JGWeissman comments on Seed Study: Polyphasic Sleep in Ten Steps - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JGWeissman 11 July 2013 06:58:59PM 0 points [-]

I switched to everyman 3 on the 9th night of my adaption (counting the initial sleepless night as the first night). I have only adapted once, and I don't think it would be useful to do it again, because now I already know how to nap.

I would bet on the 6 nap group if this actually happens at some point (which I strongly doubt).

If an experiment is setup which defines a measurement of success, we should make a bet on it then.

Comment author: Tenoke 11 July 2013 07:07:07PM 0 points [-]

I'm sorry but my question was:

How long did it take you from the very start of taking up polyphasic to getting used to everyman?

by this I mean how long did it take you from the first night of no sleep/naps only to being adapted to everyman and not feeling sleep deprived. Unless you are claiming that you were already adapted on the first day after the switch?

Comment author: JGWeissman 11 July 2013 07:45:20PM 0 points [-]

From my first day actually on everyman 3, I was getting more quality awake hours than on monophasic. I was actually doing really great initially, until I got the flu a week in, and then it took a while to reestablish the schedule. I don't really remember the timeline very well.

Comment author: Tenoke 11 July 2013 08:25:21PM 1 point [-]

From my first day actually on everyman 3, I was getting more quality awake hours than on monophasic.

I am skeptical as to whether you were immediately adjusted as opposed to feeling better because you added a lot of sleep to your prior schedule (uberman). Getting the flu (or just having flu-like symptoms) and falling out of schedule seems like further evidence for the second option