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SEVAMAYL is in some ways the holy grail of polyphasic sleep – a reduced sleep total that saves many hours every week, while also maximizing alertness all day, without having to stick to any strict sleep times.  It takes many weeks and a lot of persistence however, and requires establishing more efficient sleep using a strict base schedule. That means life and sleep has to be controllable for up to about 6 weeks, before you can start attempting SEVAMAYL. Then, be prepared for as many as 7-9 additional weeks of adaptation to SEVAMAYL, most of which is phase 4 feeling “almost” but not quite refreshed or stable. Risk of oversleep remains, even as natural wakes become frequent.  While SEVAMAYL is more resilient in flexibility, it’s also prone to many of the same breakdowns as regular polyphasic schedules — it can be irreversibly destabilized by excess sleep due to illness, extreme emotional distress, or falling out of habit during a long vacation with monophasic sleepers. Severe injury or excessive flexing can also cause too many oversleeps and undo adaptation.

SEVAMAYL is in some ways the holy grail of polyphasic sleep – a reduced sleep total that saves many hours every week, while also maximizing alertness all day, without having to stick to any strict sleep times.  It takes many weeks and a lot of persistence however, and requires establishing more efficient sleep using a strict base schedule. That means life and sleep has to be controllable for up to about 6 weeks, before you can start attempting SEVAMAYL. Then, be prepared for as many as 7-9 additional weeks of adaptation to SEVAMAYL, most of which is phase 4 feeling “almost” but not quite refreshed or stable. Risk of oversleep remains, even as natural wakes become frequent.  While SEVAMAYL is more resilient in flexibility, it’s also prone to many of the same breakdowns as regular polyphasic schedules — it can be irreversibly destabilized by excess sleep due to illness, extreme emotional distress, or falling out of habit during a long vacation with monophasic sleepers. Severe injury or excessive flexing can also cause too many oversleeps and undo adaptation.