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Biphasic sleep : Day 4

Scott Birdby Scott Bird
September 14, 2006
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Biphasic sleep : Day 4Back on track. I only allowed 15 minutes to fall asleep last night, and woke up feeling well rested after the scheduled 3 hours’ sleep. Eating still feels like the thing to do, and as the longest period I’m asleep is only 3 hours I don’t feel as though I’m ever missing a meal. The rapidly-becoming-norm is to have a protein shake upon rising, followed by the usual breakfast about half an hour later.

Following nap

Wow. That was the heaviest nap so far - usually when the alarm goes off after 90 minutes I’m pretty close to waking anyway, and it doesn’t come as much of a surprise. This evening, however, it was more a case of ‘Where am I? What’s that strange noise?’. So it seems that a nap can include some deep sleep (I’ve had my doubts in the past).


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Comments

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Well, I was pretty sure you could get deep sleep from naps after reading Steve Pavlina’s experiments of only sleeping for 20 minutes at a time or so.

I am interested in seeing how well this works out for you. I’ve been tempted to try something similar, but my time with my wife is already limited due to her having to study all the time and I would hate to lose more hours that we might possibly be together.

Posted by: Blaine Moore (Run to Win) | September 14, 2006 12:37 AM

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That (the time lost with other people) is the main reason I elected to give biphasic a run, rather than polyphasic. Biphasic is a lot less disruptive and I have pretty much the same schedule (apart from a planned nap in the evening, rather than just falling asleep in front of the tv).

I suspect this style of sleeping would also work well with the 90 minute nap at another time, if there’s a time that’d be more convenient for you (which isn’t ordinarily spent with your wife). The important thing seems to be a bit of separation between the nap and the main sleep.

Posted by: Scott | September 14, 2006 12:55 AM

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