What's Powiull Sleep?
Nap Length
I have been daydream napping 30 minute naps every 12 hours. It has been a while since I stayed up 24 hours with only a 30 minute nap in between.
While I was on polyphasic sleep, I noticed that I would start waking up 15 minutes before the alarm went off (set for 30 minutes). I noticed every-time I forced myself back to sleep, I had a difficult time making it to the next nap. Eventually waking up after only sleeping 15 minutes became a regular routine and I was feeling wonderful after only 15 minute naps. As a result, I started setting the alarm for 15 minute naps instead of 30 minute naps.
Well, to my surprise (seems how I am napping even less amount of time on Powiull sleep verse polyphasic sleep), I started waking up earlier than the regular 30 minutes daydream naps. In fact, 15 minutes earlier! Therefore, that has been cutting my sleep time in half. I am now getting 30 minutes (two 15 minute daydream naps) of sleep every 24 hours. However, sometimes I take a extra 15 minute daydream nap around the nighttime cycle, so it ranges differently depending on how my body is feeling. Anywhere from 30-45 minutes of sleep in a 24 hour period is average now. As a result, yes I did get away from the 24 hours of wake, but the body seemed to trade that for 15 minute naps instead.
I am interested to see if it will continue to evolve from here, or perhaps level off and call this 'normal'.
Laying Down Verse Sitting Up
With this new experience of shorter naps, I wanted to see if I could: lay down, take the nap, wake up, and get up before the body has time to start shutting down. I figured since on monophasic sleep it took me about 15-20 minutes to fall asleep, it would makes sense that it takes the body about the same amount of time to shut down.
I have not been doing this long, so not sure if the result will last, but laying down seems more beneficial. I feel more rested and restored when laying down for 15 minutes then sitting up. I will keep laying down and continue to test it this way.
Alarm Setting
While testing the laying down process, I am using a count-down alarm to avoid oversleeping the 15 minutes. This result has been wonderful, as long as I keep laying down, I will keep setting the alarm and I will keep laying down as long as I keep feeling good about it.
Cold Symptoms
I felt a cold coming on, small signs of nose running every so often. It never progressed into anything more. Right now, I am just a little congested with my nose plugged (no running nose), but it is not effected my sleep patterns. Usually on monophasic sleep if I get the slightest cold, I tend to want to sleep more, that has not been the case on Powiull sleep.
Testing Exercise
I have no yet tested my energy levels or see if pushing my energy will cause me to sleep more while on this napping pattern, since the cold symptoms delayed that process. Once I am feeling topnotch I will start testing results in this area. I will start out with walks and work myself up to running and maybe eventually adding a workout on top of that too.
Another Method to Adopting Powiull Sleep
My new-found best-friend decided to tweak with her sleeping schedule after only getting 4 hours of sleep and feeling fantastic. I also had the same experience while on monophasic sleep, 4 hours of sleep seems to be a primal start for some reason. This got me thinking, perhaps an easier (but by all means not simple) way to convert to Powiull sleep, would be to gradually cut your hours in half. After your body gets used to the conditioning of 4 hours, then cut a few more hours off until the body adapts, and repeat the process. You will know once your body adapts since you will start feeling rested, you will feel like the memory of your dreams are longer than 4 hours, and you might even start waking up sooner then 4 hours feeling restful/energized.
Food and Sleep
People have been saying for decades that curtain foods will make you feel sleepy and the quality of sleep you get is also effected by what foods you eat. However, every time the hours of sleep are reduced, I feel a decline in the hunger of my body for food. I feel they are both intermediately connected.
Hence the less food you eat (not what you eat, but not eating period), the less sleep you need. I have been listening to my body on when to eat and find that the state of hunger never fully occupies the body while on this napping pattern, just little pressures here and there but nothing ever significant. As a result, you might find it easier to adapt to a new sleeping pattern if you stop eating as much.
Obviously we do not need as much sleep as most would assume. In fact as collect consciousness we still do not even know what sleep is for, everything you ever heard about sleep is a theory, none of it has been proven on scientific study. They say the cause of sleep is "likely" to be the result of curtain variables based on experiments, but they never have found significant evidence to prove that the "likely theories" are accurate.
Scientific research still has no idea what yawning is for. All they know for sure about yawning is that it is contagious. Hearing, seeing, and even just reading about yawning, can cause the reaction of yawning to occur. Like a bad habit that is easily picked up by the influence of others. It is humorous to me that people tend to relate sleep to yawning, because I find that sleep seems to be the same result as yawning: a bad habit easily picked up by the influence of others. :)
How do we know that food is not the same way? Food for thought...
Or is that thought becomes food, like thoughts become things?
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