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The name DUCAMAYL stands for “'''Dual Core As Much As You Like'''”, one of the 4 “-AMAYL<nowiki>''</nowiki> polyphasic schedules.  

Historically, the schedule recorded one unintentional and anecdotal success from sleeper '''[[Aethermind]]’s father''', who has been inadvertently maintaining the schedule for most of '''2-3 decades''' without visibly dangerous diseases aside from high stress or missing the second core due to work. His DUCAMAYL variant consists of 2 somewhat flexible core sleeps and alternates between 1 and 2 flexible naps from day to day. First created and roughly drafted in 2017 in the Discord channel, it was proposed as a flexible Dual Core counterpart to SEVAMAYL, a flexible [[Everyman]] prototype. Up to 2020, there have been two more successful adaptations to DUCAMAYL. '''<u>Most of what is said about SEVAMAYL also applies to DUCAMAYL</u>''', with only some differences from the structure of DUCAMAYL as a Dual Core schedule, regarding sleep timing and flexibility of sleep. 1-2 months will have to be reserved to adapt to a strict Dual Core schedule first, and then several weeks (~6-9 weeks) to adapt to DUCAMAYL.  

The first core sleep provides more [[wikipedia:Slow-wave_sleep|SWS]] while the second core favors more [[wikipedia:Rapid_eye_movement_sleep|REM]], with the nap(s) providing the remaining REM. A strong reliance on sensing when to best nap to get quality REM nap(s) and quality cores is required. You will need the freedom to take a nap soon at any time, and/or the ability to plan naps sensibly for each day such that there is no waking gap too long that makes you tired.

DUCAMAYL evolves well from an extended [[Dual Core]] base schedule (or for some, a regular DC2 schedule) to ensure some flexibility of the core sleeps, but Dual Core sleep in essence evolves from Segmented sleep. With both core sleeps taking advantage of SWS and REM peaks, DUCAMAYL utilizes a varying number of daytime naps for each particular day. After adapting to a base Dual Core schedule, the body gets used to the new sleep pattern, which involves 2 core sleeps and a number of naps to be used when sleep times become flexible, and the amount of sleep reduction from the personal [[monophasic baseline]]. Slowly shifting the naps and the cores enhance the flexibility of the whole schedule. '''Both core sleeps rake in ideally all needed SWS, and a decent amount of REM sleep'''. The remaining naps only serve to fulfill the remaining REM sleep and provide alertness boost and memory consolidation with [[NREM2]]. Because of 2 core sleeps occupying a fair amount of [[graveyard hours]], DUCAMAYL results in overall fewer daytime [[naps]] than [[SEVAMAYL]].  

=== Scheduling ===

The schedule should have at least ~4.5-5h total sleep for both cores combined, with about 1-4 naps of 10-20 minutes in length. Nap spacing should take into account natural periods of tiredness, as well as the morning circadian peak. In the evening 6-7 hour gaps are common, whereas alertness may wane after 3-4 hours awake around night/early morning hours. A longer Pronap of up to 45m might be plausible during early morning hours (6-10am) if all SWS has already been accounted for, which it should be if the base strict schedule has already been adapted to. This would allow larger gaps and/or increased flexibility later in the day. The wake gap between 2 cores can increase or decrease depending on days. Each core might be flexed and/or varied max. 90m in length, as optional variables after adapted to a base schedule. It’s not recommended to add an extra cycle more than once a week, as more frequent lengthening seems to destabilize adaptations to the reduced sleep total.