Polyphasic sleep

[Anonymous No.6635577]

Does this work? Doesn't sleep affect long term information retention? Anyone tried Ubermansleepmaxxing in order to quadruple your drawing time?

[Anonymous No.6635592]

>>6635577
Just get out of bed at the same time every day and get your 8-9 hours of sleep you fucking goblin.

[Anonymous No.6635593]

Note:
Sleep is VITAL for your health and improvement. That's where your memory gets crystalized.

Sleep, exercise, and good food. You should NEVER sacrifice them for anything as the body and mind are one. If one is unhealthy, everything is as well

[Anonymous No.6635605]

>>6635577
well your body will prioritize rem sleep so you'll retain procedural memories so you will keep your gains but you will lose out on growth hormone and declarative memories so go for it
we still dont know the long term consequences for this kinda stuff so good luck

[Anonymous No.6635635]

I've tried the triphasic (1.5+1.5+1.5), biphasic (4.5+1.5), and basic siesta a few years ago. The community has already made the consensus below 4.5 hours sleep is not feasible in the long term. It works and my brain functioned okay but polyphasic sleep is autistically strict by being inflexible, having no coffee, sleeping at the exact same time everyday, and wearing red glasses at night which makes it harder to draw. I had diffuse thinning trying it, and having a job or school will make it impossible to follow the schedule.

Right now, I just sleep 4pm to 11pm and take modafinil, so that I can draw before work to avoid making exhaustion as an excuse.

It's nice to be awake when everybody's asleep.

[Anonymous No.6635645]

>>6635577
I had a polyphasic sleep schedule for almost 10 years. I commute 5 hours a day to work so I would sleep 2 hours on the bus each way and 2-3 hours at home. I could work a full 8 hour day then go home and draw 6-8 hours (or do whatever other hobby interested me)

It worked pretty well. I made my best gains when I was doing polyphase. It stopped working when I couldn’t sleep on the bus anymore because I had to do actual work on the bus for the job I was commuting to.

When you miss a sleep window in a polyphasic sleep schedule it feels like you pulled an all nighter.

>>6635593
>>6635605
It definitely changes when you get older. I was sleeping in 20 minute chunks recently every 2-3 hours because I had a kid. My brain was fine, but my body was starting to fall apart. My back was hurting and I couldn’t rest to recover physically. After about a month I hit my limit, but the kid started to sleep in longer chunks. If you can survive with less sleep you definitely can get more done in a day. I can live off about 4-6 hours of sleep a day.

[Anonymous No.6635683]

>>6635577
The difficulty is in having the discipline to carry this through, and to have a sane life on the side (exercise, diverse food, and so forth).

Difficult.

[Anonymous No.6635693]

stop re-enactic seinfeld you creatures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLTg2nHZEHQ

[Anonymous No.6635732]

>>6635577
I'm biphasic but that's only out of poor sleep hygiene.
>wake up at 7
>go to work
>work 8 to 4
>come home and sleep till 5 30
>do stuff until 7 30
>draw until 1am
Yeah it's not going the best.

[Anonymous No.6635840]

>work from 9 to 6 with an hour break
>no commute (WFH)
>feels like I barely have any free time left in the day after work and sleep
I'm pretty sure the issue lies with me, ADHD brain starts priming itself for work like 4 hours early so 4 out of my ~6 free hours is just spent in executive dysfunction waiting for work to start
the only time I actually draw is on my lunch break

[Anonymous No.6636172]

>>6635577
I know taking naps is good for consolidating memory and things you've learned so I assume more short periods of sleep is optimal if you're on a serious learning grind. Try it out and report back.

[Anonymous No.6636227]

I have trouble sleeping, always spend thirty minutes lying down before i’m able to drift off.

[Anonymous No.6636262]

>>6636227
I lay there for 4 hours, anon. You're very lucky

[Anonymous No.6636366]

>>6636262
My condolences.

[Anonymous No.6636553]

>>6635577
feels like everyone goes through this phase in their early twenties where youre like well maybe its my sleep schedule! good luck with the societal ramifications btw.

https://www.cnet.com/culture/features/the-time-i-tried-polyphasic-sleep-and-started-hallucinating/

i knew a guy who did it in college but he was a maior autist and practiced the cycle during neethood before college. if its too good to be true, it usually is.

this guy
>>6635693
gets it

[Anonymous No.6639569]

>>6635577
I tried Everyman for about 10 days. You lose all sense of time. Days blend together. You never really feel well rested.

[Anonymous No.6641767]

Vump

[Anonymous No.6642220]

>>6635577
i once tried one of those apps that record your snores and shit and i saw myself sleeping for exactly 7 hours and 23 minutes for weeks in a row, so i think this is my sleeping pattern and i try not to sleep less/more than that