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Why Polyphasic Sleep?

Most newbies in the sleep hacking community as well as skeptics outside the sleep hacking community, never question as to why the core sleep is split into smaller naps when it comes to polyphasic sleeping. Folks who are unacquainted with the concept of sleep and sleep hacking believe that anything and everything concerning splitting your core sleep into shorter naps is stupid and/or dangerous. However there are also quite a few who are acquainted with the concept of polyphasic ...

Science. Anecdotal Evidence. Dymaxion Sleep.

I get an email every once in a while from a reader who happens to be well versed with the concept of sleep hacking as well as possesses the basic knowledge about the functioning of sleep itself. The email usually starts with quoting some statement I made on the blog or in the guides, followed by the reader citing some piece of information or study or anecdotal evidence which contradicts my initial statement and finally ending the email with a long explanation stating why I am wrong. The ...

Time Magazine's Article in 1943 On Dymaxion Sleep And Buckmister Fuller

Time Magazine: Monday, Oct. 11, 1943 Sleep is just a bad habit. So said Socrates and Samuel Johnson, and so for years has thought grey-haired Richard Buckminster Fuller, futurific inventor of the Dymaxion* house (TIME, Aug. 22, 1932), the Dymaxion car and the Dymaxion globe. Fuller made a deliberate attempt to break the sleep habit, with excellent results. Last week he announced his Dymaxion system of sleeping. Two hours of sleep a day, he said firmly, is plenty. Fuller ...

Hormesis And Sleep Hacking

What Is Hormesis? Hormesis is a biological phenomenon whereby a beneficial effect results from exposure to low doses of an agent that is otherwise toxic or lethal when given at higher doses. You certainly did not have a moment of epiphany from reading that small definition up there but I can guarantee you that the next 5-10 minutes that you spend on understanding what hormesis is and how it applies to your life will pay back positive results 10 times or even 100 times to ...