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Polyphasic Sleep
How to Have Less Sleep and More Time & Energy Polyphasic Sleep – Can We Sleep Less and Still Function Normally? Polyphasic sleep – also known as Uberman’s sleep Schedule, consists of six daily naps taken every four hours instead of one long sleep every night (monophasic sleep) The naps can last from a minimum [...]
Understanding Sleep: Deep Sleep, REM Sleep, Cycles, Stages, and Needs
What happens if we don’t get enough sleep? Many of us want to sleep as little as possible. There is so much to do that sleep seems like a waste of time. Yet sleep, an essential time of rest and rejuvenation, benefits our minds and bodies in many ways. When you continuously don’t get the [...]
Sleep (or how to hack your brain)
My body is incompatible with Earth. It has a daily sleep-wake cycle that lasts about 28 hours instead of 24 hours, which means each day I stay awake about four hours longer than most people. In the middle of the week, I sometimes find myself waking up at 11PM and going to bed in the [...]
Stages of Sleep
Stages of Sleep Usually sleepers pass through five stages: 1, 2, 3, 4 and REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. These stages progress cyclically from 1 through REM then begin again with stage 1. A complete sleep cycle takes an average of 90 to 110 minutes. The first sleep cycles each night have relatively short REM [...]