Polyphasic Sleep
Powerful Sleep mentioned:
The reality is that they have already slept too much, and their mental state is just as poor as the quality of their sleep. The reason for this is that they are not aware of the potential energy and sleep mechanisms in their bodies.
This sentence points out the reason why LittleMaster used to sleep for 10 hours and still woke up feeling fatigued and lacking energy.
Cheese is power.
Afterwards, LittleMaster made adjustments based on his own deep sleep and REM cycles, and improved the lighting (note that it is melatonin, not photosynthesis).
Even under intense work pressure, the quality of sleep continues to improve linearly.
Later on, LittleMaster learned about the magical Dymaxion sleep, also known as polyphasic sleep.
At that time, LittleMaster was quite naive and actually tried it out, which resulted in feeling lethargic during the day at work.
If he had read The Private Myth, he probably wouldnât have done such a foolish thing.
In fact, both NREM and REM have their irreplaceable roles.
Firstly, REM sleep is not exclusive to humans. It also occurs in mammals and birds. Secondly, during the NREM stage, the expression may be âsensationâ, so even though dreams are not produced during this stage, it doesnât mean it can be shortened at will.
Moreover, most of the brave souls who attempted this method only did so for a month, and it seems that there havenât been any successful cases lasting for ten years.
However, inspired by a kid who used this method to prepare for the TOEFL exam with a schedule of 6 hours at night and three 20-minute naps during the day, LittleMaster perfected his own method.
To his surprise, he stopped dreaming overnight.
LittleMaster should be happy since he can now easily enter deep sleep through hypnosis and wake up feeling relaxed, as if he had opened his bodyâs meridians.
But LittleMaster is still annoyed because going several months without dreaming is like losing a skill, and this had never happened before. It is difficult not to suspect if there is some kind of bug in his brain.
As mentioned before, LittleMaster can already examine his subconsciousness based on Freudâs dream interpretation theory to see what his mind is up to.
But now that he experiences a lack of dreaming, how can this be explained? Could it mean that LittleMaster no longer has desires or wants?
LittleMaster was puzzled for a long time until he came across Inferiority and Compensation.
In Adlerâs studies on individual psychology and dreams, he mentioned:
If the significance of dreams lies only in leaving certain feelings in life, we often find that those who do not want to be influenced by feelings most of the time, the type of people who only believe in science, rarely dream or even do not dream at all.
Any solution provided in dreams is actually worse than the solutions you come up with in your waking state. In other words, when you are dreaming, you are essentially solving problems while sleeping. It is not an exaggeration to say so.
LittleMaster felt relieved and quickly took notes to strengthen his memory.
Unfortunately, he didnât know that these books, due to being written in the earlier times, were all like blind people feeling an elephant in the dark. Each person thought they had touched the entire elephant when in reality they had only touched the trunk, the legs, or the tail. Even the creator, Freud, wasnât exempted and apparently only touched the reproductive organ of the elephant.
In this way, LittleMaster has always been proud of being âsomeone who doesnât want to be influenced by feelingsâ.
Until he came across - lucid dreaming.
Translated by gpt-3.5-turbo