“You’re very handsome,” she said, gazing into my eyes.
“Thank you,” I said. “You’re not bad-looking yourself.”
She smiled.
“Do you have a girlfriend?”
What the hell?
“You’re very handsome,” she said, gazing into my eyes.
“Thank you,” I said. “You’re not bad-looking yourself.”
She smiled.
“Do you have a girlfriend?”
What the hell?
I have now been practicing semi-polyphasic sleep cycles for over two weeks, and I think it’s time to call an end to the experiment. It’s been an interesting time, and I’m ending the experiment only because I want to focus on things which require increased, uninterrupted sleep (an exercise programme and an investigation of the fabled Ballmer Peak, which requires alcohol intake). Here are some reflections:
Life at night provides … Continue Reading
Over the past week I’ve been experimenting with polyphasic sleep. Polyphasic sleep means sleeping multiple times within a single 24-hour span, as opposed to monophasic sleep (sleeping once per day, usually at night) or biphasic sleep (sleeping at night, with an afternoon siesta). I’m doing this because of Tim Ferriss’ claim, in The 4-Hour Body, that the total amount of sleep you need decreases dramatically as you take more naps per day.
The basic principle is this: we ordinarily sleep 8 hours per night, with only about 2 hours of that being REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. REM is the sleep phase when we dream. It’s when your brain processes thoughts and experiences for long-term storage and organization. We don’t know what happens in the other 6 hours of nightly sleep. Chances are it might be wasted time.
Which means that if all our sleep is REM sleep, we might just be able to cut our sleep down to 2 hours per night. And that is what Tim Ferriss, Dustin Curtis, and others say is possible.
The way to do this … Continue Reading