The website for the Polyphasic Society is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in exploring the theory and practice of alternative sleep cycles. The site has a sizeable menu of non-standard sleep schedules ("segmented", "triphasic", "dual core", "dymaxion" and others) and offers detailed guidance on how to manage the shift from consolidated or monophasic sleeping habits into these exotic variants; it also has a lively forum in which polyphasic sleepers reflect on their attempts to re-boot their sleep lives. In these forum posts, we can witness something quite remarkable -- the emergence of a virtual community that has a fair claim to being the first subculture to be based around sleep.
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