Polyphasic goes mobile

[Igor Matyas]

Hi, guys. I am a polyphasic sleeper for almost 2 years and I sleep 4,5 hours a day. Me and my friends made lots of experiments on this fied and we want to share our experience. We decided to create a mobile application that would be an essential guide to polyphasic sleep experience for everyone. 

Check our website: www.smartsleepteam.com

We alredy have a functioning prototype that we use in our everyday life, but we need funds to finish it and launch to pruduction. So we created a company on kickstarter. 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/222464008/smartsleep-first-application-for-polyphasic-sleepe

We apreciate any feedback, proposals and contributions. If you have any questions please contact us.

[Kenneth Chen]

Pledged!

I would also like to talk with you sometime about your experience. There
aren't many people in the world who have done this for 2+ years.

Thanks,
Ken

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[Igor Matyas]

Hi, Ken!

Thanks for your pledge. We apreciate it very much.

My adaptation period consisted of 4 stages each of them lasted for 2-3 weeks:

Stage 1. Current regime stabilization

During this stage I strongly fixed time I go to sleep and slightly varied the length of sleep. I found that 7,5 hrs of sleep was optimal for me, I easily waked up and felt energized. 7 hrs of sleep were not enough, 8 hrs were also good but it was a bit hard to wake up. So I stoped at 7,5 hrs. In 2 weeks I could easily wake up without any alarms.

Stage 2. Biphasic sleep

I kept going to bed at time I used to, but started to wake up after 3,5 hrs of sleep, had 1,5 hrs of wake and returned to bed for another 3,5 hours of sleep. It took me 2 weeks before I could do it without alarms but during all this stage I didn’t feel any side effects.

Stage 3. Learning to nap

Learning to nap was the hardest part for me. I reduced the length of my second sleeping interval to 2 hrs and tried to take 30 min nap during the day time. Firstly it was not easy to fall asleep to have a nap. I started from just closing my eyes and trying to relax. Since I took less sleep during the night I started to feel a bit sleepy in the middle of the day. And finally I learned to fall asleep really quickly and exactly on time I planned the nap.

Stage 4. Polyphasic sleep

Since I learned to nap it was not hard to reduce my second sleep interval by another 1,5 hrs and substitute it with nap. After some practice a improved my napping skills and now my standart nap lasts 20 minutes.

I think very useful for you would be polyphasic society forum http://forum.polyphasicsociety.com/

Hope I helped you,
Igor

[Malcolm McCulloch]

Feedback:

deviding -> dividing

manualy -> manually

..fuckit, run this thing through spellcheck

oh, "staff" in the paragraph above the pillow images should be "stuff"

Have you pinged puredoxyk about this? I'd recommend not doing it until you've polished things up a lot. The kickstarter description is pretty longwinded at the moment.

To be honest, I expect it'll be very hard for you to actually raise the $35k, unless you manage to get some really big-name people promoting this, like Tim Ferriss (who hasn't actually tried polyphasic, to my knowledge, but included it in his book 4 hour body).

I realize that you're not native English speakers, but I think it would be really helpful to get  someone who is to rewrite the copy on your page. I don't have time (or particular expertise in copywriting) but it would have a big effect I think. Something just feels a little awkward about a lot of it. Even things like most english-speaking countries use '.' as the decimal  point, not ','. So it would say "you can reduce the total amount of sleep to 4–4.5 hours a day"

Also, most people don't even know what polyphasic sleep is, or they just think it's that thing that Kramer tried and failed really hard at (which... it is, sort of, but you don't want them thinking that). Try to put, very near the top of the page, something to the effect of "Ever wish you had more hours in the day? Wish you felt more rested?" << this is basically everyone. Then talk about how the way we sleep now is unnatural (we've only been monophasic since the industrial age) and how with your help people can learn to sleep in a way that treats their body better. This will make it clear that it's not the Kramer thing.

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[Евгений Дубовой]

Thanks a lot for spending time and giving us a feedback. We are doing a huge amount of work improving our project page, answering all questions, managing topics on forums, sending our press kits and preparing updates. We also continue developing the app at this moment.  And we are sorry that we may forget something really important and dissapoint somebody with spell mistakes, outdated information  or anything else. We will keep doing our best for all who believe in our project.

среда, 6 ноября 2013 г., 3:42:49 UTC+4 пользователь Malcolm McCulloch написал:

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