>and HAH at that second article - I find it absolutely preposterous - yes, it is difficult to sleep during the day for an extended amount of time [NOT impossible, as the article says], but you can easily manipulate your environment to make it a whooole lot easier: black-out shades on windows, you can put sound-proof insulation in your room/entire house, etc etc etc. Then, to get the biological cues for the brain, you can buy lamps and such that have the same effects as sunlight, take vitamins, etc etc. Again, the negative effects come from the individual not properly following their new sleeping pattern.
Buuuut anyway, even I don't think the "sleep during the day stay awake at night" thing is the best idea - silly, really, unless you absolutely have to - BUT polyphasic and biphasic are extremely helpful, esp. with time management, and if your schedule allows, you can get into a really standardized rhythm of sleeping that your body will adjust to fairly quickly.</p>
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It's</a> interesting to note that some form of polyphasic sleep appears to be the norm in babies and young children, however we grow out of it as a result of social pressure. The modern need to work a single long day or shift at a time makes polyphasic sleep routine difficult to maintain.
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^ Lol
Anyway, this article is all right.. I saw somewhere else a "negative effect" of polyphasic sleeping is this:Malfunctioned body clock (remembering of days and time normally) &
Sensitiveness in caffeine and high sugar products. < Oh noooooo. You can't remember days and times NORMALLY?!?!? Meaning.. specifically.. that you don't view days as being split into a specific 24 hour chunk, but instead you think of everything as a continuously flowing amount of time? Hmm, sounds terrible. Oh, and now all of a sudden you'll be sensitive to caffeine and sugar?! Oh great! Maybe you'll have to end your caffeine addiction, and then maybe you'll even have to stop eating so much sugar and lose some weight or something!
: o
Yeah, polyphasic sounds pretty terrible to me.</p>
<p>I normally go to sleep at about 10:00 pm, during weekdays. Recently it's been about 11:00 pm. It doesn't make that big a difference. I'm tired in the morning, on way or another.
During weekends about 1is or sometimes later. I dunno I can concentrate much better at night, especially when I can sleep late the next day.</p>
<p>Inveniamviam, I don't intend to be rude (which, I realize is 99% of the time followed by a rude statement), espescially because you outrank me so completely on CC, but...</p>
<p>maybe sleep isn't an example of Society trying to corrupt Man. Maybe, it's, y'know, just sleep.</p>
<p>Personally, I think that labelling "how" you sleep is almost silly. Sleep when you can/have to, and don't worry about what it's called. Time spent talking about sleep is just time wasted not sleeping.</p>
<p>But, you know, that's just two cents from a n00b. Take it or leave it, but don't think I want to start an arguement with you.</p>
<p>Peace.</p>
<p>To answer the OPs initial question: I used to go to bed at 11pm or 12am. Now that I live in Manhattan, I'm exhausted by 7:30pm. My friend swears there's something in the air here, she has the same problem.</p>
<p>[AHHHH MAN I had a nice post all typed up but then accidentally clicked to go to the other page in this thread and retrieve my quote.. and my post is gone. Anyway, I'll try it again :D]</p>
<p>Haha, Lima, the only way I outrank you [that I know of, lol] is that I'm a "senior member" of CC [whoopdidoo], which really just makes me lame. Oh, and I do actually agree with your "maybe sleep isn't an example of Society trying to corrupt Man. Maybe, it's, y'know, just sleep," because after I quoted the article that said that [errr didn't outright say that, but it got that point across] I typed a nice, big "^ Lol." Maybe I was a bit ambiguous, esp. with the internet and all, but I meant that I didn't really agree with the quote.</p>
<p>And are you meaning that specifically my "labelling" of my sleeping patterns is what's so silly? I really didn't "label" them just for the sake of "labelling" - I did that because that's what the thread was asking for, and biphasic/polyphasic are commonly known terms that refer to the type of sleep that some people like to do. OH and if anything, you should tell moodrets/doomster how silly HE is - he's the one who started this whole thread, bahaha.
And btw I don't do biphasic sleep simply because it makes me cool/unique/whatever - it happened to fit my schedule quite well at one point, and more recently a bit less well, and now, not at all. [[on a side note, I have quit my foolish sleeping patterns as of today, because starting this week-ish, I have to work a bit longer and that's going to make a consistent biphasic sleeping pattern impossible]]</p>
<p>I really started sleeping in 2 blocks, originally, because:
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I get home at whatever time, and don't go to bed until like 12 anyhow, because even without a nap, and no matter how tired I get, I really can't make myself go to sleep before midnight... I mean, I can get into bed before then, but literally cannnnnnnot fall asleep before midnight. Anyway, that puts me with 5.5 hours of sleep at the most, if I get to sleep at 12. Usually, the next day, I'm back on biphasic for a while, after realizing the silliness of having a single block of sleep. Haha.
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By that, I mean that I realized the silliness of a single block of sleep for ME and MY schedule at the time - biphasic was just more practical.</p>
<p>And, lol, you did succeed quite nicely in not offending me :] Unlike most people on the internet, haha.</p>
<p>(: No problem. I've come from years on a variety of boards where newbies aren't treated as people and are flamed with some consistancy, so I like to tread carefully.</p>
<p>Tone is impossible to tell from the internet, so I think we probably just misunderstood each other. When you said "this article is all right" I took it to mean "I agree with everything it says". Silly me. </p>
<p>I think I should just go back to bed, maybe I'll be coherent in a few hours... (hee)</p>
<p>Pahaha, yeah I even went back and read what I had typed [the "this article is all right" thing] and thought, EVERYONE is going to think I mean that it's entirely right! Haha, I considered going back and doing the "alright" thing that everyone does nowadays, but my grammar/spelling pedantry got the best of me. Heh.</p>
<p>and BAH at people who flame new members... silly them. We were all new once :]</p>
<p>11 PM. (10 cha)</p>
<p>Goodness, it really depends. I set my bedtime this year at 9:30 (that gives me 8 hours of sleep, because with all the crap I do after school, I can't crash at 3). That lasted, oh, a week? Now it's between 10:30 and midnight usually. If I can, I take Monday naps, since that's the one afternoon that's usually free.</p>