persephonehazard comments on The Unfinished Mystery of the Shangri-La Diet - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Za3k 19 February 2010 12:28:50PM 0 points [-]

On the note of self-testing vs. controlled experiment, has anyone here tried the polyphasic ("uberman") sleep cycle? Does anyone know of any controlled experiments, either self-administered or larger-scale, which I could look at? I was interested in trying it a few years ago, but dropped in in about 24 hours (before I could have really even been said to try it) due to microsleep in waking hours.

Comment author: persephonehazard 08 June 2011 12:46:05AM 1 point [-]

I managed polyphasic sleep for a week once. It was hellish awful, and eventually I couldn't force myself to carry on through the barrier and see if it lifted...