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This kind of brain-hackery bullshit is just marketing fluff. I envy and pity anybody with too much money and not enough brains, but this is just blatant pandering to nitwits and morons.
This is right up there with homeopathic medicine, magnetic wristbands to improve blood oxygenation, and compression nylon clothes to improve blood circulation. It's pseudoscientific bullshit.
As usual, the answer to whether polyphasic sleep works isn't very attractive. In a nutshell, it will work for some people, but probably not for most. We evolved to sleep at night, plain and simple.
That being said, I would love more details on how this would help you manage your regular sleep. I see it supports "monophasic" mode, I would have definitely bought in at a lower price point.
I did polyphasic sleep for three months. It is possible and it does work, but what is overlooked is how perfect your sleep schedule needs to be. When you're hitting all of your naps perfectly, you're really not ever tired and you wake up without an alarm usually. But... if you miss one nap, life is very difficult for a good 24-48 hours. Miss another nap in that timeframe and the problem compounds. Maybe this mask wil…
Not to mention what happens when you get a cold.
WHY OH WHY is polyphasic sleep so attactive? Read about it a little bit, and realize that it is totally, TOTALLY unnatural, nearly impossible to maintain for any length of time, and possibly dangerous to your long-term well-being. Go hack something else. Leave your circadian rhythms alone. You cannot redesign them or improve them. If you are working on a submarine, then maybe polyphasic sleep is useful, because of th…
> totally, TOTALLY unnatural Source? because the studies I know usually show polyphasic sleep as the most natural, and wikipedia agrees ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep ) > nearly impossible to maintain for any length of time crazy schedules like uberman, perhaps, but I know people that have been on everyman for years. > possibly dangerous to your long-term well-being So is monophasic sleep. > Leave yo…
I am usually sucker for these things, but man, oh man :), polyphasic really! I thought this was busted long time ago as a myth. Steve Pavlina was trying to do it and in the end had to admit it is just a way to be constantly sleepy. Mask looks really nice, I would prefer it was a brain entrainment device of sorts. However, to end on more positive note, Kickstarter is great because they have a chance to show us their i…
Steve Pavlina stopped because he was bored and it was not giving him more time with the people he loved (which was the point of it in the first place). Source: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/
Pavlina is so inconsistent in his description of his polyphasic sleep experiences that the consensus on the polyphasic mailing list I ran for a while was that he was a lying about doing it at all.
(straps on a big ugly Neuroon ski-mask thing)
_disrupted._
YEAHHH!
I did polyphasic sleep for three months. It is possible and it does work, but what is overlooked is how perfect your sleep schedule needs to be. When you're hitting all of your naps perfectly, you're really not ever tired and you wake up without an alarm usually. But... if you miss one nap, life is very difficult for a good 24-48 hours. Miss another nap in that timeframe and the problem compounds. Maybe this mask wil…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Steve Pavlina stopped because he was bored and it was not giving him more time with the people he loved (which was the point of it in the first place). Source: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/
Which makes no sense to anyone who has actually managed to switch to polyphasic sleep, even for just a week or two. Pavlina is so inconsistent in his description of his polyphasic sleep experiences that the consensus on the polyphasic mailing list I ran for a while was that he was a lying about doing it at all.