I know I told you that Polyphasic sleep is chic, but my friend Lyon thinks it way more chic then I do. He was so fascinated reading Steve Pavlina’s account of his polyphasic experiment that he decided to take on the experiment himself, and is now past day 2. From what I’ve read the first week or so are the hardest part, but Lyon seems incredibly committed:
My new plan is to continue with the naps every 3.5 hours during the day, and add an extra nap in during that hard stretch from 2-6 AM. As I no longer have my personal wake up partner, I’m going to have to stage back up alarms in the event I do not awake. For whatever strange combinations of reasons, I am deeply committed to seeing this experiment all the way through to the end. Failure does not exist to me.
Best of luck my friend!
Update: After a good 3 week run at it, and having adapted pretty well to the polyphasic schedule, Lyon recently fell off the bandwagon. He said that he’ll probably start back sometime in the summer, when he has a bit more time. Word, brother!
January 2nd, 2006 at 11:34 pm
I’ve been hearing a lot about this lately. People email me wanting me to give it a shot, etc. But I couldn’t imagine doing this and be married to a schoolteacher at the same time.
Also, I’m at the end of a phase of trying to squeeze every bit of productivity out of each day. I feel myself returning to silence.
Could you do this and be married at the same time?
January 3rd, 2006 at 8:34 am
Yo Mike,
That’s an excellent question, and one I’ve considered as well. Granted Steve Pavlina is married, and has done this successfully, I wonder what impact that would have on a relationship. One of the primary reasons I’m not all that serious (at least right now) about trying this out is because I really enjoy the time I have with my wife at night. Yes, we’re both asleep, but it’s a time when get to sleep together.