Polyphasic Sleeping

As I was crusing through digg.com, again, I found this article on a guy who attempted polyphasic sleeping. There's a wikipedia article on the whole thing too.

For those of you who never follow up on my links, for some reason, I'll boil it down. Monophasic sleeping is what most of the normal world does for 8 hours a day: Go to bed at night, wake up in the morning (or at other periods of the day, depending on your job, or jet lag, or you're a freak). Diphasic sleep is where there is a fairly lengthy nap--on the order of one to two hours a day--somewhere in between. Polyphasic sleep, then, just means that a person has 3 or more periods of sleep time in a 24-hour cycle, a.k.a. a day. The benefit of all these naps, supposedly, is that you can cut down the time dedicated to sleep everyday. I guess that, if done right, the polyphasic sleeper can shave 2-5 hours off his sleep times.

If you had read the article, then please nevermind the fact that he ultimately gave up on it because it clashed with his lifestyle of wanting to spend more time with his wife, and resume his life of being vegan, bashing Bush, and, I'm just shooting in the dark here, doing other hippie things like smoking marijuana, living in a tree, and doing things left-handed. I'm sure he's a nice guy, but I digress.

Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with being left-handed. Unless you're a hippie. And there's nothing wrong with being a hippie either, except if you're one of those hippies that hates everybody for what they do and spends most of your time picketing and stinking up the place. Why can't you be a more lovable hippie, like one, living in a tree, far away from anywhere I care about?

Anyways, for those of you still reading, I think that this polyphasic thing is a really neat idea that I'd like to research some more and eventually try it out, sometime after May. Of course, by then, I'll have forgotten about it or no longer care. Either way, it'll be a fun ride of apathy.