Festive Data-Gathering
Well, here’s a good way to use a holiday weekend: Let’s gather some data!
Let’s see what polyphasic schedules people like best, and then also which ones people actually use most often.
Feel free to add comments / critiques / fake fireworks noises / whatever in the comments, as well. ;)
Loading ... Loading ...…After the weekend, I’ll put these polls in the Polyphasic Sleep Portal.
Have a great Extra Day Off, Americans! You earned it (well, two hundred years ago, but still, earned time off is earned time off, right?).
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I voted “Other Everyman”, which in my case has been for the last 2 years a nap during my lunch hour in the office, a nap after work and approximately 5 hours sleep at night, usually from 1- 6 am. That’s a schedule I have arrived at naturally and although I initially feel better when I occasionally use less core sleep, I have never managed to establish less core time on a regular basis because I start to feel overwhelmed after 2 or 3 days and I don’t seem to believe I can actually adjust by hanging on through the sleep dep…
Everyman3, although I seem to sleep ane xtra 2 hours on saturday and sometimes sunday. Will have to see whether my body is just programmed to sleep longer n saturdays.
Starting running next week, mornings and hope it gives good results.
Have 3 hours from about 10-1, then a nap before starting work at 6AM and another straight after- about 12/1PM. Pre work is always 20 minutes, afternoon one is up to 1 hour, or 20 minutes if I’m busy. Started with 3+3 everyman for about 2 months and ‘progressed’ onto 5-6 months on the variation above.
Your option for problematic/ successful monophasic sleep is interesting. Can I ask why you put it in?
Hi Nick,
You’re not the only person I know to be doing Everyman3 with a longer nap during the day. Sometimes I like a longer nap myself, usually if I’m feeling run-down or didn’t sleep well for a nap somewhere. My longer nap, if I take one, is usually 1.5 hours, though.
I put the two monophasic options in because whenever I ask if people are monophasic, I get a lot of answers like “Yes, but it sucks” or “yes, but I never actually get enough sleep!”. …For many years, that would have been my answer too. And I think it’s important to realize that not everyone sleeping a so-called eight hour night is happy with it, or getting enough rest on that schedule. Yes?
Thanks!
PD