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[philywilly]

Has anyone ever hear of that? I've been reading about it for the past hour or so... it's quite interesting and I'm actually considering trying it.

What it is is a new sleep cycle where you sleep for about 2-3 hours a day by taking 20-30 minute naps every 4 hours or so.. it takes about a week to adjust... but it should be all uphill from there.

Here's were I found the info: http://www.stevepavl...lyphasic-sleep/

I also read his logs from day 1 to 7. It was really interesting and made me really curious.

Discuss your toughts on polyphasic sleep

[possessed_teddybear]

Haha, tell me how it goes

[travis]

Being the kind of person who stays up all night, I may try this...

[philywilly]

Being the kind of person who stays up all night, I may try this...

Aha, that's exactly what I told myself!!

Haha, tell me how it goes

Well.. I pretty much said the basics.. click on the link to learn more! It's great!


I'd like to say that I just took my first 30 minute nap and it's pretty harsh.. since I haven't had a real nights sleep since 6pm-3pm yesterday... so I haven't had a lot of sleep at all... but I'm ready to make this all the way.

Edited by philywilly, 06 July 2006 - 05:53 AM.

[�ƻ]

lol there is a seinfeld episode on this Kramer tries it and he dosn't end up getting enough sleep so he keeps falling asleep all over the place.... you should check it out before you start this project or whatever you want to call it

[Random]

Hrm...I think I would be tired if I tried this...So I'm not going to

If you do do it check out all the aspects including physical and mental side-effects. If you do decide to do it create a sleep log and post it on here.

[BarCode]

You should also try Lucid Dreaming or OOB (Out of Body) experiences. I believe lucid dreaming is when you are dreaming, but you can hear yourself think in the dream, then at some point you'll gain consciousness in the dream and be able to think of something, and it will happen. Example:
Say you were dreaming of a boat, then you become lucid and think an elephant is driving it, right when you think it, it will happen.
Also, OOB is probably the most fun. It allows you to temporarily "leave" your physical body. You can pretty much do anything while OOB, except affect objects in the physical world.
One of these combined with Polyphasic sleep will make your sleep oh so fun
Let me know your results of the Polyphasic sleeping schedual.

[Silk]

Firsly, I like long periods of sleep time, so this is definitely not for me. Aswell as that, my schedule really restricts me from doing it anyway.

If you have a job, I highly doubt you could keep up with it. Not to mention if you go on holiday, and your body is used to this polyphasic cycle, you're going to have a hard time trying to stay awake whilst trekking for instance. It gets in the way of your life too much.

[philywilly]

Oh yes guys, don't think I didn't prepare myself on that one. I've read every single blog post about Steve Pavlina's polyphasic sleep experiment... if you could call it that
(http://www.stevepavl...lyphasic-sleep/). I'm very physically ready for that, I'm not a heavy eater, so for that aspect, I'll be fine.. although I'll try to cut down on meat a little. I'm in a very good physical shape, and besides, with all the free time this gives me, I'll simply train more! . Mental preperation is not for now.. I'm focusing more on oversleeping and all.. more physical stuff, once the first week is passed and I'm used to this, I'll think about mental, but I don't think ther'll be much to think about.

This summer I've decided to take off.. so I have no job what so ever.. so for my schedule, it's all good. And for those who are curious, my hours of sleep are 1am, 5am, 9am, 1pm, 5pm, and 9pm.

About the dreams, I've read all about it and yes I'm aware and all.. but Steve Pavlina, I believe, said it took him about 2 weeks or a month to achieve a lucid dream.. so I guess I'll have to wait for that.

[Random]

You should also try Lucid Dreaming or OOB (Out of Body) experiences. I believe lucid dreaming is when you are dreaming, but you can hear yourself think in the dream, then at some point you'll gain consciousness in the dream and be able to think of something, and it will happen. Example:
Say you were dreaming of a boat, then you become lucid and think an elephant is driving it, right when you think it, it will happen.
Also, OOB is probably the most fun. It allows you to temporarily "leave" your physical body. You can pretty much do anything while OOB, except affect objects in the physical world.
One of these combined with Polyphasic sleep will make your sleep oh so fun
Let me know your results of the Polyphasic sleeping schedual.

How do you trigger and OOB? Is it safe?

[philywilly]

How do you trigger and OOB? Is it safe?

It's completely safe, as it's only a dream. You might of had one before. I know I have, but they aren't very frequent.

Here's a quote from the blog:

Lucid Dreaming. A few hours ago, I had my first lucid dream since this experiment began. I was having a normal dream during a regular nap, and something about the dream made me suspect I was dreaming. I soon became certain I was dreaming and awoke within the dream to full lucidity. This time I opted to experiment with telekinesis, which is something I hadn’t tried much in my lucid dreaming experiments over the past decade (unless you count flying). In my dream world I happened to be inside a house, so I mentally picked an object (a large candle) and tried to move it through the air with my thoughts. It worked very easily, and I played around with mentally moving a bunch of different objects around the room for about 5-10 minutes before I woke up naturally. I noticed that my dream telekinesis seemed to be exerting a force on each object in the direction I willed it to move, like a strong wind. If I wanted to reverse an object’s momentum, I first had to slow it down before I could get it moving in the opposite direction. I couldn’t cause instantaneous zig-zagging velocity changes. I also had to exert a mild mental push against gravity if I wanted to keep an object moving in a straight horizontal line; otherwise it would sink vertically. These dream physics are similar to what I experience when flying in lucid dreams — I feel like I’m exerting a mental force, but I still have to deal with momentum and gravity as in the real world. I also found some dream characters and tried to mentally move them around and move their limbs — that only worked to the degree that they didn’t resist. It felt a lot like physically shoving a person in the real world. Overall dream telekinesis felt very natural. It makes me wonder whether this is something we could manifest in our shared physical world if enough people focused their thoughts to make it so. It’s funny that I was just writing about this very topic yesterday, and only hours later I manifested it for myself. If you’ve never experienced lucid dreaming, be aware that it feels just as real as normal consciousness, sometimes even more real.

Edited by philywilly, 06 July 2006 - 06:53 AM.

[Random]

It's completely safe, as it's only a dream. You might of had one before. I know I have, but they aren't very frequent.

I dont think I have ever had one Is there any way to make them happen or increase the chance?

[philywilly]

I dont think I have ever had one Is there any way to make them happen or increase the chance?

The only way I know of is Polyphasic Sleep.. but you could google it.

I'd be interested to see what you've found.

[Archon]

I'm a lucid dreamer, I can recall everyone of my dreams almost to the exact detail. I know that I'm dreaming and can easily wake myself up.

Don't know I do it, just comes along naturally.

[Amagius]

I'm considering a different version of the Uberman, as I really like this idea. I want to sleep around three hours during the night, midnightish and then three 30 minute maps through the day.

[Sweeney]

I'm a lucid dreamer, I can recall everyone of my dreams almost to the exact detail. I know that I'm dreaming and can easily wake myself up.

Don't know I do it, just comes along naturally.

That isn't lucid dreaming, as such... you seem to be almost there, but you haven't exerted control over your environment..

[Ilya]

Thats mad stupid what if you got work or something? plus Im sure sleep every 4 hours is not always going to go well because your not home all the time to sleep..

[Amagius]

Thats mad stupid what if you got work or something? plus Im sure sleep every 4 hours is not always going to go well because your not home all the time to sleep..

Most polyphasic sleepers tend to claim that the most difficult aspect of the sleep pattern to overcome is the social aspect, as the work hours of modern careers generally do not allow for the required nap periods at regular intervals. Personal accounts indicate that missing even one nap can cause heavy drowsiness, and thus even successful polyphasic sleepers often revert to monophasic sleep to accommodate their schedules.

Also visit "Types" under Wikipedia:Polyphasic sleep.

You don't attempt any polyphasic type unless possible. It's tough.

[philywilly]

Thats mad stupid what if you got work or something? plus Im sure sleep every 4 hours is not always going to go well because your not home all the time to sleep..

You don't need to be at home to sleep .. if you're at a friends, just take a nap on a couch or something, in the car, plane, park bench , or umm.. hotels.. whatever, there's usually always a place to sleep.

And if you've read the blog, the guy says he's taken his schedule a little more loosely after a week.. meaning it doesn't always have to be every 4 hours.. he sometimes stretched it to 7 hours...

[Raillery]

Please keep a log and keep us all posted, I'm very interested. Depending on how things go for you, I may try it with a friend in a week or two.

[pyke]

I dont think I have ever had one Is there any way to make them happen or increase the chance?

You should keep a log of all dreams you can remember. Apparantly by doing this and learning to remember and recognize dreams you increase your chances.

[philywilly]

Please keep a log and keep us all posted, I'm very interested. Depending on how things go for you, I may try it with a friend in a week or two.

Of course.. I had already planned on doing so.. I'll try to do the same format as in the blog.. one per day for a week and then one each time something changes and all.

[Amagius]

I got this information for Steve Pavlina's wife in the podcast #10 on Lucid Dreaming.

1.) Try and remember your dreams. Write them down in a log right when you wake up.
2.) Try to be of your own conscious until the very second you go to sleep. This can be done by holding your eyes open, but not forced open until you fall asleep.
3.) If you enter the lucid state, stay calm.
4.) Uh, I forgot 4.

[foogie]

hee hee heee

sometimes when I'm really tired, I'll just sit back and have a nap in my bobcat during one of my 30 minute breaks. XD

infact, I had a nap today during my 3pm break.

[ink]

A while ago, when I still had an effect of an "immagination" I became a lucid dreamer quite easily. Rather than controlling it, I let the dream have a little fun, the amazing things your brain can do. In simple words, I made a game out of the dreams I felt like, if I didn't like the dream at all I would switch it. If ever there was a "bully", oh how I enjoyed mutilating his body.