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Archive for February, 2008

The end of polyphasic sleep

Posted by Warren Davies 0 Comment

Today is the final day of my month-long experiment with polyphasic sleep.  It has been very interesting and novel; I have felt most of the time like I have had an advantage of the rest of the population, who get only a sluggish 16 waking hours, pah.  But having said that, I wouldn’t want to  [ Read More ]

Categories: Experiments, Self-Help
Tamakoshi & Ohno, 2004

I decided to look into some of the research on sleep and sleep deprivation when I started this polyphasic experiment, and some of the findings I came across are very, very surprising, and the opposite to what you might expect, based on common wisdom. This is a quick review of what I learned. I’ve …

Categories: Experiments, Self-Help

Well I’m 19 days into the everyman schedule, and all is well. I’m still getting a lot done, and still enjoying this novel way of experiencing life. It is training me to make more use and better use of my time, because what’s the point of extra time if it’s not spent …

Categories: Experiments, Self-Help

February – Polyphasic Sleep

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Sleep….

It’s been a long time since I updated this site, as you can see there was no entry made in December (which was going to be random acts of kindness) or January. This is because I had exams in January, and revision took up 98% of my waking time. In the month of February, I  [ Read More ]

Categories: Experiments, Self-Help
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