I naturally sleep in two shifts with an hour or two between.

I have REM sleep issues and thought it was related to that. Ive never been able to train myself to sleep a straight 8 hours. Every night I try going to sleep at 10 pm to get up at 6 am. Then I am tired during the day. Go to sleep at 6 pm and my schedule is all messed up. If it gets too messed up I start “fighting the night people.”

I am going to try to sleep at 8 for a month. Any tips on what to do during my awake time that isn’t doom scrolling?

I am a student currently preparing for CA intermediate course I need help about which sleep schedule would be the best. ( I don't understand what's E2, E3 and other terms since I am very new to this) Pls do help :)

Hey, I'm 16 years old and from Germany. I chose to create a research paper about polyphasic sleep in school. To make this more interesting I thought about including a survey. That's the part where I need you to help me if you would like to.

It won't take long but would help me a lot if some of you could fill out this form with your personal experience (even if you don't have a polyphasic sleep schedule): https://forms.gle/XvdyDFRVABgFrRWB9

You can also add some contact information if you would like me to interview you for my research paper. If so you will certainly be mentioned in it.

Thanks

Is it possible to stretch the intervals to 8-10 hours between naps on a Everyman 3 schedule? I found that the norm is about 6 hours but is it possible to do 8-10 if 6 hours may be challenging for me with a possible new work schedule. Has anyone been successful with a stretch like this?

Any success stories on rotating E2 schedules? I have a strange and difficult work schedule that has no breaks, yet I want to find a way to have more alive time through the power of napping! This work schedule is really tough, and I have a hard time getting good sleep between the two shift changes. I think that switching from one sleep core to the next will be easier with this creation than it was with my regular 7 to 8.5 hour sleep scheduling, which might allow me to feel better than before after adaptation. I'll just skip Nap 1 to pull it off.

I've have minor experience with shifting my sleep scheduling around already, as I once switched to night shift for about three years with an adaptation period of just a couple months. Then I switched from night shift to this schedule and once again, I recovered in only a couple of months. So I know I have some flexibility.

I understand that consistent core and nap times are key for polyphasics and sleep reducers but I want to try this anyway. Let me know if you think it's possible and give me some advice please!

Edit after 4 days: Though I definitely am tired by nap time, I thought my drowsiness would be worse. So I’m not doing bad so far.

I’ve been using a 10000 lux seasonal light to boost me in the morning, and I’ve been locking myself in my room with dimmed lights and reading an hour before bed. I’m doing everything I can to encourage wakefulness and quality sleep. I am also considering intermittent fasting to achieve a lower heart rate by bedtime. Another update coming after my work week is over.

Edit after 6 days: I’ve decided that I chose a bad time to start my adaptation. I’m gonna fully quit caffeine first, recover my sleep debt, and then restart in about a month, maybe a month and a half.

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I started adapting to the E3 with a 4h core and 3 20min naps.

C 00:00 - 04:00 N1 09:00 - 09:20 N2 14:00 - 14:20 N3 19:00 - 19:20

Now after two weeks I’ve decided to switch to the Quad Core 0 with 4x 90min core sleeps.

C1 00:00 - 01:30 C2 06:00 - 07:30 C3 12:00 - 13:30 C4 18:00 - 19:30

The first naps went pretty good but now the 3rd core was a 20 minute nap. Now I’m wondering if my body will now always take this core as a nap and how can i get it to the 90m. I’m also not shure about the 4th nap if this will too be 20 min. Should I intentionally skip every second core for a while until I feel tired enough to be able to sleep longer?

Due to my different responsibilities, it's hard to be very flexible with my time. I am fully adapted to E3 except I only do 2 (20 min) naps since I don't have space in my schedule to fit the third, but my core remains at 3 hours. I feel like it has worked well and my energy levels are good but since am not doing the third nap sometimes I worry thinking that I may not be meeting my sleep requirements.

So after watching a video on pronaps I thought if I add a pronap, it could cover 2 naps and then can just do my second nap later. Would this work out?

It would look sort of like this: Core: 11:45 pm 2:45 am (3h) Pronap: 5:45 am - 6:30 am (45m) 2nd nap:12:00 -12:20 pm (20m)

Hello guys

I was suffering from severe insomnia that’s why I’ve started a polyphasic sleep schedule about 11 days ago. I’ve started with sleep debt but feel now better and had no oversleeps.

I’m able to sleep through all naps and the core.

Core: 12pm - 4am N1: 9am - 9:20am N2: 2pm - 2:20pm N3: 7pm - 7:20pm

I’ve copied this schedule from a podcast but saw now about the e3 extended version with a core (4,5h) starting at 11pm - 3:30am.

How can I now approach to transition to this version?

Should I keep the current schedule until fully adapted and slowly rotate the schedule? If so how to do it best?

Can I add the 30min directly to the current core by adding 15min per night? If so should I add it to the beginning making the core starting at 11:30pm or at the end?

Recently working through different timezones I've accidentally started implementing an everyman type schedule. Thinking about committing to it more seriously, especially with a kid on the way.

I tried polyphasic a couple of years back for about 3 months and never perfectly cracked it. For me it sort of worked, but as soon as I accidentally overslept during a nap window it would completely throw me off and feel like a week was needed to get back on track. The friend I did it with also visibly aged during our experiment.

So my question to the collective, has anyone here actually made this work long term? There is not strong science to back any of this up, if anything, quite the opposite. But I want it work, so badly.

Anyone over 30 still running polyphasic?

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Hi all. I have slept a version of Everyman 1 for a week or so and am pleasantly suprised at how much I have gotten done. I would sleep Everyman 2 but its a little hard to juggle with work and I am not sure where I could go to sneak in extra naps in the day.

I have a question. In the left is what I have been following. Its working okay and it sort of acts like a normal sleep schedule in that my core sleep is evening to morning with a nap when I get home from work. With that said, I was thinking of switching to the right sleeping schedules at it would be more consistant and I still have enough time in the day whilst having plenty of solitude to work on my own projects.

Very broad, but do you have any tips and do you think I should switch to this? Also what kind of eating plan should I follow? Should I eat in that 7h 30m window at all?

(red is sleep, 9h 30m is work, other is free time to work on what I want)

I’m going to start a schedule that is going to work for school students, hopefully. I mean students who don’t have to go to practice early in the morning or something. 1:00 A.M.-4:30 A.M. is pure sleep. 4:30 A.M.-5:00 A.M. is just lying there with alarms, of varying noises if needed, every ten minutes since that’s better than being on your phone. After 5:00 A.M., you can do whatever until you have to leave for school. Sleep in whatever classes you can if you’re tired. After school, take a forty or so minute nap. Some time between that nap and when you go to sleep, try to squeeze in another nap. It all depends on when you eat dinner. I’m gonna try this out and try to update with results.

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Been sleeping like this since 3 weeks now. I work from 07:30 AM to 02:30 PM, what do you think about that

Should i "swap" to have more energy in the morning ? I am fine all day except around 11AM/NOON during my lunch break, Should i add a nap here ?

I’m adapting to Siesta and need advice on the ideal first core length. Since I struggle with sticking to a schedule, I’m thinking of a 5-hour core for flexibility. My high REM needs are creeping into my first core as well.

I’m unsure if this will create enough sleep pressure for afternoon naps. How can I ensure I get SWS in both cores?

This is an experiment I am trying on myself that more-than-likely will yield bad results, but I thought I'd share..

Sleeping has always been a struggle for me, I can never ever sleep and often do I find myself awake way too late in the night, either intentionally or not, and I wake up way too late for school/work/other events. I do not want to say that I am "scared" of sleeping, but it does feel like a waste of time sometimes. I have to do homework, but I also want to prepare little crafts for my friends, and make music and make games and draw etc. I want to learn things, and read, but I am never gifted enough time in the day to do anything at all. Not to mention, I am also more of a night person anyway. I work better at night and in the mornings; no one is awake, the lighting (dark) is cozy and very nice to be awake in and I am more calm. In the day, I feel more impulsive and less put together if that makes sense. So sometimes, I find myself just skipping nights entirely, and then of course regretting it in the morning/day because I feel like a zombie.

However, I've been wondering recently if it would be possible to get used to the cycle of skipping every other night. I noticed that my girlfriend, who took naps often during the summer, would get tired during the day of school around the time she'd usually take a nap - which reminded me that of course, people adapt pretty well to sleep cycles. And so I wondered if I could do the opposite of my girlfriends summer sleep schedule, and only sleep every other day. I have been trying it out this week and intend to do it until at least the end of this month to see how I feel.

So Far, this is how it has gone:

Pros;

• So much more time! All of my homework is done, grades increased instantly, and I am able to do my little hobbies :) very nice

• I get more "me" time - I am a people person but I often find myself overwhelmed when I'm around people too often. Being around people at school constantly, and then work, is very stressful if not just plain annoying. Now, I get the dark quiet nocturnal time to myself!

Cons;

• Very sleepy still, mm

• I've noticed a little bit of cognitive decline, in the sense that I'll sometimes find myself having trouble understanding certain things for a brief second and then realizing - "oh wait! I'm silly!" -- essentially, having more "brain farts" :/ which I usually have when I am sleep deprived, who would've thought

I'm adapting to E2 from E1 though I have sometimes problem to spot place to nap (my usual spot is beach reclined chair or sofa on my uni but they are often taken by other people). I'm curious how others deal with napping in places with no bed so please share your own nap positions/techniques/jutsu!

I’ve got two kids (4.5 and 2) and I’ve been interested in adopting some version of polyphasic to gain some additional hours back for myself and passion projects. However, children of this age are notorious for licking doorknobs and sharing buggers - so needless to say, it seems like our house is a revolving door of germs and bugs.

How do you all deal with the body demanding rest to recover time from illness while maintaining your selected schedules? Thanks!

Hey guys! I am new to the polyphasic system, but I have always had trouble oversleeping easily. I'm hoping to get myself back on track by doing this.

If I allow myself to sleep whenever I want, I typically go to sleep at around 2 am and won't wake for another 9-12 hours. I usually feel pretty groggy after this and I won't fully awaken until the night time, on most days. Otherwise, I'm completely all over the place.

I have tried monophasic schedules with varying time ranges including variations of the aforementioned as well as typical 10P-6A desk job sleep schedules. None of them have really worked for me, and waking in the morning has been especially difficult.

All that said, my bf sleeps from 10P-730AM, M-F, and I can either go to sleep with him for that period or stay out of the bedroom for that duration because I don't want to wake him. We also have cats that wake us during the night when one isn't up with them, and I have found I've got a creative period from 11PM-2PMish, anyway. Thankfully, I have a new flexible job coming up, so I basically have free range to pick a 4-6 hour daily shift schedule. I also have a class coming up in October at around 5 PM.

Any suggestions for a beginner-friendly schedule? TIA!!

So I have always just naturally woken up for a few hours at night when I was in school I would do my homework during this time. Now a days I like to shower at watch drama shows that my husband doesn't like lol.Anyway my husband told me that this is just how people used to sleep in the old days. That led me to trying to find a name for this period of time at night cause if sleeping during the day is a nap then being awake at night should be called something but in my googling I think I find that it's literally never had an English name and that's wild to me. But I also found this reddit community and so I wonder if any of you have a name for this time. My husband calls it my anti nap. I have always called it my me time. I don't have a timer on my sleep but I usually fall asleep around 10:30 wake around 2 back to sleep around 4/5 wake up at by 9. And I can easily adjust my schedule, Up or down a few hours. I just like it how it is.

Guys Im thinking to trying everman E2 sleep schedule.

Issue: many people in monophasic sleep sleep for 8-10hrs.

Lets say E2 sleep schedule doesn't works for me. How do I understand sleep it so deeply that I can tweak it and make it work for me?

E.G. 4h30min = NREM sleep 20+ 20 min = REM sleep

How will my body know those 20 mins are for REM sleep? what if I take 5-10 to fall asleep. wont I not have perfect 5 sleep cycles??

Im also an athlete and teen so Im worried about muscle growth and hormone secretion

I speak russian and there's whole communities that promote either completely stopping sleeping or doing 24/36h no sleep and then sleeping one day. I've not heard it from anyone here. I tried it a few times and I must say yes at times its horrible when sleepy, but if you move and pass this period after about 24h I felt like I was flying. I felt confident, everything was flowing. I've not been able to sustain this and I must say that I feel horrible after a long sleep. Some people claim to not sleep at all) not sure how realistic this is. I'm curious if anyone here has heard of this?

Hello, I am interested in polyphasic sleep, in your opinion what are the best books (technical) on the subject? Have a good evening

For the last 8 years I was using various Fitbits to track my sleep. But in the recent update, they changed the app and it stopped showing the naps, so I need to find a different smartwatch.

What do you use? If you can show a screenshot how it visualizes your polyphasic sleep, it would be great.

Its a everyman 2 schedule with naps before school and after right before work. I will have the dark period after the core so a total fo 7.5 hrs.

My schedule will be a 4.5 hour core and three 20 minute naps, but I think the weird eating schedule might mess up the circadian rhythm?

i 4eally liked DC-1 ext on paper but it takes a little time for me to get started after i wake up , and just when i got in flow there was a big 1.5 h core

earlier i was following e3-extended but i got classes at afternoon, can this work?

So I've always had insomnia since I was a kid and found out about polyphasic sleeping which I think would help. I do have questions on how I should start though. For school I normally wake up at 4am and I get off of work at 8pm. Could someone recommend a schedule?

I want to try to adapt to E3-extended to eventually get to SEVAMAYL. The most challenging part will likely be the initial adaptation to the rigid schedule. I have a couple options that work with my schedule, but I'm a little concerned about daylight savings in November.

This seems like the most feasible option atm:

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This will still require a significant adjustment of the naps at the time change, but maybe I will have them a little bit flexible by then.

Another option:

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This might also be possible, and it wouldn't require changing the first nap's time with the time change. But I'm a little worried about having the first nap so close to the core. I might be able to move the core a little earlier, but not by much. Also, the gap between nap 2 and nap 3 seems a little large to me.

Any thoughts or recommendations?

I am a week into adapting to Everyman 1. I sleep from 11 pm to 5:30 am and then take a 20 minute nap at 12. Even when sleeping mono, I always felt tired around 2 pm, but I can’t nap during this time because I have a daily meeting then.

I’d like to nap during my lunch break (12 pm - 1 pm) but I just don’t feel as tired here as I do later. Is there anyway I can sort of shift my schedule so I feel tired 2 hours earlier? Would eating something earlier, like at 11, help me get some of that post-meal tiredness I’m probably experiencing at 2? Thanks!

Does this schedule look reasonable? Specifically with regards to the Dark Period and Exercising right after my nightly core. For Dark Period, I will use Flux and similar software for screens and wear blue/green glasses at night. After waking up I'll likely ditch the glasses for exercise and put them back on during the morning time.

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