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January 18, 2006

Sleep Cycles

Posted in Antiquated.

I admit, I got a little burned out at work today (8 hours in front of the monitor, no lunch, pretty tough). So, I took a break and read a bit about polyphasic sleep on Steve Pavlina’s blog. I then dug around more and more and read some wikis and all sorts of articles. I’ve decided to embark on Glen Rhodes’ bi-phasic sleep pattern and see how it works for me. I’ve never been much for sleeping a lot, but I’ve never really understood why I’m tired one day and just fine another. I’m looking into how I can schedule a routine 90-minute nap every day and then get 6 hours of sleep every night. The sleep cycles seem to make sense. If I get up at 6:30 every morning I could probably get a lot done in a day. Look out breakfast, I’m making a come-back..

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  1. Dio Dipasupil says

    I tried 90 minute sleep cycles a few months ago after reading Glen Rhodes’ blog. It’s been working out very well for me. I usually get 4.5 or 6 hours of sleep per night and I feel great all day. If I happen to get a non-90 minute multiple of sleep I usually feel pretty crappy. I’m a believer.

    January 21, 2006, 11:08 am Reply
  2. Devin says

    Good to hear! I’m looking forward to dropping down to the 4.5 hour level..

    January 21, 2006, 5:42 pm Reply

Continuing the Discussion

  1. Devin Reams | PIP: Personal Improvement Project | devinreams.com linked to this post on January 19, 2006

    [...] As mentioned the other day, I’ve started a biphasic sleep schedule. I went to sleep two nights ago at 1am (in order to ween myself into it) and woke up at 6. Last night I napped from 8:30p-10p … and then again from 10:03-midnight. Oops. I think my body doesn’t yet realize what I’m doing, which is fine… I expected this. Anyway, I got up at midnight, got some things done and went back to bed at 2. This morning I was back up at 6. I plan to try the nap again tonight. [...]

  2. Devin Reams | Workaholics | devinreams.com linked to this post on February 5, 2006

    [...] I think it all started when I arrived at college (last year). I had only worked two jobs in my life (a lifeguard and retail sales) and I realized there had to be something better. Once I found stuff I really liked I did a lot of it. Now I’m a workaholic. I’ve even changed my entire sleep schedule to try and get the most out of every hour in the day. [...]



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