And with polyphasic sleeping, you can stop spending so much damn time unconscious, and therefore unproductive.

有了多相，你就可以停止花那么多该死的间在无意识的状态下，因此效率低下。

And they have many bouts of sleep within that 24-hour period and that's polyphasic sleep.

他们在那24小周期内有多次，这就是多相。

For a while, I was doing polyphasic sleep, which is really interesting.

有一段间，我在尝试多相，这真的很有趣。

So now we've switched from polyphasic sleep as infants to biphasic sleep as kindergarten.

所以我们从婴儿期的多相切换到了幼儿园期的相。

By about age 1, that number of phases of sleep are starting to decrease, but it's still highly polyphasic.

大约到1岁， 阶段的数量开始减少，但仍然高度呈多相。

So that's how sleep unfolds in the monophasic, biphasic, polyphasic sleep across the lifespan.

因此，这就是单相、相和多相在人一生中展开的方式。

So, he was the first one to describe his schedule and it was called the Dymaxion schedule of polyphasic sleep.

所以他第一个描述了自己的作息安排，被称为Dymaxion多相计划。

So I bring this back to polyphasic sleep.

所以我就此回到多相的话题。

To be clear in nomenclature, I'm saying monophasic, biphasic, polyphasic, unpack that.

为了明确术语，我说的是单相、相、多相，解释一下这些概念。

And then we can speak about polyphasic sleep.

然后我们可以谈谈多相。

Several times during today's discussion, we talked about polyphasic sleep.

在今天的讨论中，我们多次提到了多相。

Call them high-performance polyphasic strategies for sleep.

称之为高性能多相策略。

And the different types of polyphasic sleep that we covered are, I wouldn't say conventional, but they're conventional-ish.

而且我们提到的不同类型的多相，虽然不能说是常规的， 但还算接近常规。

So we've spoken about polyphasic sleep in the natural way it occurs, which is during infancy.

所以我们讨论了在婴儿期自然出现的多相。

And sleeping like a baby means that you're sleeping in a highly polyphasic way.

像婴儿那样觉意味着你的方式非常多元相。

So when it comes to polyphasic sleep, sleeping like a baby if you're an adult seems to be a rather unwise piece of advice.

所以当谈到多相，对于成年人来说， 像婴儿一样觉似乎是个不太明智的建议。

Polyphasic sleep simply by definition again means that you're having multiple phases of sleep within a 24-hour period.

多相简单来说就是在24小内有多次阶段。

And here no longer are we infants, we're now adults, but we're engaging in a pattern that is highly polyphasic.

我们不再是婴儿， 现在是成年人，但我们却在进行一种高度多相化的模式。

So, let's come back to the claims of polyphasic sleep that it could improve, let's say, your mood or your cognition or your productivity or your health.

所以，让我们回到多相的说法，它声称可以改善你的 mood（情绪）、cognition（认知能力）、productivity（生产力）或 health（健康）。

Get sleepy around 10 or 11 p.m. or even later, how should they think about this biphasic polyphasic business?

如果一个人通常在晚上10点或11点， 甚至更晚才感到困倦，他们应该如何看待这种相或多相的问题？