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+I've lamented the amount of time dedicated to sleep for many years now. There's
+evidence of it as far back as 2001 where I included the following ["moto" on my
+home page][moto]:
+
+> "Sleep is the single biggest waste of time in life. Avoid it at all costs."
+
+[moto]: http://web.archive.org/web/20010428064609/yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~wmoore/cgi-bin/index.cgi
+
+I have lots of things that I'd like to do but due to the amount of time that
+work and sleep occupy only get an hour here and there.
+
+Around 2004 when I started working full-time I read about what is now known as
+the Uberman sleep schedule. Under this sleep schedule all sleep is replaced by
+six 20 minute naps across the 24 hour day. This sounded great but the schedule
+had to be strictly stuck to and I didn't have an employer at the time that
+would be ok with me taking naps through the work day.
+
+Fast forward to last week during our weekly Monday meeting. My current boss,
+[Matt][matt], announced he was going to start the Everyman 3 sleep schedule. In
+this modified variant of the Uberman schedule there is a 3 hour core sleep and
+three 20 minute naps distributed across the day. The inclusion of the core
+sleep seems to provide a bit of flexibility in the required nap times
+potentially allowing them to taken up to an hour either side of their scheduled
+time.
+
+[matt]: http://twitter.com/#!/matthewfallshaw
+
+So with Matt starting a sleep schedule and me now working for a [nap friendly
+company][trike] I've also decided to give the Everyman sleep schedule a try. My
+schedule is as follows:
+
+[trike]: http://trikeapps.com/
+
+<table class="left_headers">
+  <tr>
+    <th>Core Sleep</th><td>11pm - 2am</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <th>Nap 1</th><td>7am</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <th>Nap 2</th><td>12pm</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <th>Nap 3</th><td>5pm</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+The way the sleep schedule works is that initially you become so sleep deprived
+that at each of the nap times your body decides it best make the most of the 20
+minutes of sleep it has available to it and skips the usual sleep phases and
+jumps directly to the R.E.M. phase. R.E.M. sleep is what is mainly responsible
+for recharging and fending off tiredness. Its also been reported that by
+getting R.E.M. sleep across the whole day you wake up feeling really switching
+on and alert and therefore potentially more productive. Wikipedia has a [good
+summary on polyphasic sleep][wikipedia].
+
+[wikipedia]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep
+
+Of course there is an adaptation phase for the schedule, which can be a couple
+of weeks or more. As mentioned this basically involves driving yourself to
+exhaustion to trigger R.E.M sleep in naps. Tonight is my first night on the
+schedule so I'm in for some rough days ahead. I aim to post weekly updates on
+my progress.

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+--- 
+title: Polyphasic Sleep Schedule
+extra: I commence a polyphasic sleep schedule in order to reduce my daily sleep to 4 hours per day.
+kind: article
+section: personal
+created_at: 2011-01-20 02:18:00
+keywords: 
+- sleep
+- polyphasic
+- schedule
+short_url: http://bit.ly/e4AgMh