Post 4540025 - I want to try different sleep patterns. "Polyphasic sle (I want to try different sleep patterns. "Polyphasic sle)

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[quote="makegod2020"]I am not a native user of English so the word combination 
Polyphasic sleep stands out as overly academic to me.

I would not know what it refers to without looking in wikipedia.

They say [quote]
Polyphasic sleep, a term coined by early 20th-century psychologist J.S. Szymanski, 
refers to the practice of sleeping multiple times in a 24-hour period—usually more than two, 
in contrast to biphasic sleep (twice per day) or monophasic sleep (once per day).

It does not imply any particular sleep schedule.... 
 Polyphasic sleep is common in many animals, 
and is believed to be the ancestral sleep state.[/quote]

It one thing to just test it but a totally other to really know 
what patterns that one would settle with and most likely 
highly individual and depending on others that one deal 
with daily.

A lot of Job or other places where one live 
don't make it easy to suddenly take a long nap 
in the middle of the day.

I am past 65 now but when I where around 25 I tested 
to take naps in the middle of the day at my job and 
boy that where not popular at all. Some hated me for it.

Now being a retired old man with none to care about 
I can experiment to my hearts delight. :)

But still not easy to know what works for the body. 
To be able to read the signals from the body.

And time consuming too. Yesterday I went too far. 
I had taken a too long nap in the day and it where 
almost impossible to go to sleep the coming night.

So more than 45 minutes seems to be a bit too long sometimes.

I should find logs from people who work in places where 
they take turn watching over a Ship or sailing a small boat.

Or pilots or lorry drivers? or other such jobs that require that 
one sleep not so regular intervals.

Do you guys have any experiences to share. What works best 
for you? Longer than 45 minute naps?[/quote]

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