Thank you for the “she”. ;) Also, I agree that simply taking data from willing polyphasers means a higher likelihood of your baseline being abnormal for one reason or another, the presence of already-screwy sleep definitely among them. However, the research has gotta start somewhere, and I’m thrilled that voluntary groups are starting to form—it’s a great step, and LW are just about the perfect people to be on it IMO. <3
(I did “just name it”, but before I started writing about it in ’00, there was no data other than Dr. Fuller’s, which was really only recorded / disseminated in a tiiiiiiny Time Magazine blurb in the 80′s; and Dr. Stampi’s work on naps generally, which is excellent but limited and doesn’t discuss polyphasic sleep as a lifestyle. I didn’t know this at the time—I thought I was just writing my experiences with something that surely other people had written more about elsewhere...which I mention to excuse the rather slipshod quality of my early work. It’s why I tried so hard to improve the book and to make my site more comprehensive later...I hope I’ve made up for some of the early lapses.)
Thank you for the “she”. ;) Also, I agree that simply taking data from willing polyphasers means a higher likelihood of your baseline being abnormal for one reason or another, the presence of already-screwy sleep definitely among them. However, the research has gotta start somewhere, and I’m thrilled that voluntary groups are starting to form—it’s a great step, and LW are just about the perfect people to be on it IMO. <3
(I did “just name it”, but before I started writing about it in ’00, there was no data other than Dr. Fuller’s, which was really only recorded / disseminated in a tiiiiiiny Time Magazine blurb in the 80′s; and Dr. Stampi’s work on naps generally, which is excellent but limited and doesn’t discuss polyphasic sleep as a lifestyle. I didn’t know this at the time—I thought I was just writing my experiences with something that surely other people had written more about elsewhere...which I mention to excuse the rather slipshod quality of my early work. It’s why I tried so hard to improve the book and to make my site more comprehensive later...I hope I’ve made up for some of the early lapses.)
Thanks!