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Steve Pavlina stopped because he was bored and it was not giving him more time with the people he loved (which was the point of it in the first place). Source:

by xutopia 13y ago

Steve Pavlina stopped because he was bored and it was not giving him more time with the people he loved (which was the point of it in the first place). Source: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/ http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/

WalterSear 13y ago
Which makes no sense to anyone who has actually managed to switch to polyphasic sleep, even for just a week or two. Pavlina is so inconsistent in his description of his polyphasic sleep experiences that the consensus on the polyphasic mailing list I ran for a while was that he was a lying about doing it at all.
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- desireco42 13y ago
  Do you know someone who actually managed to live like this for extended periods? I would be interested to hear.
  - epmatsw 13y ago
    My sophomore year roommates did Everyman for about 8 months. They got horrifying good at Call of Duty.
  - WalterSear 13y ago
    I don't know of any credible claims that managed it for more than a couple of months, and even that was on a semi-anonymous internet mailing list :) My personal record was 3 weeks, not including the adjustment time, but I would always get derailed by a cold. I'm really need my sleep though, I'm sure that someone with less need for sleep could do better. I found that by perfecting the napping-on-command first (for several months, too) rather than the going without sleep, I was able to make the transitions relatively painless, until I would get sick.
scott_s 13y ago
Stealing from a post I made on the same subject 932 days ago: I've read some reports from people who are tired all the time because they haven't "adjusted" - and the punchline is they never will. I think Pavlina's and others are in denial; while the social aspect is obviously negative, it gives them a convenient excuse. If the only downside was not having a schedule that worked with the rest of society, there would be someone, somewhere who would not have done it, but would being doing it. But there isn't, because that's not how sleep, for us, works.

by xutopia 13y ago

WalterSear 13y ago

Which makes no sense to anyone who has actually managed to switch to polyphasic sleep, even for just a week or two. Pavlina is so inconsistent in his description of his polyphasic sleep experiences that the consensus on the polyphasic mailing list I ran for a while was that he was a lying about doing it at all.

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desireco42 13y ago
Do you know someone who actually managed to live like this for extended periods? I would be interested to hear.
- epmatsw 13y ago
  My sophomore year roommates did Everyman for about 8 months. They got horrifying good at Call of Duty.
- WalterSear 13y ago
  I don't know of any credible claims that managed it for more than a couple of months, and even that was on a semi-anonymous internet mailing list :) My personal record was 3 weeks, not including the adjustment time, but I would always get derailed by a cold. I'm really need my sleep though, I'm sure that someone with less need for sleep could do better. I found that by perfecting the napping-on-command first (for several months, too) rather than the going without sleep, I was able to make the transitions relatively painless, until I would get sick.

scott_s 13y ago

Stealing from a post I made on the same subject 932 days ago: I've read some reports from people who are tired all the time because they haven't "adjusted" - and the punchline is they never will. I think Pavlina's and others are in denial; while the social aspect is obviously negative, it gives them a convenient excuse. If the only downside was not having a schedule that worked with the rest of society, there would be someone, somewhere who would not have done it, but would being doing it. But there isn't, because that's not how sleep, for us, works.