Hey Dave, I just answered Jon with the following:

I ended it because of of an ever-changing social life. That’s really the major cause of it. Dymaxion let me sleep two hours a day, but the draw back was that I had to sleep at set times. However, I couldn’t, and through it I learnt how to sleep well with just four hours of sleep a day. The extra two hours of lost time was a price I was willing to pay for flexibility.

I ended it because of of an ever-changing social life. That’s really the major cause of it. Dymaxion let me sleep two hours a day, but the draw back was that I had to sleep at set times. However, I couldn’t, and through it I learnt how to sleep well with just four hours of sleep a day. The extra two hours of lost time was a price I was willing to pay for flexibility.

I’d also really like to know.

I’ve been looking through your site on google, trying “polyphasic site:danceproof.com” and “sleep site:danceproof.com” and couldn’t find an answer.

Hoping you check comments posted on old pages.

Best wishes,
Dave

I noticed that you made it a month with the Dymaxion, much longer than most others I can find on the web.

Did you make it to the end of the second month? If so, how long did you go? If not, can you comment on why you ended the project?

I would be interested to hear how this turned out.

Jon

I’m no longer on it, what do you mean by gms? On the polyphasic forums there’s actually been a theory going around that the “growth” potion compensates for the lower sleep by releasing less potion (because you’re asleep less) but it’s more potent, thus balancing out. The only time I’ll truly take this seriously is 17 when I get ready for college and I want to be able to stay up more to be able to study without sleep deprivation.

Tech – learn gms instead, I hope you’re not using this sleep schedule at you’re age, there is no telling what effect it will have on a teen. You need those sleep cycles while going through you’re growth spurt, unless you have no problem losing an inch or two, I wouldn’t risk it… there’s not enough research on sleep cycles to say for sure that it won’t negatively impact puberty. I’m about to go on uberman but only because I”m 23 and my schedule is wide open + I’m physically satisfied with my body. Whatever you decide, it’s great that you’re interested in doing things a little different

I actually was doing fairly well until the sleep deprivation kicked in, then because of my hard of hearing issues I wasn’t able to wake up for one of the naps and so I would oversleep that nap consistently.

However, even with doing that I was perfectly alert 100% of the time with only 4-6 hours of sleep a day so if I switched to the everyman and put the core where I always overslept I might have been able to cut it down to 4 hours solid with “perfect” adaptation.

The weirdest part was that I actually almost never fell asleep, however the mere act of “resting” and trying to fall asleep kept me alert all the time except for the nap where I overslept (which was pretty much the only real time I had sleep).

So try it, but if you have trouble waking up try seeing if you can do multiple alarms, loud alarms, vibrating watch, anything. I’m going to see if I can engineer something that will shock me (literally) and try that out next summer ^^

did it work for u ??

I was on Uberman for three months before Dymaxion. I never wrote about it. I went on it for three months, came off it (one month in between where I slept ‘normally’), then went to Dymaxion.

30ish minute naps. My body has gotten pretty used to it by now. 29 minute naps, 25 minute naps, 32 minute naps, etc… And it’s going well. Nothing’s changed for the worse.