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== Low total sleep time == | == Low total sleep time == | ||
It is usually very difficult to adapt to [[Template:Polyphasic Sleep Schedules|schedules]] with a low total sleep time, since much more sleep compression should occur, leaving significantly much less light sleep. This makes the sleep schedule much less [[Flexing|flexible]] and generally unstable, because any event or substance, which temporarily increases sleep needed, can easily compromise adapted state. This is likely the main reason why [[long term]] polyphasic sleepers more often are those, who stay on a schedule, which | It is usually very difficult to adapt to [[Template:Polyphasic Sleep Schedules|schedules]] with a low total sleep time, since much more sleep compression should occur, leaving significantly much less light sleep. This makes the sleep schedule much less [[Flexing|flexible]] and generally unstable, because any event or substance, which temporarily increases sleep needed, can easily compromise adapted state. This is likely the main reason why [[long term]] polyphasic sleepers more often are those, who stay on a schedule, which reduces [[Non-reducing|little-to-no]] sleep, while most [[Nap only|nap-only]] adaptations are shorter. | ||
Also, schedules, which reduce much sleep, require much denser blocks of sleep during the day because of the [[wake time reduction]], so shorter wake gaps are possible, which makes such schedules inconvenient for daily life and thus unstable long term. | Also, schedules, which reduce much sleep, require much denser blocks of sleep during the day because of the [[wake time reduction]], so shorter wake gaps are possible, which makes such schedules inconvenient for daily life and thus unstable long term. | ||
