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Formula for good sleep: free running sleep - supermemo.guru

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There is a little-publicized formula that acts as a perfect cure for people who experience continual or seasonal problems with sleep entrainment. This formula is free running sleep! Free running sleep is defined by the abstinence from all forms of sleep control such as alarm clocks, sleeping pills, alcohol, caffeine, etc. Free running sleep is a sleep that comes naturally at the time when it is internally triggered by the combination of your homeostatic and circadian components. In other words, free running sleep occurs when you go to sleep only when you are truly sleepy (independent of the relationship of this moment to the actual time of day). Night sleep on a free running schedule lasts as long as the body needs, and ends in natural awakening. No form of sleep disruption is allowed. In particular, any use of an alarm clock is the cardinal violation of the free running sleep principle. The greatest shortcoming of free running sleep is that it will often result in cycles longer than 2

Formula for good sleep: free running sleep - supermemo.guru Formula for good sleep: free running sleep From supermemo.guru Jump to navigation Jump to search This text is part of: " Science of sleep " by Piotr Wozniak (2017) Contents 1 Free sleep is good sleep 2 Free running sleep 3 Should we free run our sleep? 3.1 Argument 1: Phase shifts 3.2 Argument 2: Excessive sleeping 3.3 Free running sleep is stressless 4 Free running sleep algorithm 4.1 Cardinal mistakes in free running sleep 4.2 Sleep logging tips Free sleep is good sleep There is a little-publicized formula that acts as a perfect cur

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