Vaniver comments on Less Wrong DC Experimental Society - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 13 June 2011 08:37:54AM *  6 points [-]

A Psychomotor Vigilance Task is what I've been using for my sleep dep experiments. It maps pretty well to my subjective experience of tiredness and reveals my worst moments in all their quantitative horror. (Once, at my worst, it took me about 15 seconds to respond to a stimulus.)

If you're trying polyphasic sleep, I would recommend everyman over uberman from my experiences.