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Sleepless in SCI'll admit, I don't sleep much; I find it a waste of time. Recently, I came upon an interesting post on Hack a Day which introduced me to polyphasic sleep. Basically, I'll be experimenting with taking 30 minute naps every 4 hours. In order to accomodate my normal schedule, I've chosen to sleep at 12am, 4am, 8am, 12pm, 4pm, and 8pm. I'll be sticking with this schedule for at least the next two weeks to see if it actually works.
Sleep deprived people are usually pretty funny. (At least at 3:30 AM) It will be interesting to see how well this works out for him.
Well, I've always said, "I'll sleep when I die", but even I had to take a nap today after only getting 5 hours sleep in the last two nights. I'm starting to get sick, though I wonder what sleep has to do with that???
So I have a question for you FingerToe readers related to Josh's post . . .
What does sleep actually do for us?
(I've actually done a good deal of reading on this topic of interest and have my own theory- which I'll share a bit later.)
One thing I've read, which seems to be fairly well supported, is that sleep doesn't realy have to do with repairing your body. Any more then a short rest- not nap. Your body seems to repair itself all the time, including, but not limited to when you sleep.
What do you think?
I don't think Josh's schedule will work very well because the sleep cycle is typically close to 90 minutes and I think you must have at least one complete sleep cycle to do any good. So I'd theorize that the sleep schedule thing would work IF:
1. The naps were 60-90 minutes (from when one actually starts falling asleep)(A typical "Normal" night's sleep consists of 5 sleep cycles.)
2. Fewer sleep cycles would probably work fine if they were schedued. I believe regular sleep is as important as the quantity of sleep.
(i.e. 3 sleep cycles a day at the same time every day would, according to my theory, be just as effective, if not more then sleeping 2 hours one day and then 7 the next on an irregular schedule.)
It will be interesting to see how it turns out for Josh . . . and what are your theories about sleep and what it does for us?