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thewh00sel  United States. Jul 29 2013 16:22. Posts 2734 | | |
Biphasic that is!
I'm going to attempt a biphasic sleep cycle to allow me to
A: Play the graveyard shift for poker of 10pm-5am
B: Be awake during the day with my family
C: Sleep less/more efficiently
For those of you who don't know what a biphasic sleep schedule is, there are some variations of it, but basically you sleep twice per 12 hour period for around 3 hours each time. I have just begun my foray into this practice (today will be my 2nd 24 hour cycle of biphasic sleep), but I have to say I am already impressed with how it feels. I'm going to keep a log of how I feel with this sleep schedule until it becomes routine for me. Probably a week or two and then update if I am still using this schedule in the future.
Day 1: 7/27.
After a 14 hour session of poker I arrived home at 5am and had something I had to be awake for at 9am so I set my alarm.
Day 1(b) first attempt: 7/28
Sleep cycle 1: 4hrs
Sleep cycle 2: 1hr45min
Total sleep: 5hr45min
After waking I decided that this was the perfect opportunity to attempt biphasic sleep. So I stayed awake until 5pm at which point I attempted to go back to sleep for 3 hours. My daughter didn't quite let me fall asleep at first, but eventually I fell asleep around 630pm and slept until 815pm. Upon awakening I was a little groggy because I didn't wake naturally but by my family jumping into bed to wake me up. After putting Allison to sleep I headed to work and started my session at 10pm. I played until 5am and felt great the whole time.
Day 3 7/29
Cycle 1: 3hrs50min
Cycle 2 (projected): 2hrs30min
Total sleep (projected): 6hr20min
When I got home at 530am I went to sleep until 920am. I awoke a little groggier than I was expecting, and laid in bed until 10am until finally getting up for breakfast. Now at 1pm though I feel great, and am going to try to go back to sleep from 6pm-9pm tonight.
Targets:
-Have an average sleep per 24 hour cycle of right around 6 hours.
-Not be cranky
-Crush people at the pokers
-Feel awesome and productive
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c4rnage . Jul 29 2013 16:57. Posts 409 | | | |
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dnagardi Hungary. Jul 29 2013 17:22. Posts 1778 | | |
i remember a topic like this before on LP. Some ppl started to go for uberman and shit and all failed. I seriously wonder if these are possible |
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Svenman87 United States. Jul 29 2013 18:53. Posts 4636 | | | |
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Svenman87 United States. Jul 29 2013 18:56. Posts 4636 | | |
took me about 3 weeks to really get into though, it's nice when I take naps now though I wake up super refreshed because my body is still use to getting to REM a lot quicker now. |
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Baalim Mexico. Jul 29 2013 19:56. Posts 34262 | | |
last guy who tried to go polyphasic on LiquidPoker went literally crazy |
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Naib Hungary. Jul 29 2013 20:02. Posts 968 | | |
| | On July 29 2013 18:56 Baalim wrote:
last guy who tried to go polyphasic on LiquidPoker went literally crazy |
Who would that be? I'm genuinely curious, since I seem to have missed that. |
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TheHuHu3 United States. Jul 29 2013 22:12. Posts 5544 | | |
| | On July 29 2013 19:02 Naib wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 29 2013 18:56 Baalim wrote:
last guy who tried to go polyphasic on LiquidPoker went literally crazy |
Who would that be? I'm genuinely curious, since I seem to have missed that.
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It was you... Don't you remember? |
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jchysk United States. Jul 29 2013 23:37. Posts 435 | | |
| | On July 29 2013 16:22 dnagardi wrote:
i remember a topic like this before on LP. Some ppl started to go for uberman and shit and all failed. I seriously wonder if these are possible |
I tried Uberman's sleep cycle for about a month about 6 years ago and all I remember over that period of time was constantly being tired. Pretty much nothing else.
As far as switching to a biphasic schedule, I'd set your goals relative to the amount of REM and SWS you're getting rather than amount of hours you're sleeping. |
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Ket United Kingdom. Jul 30 2013 01:34. Posts 8665 | | |
yo whoosel, just thought i'd mention since ur name popped up here that I recently finished reading "early retirement extreme" which I believe I first caught wind of through your blog. Was very entertaining and insightful, cheers! |
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Naib Hungary. Jul 30 2013 07:21. Posts 968 | | |
| | On July 29 2013 21:12 TheHuHu3 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 29 2013 19:02 Naib wrote:
| | On July 29 2013 18:56 Baalim wrote:
last guy who tried to go polyphasic on LiquidPoker went literally crazy |
Who would that be? I'm genuinely curious, since I seem to have missed that.
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It was you... Don't you remember? |
That was so funny, I almost laughed! |
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dogmeat Czech Republic. Jul 30 2013 07:31. Posts 6374 | | |
i was really excited to read about your gay shenanigans :/ |
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patmcgroin Afghanistan. Jul 30 2013 09:01. Posts 830 | | |
interesting, keep us updated on how this goes for you! |
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So just curious, you live in United States; what site do you play on? |
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+1 keep us updated. If you're doing well after a year a lot of us might try! |
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AndrewSong United States. Jul 30 2013 10:57. Posts 2355 | | |
this sounds incredible yet i can't even sleep and wake up at the time i want. For past 10 or more, I've been staying awake till exhaustion and sleeping till I want to get up. Time is reading 10:56am here and I'm slowly going close to sleeping. I know my quality of life would improve if i can fix this but how? |
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Stim_Abuser United States. Jul 30 2013 14:52. Posts 7499 | | |
Yea I also remember that several people tried that sleep cycle and all of them had a bad time and reverted back to normal.
GL though :D |
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Stim_Abuser United States. Jul 30 2013 14:53. Posts 7499 | | |
| | On July 29 2013 18:56 Baalim wrote:
last guy who tried to go polyphasic on LiquidPoker went literally crazy |
Trying to remember which one it was. There was honestly about 4-5 people on LP that legit went crazy. |
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Arirang Canada. Jul 30 2013 14:59. Posts 1673 | | |
i must imagine everyone has a miserable sleeping cycle. I can't imagine anyone being extremely content with their sleeping schedule. I think most people get up because they have to. And the same people go to sleep at certain hours because again, they must. Then they probably catchup on all their fatigue during the weekends and repeat the same miserable shit during weekdays.
Wait, maybe that's just me. Hope the fuck not tho. |
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nicksson Sweden. Jul 30 2013 15:21. Posts 4662 | | |
| | On July 30 2013 13:53 Stim_Abuser wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 29 2013 18:56 Baalim wrote:
last guy who tried to go polyphasic on LiquidPoker went literally crazy |
Trying to remember which one it was. There was honestly about 4-5 people on LP that legit went crazy.
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I think it was Rhaegar if I remember correctly |
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