Who here /polyphasic/? I tried to start doing 3 hours sleep

>>36133045
Its not good long term but short term.

>>36133076
That's what I've heard. Not op, but I'd love to push the limits of sleep as much as possible without losing brain power, what should I do? I currently sleep 8 hours a day and feel just fine every morning, but could I bring that down to 7? Maybe even to 6 plus a nap in the afternoon?

After all, every hour saved could add up to a lot more things accomplished throughout the day plus entire months of your life saved through time. On the average month, an hour saved every day gives you back an entire 1.25 days

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>>36133178
I know, imagining the saved time I can get is fucking amazing. I'm a loser, but I'm not as miserable as most of you guys on here, I want to be awake to enjoy all the anime, drawing and vidja I can.

I could move down to 6 without naps in the past, albeit a little groggily. Try doing core sleep midnight to six, with a half-hour nap in the middle of the day (perhaps around 3).

>>36133663
most normies live off of 6 hours just fine when they drink coffee and have a reason to get up in the morning.

There are almost no documented cases of humans sleeping this way throughout recorded history. On the other hand there are many cases of alternative sleeping patterns across cultures and historical figures that aren't as strict or unreasonable as the polyphasic cycle.

I know exactly what you're trying to do OP and the truth is this: polyphasic sleep was invented by a crackpot female blogger who did it for the same reasons that women do anything: for attention. She later wrote a book about it to make money and since then numerous people have tried the sleep schedule hoping to receive a productivity increase.

What does polyphasic sleep have in common with any other new age bullshit (like law of attraction)? Well, everything. It's based on invalided pseudo-scientific bullshit. It tries to sell you a life-style change and it promises you the world. But I can point to the experiences of numerous people who have tried this and what they've all found consistently is that "adjusting" to it is impossible. In fact, even the author has struggled to stick to the pattern. Because like I've said, it was all invented as a PR move to promote the author's shitty blog.

Believe me, I've also this pastern many times in the past and it does not work. Sorry, but its the truth. I know that interesting to do self-experiments but hacking sleep like this isn't viable. If you want a suggestion for interesting experiments you could try you could always test micro-dosing various drugs. That's a simple way to test something that may actually have new pharmaceutic benefits compared to trying to get the human body to do something that's fucking impossible. Lel

>>36133990
Sorry if I'm too stubborn to take your word for it wholly, I'll consider it, but I got to go see this for myself. I'll find out in the next few weeks, anyways. Not like I can't go back on it, if it goes to shit.