Polyphasic Sleep
Believe in the 20 min nap
Monophasic
- One core of 8hrs
- Total Sleep: 8h; Time Awake: 16h
Siesta Sleep (biphasic)
- 5-6 hours of sleep at night
- 20-90 min naps in early afternoon
- Matches natural Circadian rhythm
- Commonly considered healthier than monophasic sleep
- Core: 11:30pm - 5:30am (6h)
- Nap: after lunch, anytime between 12 and 2 (20m)
- Total Sleep: 6h 20m; Time Awake: 17h 40m
- +1h 40m
Everyman Sleep
- Rely on Circadian and Ultradian rhythms
- Consistency of time between sleep is highly important
- Everyman 2 (E2)
- Core: 5hrs
- Two 20min naps
- Total Sleep: 5h 40m; Time Awake: 18h 20m
- +2h 20m
- Everyman 3 (E3)
- Core: 3.5hrs
- Three 20m naps
- Total Sleep: 4h 30m; Time Awake: 19h 30m
- +3h 30m
- Everyman 4 (E4)
- Core: 1hr 40mins
- Four 20m naps
- Total Sleep: 3h; Time Awake: 21h
- +5h
Dual Core Sleep
- Core sleep around dusk, core sleep around dawn, and a number of siestas
- Can have the benefits from both segmented sleep and siestas and are theoretically very healthy
- Dual Core 1 (DC1)
- Two Cores: total 5hrs
- One nap: 20mins
- Total Sleep: 5h 20m; Time Awake: 18h 40m
- +2h 40m
- Dual Core 2 (DC2)
- Two cores: total 4hrs
- Two naps: 20mins each
- Total Sleep: 4h 40m; Time Awake: 19h 20m
- +3h 20m
- Dual Core 3 (DC3)
- Two cores: total 3hrs
- Three naps: 20 mins each
- Total Sleep: 4h; Time Awake: 20h
- +4h
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