Uberman Sleep Cycle

As of 5 hours ago I've decided to implement the Uberman Sleep Cycle as part of my sleeping routine.

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Uberman Sleep Cycle consists of taking 20-30 minute naps every 4 hours, so 6 naps the end result=2-3 hours of sleep every day.

Through research on several Uberman Sleep Cycle blogs, as well as Yahoo Answers, Here's what I know about the Uberman Sleep Cycle:

1. The adaptation process is implemented exactly how the end result is: naps every 4 hours. One starts immediately.

2. Because of this, the adaptation period is infamous for being a very difficult process because the mind has to go through sleep deprivation before it can adapt and change its patterns. 

3. Once adapted, it is most likely that an individual will actually experience more energy in their daily life

4. Becoming adapted, however doesn't seem to gurantee this as I've read accounts that it didn't work for some people

5. Obviously, this will lead to much more time on a persons hands...sometimes more than they know to do with.

6. This kind of sleep cycle is suited for people who can create their own schedules and have time for naps.

7. This is actually how animals and babies sleep

8. Many famous people like Leonardo Divinci, Napoleon, and Thomas Jefferson are believed to have implemented Uberman Sleep Cycles

9. You don't want to fall off schedule...ever.

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So how exactly does this work?

Well, in typical 8 hour sleep, the mind goes through a process of becoming submersed in deeper and deeper sleep.

 There are 5 stages of this, the 1st stage is basically full consciousness and the 5th stage is full on Rapid Eye Movement (or REM) sleep. Everything else falls somewhere in between.

The process flucuates between deeper and deeper sleep happens in two cycles of 4 hour stages with the second being more dramatic than the first. This is why, people sometimes wake up in the middle of the night feeling fully rested, and sometimes people only get 4 hours and feel fully rested, its because they have had some REM type sleep.

Anyway, the point is that the mind only needs the essential Deep REM sleep in order to function properly what the Uberman Sleep Cycle does is cut out all the flabby sleep and is based on just solely REM sleep. Once adapted ones mind goes straight into Deep REM Sleep.

This is a Diagram for basic Monophasic Sleep, notice how the REM type sleep gets longer each time, with Polyphasic sleep it is the same everytime

 So basically, the basis of advantage of the Uberman Sleep Cycle compared to regular sleeping is that your mind gets more deep REM Type Sleep than it does in Monophasic Sleep.