Trying Biphasic Sleep for 2 Months, See Why It Improved My Day
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I call the 2-3 hours I’m awake in the middle of the night either “Goblin Hours” or “Rascal Hours.” Goblin Hours are when I plot and scheme by way of writing/coding/reading all hunkered over at my desk. Rascal hours are when I play video games games or sneak out to skateboard. I have very little control over whether the hours will be Rascal or Goblin in nature; I’m just along for the ride.
I love this!
I like "Goblin Hours." xDD
Also known as the Teenage Hours, lol.
@@realitywave 1am
I call them nothing
"Listen to my body" is at the core of every effective suggestion I've been given in relation to health/wellness.
Amen to that!
This comment is gold. You are so freaking right
Yep. My body tells me to eat donuts, drink vodka, smoke cigarettes, and stay up all night.
My cat tells me every night at 2am “you’re gonna have biphasic sleep tonight idgaf you got work at 6”
Omg when I do go back to sleep I have the craziest dreams also
SAME but I am not meant to do this so I'm just tired all day from having my sleep interrupted 😭
Kill your cat.
I got an automated feeder and set it for 4.30am, the cat waits for it and no longer associates me waking up with him being fed. It's great!
@@andrewwilliams6963 i will try this but I'm sure my cat is running away from a very smelly poop he made.
“i’m just going to listen to my body, i’ll eat when i’m hungry.” this shouldn’t be as revolutionary as it is. ❤️ loved to hear this.
Well then the fatso's are gonna use it as an excuse to stuff their face as much as they want. Meanwhile, the anorexics will keep saying they're not hungry.
@@superbarnie 😂
Decade long biphasic sleeper here, my life long battle with insomnia is now much improved. 1st sleep 5hours, 2nd sleep 4hours. Just feels more natural to me.
yeah, that's pretty much me, too.
What exactly is the schedule? Need some examples. Thanks!
@@melijomides7317 im also trying this now. starting day waking up 8-9am do what you need to do until 6 or 7pm. get sleep from 8pm-11pm, do productive things from 11pm until 3-4am.
Doesn't seem like you would want to turn a bunch if lights on or stair at screens.
True?
@@JohnKerbaugh yeah keep it low light.
Historically, the time between first and second sleep was spent on relaxing activities, such as trying to remember dreams, or praying, having sex with one of the other people in the bed (or presumably masturbating while the other people in the bed politely pretend not to notice), or even getting out of bed to socialize, possibly even leaving the house to socialize with neighbours.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to do anything that activates advanced thought processes between the first and second sleep, although most types of reading or watching TV or TH-cam might work well.
All those require light. I think you should do things in the dark.
@@naturesfinest2408 If one wants to be traditional I guess an attempt can be made to do "possible by candlelight" activities. So reading a book/newspaper you didn't get to earlier in the day/whatever or some simple household chores that always get neglected. If you have a pet like a cat maybe try playing with them, when it's dark (or at least twilight like) I've noticed that my cat has a lot more interest and endurance in the murder the string with a knot at the end and remote control electric toy mouse games.
@@naturesfinest2408 Yes lights can wake you up so long, but i hear naturally with this sleep pattern you will naturally feel sleepy again or just not but the 2nd sweet nap? who will pass on that! And if you have RAD glasses (I call it rad, the type of glasses that doesnt effect your eyesight too much from blue ray lights) and just lower a little your devices brightness and just have a two lamp open then it might help since it helped on me i guess
What?
Poetry and writing fiction as well
I feel like I remember reading somewhere that biphasic sleep was/is a holdover from caveman days.
Basically, down after it got dark, because hey foraging all day is pretty exhausting.
Wake up because the fire burned so low that you got cold enough to notice. Feed the fire, stare at that a bit, listen to the nighttime world, maybe paint the walls, etc.
Fire gets back to going, you warm up, being warm makes you logy, back to sleep you go.
The weird thing I've found is that in today's day and age, if there's a biphasic sleeper in the house, it's almost unerringly whoever is in charge of the house.
This is a very insightful comment. Thank you
@aaa ddd I know when I'm asleep alone in my house, it takes serious noise to wake me up.
When the girlfriend was over, I literally heard someone put a key in my front door and was fully awake in about 5-6 seconds. I thought it was the girlfriend leaving, but when I felt the bed next to me she was there, so I immediately knew someone was trying to get in. Woke up faster than when I hear the cat barfing.
@@brainchasm yo, so who the hell was trying to get into your house?! lol
@@robertodelatorre3829 Some drunk or drugged out kid. He tried his key in the door, it fit but didn't work, so he went to my side gate. Tossed a baby stroller full of stuff over, then hopped over himself...right into me with a maglite and rifle. I put the light in his eyes, racked a round and told him he had the wrooong house. He mumbled ohh shit, tried to grab his stuff and tossed it and himself back over the gate and trotted down the street. Left his ID though, so that was funny af.
I put it on facebook as lost and found.
I believe that. I slept like a log until I had kids. Then I became a champion bed leaper. Lol Now that they are grown, you'd think I could sleep again but nooooooooo.
I do shitphasic sleep.
I stay awake until I start nodding off then I lay down and regret every decision I’ve ever made for 10 to 120 minutes then sleep for 3 to 4 hours and wake up having to piss.
Then I’m up for Another 20 hours.
Omg this is how I sleep I didn't know it has a name
I ruminate on all the people back to kindergarten I wish I’d punched in the face. I’m 69 and spent most of my life as a human doormat, so that pretty much takes all night.
You need meditation my friend, let that shit go and rest.
Try listening to an audiobook of a book you've read many, many times before. You won't stay awake wondering what's going to happen next, and if you doze off for 5 minutes you'll already know what you missed so you don't have to get up/move to get back to 'where you were' in your story. Stops my brain thinking about that dumb thing I did when I was 7 that I only I remember and helps me drift off much quicker.
Sounds about right! That's why psychopaths and narcissists sleep so good!!!
I have middle insomnia and this sleep pattern would (and did) actually help me A LOT. However, I can't do it because of my current lifestyle. For one semester in college, I napped from 4pm to 7pm and then slept from 1am to 6am. So, 8 hours split throughout the day. I had so much energy and slept GREAT. I miss that. Those countries where everyone takes a nap in the middle of the day got it right.
This is starting to feel like super relaxed therapy sessions.
I know, a poor man’s Andrew Huberman Labs…but make it relatable
Re: delayed sleep phase disorder, I struggled with that, and then was in a car accident and the disorder became severe insomnia (2 hours of sleep a night for 5 months, if that, and lots of anxiety every evening because I was terrified I wouldn't sleep. It was rough.). I dealt with the insomnia and was able to sleep again after my body started to right itself, but I still struggled with frequent sleepless nights. Then I saw a circadian rhythm specialist who, no exaggeration, in one visit changed my life. She gave me a schedule catered to my daily routine; in that schedule were very specific times for when to put on blue-blocking glasses and take melatonin (and how much melatonin to take), when to be in bed, when to get out of bed regardless of how much sleep I got, when and for how long to sit in front of a very bright happy light in the morning (I highly recommend verilux), and how much sunshine to expose myself to and at what points during the day. All these times start out pretty late, close to when you would normally be going to bed, and they move earlier by 15 minute increments until you're going to bed at the time you want to, and then you maintain until you've trained your body in the cycle. It's all self-regulated though, so you have to be very particular with timing, but you have a tailor-made roadmap to guide you through the process. I found it very helpful, maybe it'll help you if you're interested.
Could you tell me when you put on the glasses and how long you wore them, and the dose/when you took the melatonin? I have been thinking about buying a pair of blue blocker glasses.
Very interesting!
Circadian Rhythm Specialists EXIST? Who knew…what was the name and location of yours? They sound like someone I’d benefit from visiting.
@@deedeeseecee9294 I started out with putting my blueblockers on and taking my .5mg of melatonin at 8:30 pm for a 1:30 am bedtime. I had a zoom meeting every morning at 8:00 am, so I would wake up for that but not turn on any lights. I would keep the brightness of my computer down, and keep my blueblockers on until 9:30 am, so I would trick my brain into thinking it had gotten 8 hours of sleep. Then, right at 9:30, I would turn on my verilux light right next to my face, open all my blinds, turn on all my lights, and take off the blueblockers. Then I would make sure to get at least 2 hours of bright light (either from the verilux light or from the sun) before 1:30pm. Once my nighttime routine had moved up in 15 minute increments to 7:00pm and I was going to bed at 12:00am, I was able to bypass the dark maintenance in the morning and go straight to bright light exposure at 8:00 am, because I had gotten 8 hours of sleep the night before. Again, this is all very much pertaining to me, so I would highly recommend seeing someone and getting your own plan of action.
@@ChrisHowlandOfficial Mine was with Northwest Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL. I was referred by a sleep psychologist because regular sleep psychology wasn't working.
As of 2020 biphasic is now my natural sleep pattern. I'm hitting probably 6-1/2 - 8 hours a night spread out over ~9 hours depending on what time I hit the sack.
Throw in a combat nap (15-20mins) at lunch and it's all good. If it works for you, and doesn't hurt your health, run with it!
This has been super illuminating for me. This is not exactly my experience and I know other things affect my sleep but seeing you figure out your natural rhythm is making me realize how much of mine I've tried to ignore all these years.
I respect when you try something and admit it's just not for you. Personally, even if I didn't have a work schedule, I don't think I would ever benefit from this. Lol
This is amazing and eye-opening to me. I thought there was something terribly wrong with me because I can usually only sleep a few hours at night and then I'm awake for like 5 hours and I go back to sleep for like 5 or 6 hours.
Sharing just one vehicle between my working husband and myself, it's my job to generally stick to my husband's schedule enough that I can drive him to and from work and get my household chores done while he's at work. This routine really only came about recently and it has afforded me the opportunity to start taking daytime naps to make up for the sleep I cannot get at night, and as a result I actually feel less haunted by lack of sleep in general, since as long as I can remember I've been tired frequently and find myself yawning much earlier into my day than most people because of how difficult it can be for me to get to sleep. I'm also one of those people that generally needs more sleep than the average person (up to 10) per night before I can feel like I actually got decent sleep, but if I get 7 hrs or less I'm yawning all day. In any event, I guess Biphasic sleep seems to be what works for me, too. Now I just come home, do my chores and wait for the first cup of coffee to fade away and then I go lay down for 2-4 hrs depending on how much sleep I'm trying to make-up, and I can fully attest to how much more fulfilling and satisfying second sleep is. No anxiety over trying to fall asleep to match a morning deadline. No anxiety over chores I need to do. No anxiety over not being tired but needing to sleep. I just hit those pillows and drift into sleep within 5-10 minutes, which is amazing considering I've been known to take 1hr+ to get to sleep on a normal bedtime routine.
I used to a 9 hour a night person most of my life to feel normal. Then 10 years ago I got an autoimmune issue and being in bed more than 5-6 hours used to hurt. Then I’d restlessly try to force sleep so I could somewhat function the next day. Then I went to where I needed at least 7 hours to be able to maintain. On sleepless nights I always took a nap after dinner but set my alarm for an hour or hour and a half because I needed to get things done and to go to bed that night. Even setting the alarm, I might wake up after 15-20 minutes or sleep the whole time, but felt better afterwards. I still have to work around schedules, but I try to get my nap in because I do function better. By next fall, I’m going to listen to my body and try a biphasic sleep with the bigger sleep being first. Next fall is when my schedule will be more flexible.
Since having a baby and doing night feeds I honestly sleep better than I did previously. My advice to my former, insomniac self, is to get up and do something when awake. Also, as someone who's always woken up super early (any time from 4am to 6.30am) I totally agree with you on how peaceful and nice it is to be awake before the rest of the world - such a good feeling.
I definitely don't miss night feedings. 🤣 But I get up at 5am most mornings because we homeschool. Coffee and silence before the kids wake up is seriously magical, plus it really helps me to be able to do something I enjoy first thing in the morning instead of jumping straight into mommy mode.
You mentioned that a lot of the flexibility of this kind of schedule depends on your work schedule. I don’t know if this was overlooked but I think as a parent this also isn’t doable unless (assuming) when you’re in your second sleep, your partner is taking care of your kid-which is probably what y’all did? (Thanks Chyna!)
Yes, I am a night owl and my husband and son are early risers. My husband thankfully works from home so he gets up with our son, plays, makes breakfast and lets me sleep in, then I get up later and he does work. Definitely hard on the days when he's not home though.
If you start following a "weird" sleep schedule you'll be surprised to learn how many of your neighbors are also.
My body just doesn't like a normal schedule and I find that no matter what I try I end up doing something like the delayed sleep phase syndrome. I end up wanting something like 5 or so hours of sleep on a 26-28hour cycle. My schedule keeps moving later and later till I'm awake most of the night. If I don't force things biphasic works for me also, getting a few hours during the night and then a few in the morning. If I'm forced to keep a "normal" schedule I feel like I'm not getting enough done and my bed time keeps getting later till I end up sleeping about 3 hours a night and then catch a nap when I'm just exhausted and it catches up to me later (I probably end up averaging about 4-5hours total a day like that but it's not great).
The thing of it is that I don't feel like I'm a bad sleeper, I feel I'm a different sleeper. When I'm allowed to follow my own schedule I fall asleep quickly (usually within a few minutes of laying down) and I sleep well and wake up refreshed. I end up MUCH more productive, often getting crazy amounts of stuff done in the middle of the night to the point of people suggesting that I'm manic, but I honestly think that that's just how much more I can get done when I'm allowed to. I also find that a lot of my friends are up at 3, 4, 5am... my dad always was also. We often talk on the phone at those times because we find that it doesn't get in the way of other things or what others are expecting.
Judging from the number of my neighbors I'd run into when taking the dog for a 3am walk, some still up from the night before, one neighbor that gets up ad 3:30 to go for a run, some I'm not sure what is going on, I'd bet that the world was a happier place if business and work schedules accommodated that people just sleep differently.
Multiple things you mentioned remind me of my journey to keto/carnivore. Leptin, Ghrelin, and Sleep apnea (inflammation.) are all things that people say get worked out with a low-carb/keto/carnivore diet. Listening to your body on what it needs sleep wise is super related to listening to the food it wants. 200 years ago we didn't have light bulbs and woke up in the middle of the night. We were also eating a lot of butter, meat and cheese (causes nasal inflammation in some people) helped people work harder, think more, and sleep better.
I think everything is related in the sense of our bodies needs. I always check the comments on videos regarding these things. When they say "This thing your talking about changed my life, I had all these problems before." etc, I know im in for a good video.
Well done Good Sir.
love the editing and forethought that goes into these videos. Taking what otherwise would be of little interest to most and making it entertaining. Thanks
Humans who slept less were probably selected for throughout evolution when we slept outside and needed to look out for predators. So watch Rick and morty, have a snack, and be your family’s protector while they sleep, as nature intended. :P
If that were true no animal would sleep, it's a massive disadvantage to sleep. We evolved to have 30 percent morning people, 30 percent evening people, 36 percent in the middle. Our society lets morning people win, middle people adapt, and evening people are told they have a syndrome
Alternatively, a human who sleeps a lot doesn't need as many calories as one who sleeps less.
The sentinel theory, which people incorrectly site as the explanation for this doesn't actually hold it up. Basically what it does say is that in groups that are large enough (about 50 or more), no night watches are needed (sentinels) because some people naturally get tired later, or wake up earlier, or wake up during the middle of the night to pee. So usually there's no long periods of time where everyone is asleep all at the same time. This is opposed to the idea that there are "day" and "night" people, because the group (generally) all still sleep during the night time hours. Before the invention of the light bulb there wasn't a whole lot to do at night, because it's too dark, so you sleep, because what else are you gonna do (besides pee or hump).
@@nicklarocco4178 nightime was burglsrs paradise in the past though, thats why multi-phasic was seemingly the norm, being asleep for an extended period of time at night as a powerful person was just asking to get robbed and/or killed
I started doing biphasic sleep naturally due to depression. Was constantly tired and fatigued so i would fall asleep super early, then wake up in the middle of the night for a couple hours. Then went back to bed. I’m getting way more sleep now, feel more well rested and my depression has decreased. Sometimes your body just wants you to know something and you should listen.
I’ve been doing the Every Man 2 pattern of polyphasic sleep for over two years now. I’m very happy with it. I can’t imagine going back to monophasic.
"Believe nothing. Life is a lie. Just quit." OMG this is the most accurate sentiment of our times I ever heard. You are a prophet.
As someone who used to be a muslim, I think there is also some evidence in Islam that biphasic sleep was the norm before lightbulbs. In the month of ramdhan (basically the month we had to fast in) we did this thing called sehri somewhere between 3 am to 5 am (time varies according to the day depending on the season and at what time the sun is seen rising) where we basically prepare for our fast by stockpiling some food beforehand and stay awake for around two hours for our first prayer of the day. So, it seems to me that it is like this because we were expected to be awake around those times.
Same my friend, same. Another sleep hack is: no screens an hour before bed. That off time is chock full of potential. Cooking, writing, music, crafts, stretching.
And you are right….second sleep is epically cozy. For more enjoyment may I suggest a heating pad. Cold tootsies will squeal with delight.
10:20 I wonder how many independent workers are people primarily motivated b/c they can’t balance sleep and a 9-5 🙋🏼♀️
After i retired, i seem to have just fallen into Biphasic sleep. There is no need for me to be ruled by the clock anymore. But, my body runs down by about 11:00 PM every night. At 3:00 AM I'm ready to go again. I can legitimately tell people i wake up at 3:00 AM everyday, It seems to inspire some kind of respect and awe. No one has ever asked the follow up question about naps. My "Naps" are not short from about 10:00AM to 2 or 3PM I am out of it. The two cycles seem to be long enough for REM sleep cycles. I do live in an apartment so no more 4:00 AM Classic Rock sessions.
Sometimes I'll be tired and will just lay down without sleeping for a looooooooong time and suddenly get a burst of energy.
Commenting before I watch. I experimented with "two sleeps" a decade ago when I was a night shifter and could Not sleep more than 5 hrs in the daytime between shifts, and it saved me, somewhat. I've gone back to nightshift, but part time now, and I'm back to using "2 sleeps" to help me flip back and forth in my day/night, and it's going beautifully.
From age 12 onward my body didn't get tired most days for a full 24 hours... but I was super active (had to eat 3k calories to keep above 100lbs in high school, 3500 to gain through HS+undergrad) so once I DID sleep during breaks, bam 12 hours out cold-a 36 hour schedule... BUT real life with school and work=I functionally do biphasic sleep. Med school made it REALLY advantageous that I could be awake 20 hours, sleep 3-4, be awake another 6 or 8, and sleep another 3 or so... I CAN survive on a single (2 REM cycle, though) sleep cycle-I still technically kind of wake between then and turn from one side to the other, but if I am tired when I crash, 5.5-6.5 hours and I'm good for anywhere from 18-24 hours... the exceptin was when I WAS gaining weight, muscle weight w/weight training 3hrs/day 3x/wk, 1 hour of it cardio, 2 weight... then I physically NEEDED to sleep more heavy/deep/longer while those muscles healed up every night-that proved to be a normalizing agent during undergrad, but med school really really warped it all over again which was fine since I was done with hard core workouts by my junior year (took me all of high school to go from 90-105lbs and 2.5yrs of uni to go from 105-118lbs at 5'4"... I've been sleep studied, MRI'd and CT'd and PET scanned to the ends of the earth, well, within reason since radiation's not good in excess, but I love seeing my brain in all different situations and seeing how my body responds with all different sorts of environmental changes [I am a neurologist+psychologist, and both fields do a lot of sleep related research, so of course I put myself/let others put me through sleep studies to be a guinea pig and satisfy my curiosity when it was all free and as a bonus, it got me on the good side of profs! Only think I hate is when they do the goopy EEG mess during them sometimes but that isn't super frequent. Also weird to have a camera on me while I snooze. The first couple of times you feel like you need to tuck yourself under the blankets more securely even though you are wearing scrubs, basically.]
Now, I sleep a while, work a long time, sleep a while, work a long time... sometimes I'll sleep the whole 6ish hours and be all good... I'm middle agedish/approaching it, so I sleep a little more overall (more aches and such, arthritis, too, that isn't exactly a picnic to deal with) but I might go from sleeping in a couple of 3 hour bursts split 10 or more hours apart to suddenly just needing, for who knows what reason, to collapse 12 solid hours. I just let my body. I control my own schedule and never miss appointments etc-I just don't see people early in the day, knowing I am cruddy at early mornings unless it's EARLY (12am-6am I'm GOLDEN, but 8am or 10am I will be less thrilled to be aware of my own existence!)... if I HAVE to be up the next day super early (like now... logic says I probably ought to sleep but it's only 12:45am now, ugh-gotta leave home at 8am), I'll usually just sleep a ton the day before and push through it til the next day. Tomorrow I have to be gone 8-11am then 2-10pm, so my sleep will almost definitely be in that 11-2 time, even if it's just 2 hours from the 3.
Bodies are weird. Sex at Dawn's a great read about human existence, really-well-researched, they actually corrected something when some research got updated, even... it's pretty solid or was when I read it. We COULD, if we just stuck to hunting and gathering and didn't procreate just to produce laborers (takes 3 laborers to feed 1 human in traditional agriculture, so we had a LOT of malnourished dying kiddos for a long ass time, and naturally we stole, killing off neighbors to get their crops and turn their kids into labor, too, blehhh)....anyway, we COULD have a 3 hour work day on average, some of course longer for hunts but an animal won't just last a family 1 day... we had a lot more free time to create our cultural identities before we went all agriculture. We also got a lot of stupid diseases (most we've had to get vaccinations for, derp) from having livestock too near us... weird decisions humans have made over time. I sometimes envy people living more simply, but then I see my computer and my cozy bed and lack of bugs and cute kitten and admit I'd only be happier in that situation if I were entirely ignorant of modern civilization. Still don't think modern civ is great-we're destroying our very home planet with all our conveniences, after all-but I'm at least glad people are aware that industrialization isn't exactly natural for our mammal bodies. At least then MDs etc can acknowledge that people not sleeping in the so-called-normal patterns we force on our people=not actually a sickness, just a lack of adaptation to something completely weird/someone's body simply following natural tendencies. I feel really mixed about people having to survive financially through things that force their bodies to wake when it makes them feel lousy and sleep before they're at all sleepy... then we wonder why people drink before bed and it becomes necessary (I mean, nyquil is poison, but throw hard booze and over the counter pills together and yeah your body will get some zzz's, zombieszombieszombies). Sorry to ramble. I think I'm hungry. :P
I used to do this all the time when I was a really serious athlete. I would sleep 3am-7ish (I too really like to stay up late) eat breakfast, go running and then nap from like 10-2pm, eat lunch, and then train again in the afternoon. I know you work out every day maybe do that in the middle of the split. It's nice cuz when you're tired after your run you can basically just go to sleep right away.
Please do the "talk more about marathon" part. I'm working toward one in about 6 weeks, partly inspired by you, and would love to hear what works and doesn't.
I've been doing this for 50 years... I miss out on the afternoon nap, I'd love to have that part.
Years ago I worked a motor route for USA Today--slept from 10-2, got up and worked for 3 hours, came home and ate breakfast, went back to bed for 4 hours or until I woke up for good. No problem. Do the same now I'm retired, wake up at 3 a.m., get up and go for a bike ride, come home and go back to sleep until I wake again.
Watching this makes me happy I don't care about any of these worries. I truly do not understand the anxiety
I’m tired, it’s 1:30pm, although this is uncommon for me, it made me curious enough to click on this video. The first comment said something about 40 with ADHD, and then I started tuning in…just he light hearted and fun tone and inflections made me want to subscribe. Checked your overall content and you got yourself a new subbie here!
umm I'd like to give a shoutout to Craig's lovely rumbling sleepy voice.
Have tried it biphasic now for 3 days and nights...working out great. Go to bed at sunset...wake up at midnight...stay up for three hours...back to bed until sunrise...it's better...much better.
I am a polyphasic sleeper and I love it. I got to bed around 4 am, get up around 9 am then nap from noon or 1 for about 2 hrs. I go by full rem cycles. Normally the cycle is around 1 1/2 hours for people. If I try to do under or over 1 1/2 hours I'm often groggy. My sleep works in how many rem cycles I want/need to sleep. 1 1/2, 3, 4 1/2 hrs. I don't usually get more than 4 1/2 hours {3 rems}. It really works for me. I usually wake up well rested and before my alarm now.
I can’t believe this guy hasn’t clocked on to the fact he can’t sleep because he has ADHD
Does he though, or is he just trying far too hard to be kooky and interesting, like so many TH-camrs seem to do? Either way, I found his style of presentation so grating that it made me want to punch kittens. I suspect that if there is a Hell, it's being locked in a room full of people like that.
Left to my own schedule I will sleep 5 hours at night, wake up refreshed, then want to sleep for an hour around 2 or 3 pm. Work and other obligations often interfere with this, but I swear it is the best for my health and I feel great doing it when I have the chance.
Awesome. I have been naturally getting two sleep sets for a while. It has just been working for my current job/schedule. Keep up the Awesome work.
That’s great 👍
New viewer. Love the energy, you had already earned a subscriber by the time you said "especially you, Carl". Such fun energy and humor.
A friend of mine has a perfect sleep schedule- which is no schedule at all. She sleeps when she is tired and wakes up when she's not tired. The time of day makes no difference. Sometimes she sleeps in the day, sometimes at night...
Craig I know you experimented with a plant-based diet recently, do you still eat dairy? There's a correlation between dairy consumption and sleep apnea, so cutting out dairy is a good preventative measure for a lot of shiz.
My cat determines my sleep pattern. He eats very little at a feeding and has to have several feedings during the night. If I go to bed at 10, he will start calling me to get up at 11:30. He wants wet food topped with dry. I have to wait for him to finish and wash his plate because NYC always has a roach problem. The next wake-up will be around 1. It is like a baby crying so there's no ignoring it. (He will even resort to biting an arm or leg if he is ignored too long.) The call that may be a trill or a meow penetrates your dreams. The 2:30 / 3 AM one is a time to check the news on the internet and have a good pee. This is followed by a 5 AM call and finally a 7 AM wake-up call. All these wake-ups are attended by my Chihuahua who whines for a treat except the 5 and 7 AM feedings. I try to get back to bed as soon as possible to avoid insomnia. At times the cat (a tuxedo) sleeps at times on the bed with me and at times on top of a sound system tower speaker. When I go to work, the cat sleeps on the top shelf of a closet.
I was able to try this for 4 months and overall it worked well for me. I felt mentally and physically more relaxed and well.
I work on call, so I sleep/nap at completely random hours of the day/night quite often.
Wait I used to watch your channel years ago! This video was recommended to me and I just now read your channel name which caused the jingle to come to my mind. Just had to share that moment if anyone can relate 😆
I learned I had upper airway resistance syndrome (a mild version of sleep apnea) when my wife started waking me up saying I’d stopped breathing while sleeping (and snoring). Sleep apnea is terribly undiagnosed even for people who stop breathing dozens of times an hour. Get tested!
I am polyphasic sleep for many days. It happened from the works that it left out pending. So, at that time, I come with the tactic i.e. to sleep for 1.5 hours every 6-8 hours. About my sleeping history, I find no problem in my sleeping. Although sleep were being consitstent i.e. sometimes i sleep at8pm, sometimes 11pm, sometimes 2am, etc. But as I done polyphasic sleep, I feel no negative effect on my mind. In fact, I feel I utilize my time more effectively, especially the nights, where everyone is sleeping and you are working
How is it? How was ur first week trying polyphasic sleep schedule..I need to try as my finals are near
I found that if the moon is up, I frequently wake up about 3AM. There are many studies referring to overall sleep against moon phases. These shorter sleeps occur even is the subjects are removed from the influence of moon light.
The thing to understand about polyphasic sleeping (biphasic is also polyphasic) is that if it's not your natural sleep pattern you probably won't like it. If you are using an alarm to make multiple phases of sleep your just interrupting your natural sleep pattern. It's only healthy for you if naturally wake up every 4 hours or whatever it is.
2:58 that aged like wine
Cpap changed everything for me. My Apple Watch tipped me off to low blood oxygen and I was constantly tired. Unable to lose weight. All that jazz. Home sleep study. Boom. Hypopnea. No snoring ever (unless sick). I just quit breathing. Lol fun. But feeling much better.
I don’t want to make assumptions, but your “terrible sleep” you were describing, was exactly my sleeping habits before I got diagnosed with ADHD and medicated. No more 3am wake ups
I just found a new TH-cam channel to binge on!
Sleep technologist here. Get a sleep study in lab. At home ones are good for screening when you're not able to make it into the lab (like you can't walk) don't recommend them for much else because it could be another sleep disorder that those things don't check for.
Yes listen to your body and sleep when you're tired. Maybe keep a sleep diary and dream diary. Great video!
I listen to my body. About 2 years ago my body clock changed. The daylight savings time always messed with me. Other reasons? I don’t know why. Maybe the winter of my life? Anyway, i tried to forcing sleep and woke. Very frustrating. So, i decided to freestyle. Feeling better. Using alarm clock only for appointments. Otherwise: Listen to my body, eat moderate size meals, get sunshine walks, stay hydrated, stay in touch.
If a person has
8:34 what is delayed sleep syndrome?
On the topic of.. what was it again.. Ghrelin, I've found that I will indeed stay up if I wake up in the middle of the night and won't be able to comfortably go back to bed without eating. I eventually realized that immediately getting food basically made me pass out in the middle of eating.
Bodies are so fascinating.
I started a baking apprenticeship recently and I'm obsessed with screwing around with my sleep now. I have to be at work at two in the morning for most of the week and so sleep has been an interesting thing to tackle.
Actually watched the whole video; nice delivery
I can’t believe I’m seeing a video on this topic. Around the time I turned 60, I could not sleep longer than 3 or 4hours at a time. So this is now my pattern. I sleep until I naturally wake up. Sometime later in the day I get sleepy again and I sleep again til I wake up. It seems to work ok for me.
I find this happening to most people on life long regular sleep. My mom is 62 and have same problem until she start working night shifts 8 years now and able to sometime sleep 6,8 or even 10 hours. Granted need to use sleeping pills for some time to function before she break the habit. Now she dont need them.
Morning larks have an earlier offset on the circadian rhythm to the slightly more common night owl propensity. The two are genetically disposed to reduce the nighttime vulnerability of a group. It is not a syndrome/disorder, and somehow the morning lark thing has become "desirable" but work hours should accommodate all humans.
It's interesting for a short time when i was only working one job but doing alot of days (6-7 a week), I ended up taking what i called a "little day" where i would wake up after a few hour, smoke a bit of weed, play some games and go back to sleep before work and it was good. now FT work and school has me so busy that I actually sleep around 1am every night for the past couple months , that's a first but will probably dissolve the same second my work contract ends. Oh tip for bed time, if you eat one meal a day and you do it very shortly before bed ( 10-11pm for a 1am bedtime) it seems to tell your body, "yo you know what this means , rest and digest, sleep time" , though on the flip side i don't know any other method then an old European man that will yank you out of bed and tell you " NO SLEEP TIME, WORK TIME" and that's a job dependent …. benefit?
Hiddely-Hoddely! First time watcher, long time TH-cam troller. Loved your Bi-phasic sleep video. I usually tend to sleep in the Winston Churchill style and was looking for more info. In my experience, the Biphasic sleep calls for only a 5-6-7 hour need for sleep, but that's just me.
As I was watching, I couldn't help but think of a suggested new video idea for you! I think it's right up your alley? I've worked in electronic sound studios for years and have called my sleep/eat/shit/f*#ck/work pattern my "Caveman Hours". I work when I have to depending on hours the studio is booked or work I need to get done, I eat when I'm hungry, and I sleep when I'm tired. I usually take a nice little second sleep in the middle of the day in that slow part of the early afternoon! I also just tend to eat a type of Mediterranean or Ketogenic diet just to keep my weight in check, as I can work on a bass kick for 9 hours straight!
Maybe you can do a version of that in the "Caveman style," with a W. Churchill nights sleep schedule, and late morning or early afternoon nap (not too long), Ketogenic or Caveman diet, Intermittent Fasting ('cause you can only kill so much food in a day) and then maybe some other TH-cam click bate catching ideas? Ahhhhhh. . . you're welcommmmmmmme!
“That’s the sleeps” idk why but this is now my favorite phrase
It works great for me when i need to sit down amd focus. No distractions and noise.
During school I had an interesting sleep schedule where school was 7:20am to 3pm. What usually happened was after school I'd sleep around 2-3 hours from 4pm to 6-7pm and then I'd get up and just do nothing real productive and sleep at 10ish and sleep 5 or so hours and wake up around 3am and do my homework. I'd usually calculate the amount of time I have to spend on work the night before and set alarms to wake up by then and if I finished early I'd sleep another hour until school starts. Online school let me do this schedule. While it wasn't great because of the stress doing all of my homework last minute was but I definitely felt much more focused when I was working since none of my friends would be chatting online and it's just nicer.
Shoot. I thought I was the only one who got energy super late then always woke up tired! Thanks for the video I learned something about myself
Biphasic sleep/ I have been living with that for several years. I wake up after about 4 hours. usually having to pee. Or just sore. Sometimes I can go back to sleep in in 20 minutes. But some days I am just wide awake and I start using my iPad. for an hour or two. The get another 2-4 hours of sleep. Good thing I am retired and can live with being in bed 10 hours a day.
I had been told that not sleeping through the night is bad for increasing the chances of brain rot as you get older. But maybe now this will make me seem not as odd in my sleep pattern
I'm not on a set sleeping schedule. I have tried and tried and tried. Now I go to bed when I'm tired and I get up when I'm rested. There's no Rhyme or Reason to it at this point. The only days that it becomes a problem is when I have appointments.
I am a biphasic sleeper. No matter how hard I try, I get so sleepy about 4:00 or 5:00 in the afternoon. I get up at 7:00 or 8:00 in the evening. I have sleep apnea, so that might be the reason.
I have fallen into a stable routine of waking up in the middle of the night, working at the computer for a couple of hours, and than having my second sleep. The waking interval is often when I do my best writing or other work. I'm retired, so I never use an alarm clock. Also have a short nap around 2 in the afternoon. Works for me!
Yes, the 2nd sleep is the best sleep. Now, if I could just get my body to cooperate so that I could do this regularly. Sometimes when I wake up that's it and then it completely throws off my sleep. Or, like you, I stay up too late and that throws me off for days. Going to bed early ... I wake up after a few hours and can't get back to sleep most nights. Some naps are great and other naps seem designed to kill my day.
Documentary topic sounds dope as heck
Biphasic sleeping is very common in my country. Especially with older people. My grandparents and great grandparents would always go nap after lunch. Even if they sleep a full 7 hours a night they'd still go to bed after lunch for a 1-2 nap time. As children we were also made to nap in the afternoon. That's literally biphasic sleeping.
But I don't think you did it right. You shouldn't set an alarm for 3am or something like that. You just sleep normally and you wake whenever you do. It might be after 3 hours or 7 hours of sleep. But then when you feel tired (that happens usually after lunch because after eating people feel tired) you just go nap. It's all very natural. Because of work nowadays working people can't nap after lunch because they're forced to stay at work and don't have enough time. But if I could, I would. It's just that the manner of our work usually doesn't allow us the time.
Which country is that? Sounds interesting
I do this naturally. I am in my break time right now. I go to bed between 5-7 am depending on work, wake up between 9-11am sleep around 3pm wake up at 5pm and get ready for work.
I struggle with sleep, also, and this really is so very me. Thank you for sharing all this and for doing this experiment!! Appreciate your style quite a bit.
I work nights, which means I sleep days. I use the word “sleep “ loosely. I have no idea what a good night sleep feels like. …..rather, a good day’s sleep…..im always tired at work. Always.
When I was 18 I tried out a polyphasic (3.5 hours awake .5 hours for falling asleep/sleeping) cycle. I kept it up for 10 days before it got thrown off by life schedule stuff. Each 4 hour time frame was feeling comparable to a full day of activity. By 6~8 days of sleeping every 4 hours it started to feel normal mentally, but my body was starting to feel a little sluggish. Coming off of it I would get tired in 6~12 hour periods and sleep for 2~3 hours at a time. After a week or two of gradually more normal sleep I got back on a monophasic sleep schedule. The interesting thing is, while I had a lot of difficulty sleeping/falling asleep when I was a child/teenager, I stopped having that problem from that point on.
I use to do this when i was going through hard times and it helps but you need to use other factors like sleep cycles. 1 1/2 hour increments is what you need so 3 or 4 1/2 hours wake up walk it off and sleep the increment needed. I have not been dedicated enough to have a sleep and wake up to every 1 1/2 hours but who knows it may help.
I have been biphasic since I turned 60...I don't fight it.
First time coming across any of your vids, love the editing and humor!!!
People used to eat supper. You know, like hobbits. A boiled egg size of food. You could be waking because of low blood sugar. Again, eat a boiled egg size amount of food before going to bed.
I totally agree with listening to to your body. Awesome just natural info with humor. ❤️
I learned about the benefits of bi-phasic sleep in my late 20s. I was skidding logs and usually had to be at work at 4-5 am. Well the only good TV at the time was prime time 8-11pm and I fell into a pattern of sleeping 2-3 hrs when I got home around 2-3 and waking up around 5-6 then back to bed around 11-12 and get up around 3-4. I was never really a morning person, now that I'm basically retired I pretty much just keep vampire hours (bed at sun up, wake up for a few hours in afternoon, back to sleep till sunset), unless I have appointments or something, in which case I just skip the morning phase or the afternoon phase as necessary.
I always nap randomly around 9pm-1am and then wake up after 3-5 hours and nobody is awake its pretty nice
if you go to bed early like 8 or 9 pm you will wake up naturally at 2 or 3 am, then take care of the cats, put some wood in the stove, drink some water and eat if you are hungry and go to bed until 7am.... Yep. listening to your video, everything matches. amazing!
“It’s really nice to be the only person awake in… your neighborhood.” 🤣🤣🤣
I would love to try this, but as a Teacher, I have to get up at 5:00am to drive to my work. I have started listening to my body and waking up when it tells me to, and to go to sleep when it tells me to. Has helped soo much.
I thought I just had insomnia. But my body wakes me up around 2-3 am every morning naturally. So I sleep -
~9-3 and then 4-6 🤷🏾♀️. Who knew. Sometimes just listen to your body.
My body has been forcing me into sleeping multiple times a day. I seem to only be able to sleep a few hours at a time. As long as I have water in the morning I'm totally fine. My afternoon sleep though today wanted to go further than I intended. I mean, as much as I'd like to think of myself as a winston churchill or davinici, I'm pretty sure my circadian rythm is jacked up and I'm just trying to make the best of it.
I've had two sleep disorders that evolved as I got older (47 now) as a teenager I had Narcolepsy which I outgrew and it evolved in my 30's into KLS (Kline Levin Syndrome) for the longest time I had a huge struggle getting my days and nights worked, sometimes I'd sleep all day and be up all night. Finally I got into routine of sleeping at night and on schedule. Now I usually call asleep around 9/10 and always wake up around 3 or 4 and sometimes I'll get a lil 30/45 minute power nap in the afternoon maybe for a hour and 15 minutes at most. I also always take a melatonin 1mg to 3mg work for me, 5mg/10mg catch up to me in a week or so and I'm hibernating in bed constantly then suddenly.
Cut out all sugar and coffee, and try increasing physical activity, lastly place yourself on a strict schedule. This fixes most sleep issues for most people.
I've just thought i was crazy! I call it sleeping on a block schedule, and it just happens to me sometimes.
I am working on doing this. When I have my own land and a couple cows, I plan to milk them during the same time! And again in the morning. Assuming I can figure out how to do this while letting the calf get all the milk it wants.