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thewh00sel    United States. Jul 29 2013 16:22. Posts 2734
Biphasic that is!

I'm going to attempt a biphasic sleep cycle to allow me to

A: Play the graveyard shift for poker of 10pm-5am
B: Be awake during the day with my family
C: Sleep less/more efficiently

For those of you who don't know what a biphasic sleep schedule is, there are some variations of it, but basically you sleep twice per 12 hour period for around 3 hours each time. I have just begun my foray into this practice (today will be my 2nd 24 hour cycle of biphasic sleep), but I have to say I am already impressed with how it feels. I'm going to keep a log of how I feel with this sleep schedule until it becomes routine for me. Probably a week or two and then update if I am still using this schedule in the future.

Day 1: 7/27.
After a 14 hour session of poker I arrived home at 5am and had something I had to be awake for at 9am so I set my alarm.

Day 1(b) first attempt: 7/28
Sleep cycle 1: 4hrs
Sleep cycle 2: 1hr45min
Total sleep: 5hr45min

After waking I decided that this was the perfect opportunity to attempt biphasic sleep. So I stayed awake until 5pm at which point I attempted to go back to sleep for 3 hours. My daughter didn't quite let me fall asleep at first, but eventually I fell asleep around 630pm and slept until 815pm. Upon awakening I was a little groggy because I didn't wake naturally but by my family jumping into bed to wake me up. After putting Allison to sleep I headed to work and started my session at 10pm. I played until 5am and felt great the whole time.

Day 3 7/29
Cycle 1: 3hrs50min
Cycle 2 (projected): 2hrs30min
Total sleep (projected): 6hr20min


When I got home at 530am I went to sleep until 920am. I awoke a little groggier than I was expecting, and laid in bed until 10am until finally getting up for breakfast. Now at 1pm though I feel great, and am going to try to go back to sleep from 6pm-9pm tonight.

Targets:
-Have an average sleep per 24 hour cycle of right around 6 hours.
-Not be cranky
-Crush people at the pokers
-Feel awesome and productive

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c4rnage   . Jul 29 2013 16:57. Posts 409

 Last edit: 29/07/2013 16:57

dnagardi   Hungary. Jul 29 2013 17:22. Posts 1776

i remember a topic like this before on LP. Some ppl started to go for uberman and shit and all failed. I seriously wonder if these are possible


Svenman87   United States. Jul 29 2013 18:53. Posts 4636

I did a polyphasic sleep schedule for a while - now I'm on a bisphasic since I'm working third shift - I love it.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=678243


Svenman87   United States. Jul 29 2013 18:56. Posts 4636

took me about 3 weeks to really get into though, it's nice when I take naps now though I wake up super refreshed because my body is still use to getting to REM a lot quicker now.


Baalim   Mexico. Jul 29 2013 19:56. Posts 34246

last guy who tried to go polyphasic on LiquidPoker went literally crazy

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Naib   Hungary. Jul 29 2013 20:02. Posts 968


  On July 29 2013 18:56 Baalim wrote:
last guy who tried to go polyphasic on LiquidPoker went literally crazy



Who would that be? I'm genuinely curious, since I seem to have missed that.

My favourite line is Bet/Fold. I bet, you fold. 

TheHuHu3   United States. Jul 29 2013 22:12. Posts 5544


  On July 29 2013 19:02 Naib wrote:
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Who would that be? I'm genuinely curious, since I seem to have missed that.


It was you... Don't you remember?

TheHuHu4 coming soon :) 

jchysk   United States. Jul 29 2013 23:37. Posts 435


  On July 29 2013 16:22 dnagardi wrote:
i remember a topic like this before on LP. Some ppl started to go for uberman and shit and all failed. I seriously wonder if these are possible


I tried Uberman's sleep cycle for about a month about 6 years ago and all I remember over that period of time was constantly being tired. Pretty much nothing else.

As far as switching to a biphasic schedule, I'd set your goals relative to the amount of REM and SWS you're getting rather than amount of hours you're sleeping.

w00t 

Ket    United Kingdom. Jul 30 2013 01:34. Posts 8665

yo whoosel, just thought i'd mention since ur name popped up here that I recently finished reading "early retirement extreme" which I believe I first caught wind of through your blog. Was very entertaining and insightful, cheers!


Naib   Hungary. Jul 30 2013 07:21. Posts 968


  On July 29 2013 21:12 TheHuHu3 wrote:
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It was you... Don't you remember?



That was so funny, I almost laughed!

My favourite line is Bet/Fold. I bet, you fold. 

dogmeat   Czech Republic. Jul 30 2013 07:31. Posts 6374

i was really excited to read about your gay shenanigans :/

ban baal 

patmcgroin   Afghanistan. Jul 30 2013 09:01. Posts 830

interesting, keep us updated on how this goes for you!


squishypoopie   United States. Jul 30 2013 10:19. Posts 13

So just curious, you live in United States; what site do you play on?

Boom 

nlloser60   . Jul 30 2013 10:54. Posts 304

+1 keep us updated. If you're doing well after a year a lot of us might try!


AndrewSong    United States. Jul 30 2013 10:57. Posts 2355

this sounds incredible yet i can't even sleep and wake up at the time i want. For past 10 or more, I've been staying awake till exhaustion and sleeping till I want to get up. Time is reading 10:56am here and I'm slowly going close to sleeping. I know my quality of life would improve if i can fix this but how?


Stim_Abuser   United States. Jul 30 2013 14:52. Posts 7499

Yea I also remember that several people tried that sleep cycle and all of them had a bad time and reverted back to normal.

GL though :D

Hey Im slinging mad volume and fat stackin benjies I dont got time for spellin n shit - skinny pete 

Stim_Abuser   United States. Jul 30 2013 14:53. Posts 7499


  On July 29 2013 18:56 Baalim wrote:
last guy who tried to go polyphasic on LiquidPoker went literally crazy



Trying to remember which one it was. There was honestly about 4-5 people on LP that legit went crazy.

Hey Im slinging mad volume and fat stackin benjies I dont got time for spellin n shit - skinny pete 

Arirang   Canada. Jul 30 2013 14:59. Posts 1673

i must imagine everyone has a miserable sleeping cycle. I can't imagine anyone being extremely content with their sleeping schedule. I think most people get up because they have to. And the same people go to sleep at certain hours because again, they must. Then they probably catchup on all their fatigue during the weekends and repeat the same miserable shit during weekdays.

Wait, maybe that's just me. Hope the fuck not tho.


nicksson   Sweden. Jul 30 2013 15:21. Posts 4662


  On July 30 2013 13:53 Stim_Abuser wrote:
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Trying to remember which one it was. There was honestly about 4-5 people on LP that legit went crazy.


I think it was Rhaegar if I remember correctly


drone666   Brasil. Jul 30 2013 15:48. Posts 1821

nice, I thought about trying a few months ago but gived up
hope u keep us updated

Dont listen to anything I say 

mnj   United States. Jul 30 2013 17:49. Posts 3848


  On July 30 2013 09:57 AndrewSong wrote:
this sounds incredible yet i can't even sleep and wake up at the time i want. For past 10 or more, I've been staying awake till exhaustion and sleeping till I want to get up. Time is reading 10:56am here and I'm slowly going close to sleeping. I know my quality of life would improve if i can fix this but how?



this is exactly what i prefer to do as well. sleep is better than sex when your absolutely, completely exhausted


KeyleK_uk   United Kingdom. Jul 31 2013 00:34. Posts 1687


  On July 30 2013 16:49 mnj wrote:
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this is exactly what i prefer to do as well. sleep is better than sex when your absolutely, completely exhausted

+1 I cant remember last time I went to bed without being absolutely knackered - how bad is this for us I wonder. Been doing this since I was 18 (9 years)

poker is soooo much easier when you flop setsLast edit: 31/07/2013 00:34

Naib   Hungary. Jul 31 2013 08:31. Posts 968

In my experience (and opinion), things are a lot better if you exercise, or otherwise tire yourself out physically. Being tired because you browsed cat pictures on 9gag 'til 6 in the morning doesn't give you the kind of "good" exhaustion (and good sleep) like some real exercise does.

My favourite line is Bet/Fold. I bet, you fold. 

nlloser60   . Jul 31 2013 10:34. Posts 304


  On July 30 2013 13:53 Stim_Abuser wrote:
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Trying to remember which one it was. There was honestly about 4-5 people on LP that legit went crazy.


What do you guys mean? What happened to them?


careface_   Canada. Aug 01 2013 05:38. Posts 788

died


Sanity   United States. Aug 03 2013 01:09. Posts 1076

I remember that guy who thought aliens were controlling his mind or something like that and never really posted again.

But good luck with the sleep schedule whoosel, keep crushing sir.


 



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