Polyphasic sleeping is when instead of sleeping just once a day (generally at night for about 7-9 hours) a person sleeps multiple times a day. The two most popular examples of polyphasic sleeping are the Everyman and the Uberman cycles. The Everyman is based on one core sleep (about 3 to 4 1/2 hours) at night and three naps throughout the day. The Uberman consists of six 20 minute naps throughout the day at intervals of 4 hours. I first learned about these methods a while back from a friend and then again from the internet just 3 months ago. Since then I have researched them and now I am beginning to try to live under these schedules! I have posted logs of each day I have been on this schedule so you can look and see how it has been trying to adapt to the weird schedule. I originally kept the logs just for myself, not for a blog, so they are not all very organized. However I think they give a good idea of what was going on through the process.
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[...] until this past December that I came across reading material on this special method called Polyphasic sleeping. I came across a wonderful description and a daily log of the experience of adapting to a [...]