Polyphasic sleeping

[Hababi]

Has anyone ever tried it, or would think about trying it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep before you say, "lol whats that?"

And yeah, it's from that Seinfeld episode :p

[drewhet]

eh, i dont wanna try that. my body tells me when to go to sleep and wakes me up when it's done resting

[gaslight]

Haha. I wouldn't try it. My lifestyle/schedule fits better with a nice slab of monophasic sleep.

[bleep_bloop]

I think my teachers would get mad if I busted out a sleeping bag in the middle of class and took a 40 minute nap.

[djs]

I was going to try this a couple summers ago, but I knew it would screw my sleep schedule up entirely. This would be useful if everyone used polyphasic sleep. Otherwise, you'll have to skip plans with friends or stop what you're doing because you need to power nap.

Some guy did it for a few weeks or months, without any ill effects.

[bleep_bloop]

Yeah I prefer one solid block of sleep because it is more flexiable of a schedule.

[AA-12]

I think I might try this and log my results, then posting them on emex

[(*The Noonward Race*)]

http://www.treatmentonline.com/treatments.php?id=479
heres a cool article

In the past, says Caldwell, sleeping pills were designed not to mess with sleep architecture, although they generally do, suppressing the deepest and most restorative "slow-wave" sleep in favour of shallower stage 2 sleep. Now, though, modifying sleep architecture is seen as the way forward. There are two new drugs in the offing that significantly increase the amount of slow-wave sleep. One of them, gaboxadol, made by Merck, is in phase III clinical trials and could be on the market next year. To Caldwell these drugs hold out the promise of a power nap par excellence. "Maybe you can make a short period of sleep more restorative by filling it with up with slow-wave sleep," he says.

Much like modafinil, gaboxadol and the other slow-wave sleep promoter - Arena Pharmaceuticals' APD125, currently in phase II - are the start of something bigger. For more than 35 years, sleeping pills have been a one-trick pony. If you wanted to send someone to the land of nod, there was only one way of doing so - targeting the neurotransmitter GABA, which is the brain's all-purpose dimmer switch. Old-fashioned hypnotics such as barbiturates and benzodiazepines work by making neurons more sensitive to the soporific effects of GABA. It's also why alcohol makes you sleepy. Even the newer, cleaner sleeping pills, such as the market leader Ambien, work through the GABA system.

[dustindow]

Well It would be nice to train the body to just skip the bull and go straight to R.E.M. but due most lifestyles you can't just take a break. I would love to do it becuase I stay up untill 4 without any hint of being tired. My sleepgin schedule is very unpredictable.

[Smokey D]

It's useful if you need to rest during the day, but don't have enough time to go sleep fully.

But this really isn't a world issue.