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If you are interested in polyphasic sleep, the best long run experiment I know is from Steve Pavlina. 90 days of polyphasic sleep: http://www.stevepavlina.com/

by Loic 15y ago

If you are interested in polyphasic sleep, the best long run experiment I know is from Steve Pavlina. 90 days of polyphasic sleep: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/ http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/

Arjuna 15y ago
"90 days of polyphasic sleep:" Thank you for the link. Actually, Steve continued to maintain his polyphasic sleep schedule for a total of 5.5 months, not 90 days [1]. It appears that he simply did not update his sleep log entries very frequently after day 90. His "One Year Later" post was interesting: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/03/polyphasic-sleep-one-year-later/ http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/03/polyphasic-sleep-on... [1] "After doing polyphasic sleep for about 5-1/2 months, I finally decided to switch back to monophasic." http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/polyphasic-sleep-the-return-to-monophasic/ http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/polyphasic-sleep-th...
Lewton 15y ago
I read this some years ago.. I've since then become very skeptical about his story. The guy makes money off of his blog, he's basically the internet version of a life coach. Writing "inspirational" articles on how to improve your life, with almost nothing to back them up. There's plenty incentive for him to have fabricated this. And back when I was interested in the uberman sleep schedule, he was the only person on the internet I could find who claimed he had done it for more than a couple of weeks
- calydon 15y ago
  Steve Pavlina is a known charlatan whose lies have been disproved on several occasions. Further reading: http://stevepavlinalies.wordpress.com/ http://stevepavlinalies.wordpress.com/ http://www.scottfreethinking.com/2010/02/why-steve-pavlina-is-wrong/ http://www.scottfreethinking.com/2010/02/why-steve-pavlina-i... I don't think he lasted 5 months on his polyphasic regimen for the same reasons listed in the sleepmemo article.
  - dshaw002 15y ago
    I'm not debating your position on whether or not Steve did the polyphasic sleep, but none of those links don't really have much actual evidence of him being(or specifically call him) a liar or a charlatan.
  - patricklynch 15y ago
    "for the same reasons listed in the sleepmemo article" Do you have a link to this article? I couldn't find it on either of those blogs. EDIT: parent must mean this: http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic2010.htm http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic2010.htm

by Loic 15y ago

Arjuna 15y ago

"90 days of polyphasic sleep:" Thank you for the link. Actually, Steve continued to maintain his polyphasic sleep schedule for a total of 5.5 months, not 90 days [1]. It appears that he simply did not update his sleep log entries very frequently after day 90. His "One Year Later" post was interesting: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/03/polyphasic-sleep-one-year-later/ http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/03/polyphasic-sleep-on... [1] "After doing polyphasic sleep for about 5-1/2 months, I finally decided to switch back to monophasic." http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/polyphasic-sleep-the-return-to-monophasic/ http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/polyphasic-sleep-th...

Lewton 15y ago

I read this some years ago.. I've since then become very skeptical about his story. The guy makes money off of his blog, he's basically the internet version of a life coach. Writing "inspirational" articles on how to improve your life, with almost nothing to back them up. There's plenty incentive for him to have fabricated this. And back when I was interested in the uberman sleep schedule, he was the only person on the internet I could find who claimed he had done it for more than a couple of weeks

calydon 15y ago
Steve Pavlina is a known charlatan whose lies have been disproved on several occasions. Further reading: http://stevepavlinalies.wordpress.com/ http://stevepavlinalies.wordpress.com/ http://www.scottfreethinking.com/2010/02/why-steve-pavlina-is-wrong/ http://www.scottfreethinking.com/2010/02/why-steve-pavlina-i... I don't think he lasted 5 months on his polyphasic regimen for the same reasons listed in the sleepmemo article.
- dshaw002 15y ago
  I'm not debating your position on whether or not Steve did the polyphasic sleep, but none of those links don't really have much actual evidence of him being(or specifically call him) a liar or a charlatan.
- patricklynch 15y ago
  "for the same reasons listed in the sleepmemo article" Do you have a link to this article? I couldn't find it on either of those blogs. EDIT: parent must mean this: http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic2010.htm http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic2010.htm