Tag Archives: REM Sleep


9.30am Day 3 – Experiment Concluded

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Shane

My polyphasic sleep experiment has been called to a halt.

I know what your are thinking… only 2 days in? “So, was it a success? of a Failure?”. Well, we’ll get to that answer shortly…

I went into this experiment with 2 hypothesis, one being absolute failure on day 3 or 4 due to sleep deprivation the other being success. Continue reading →

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8am Day2

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Shane

I have so far found a couple of tools to help me on this journey – I have been using a ‘white noise’ recording which I found online. It’s a 26min recording of white noise designed to block out outside noises, after that 26min thre is a series of alarms/music etc in an ever increasing volume. I’m hoping that this will both help me get to sleep in my nap times and also help stop me over sleeping once I am asleep. Continue reading →

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Polyphasic Sleep

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Shane

fter many years of thinking about it, today is the day I’m going to start a polyphasic sleep pattern. After lots of research, the pattern I have decided to go for is the Everyman schedule which consists of a core 3hour sleep, followed by 3 equally spaced 20min power naps throughout the day. This should be workable around my normal life to a reasonable extent. Continue reading →

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