i.e. scattering your daily sleeping into several shorter blocks of sleep time, rather than just sleeping for a single big chunk of sleep.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_Sleep
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/03jun_naps.htm
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/information-list-of-polyphasic-sleep.html
and maybe
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/effectiveness-of-power-nap.html
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/15/103358/720
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/
Discuss!
I definitely want to give this a shot at some point, unfortunately I won't be able to try it within this year, due to school and living arrangements.
I'm damned curious abot the longtime effects of a successful adoption of that sleeping pattern, though. And I'm a bit too impatient to try this to wait a reasonable amount of time to see if Pavlina keels over as a side-effect (I say Steve Pavlina, because if someone's gonna manage to stick to that sleeping pattern for a looong while, it will be him).
My school research assigment on sleep led me to believe that the optimal amount of time for sleeping for adults are 7-8 hours and 3 ten minute power naps during the day
I tried out polyphasic sleeping, but it was so hard to stick to the schedule. I fell asleep and didn't wake up when the alarm rang. :'(
hi k-tan?
I never seem to do well with naps, but that is probably because it takes me a while to get to sleep and a while to get up. Also, all I can think about is the Seinfeld episode where Karmer only sleeps for 20 minutes at a time or whatever.
Being NEET, I always wanted to try that, but I'm sure it could fuck you up in a few years.
>>1
An acquaintance of mine tried it and did some blogging while he was at it, you might be interested.
It doesn't work like you expect it to. Napping is better than sleeping, from my experience, but personally three hour-long naps work infinitely better.
>>5
Yeah.. But somehow it feels worth it to overclock your life for just a few years... I imagine it'd really suck to quit after that.
I did this in July and August... having completely forgotten about this thread, sadly, or I could have posted my progress.
I kept having this problem where every three or four days I'd sleep through my alarm for like 11 hours and wake up cursing myself. Also I felt cold and tired at night, especially around 2 to 4 am; at one point I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my nose and realized it was because I had dropped my head onto my desk.
Slowly things started to get better, and a few weeks in, I had gone my longest ever so far without messing up (five days), and felt fine. But I decided I'd still feel better sleeping normally, and I didn't like not being able to go out and didn't trust the claim that eventually napping would come automatically away from home. So I quit.
To sum up, it's a painful and unnatural thing to do, but it has its pluses. I was unusually productive, at least at things I could do alone at my desk in the middle of the night, like read.
I've experimented with various sleep schedules, although I avoided polyphasic because of scheduling issues and because I wasn't convinced it was a good idea. I read something (can't remember where) that gave a scientific explanation of why it wouldn't work. Anyway, I've come to the conclusion that the best sleep schedule for me is a long nap during the day (around 4pm-7pm) and then going to bed really late and getting up no earlier than 8 am. This, for whatever reason, makes me feel best, but I've found that as long as I get a reasonably long nap sometime in the day I'll feel much better than going without it.
I havent heard about all this, but i sleep everyday for the past 8 months like this:
6pm to 10pm , 4 hours
4am to 8am , 4 hours
Let me share with you the response I gave to another user, who wanted to go to Japan:
In Japanese society, foreigners are commonly made fun of, rejected, and overall treated in a highly different manner than another Japanese. Japanese people also do not watch a lot of anime at all, nor do they typically read much manga, and "otakus" are commonly rejected and criticized as well.
While I can not speak for everyone, I must say that, as someone who is pursuing Japanese and Asian studies as a major, "otakus" frequently get in the way and are an overall nuisance. Even so, I do not mind them, and have befriended many of them. But when it comes time to get down to business, I'd rather not have that constant fly buzzing around my ear, or bumps in the table as I'm trying to write (speaking figuratively, of course).
I have been studying Japanese for over seven years now. I first started studying by myself, before I moved and took it in school, skipping past the first level. I am now in Japanese III Honors, and taking AP Japanese next year (skipping Japanese IV).
Working at a comic store, there is an infinitesimal door available for you to be able to go to Akiba. Not only would you have to learn the language to get anywhere economically there, but you'd also have to adjust and adapt, which isn't as easy as it sounds. At all.
Furthermore, Japan is an expensive place to live. Expensive. There is also a high demand for housing, as well as the different houses. Since Japan has a government like Britain, it is divided into classes. This is why the rich people normally have big houses, and the average businessman (even if he may be considered highly successful) has an apartment or condominium.
To give you a short walkthrough, you would have to learn the language and culture, starting from before or at the time you start high school. Then you would have to take part in several or many activities which show your eagerness to learn and take part in Japanese and its studies. You would need to keep your GPA up, find a nice college, get accepted, shine more than the other students there, take the college courses (obviously), major in something related to Japanese such as Asian Studies, as well as Japanese in Graduate school. You should also study abroad sometime during college. Then, after all of that, you would have to find a way of getting the money for a ticket to Japan, living expenses, transportation, etc. as well as getting to know the area immediately, seeing as how you'll need a place to live.
While you may think that just because you have a strong will towards going to Japan, there are many obstacles that stand in your way, and most of them depend on time, and then academics and money. Furthermore, a great amount of logic and common sense is needed, as well as flexibility.
Even though you want to go to Japan, there are far too many things that you won't expect. You obviously haven't even begun to scratch the surface of even the slightest knowledge of what Japan actually is yet, and, even if you do manage to make it there, the chances of you leading a better life both depend on your past actions (college, etc.) and availability. Japan is very busy, very busy. Most businessmen work so much, they basically commute home.
Therefore, if you truly want to live in Akiba, you better hope you have family ties there. Especially considering your attitude towards learning the language. When you take on this objective, there is no room nor time for being pompous.
While this may not all apply to you, it does supply a substantial amount of information that I did not feel like reiterating.