Polyphasic Sleep Experiment
by Vijay Kiran
It’s been long time since I started being a night guy. It all started when I joined as a System Administrator for a web hosting company. During those days, almost for more than a month, I used to be in the “night-shifts”. And I got used to them a lot. Even after leaving that job, my habit continued. That was story during 2003. Till date I prefer working in night, and mostly have become a nocturnal being. I tried a couple of times to be an “early riser”, but failed miserably.
So now I’m starting an experiment with myself as the subject. I’ll be practicing Polyphasic Sleep. I’ll be following a stricter version of Polyphasic Sleep which is called Uberman’s Sleep Schedule. In this I’ll be sleeping for 30 minutes for every four hours. I’ve fixed my timings to be: 1:30, 5:30, 9:30, 13:30, 17:30, 21:30.
In the same context I’d like to mention a wonderful program I got recently from the Mac App A Day promotion. The program is Pzizz!. It’s a program that plays music/suggesions for relaxation and sleep. Yeah, I know you must be thinking about another relaxation audio CDs. No, it is not. The program generates the audio/voice content based on your setting and its different every-time you play. I tried it once for an hour and I certainly felt the program was very useful. If you want to know more about the program goto Pzizz! website. It has windows/mac versions.
And so, I’m gonna sleep “with” Pzizz! during my Polyphasic Sleep experiment. I’ll track my progress in the blog. If you are interested, keep listening ![]()
