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It would work after not sleeping regularly for about 5 days.

Reb, next time please do not post nonsensical posts which ignores all previous arguements and causes fallacies regarding sleep.

I have to account for your biases against bloggers now? I'm really quite annoyed with you Quoi, you seem determined to point out a flaw in every post. If you don't believe this then thats fine, but please leave this thread alone. I don't have time to gallivant across the web searching for articles that you will accept.

When I was in school our senior prank was pretty good, one group of kids filled the principals office with bouncy balls(quite cheap in bulk) another couple of kids took a bunch of glitter and poured it all over the floors, this gives a cool effect if you trip and fall you get covered in glitter.

I would try to get in 15 minutes a day on a few different machines that work on various core muscles along with your abs.

The trick is actually sleep deprivation. Day 1 you try and sleep for 30 mins, if you can't you don't get to sleep during that nap time, same goes for the next nap. Day 2: By now you are tired, the naps don't seem to help because of the lack of rem sleep. (jump to day 5 due to largely the same occurrences) Day 5: your system needs rem sleep it begins to get it as soon as it can, adjusting to the 30/20 minute breaks it is given. This teaches your brain to get rem sleep as soon as you can get it.

If you have a weakened immune system its bad for you, I have yet to see anyone with a terrible reaction to this. So you know people who have done this? Yes, the only troubles they have experienced is lack of things to do at the dead ends of the night, becoming extremely tired if they miss a nap, and a few problems switching back to monophasic sleep.

If you have a weakened immune system its bad for you, I have yet to see anyone with a terrible reaction to this.

It is possible. http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/?catid=10&newsid=12673

I want you to change the claim to "potential alternative." The point being you do not know that it can readily replace normal sleep. It is interesting and may be possible, but not validated. What you're claiming is along the same line as many natural Chinese herbs that supposedly cure cancer; unvalidated and usually false. I do know it can readily replace sleep, I don't know if the effects are negative in the long run. How do I know? There are many people who have gotten this to work. Furthermore, you yourself have altered your sleep pattern, you ARE able to change the pattern you sleep in. Let me rephrase then, readily replace sleep in either a neutral or beneficial manner that continues to work in the long run in the average person. Stupid semantics. So far I've seen only positive effects,sorry. As for scientific usage, look at the spanish,U.S, and Canadian Military units who use diphasic sleep sessions to increase their activity. I cannot find the actual military test reports,however. Here's one test on sailors. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a782431473~db=all Another blogger http://polyphasic.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2002-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2003-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=25

The next big religion is pastafarianism.

I want you to change the claim to "potential alternative." The point being you do not know that it can readily replace normal sleep. It is interesting and may be possible, but not validated. What you're claiming is along the same line as many natural Chinese herbs that supposedly cure cancer; unvalidated and usually false. I do know it can readily replace sleep, I don't know if the effects are negative in the long run. How do I know? There are many people who have gotten this to work. Furthermore, you yourself have altered your sleep pattern, you ARE able to change the pattern you sleep in.

What do you want me to do? This is a viable alternative to normal sleep, as for trials, it isn't being clinically tested as far as I know. The best "test" results I can give you is that a polyphasic sleeper got a full workup and was given a clean bill of health, the only abnormal thing was a minor decline in liver function, this was attributed to his age.

Link to slowing light down:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/18/AR2007011801683.html

It was a profound discovery, when it was discovered. This is a cycle used by many animals, it isn't a huge leap to believe humans could do it too.

Nothing with mass can travel at the speed of light ;) Well due to recent scientific breakthroughs we can slow light down to a pace where we can exceed it :ugeek:

1. If I were to take 20 minute nap, I would wake up feeling worse than not sleeping. 2. I fail to believe you can "train" yourself to immediately enter REM sleep. 3. It's proven that people need an average of 8 hours of sleep and more as you get older. Couple this is my disbelief of immediately entering REM sleep and I see long term problems. You wouldn't feel worse if you adhered to take 6 naps a day(nothing more) for a week. For the first week you would feel worse. I don't understand your second reason, its not training, your brain needs rem sleep after a while so it eventually learns to get rem sleep when it can, which is during your 6 naps a day. As for the 3rd point, that isn't true at all, when I'm 1 I need 12+ hours of sleep per day, when I'm 30 I only need 8 sleeping monophasically. You need these 8 hours because you go through a hour or so of sleep before ou enter rem, this removes these useless hours.

Please cite some reasons.

It's still not going to convert me to a believer. If you aren't willing to at least read it then I implore you to stop posting here.

Click on the link to steve's blog, his testimonial for one.

This works, if you read the description in the hide tags you would see why, please read the whole thread. I fail to believe you can condition your body to immediately enter REM sleep. You may disagree, that's nice, its possible,however.

That's bad for you. You basically are relying on sleep debt to get you through your day. You also prolly wake up in a groggy state due to you being in delta sleep at this time.

Yes, this actually makes your dreams far more vivid. These power-naps are only rem sleep, rem sleep is the only time when you dream. The vividness of the dreams borders on lucid dreams.

This works, if you read the description in the hide tags you would see why, please read the whole thread. I don't advise anyone under the age of 25 to try this, and if you are gonna ignore this(I know you will) you are gonna be like a zombie for a week, then you'll start feeling better. Regarding its health effects, the only sleep you need is rem sleep, this provides rem sleep. you really do not need other sleep cycles such as delta sleep.

Ever wanted to be awake during the wee hours of the night? Ever wanted to be awake for 22 hours a day,instead of 16? Ever wanted to never wake up and feel groggy and tired? Well then, this may be for you. I recently found an article about something called "polyphasic sleep". Basically Polyphasic sleep is when your sleep pattern is altered so that you sleep in 20 minute naps scheduled around 6 times a day. I realize my description may be somewhat unclear, so... pictures to the rescue. This is a graph of an everyday persons sleep schedule. As you can see it has people sleeping around 1/3 of their day. This is a picture of the polyphasic sleep cycle, less commonly known as the "Uberman" sleep schedule. Due to my inability to explain things well I will quote Steve Pavlina. I've hidden this due its length. [hide=] [/hide] This just pretty cool system I think, for more info you could read the wikipedia article on the subject, or you could read Steve's report of actually doing this schedule for a few months. Here's both links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/ Discuss.