Him: Polyphasic Sleep

I know this is probably a really random topic, but it has been something I have always wondered about ever since reading an article a few years back.

Polyphasic sleep is the practice of sleeping multiple times in a day, more than two, vice the one that most people are accustome to today. There are not volumes of research in this method of sleep, but doing a quick search can get you some pretty interesting facts.

From Wikipedia, there are a number of generally known methods of sleep:

Monophasic		8 hours major sleep episode.
Biphasic		6 hours major sleep episode and one 20 minute power nap.
Biphasic (90-minute nap)		4.5 hours major sleep episode and one 90 minute nap.
Everyman (with 2 naps)		4.5 hours major sleep episode and two 20-minute power naps.
Everyman (with 3 naps)		3 hours major sleep episode and three 20-minute power naps.
Everyman (with 4 - 5 naps)		1.5 hours major sleep episode and four to five twenty-minute power naps.
Dymaxion		Four 30-minute naps (every 6 hours).
Uberman		Six 20-minute naps (every 4 hours).

The goal of these being a more effective wake to sleep process, ranging from our common eight hour sleep once a day to four or six naps with only two. I found the article I had read a few years ago, here. It is a blog of a man who tried the Uberman sleep schedule. He conducted the study over a four month period. At the beginning, he struggled to teach his body to sleep for only twenty minutes. After a few weeks, the body learns to fall asleep much faster to ensure quick recovery.

Another difference in polyphasic sleep is your eating paterns. How would you eat in such an interesting schedule. Since you are only awake at most for four or four and a half hours, you can't expect to eat large meals every time. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner become relative meals and you begin to eat multiple times per day, of course much smaller meals.

With a baby on the way, I have been thinking of all this sleep schedule stuff since I know that the first few weeks or months are very sporatic with respect to getting a full night sleep. I am a big fan of taking at least one nap a day, though I have problems sleeping during the day currently, as it can help with mood, mental, and physical health which will be crucial with a baby.

Maybe today will be a good day for a nap. I believe I can get way more done in a day from that little bit more energy from a decent nap.

-Another great day