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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 reduce [[Non-reducing|little-to-no]] sleep, while most [[Nap only|nap-only]] adaptations.

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.