Polyphasic sleep is a sleeping schedule where you sleep more than once in day.People often try to reduce their sleep time by trying Polyphasic sleepTo successfully adapt this schedule you may consider these few points-

How To Adapt Polyphasic Sleep 

1. Biphasic sleep2. Everyman sleep 3. Uberman (Hardest to adapt)4. Dymaxion Biphasic & Everyman sleep cycle is easy to adapt and they have a high chances of success.

Types Of Polyphasic Sleep 

The first week in your journey can drive you nuts. These 7 days are most challenging and crucial time of adaptation.But once you complete first week then The ball is in your court now.Headache, lack of motivation , lack of energy may appear & it can effect your memory and behavior too.

Challenge

1. You will have a lot more hours to accomplish your goal and get a edge on your competitors.2. NAPS during the day can increase your memory and make you feel more focused.3. Sleeping in little chunks can increase your attention & makes you feel more fresh.4. Basically, humans are already polyphasic sleeper by nature and our ancestors slept in more than once in a day so they can hunt in the night also.

Pros

1. In the first few week your productivity & focusing power can go down a little bit.2. You have to know about your limits and consult with your doctor before starting.3. Attention and memory power may decrease in first few days but not in long term.4. You have to compromise with so many things so that you can take a nap, like skipping your friends party.

Cons

This idea has some knowledge about polyphasic sleep that you can face if you try to adapt it.

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Polyphasic sleep

First of all you need to have a rigid feeling of building that habit which you want & than you can follow these few easy steps to pursue your goal1. Remove the cues from your environment that make you distracted from your goal.2. When you try to build a habit to doing something you are also trying to quit a habit of not doing it.3. Consume the kind content which motivates you to follow your goal.4. Our willpower is limited so don't try to adapt multiple changes at the same time.5. Imagine the personality which you can become by achieving that goal or by adapting that habit.

Polyphasic sleep

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Shekhar Jangid