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I wanted to try this shit out, does not really fit with a high school schedule though, heh.

YO!!!
i tried this, its only rubbish for the 1st few weeks when your body adapts to the sleeping pattern. probably not recommended for peak performace workin out, but if u wanna research dream land, then its perfect. i did 20min naps every 4hours, it was intense the 1st few days, overnappin and feelin real tired. after a few weeks, the naps started feelin different, sumtimes id fall asleep str8 away and the second i fell asleep i heard the 20min alarm go off, that freaked me out a few times. other times id wake up at the alarm and it would feel like iv been asleep for hours. the best times were wat is called hypnogogia, inbtween sleep. id feel my body go sleep, but my mind wanders, and wat i was thinkin about turned into a semi dream, real quick flashes of lucidity, and sumtimes wen i kept focus i could b lucid for a few mintues.

polyphasic is pretty cool if you hav an empty schedule, and you wana amillion more minutes in your day. i was learnin spanish, and studyin freeman law xD i cudnt keep it up kuz it was messin wiv the relationship, i like fallen asleep wiv my lady and wakin up next to her, i started missin it too much to carry on xD learnt alot about my body through this, that switchover between wake/sleep is an interesting phaze.
The main goal for at all is REM sleep, and from some stuff i read thats when most of the tissue rebuilding happens, so with enough time your body can adapt to hit rem every 20 min nap, givin u 2hours of dream/rebuid time throughout the day. sounds good in theory, u jus gotta giv urself enough time to adapt. 

xD
pieca peace

one thing i noticed since starting long distance running again, is that i am sleeping less every night.. but i feel alert/rested when i wake up.. i've been requiring 9 hours or so sleep for months, now i keep waking up with 7-8 feeling pretty good.

peace man, thanks for this post

no problems mayn,

one thing i noticed since startin this jump program is i half wake up in the middle of the night and get sum cereal xD
 

I did this before, actually I'm in that phase where you're getting back to normal sleep again. Definitely was weird, I think my personality changed and I was really tired all the time. -It's hard to get back to normal when you've done this for like half a year. I loved those naps, felt really good, especially in class. My family hated me though and they always screamed like bitches lol.

i am amazed that two people have done this on this forum.. i never thought i'd run into anyone who has tried that.

haha..

what made you want to try that out? how did you come across it?

pc

it's not rubbish.  i'll elaborate on my background in multiphase sleep later but in short, think about this, babies/new borns do multiphase sleep!  they do not eat on schedule or sleep on schedule.  they eat when ever they are hungry and they sleep whenever they are tired and need to rebuild energy.  it is 100% natural.  humans are habitual animals, when we conditioned ourselves into the same shits we tend to find it hard to change, but only at first.  once you are used to multiphase sleep it'll feel completely normal; except the society will think of you as crazy.  :-)

multi phase sleep update...
Posted on March 11, 2011 by ghettoracer

by Frank M. Lin

I sort of caught the flu virus that's been going around in Taiwan (or maybe not).  Nothing serious, no fever or headache or body aches.  Just running nose for like a week.  Actually, I think I brought it upon myself...  Normally after a hot spring session you're suppose to hit the cold shower (or in my case I dipped in the cold water tank one last time before towel drying myself) to close up all the pores on your skin (???) so that when the wind blows on you, you won't catch a cold.  Well, that one day two weeks ago I got out of the hot tank, and just dried myself.  So I ended up sweating a lot, with my pores wide open, and I rode scooter down the hill with my jacket open...  and this is most likely how I got the running nose, and not from a virus.

In any case, the running nose made me slept a lot more than usual.  One day I actually slept for like 14 hours and just didn't feeling like moving or doing anything but snuggle up in bed.  That was around Feb. 25th, 2011 or so and today is already March 10th, 2011.  So not much multi phase sleeping anymore as my night rests are back to minimum of 6 hours a night.  When I wake up from the sleeping sessions I no longer feel refreshed and rejuvenated.  Which means the sleeping quality is no longer intense and powerful like during actual multi phase sleep.

Looking back, this period of multi phase sleep started around November 2010.  What kicked it off was when I started to move my bed time from past 1am to 11pm.  In TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) philosophy, 11pm-1am is critical time for body repair.  It is the natural body cycle/time for the liver to regenerate itself.  If you don't believe it, try to to sleep by 10pm for a week and you should feel like you need a lot less sleep and you wake up much more refreshed.  I notice that, by doing chikong and/or yoga (there are many methods that will directly or indirectly increase your chi/energy levels) I'm less bound by the rule that require me to rest during the 11pm-1am repair time.  During the multi phase sleep periods the best thing seems to be the body is never fatigued.  Even if I was running and playing full court basketball for 4 hours a day.  All I would need is a 10-15 minute power nap after the game, and all my energy is back!!  The feeling is quite amazing.

Basically for me, when I'm in the multi phase sleep state (MPSS) the entire body seems to be operating at peak efficiency.  During a lot of these power nap sessions, my mind actually still awake and alert.  I would describe the feeling as the body needed to stop its movements for a little while, and especially the eyes needs to be closed.  In MPSS when I'm feeling tired, closing the eyes makes a HUGE difference.  Even just shutting the eyes half way I can feel the energy requirement needed to keep the eyes processing the information - think about it, shut the eye lids down half or even 75% and the imagery is drastically reduced, thus reduced energy needed to operate it.  This is all just my own theory of course.  I'd have to check it against other people's experiences and flip through older texts to see what other people's experiences are like.  This is fun stuff for sure.

So when I'm in serious MPSS phase, some days there would be no one major sleep block at all.  It would basically be power naps every 3-4 hours on average.  These sleep sessions are super intense, often 10-15 minutes in time, and frequently it is shorter, like 5 minutes.  I would completely lose the feeling of time - 5 minutes could feel like an hour!  Is that cool or what?  I guess some might say that's disorientation at work and in a way they are right.  I'd freak my friends out a lot haha...  I'd be like, sorry dudes, I need to crash for 5 minutes.  I would seem to be asleep, but yet my brain is alert and my ears are functioning and I can wake up 5 minutes later, and still join their conversation.  They'd freak out be like, dude I thought you were completely knocked out you looked dead asleep.  Hahaha...

I was thinking about doing this in the summer. Really all i have is training, eating, sleeping and optional studying,

Is this condusive for a period of time where you are seriously training. Will it allow for you to speed up your recovery etc.