#polyphasic sleep

[assi9]

Here's a few things if you're seriously considering a polyphasic sleep schedule:

Consistent sleep routine is mandatory. MANDATORY. You have to be asleep when it's time to sleep, regardless of circumstances. You must learn how to deal with anything that keeps you up. You're not getting as much sleep in one go so anytime you miss a nap, you'll be miserable.

You gotta be able to fall back asleep quickly if something wakes you up.

If your poly-sleep means getting less than 7-9 hours of sleep per 24 hours, keeping on schedule is ABSOLUTELY VITAL. I cannot stress this enough.

Miss enough sleep and your body will go into panic mode, preventing you from sleeping at all.; it'll assume you're in life-threatening danger and keep you awake for days straight. I speak from experience and it blows. It's insomnia but worse cause drugs don't touch it (tried melatonin, sleep CBD, edibles, and Trazodone. Not all at once.)

Learn what your circadian rhythm is; it can help with planning nap times.

This will affect your social life, especially if you love going out with friends. Anything that'll prevent you from sleeping on time is a no-go.

Good chance you'll be relying on some kind of caffeine. Don't forget to take that into account when planning your sleep.

Not everyone will adjust to your new schedule. Sure friends and family can, but businesses won't adjust their hours. Deliveries, shopping, meetings, etc. are factors to remember.

3rd shift tips are useful too

[fracturedgodhead]

I am attempting polyphasic sleep #20

Okay, so, yesterday ended up somewhat weird. I unintentionally ended up sleeping 2 hours at night (making me late to work), then about another fifteen minutes later in the day, probably around 4:30 pm. Both times, I woke up energetic after falling asleep very drowsy.

I think I accidentally did a polyphasic cycle.

Polyphasic sleep is something I've been wanting to implement in my own life ever since I heard of it, but given that I'm a heavy sleeper (I don't wake up to alarms easily) I've had trouble getting my body to engage in a polyphasic sleep cycle.

Now, by luck, I have been given a golden opportunity. My sleep has lightened enough that I can wake to alarms. I know for certain because I have just woken from a 2 hour sleep phase to my alarm :3

I am drowsy, but I am waking up by the minute. I think I can pull this off. I plan to sleep another hour phase after my 7-3 shift today. I've never really been good at recalling my dreams, so I can't clearly identify how much REM sleep I'm getting out of my 2 hours, but going by how much I have sweat in my sleep, I'd say the ratio is much more REM than NREM.

I don't know why it happens, but I know for certain that every time I have dreamt and recalled it, I have woken up very sweaty. I believe that is enough correlation for me to track REM, but I would definitely be open to other sleep tracking methods.

Anyway, personal updates out of the way, I actually haven't done much more work on the song. Yesterday I had an issue for the first little bit where Audacity just would not play audio. The problem persisted through a re-install of the program. It was very frustrating, especially considering the solution ended up just being to restart my laptop. I tried everything else I could think of for an hour and a half before that. It's infuriating.

Anyway, it's working now, and I plan to work on it now in the few hours before my shift. Gods, I'm going to be so insufferable about finally being able to pull off polyphasic sleeping, like:

I no longer have any concept of the "day" as you know it, I have simply transcended such trivial metrics.

I am just so ecstatic I finally managed it.

Anyway, one of the things I did manage last night was getting an outline for lyrics made. I need to review and revise it, but having something is incredible.

I'm going to be completely honest, I didn't think I'd actually be able to pull of this song, but it's starting to look like it might actually happen.

[99orphans]

guys help

i accidentally began a polyphasic sleep schedule that is not one of the normal options and i can't undo

i'm sleeping for four hours at night, 3-4 in the morning, and 3 in the evening

i want to sleep 8 hours but i keep waking up after 4

the depression has increased since starting this routine

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this feels like a thing to ask reddit but idk how to use reddit

[roseofhybrids]

after I finished giving out candy last night I took a lil 2-3 hour nap

which was evidently a mistake because now it's 10 am and I'm still wide awake

[barrymccaulkinem]

bleh i think i need a nap im not gonna take

[sonalikhanna000]

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[tubbypeddle]

Hi! I really like your writing, I was wondering how would part 5 characters react to a y/n with an uberman sleep schedule. personally, I only do it during summer.

hii!! thank you so much for the compliment, what!!!! you're so sweet 🫂

also, an uberman sleep schedule!! I had no idea what that was, I had to search it up! how interesting!!

For those who don't know, from what I found, an "uberman sleep schedule" is a form of polyphasic sleep where someone takes multiple 20 minute naps throughout the day, spaced approximately 4 hours apart. (Polyphasic sleep refers to a sleep schedule where you sleep more than twice in a single day)

for now, i'm only going to do the bucci gang, but if you want la Squadra too, just send in another ask! i'll be happy to 🫂 also, I apologize for the wait 😭 I got a little caught up with personal things, I didn't mean to put this off (I actually feel so bad it's not even funny)

(author's note: no smut in this one <33, also for underage characters it isn't exactly an "x reader" like what will be suggested for the canon adult characters, since I don't feel comfortable with that, but I hope you enjoy it anyway)

Giorno Giovanna

He's a little shocked by how easy you find sleep, and a little envious honestly

Ever since he was a child, he found it hard to fall asleep.

So the fact that you can just lie down for a nap and actually take a nap

He's a little jealous, not that you'll ever know. he's a master at hiding his feelings behind a straight face. Not jealous enough to do anything,

It's amusing to him, to find you in many places around Passione headquarters taking your little naps

sometimes, if he feels comfortable enough with you, he'll leave you little presents while you nap

just small things, like a little frog companion, or a cool rock he found with a note wishing you well

Bruno Bucciarati

He finds it endearing how strict you are with your schedule, if you're strict with it. You have a timer that you set before you sleep, and you wake up to it, always.

It's a little impressive, honestly

Bruno isn't one to have a very strict sleep schedule like yours is, he can't afford to.

So when you can just do that, it's adorable honestly.

plenty of little catnaps throughout the day

when he has time, you might be able to convince him to join you in a quick nap, though it might be a little difficult. it's hard enough for him to get to sleep at night without a nap in the middle of the day ruining his sleep schedule.

but when he does cave into your request, it's some of the most peaceful sleep he's ever had in his life.

Leone Abbacchio

he understands the appeal of taking cat naps throughout the day, and if his schedule allows for it, he'd do it too

it's not hard to convince him to take a nap with you, he loves any excuse to shirk work, especially if it's with you (much to Bucciarati's annoyance)

though, taking these naps with you fucks up his actual sleep schedule, so he ends up staying up really late into the night

usually, this would irritate him to no end, but since it's you he's staying up for, he doesn't mind

(especially if it means he gets more naps with you the next day)

Narancia Ghirga

he might be a little confused about why you sleep so often, though this isn't ill-intentioned

he means well!

he's just...a little confused (when is he not, honestly)

there's so much to do in the day! so much fun to have! why do you sleep so often?

be prepared for when you're sleeping out in the open, though, because he has a bad habit of fiddling with you while you sleep

his language of affection is touch, so he likes fiddling with your hands, or your hair, or even just poking you while you sleep

if you're a light sleeper, it's best to watch out for sleeping around him

he might even draw on your face

Guido Mista

he's actually pretty chill, pretty laid back, even if he does poke fun at you a little bit for sleeping so often even if he does the same thing

you'll probably find him sleeping around his apartment before he finds you sleeping

and he openly encourages you to slip in beside him if you find him (he's a little stinky though /affectionate)

If he finds you sleeping first, though, he'll probably just slip in next to you (if you've given him the okay ahead of time)

or he'll sit beside you and read a magazine if he isn't sleepy

(he loves and appreciates nap dates and I will die on this hill)

Pannacotta Fugo

he probably wouldn't have much of an opinion or reaction, so sorry if you were looking for one from him

it's just something that you do, it's none of his business what your sleep schedule is like

the only thing you'd probably get out of him is worry

"why are you sleeping out here? This sofa is awful for your back. Sleep in your room."

Aggressive worrier, definitely

Trish Una

she probably thinks it's cute

naps are fun, she loves naps, but she won't indulge in them too often

she definitely worries that sleeping too often could ruin her skin (I don't know how it would, but it probably would) so she won't indulge you in a besties nap too often

she will offer to sit with you though, as you nap

she'd probably take it as an excuse to do skin care with you, or a chance to touch up her nails, or even just relax alongside you

IM SO SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG!! I GOT DISTRACTED WITH OTHER THINGS IN MY PERSONAL LIFE 😭

I HOPE YOU LIKE WHAT I GOT!! can u tell I didn't know what to write

[tumbler-polls]

Please tag/comment your age, country, and gender! For the sake of this poll, we went with 7 hours of sleep, but we're aware that some people need less/more 💤

[toskarin]

fondly remembering when people were trying to toskarin geoguessr based on active hours but couldn't find a pattern in them because I had a polyphasic sleep schedule

[rollerska8er]

the importance of basic fact-checking

it's kind of crazy how doing research to learn if something is bullshit or not is not, like, a thing most people do as a matter of course?

for example, let's say someone says "did you know that in the medieval era, people used to sleep for a few hours, get up and do things for an hour, then go back to sleep?"

now, you might say "wow, that's really interesting!" and you might tell your friends about this cool fact.

but this factoid, if it is untrue, might give someone a distorted view of history, and of sleep. it might make them think that perhaps people in the medieval era were healthier because of this sleeping pattern.

so, you google it. or you duckduckgo it. whatever.

and your searching may take you to the Wikipedia article for polyphasic sleep. and this Wikipedia article contains a section dedicated specifically to this topic.

you may learn that this idea that people in medieval times slept in two phases is in fact a theory put forth by the historian A. Roger Ekirch, which suggests, based on 500 historical references, that this biphasic sleeping pattern truly existed, though it is as yet unconfirmed - until the nineteenth century and the advent of electric lighting, he suggests, these two distinct sleeps a night were common.

what you may also learn, is that Ekirch also believes that the way we currently sleep is actually way healthier for us, and believes that it contributes to our longevity.

and of course, we must not forget that Ekirch is a historian, not a scientist, much less a somnologist, and while his theory is interesting, it is not actually a medical prescription one way or another.

this is just one example - it is common to see people claim certain absolute facts about history or science, and extrapolate from that information some kernel of truth about how we ought to live our lives, how we ought to live in accordance with "our nature" (which is, in fact, mutable).

scepticism is something you have to practice at. you have to get a nose for sniffing out bullshit. you need to learn how to engage with novel information in a way that is not credulous, but questioning it. i am not saying question everything - that way lieth conspiracy theories - but i am saying that before you uncritically believe a claim about the world, you have a personal responsibility to read further into it.

and if you don't have time to do that, then you shouldn't believe everything you read, and you certainly shouldn't spread misinformation.

in our modern world it is easy to instantly share information without running background checks on it first. this is a major drawback of "reblogging" and "retweeting". so, the next time you see something like this, look into it.

remember that there is no Santa Claus. and the world is no less beautiful for his absence.

[peachy-wafflez]

I’ve put this in like every discord server I’m in but like

1. I love Kylie and Egon interactions they’re funny.

2. Egon bro where is your furniture. Where do you sleep. I know you’re a polyphasic sleeper but WHERE.

[burninface]

🍊weekly tag wednesday🥃

thanks for tagging me @lingy910y and @mmmichyyy ...oh hey was I just tagged by two friends who can speak mandarin?? 谢谢你们艾特我😆！

name: face

age: 23

where in the world are you? asia

how tall are you? 172

what color are your eyes? black

what’s something that frightens you? roaches, the big kind(can fly), even after they died…

do you have children? if not, do you want any? no and NO

are you the eldest, middle, youngest, or only child? only child

what time do you usually wake up? around 7:00 for work. depends on weekends cause sometimes I may go to bed at 7:00 am. and during the long holiday I even try polyphasic sleep to gain more wake time😬

relationship status? don't even have a crush for years

do you identify as a member of the queer community? yes, but haven't found out the specific identity

any tattoos/piercings? after two piercings I found out about my skin allergy, and I doubt about tattoos

something you love: daydreaming and dark chocolate

something you hate: pms and cramps😭

do you have any pets? no🥹

do you have a license/can you drive? no but I drive a lot in my dream😆

if you could tell your younger self one thing, what would it be? teachers are not always right, don't let them humiliate you and become unconfident

and finally, something people would be surprised to know about you: I have visual snow syndrome since I was like 4 or 5 so worlds in my eyes are always full of image noise

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[007-nightfire-yakuza-agent]

ive adopted a polyphasic sleep cycle which kind of sucks but w/e

[melancholyghoul]

Look I have really bad insomnia and particularly over the past few weeks I've been stuck in exhaustion and polyphasic sleep, tell me why the day i was finally able to

1. Wake up at a reasonable time (9.30am)

2. Not accidentally take a nap during the day

3. Fall asleep at a regular time (~10pm)

My sister decided to call me at 12.30am not once, not twice but THREE TIMES ?? I answered on the 3rd, she said 'are you awake?' I said 'what the fuck, no' and she hangs up ???? IF I DIDNT PICK UP BEFORE WHY DID YOU KEEP RINGING

I am so upset because I seriously doubt ill be able to fall asleep again (currently 1.55am) and my chance at fixing my sleep in a way that isn't badly resetting the clock is gone