I don’t recommend it to anyone. While it intensifies daydreaming and out-there thought processes, it’s incredibly detrimental for health. I came out of it after supplementing high doses of water soluble vitamins. Now I sleep more than I ever did in my entire life.

Doing this type of sleep cycle will tax your adrenals, liver, brain, etc..It’s not natural. To think that is moronic. What we evolved with is the natural sunlight schedule. Melatonin increases as the moon rises, it drops as the sun comes out.

Duh !!

I don’t recall the exact way I stumbled upon it, but a couple of months ago, I found myself reading all about polyphasic sleep. Essentially it details how monophasic sleeping, that is to say one block of sleep per night, is not how we are designe…

Anyhow, that’s not why I’m here now.

This polyphasic sleep thing is interesting. I’m gonna check out the link. I am like you, I wish I didn’t have to sleep. I can get by on 5 hours a day, and I’m always wishing I could make it 4 or 3 hours.

work, social obligations, family and, quite frankly, marriage and sex all play a role in our sleep schedules that make these “more efficient” approaches nearly impossible for a married guy who works a 9-to-5 to implement.

Even Pavlina, who works from home found it difficult to tell people that he had to cut a meeting short or step out of a family gathering for 20 minutes so he could get his nap in.

I’m currently doing a more do-able setup where I go to bed at the same time my wife does and set my time to get up based on the natural 90 minute cycles that sleep comes in. At the moment, that puts me getting up at 4:30am.

However, after quite a bit of experimentation, I’ve found that I’m more alert, have less difficulty falling asleep at night, can concentrate better all day, etc. on 6 hours that matches the cycles instead 7 or 8 hours that has me waking up in the middle of a cycle.

I’m not sure I’m ready to shave another cycle off yet. I want to go a month or 2 on 6 before trying 4.5.

The migration phase sounds a little hard to handle while holding down a full time job