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Polyphasic quittin’ time

By Sarah Lewis ⋅ November 29, 2005 ⋅ 9 comments

I quit last night. (Yes, even after suggesting that I’m more disciplined than that in my last post. I think God probably laughs and laughs when I make such arrogant comments.)
It’s kind of sad to find out that I’m a quitter (especially after this year’s NaNoWriMo) but apparently it’s true. There were [...]

Polyphasic sleep, day 1

By Sarah Lewis ⋅ November 28, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve survived 24 hours of polyphasic, and at this point, that feels like a major victory. The downside is that by all accounts it’s going to get worse before it gets better. I intentionally started sleep-deprived (directly after returning from a Thanksgiving trip, with no night of monophasic sleep to start) because I’m [...]

Let the polyphasic madness begin

By Sarah Lewis ⋅ November 27, 2005 ⋅ One comment

I’m kicking off my own polyphasic sleep experiment tonight. Steve’s blog posts have really inspired me, so I’m going to attempt to document my experiment in the same sort of way. My initial plan is to post at least daily on the topic for the next week and a half, and then as [...]

Polyphasic sleep

By Sarah Lewis ⋅ November 14, 2005 ⋅ 3 comments

I have been reading Steve Pavlina’s account of his polyphasic sleep experiment with great interest. Polyphasic sleep has interested a number of people as a result of an article on the subject; you can find the wikipedia explanation here.
The gist of polyphasic sleeping is this: you “compress” your sleep to maximize REM phase sleep [...]

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