This link (which looks reputable to me) states that REM usually occurs around 90 minutes after you doze off. I think that before trying the experiment, you should consider that you won’t be getting any REM sleep at all if you actually sleep for the prescribed amount of time, which strikes me as very unhealthy.
Personally, this feels like a batch of psuedoscience, but I could be wrong because I’ve not actually researched it—the link above and some similar things said in a sleep book I own are my only sources of knowledge.
Edit: This comment has been retracted. See my comment below.
The point of these sleep schedules is to get rid of everything other than REM. Numerous people, including several on this thread, find that after a couple of days of this, they go directly into dreams. That much works. The question is whether getting rid of everything else is sustainable and useful. Incidentally, I have known one person who naturally only had REM. He had problems and was diagnosed with narcolepsy. I have known several other people I suspected were similar, but who hadn’t been through sleep studies. ETA: also, he found short naps quite useful.
After reading your reply, my impulse was to shrug and think “that objection is wrong, but I still don’t think it’s a very good idea.” I since realized that what I had written really was my true rejection (besides a blind appeal to lack-of-popularity) and I didn’t know otherwise about the success or failure of polyphasic sleep, so I’d better go look it up or risk missing out on some possibly-low-hanging-fruit.
Anyways, I’m still reading through PureDoxyk’s blog, but I’ve seen that it definitely seems to work for some people. I plan to continue to look into it and decide whether I want to try Everyman once I go back to college.
I retract my previous comment. Thanks for the correction.
The 90 minute thing for monophasic sleep seems to be true. I was a little surprised how regular my sleep turned out to be: http://www.gwern.net/Zeo
At the start of the night, down into light sleep, then deep sleep, then up to light sleep, and finally some REM an hour or so later. Regular as clockwork, practically every night.
This link (which looks reputable to me) states that REM usually occurs around 90 minutes after you doze off. I think that before trying the experiment, you should consider that you won’t be getting any REM sleep at all if you actually sleep for the prescribed amount of time, which strikes me as very unhealthy.
Personally, this feels like a batch of psuedoscience, but I could be wrong because I’ve not actually researched it—the link above and some similar things said in a sleep book I own are my only sources of knowledge.
Edit: This comment has been retracted. See my comment below.
The point of these sleep schedules is to get rid of everything other than REM. Numerous people, including several on this thread, find that after a couple of days of this, they go directly into dreams. That much works. The question is whether getting rid of everything else is sustainable and useful. Incidentally, I have known one person who naturally only had REM. He had problems and was diagnosed with narcolepsy. I have known several other people I suspected were similar, but who hadn’t been through sleep studies. ETA: also, he found short naps quite useful.
After reading your reply, my impulse was to shrug and think “that objection is wrong, but I still don’t think it’s a very good idea.” I since realized that what I had written really was my true rejection (besides a blind appeal to lack-of-popularity) and I didn’t know otherwise about the success or failure of polyphasic sleep, so I’d better go look it up or risk missing out on some possibly-low-hanging-fruit.
Anyways, I’m still reading through PureDoxyk’s blog, but I’ve seen that it definitely seems to work for some people. I plan to continue to look into it and decide whether I want to try Everyman once I go back to college.
I retract my previous comment. Thanks for the correction.
The 90 minute thing for monophasic sleep seems to be true. I was a little surprised how regular my sleep turned out to be: http://www.gwern.net/Zeo
At the start of the night, down into light sleep, then deep sleep, then up to light sleep, and finally some REM an hour or so later. Regular as clockwork, practically every night.
Incidentally, an interesting link (well, it would be if people would post more of their data) is the Zeo sub-forum dedicated to polyphasic sleeping: http://blog.myzeo.com/forum/polyphasic-sleep-experiment-discussion/