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    ESSENTIAL Health Considerations on Polyphasic Schedules: The ULTIMATE course on the Dark Period
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Recent Posts

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  • Autogenic Training: A Potentially Visionary Relaxation Method for Polyphasic Lifestyle
  • The Eisenhower Matrix: A Motivation Booster for Polyphasic Sleep
  • The Forbidden Zone of Sleep
  • Appetitive Napping
  • A Method to Sleep Polyphasically Without Alarm Clocks
  • Maintaining Polyphasic Schedules After Adaptation Phase

Abbreviations

REM = Rapid Eye Movement sleep (a vital sleep stage where most dreams occur)
SWS = NREM3 = Slow-Wave Sleep (a vital sleep stage where bodily repairs happen)
NREM1 = Light sleep stage 1
NREM2 = Light sleep stage 2
LNREM = Light sleep (1 and 2)
SOREM = Sleep onset REM
SOSWS = Sleep onset SWS
TST = Total Sleep Time

E = Everyman schedules
DC = Dual core schedules
TC = Tri-core schedules

DP = Dark period
BRAC = Basic Rest-Activity Cycle

EEG = electroencephalogram (a type of sleep tracker)

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