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Re:The simplest of slumbers by inter_netuser on Monday November 01, 2021 @10:21PM (#29076129)
polyphasic thing probably kept going into 2010s. There was a large polyphasic sleep chat on freenode then.

It seems to have slowly petered out over time.

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Re:The simplest of slumbers by xtracto on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @11:06AM (#29082350)
Right. Same thing I think happened with Soylent nutrition.

I wonder what other health fads are there. It would make a good docu to follow someone like Supersize me! But doing all those health fads together for some time.

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Re:The simplest of slumbers by inter_netuser on Saturday November 06, 2021 @03:52PM (#29133285)
I’m actually very curious how do such fads begin?

Sales? What’s there to sell if you recommend polyphasic sleep? Or just harvest attention of clueless morons and act as some health guru?

Such a weird phenomena, and so common, I feel moronical for not understanding what drives it.

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