Polyphasic Sleep / Sueño Polifasico

Gradual Adaptation : Claudio Stampi

I have been reading more about gradual adaptation and Claudio Stampi’ research from two good new blogs.

Jeffery Seely also mentioned that Stampi said that gradual adaption seed critical for the success of the subjects.

“So I got to thinking that adapting gradually would be easier. I noticed that in Claudio Stampi’s studies, he made his polyphasic sleeping subject adapting gradually, and Stampi even noted that adapting gradually seemed critical to the subject’s success (I’d cite the exact quote, but I returned Why We Nap to the library… I’ll recheck it soon). I’m sure that Stampi’s decision to adapt his subject gradually was based on his own intuition, but I’d trust a sleep researcher’s intuition over my own.”

http://jseely.com/2007/09/how-i-successfully-adapted-to-polyphasic-sleep/

Also Shakkun, now on day 11 of Uberman, used a gradual approach. From what I can tell he went through the same harsh adaptation we did from day 1 to day 7, and on day 11, he said he will try for three more days before switching to Everyman.  Still I think gradual is better.  I like that we have kept our nap times from Dymaxion the same, making it easier to reduce my core if desired in the future.

http://shakkun.blogspot.com/2008/01/gradual-adaptation.html