The World Within

So much for sleep, eh? I finally pulled the plug out on the 21st of April, 2020 when I decided to give Uberman one more chance. "Give it time" "Have patience" "Persevere" "Be disciplined" The tables will have to turn this time, what say Uberman? It was 12am, I had not a hint of sleep to drown me under. My routine during the days which followed that one had been owlish to a certain extent. I would sleep by two or three in the morning and get up by ten or half-past ten later. The mornings and afternoons would go into house chores while after the afternoon, I would do some workout and follow it up with a bunch of other things I liked doing. So when I made up my mind, studied the routine I wanted to follow and charted it up, I decided to skip the first nap of the day, which starts at 12am. Here's what the schedule looks like: Nap 1/4 at 12am/12pm Nap 2/5 at 4am/4pm Nap 3/6 at 8am/8pm And by the time it was 3am,...

What if you could cut your sleep down, and I mean down to about 2 hours for every 24? Imagine the extra time that you would have and what all you could possibly do with it. While the world shuts down for the day, you're just getting started. The concept of day and night ceases to make any sense, your entire life is compartmentalized into periods of wakefulness and naps, almost eternally. Does it sound interesting? Well, let me be the first person to introduce you to the world of polyphasic sleeping—an entirely different world to operate from that seems to have managed the elusive and mysterious sleep, once and for all. What is Polyphasic Sleeping? The word polyphasic simply means multiple phases and polyphasic sleeping means sleeping in multiple phases. So instead of being a monophasic (sleeping in one phase) or a biphasic sleeper (sleeping in 2 phases), polyphasic sleepers sleep multiple times throughout the day, and overall, sleep less than monophasic or biphasic sleeper...