So, what exactly is polyphasic sleep ?
From the admittedly little that I’ve learned, it’s a sleep cycle consisting of short naps, about 20-30 minutes long, spread out through a 24-hour period. At the end of this “day”, you’ll have 2-4 hours of shut-eye under your belt. The theory is that, during a full night’s rest, our bodies undergo about five different sleep stages. The amount of time spent in each stage, however, might not be in the proportions that would occur naturally. By limiting your sleep to short naps, you end up forcing your body to adapt and to squeeze in the necessary stages. Now, I don’t know about the theory at all. It’s the least bit interesting thing to me at this point. I figure my body will try to get what it needs, when it needs it. Granted, I understand that our solar-centric lives encourage us to divide up that 24-hour block into two large chunks of time, but who knows if this is vital, or simply convenient. I mean, do you really think it was advantageous for our Neanderthal ancestors to curl up under
