| Uberman’s Sleep is bad for your health. Straight up. While I am lacking in scientific evidence to back this claim, it simply doesn’t take a rocket scientist (which I am not) to know that reducing the amount of sleep you have in your lifetime by 70% is “healthy”.Known otherwise as Polyphasic Sleep, which includes any form of sleep regulation that requires an individual to sleep multiple times within a 24 hour timespan. Specifically, Uberman’s Sleep refers to taking 20-30 minute naps every 4 hours awake. This cuts your sleep time down to approx. 2 hours for every 24 hour period, far less than the recommended 7-8 hours.
Sleep is a waste of time, right? Wrong. Immense numbers of studies have been done to prove that more sleep, specifically 7 to 8 hours, improves many aspects of health including mental awareness, reasoning, physical fitness, metabolism, clear skin, appearance, and even longevity. While it is unclear whether sleep is a factor in causation, or a side effect of lifestyle for the individuals that produced these results, the results are still true. The second image above right shows the normal sleep pattern of a person over the course of 8 hours, showing that a person enters REM sleep about every two hours. The key to Uberman’s sleep is for a person to come to a full waking state between alternating REM stages, instead of reaching only stage 2. |
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| While there is not enough evidence of what benefit those stage 2 dips have for a person, anyone who has tried Uberman’s sleep will know that benefits exist.
In college, I was playing an online game called Antrophia, which basically required me to wake up every two to three hours (hey, I got at least 2 sets of REM each nap) to excel at the game. I can attest to the fact that I was literally a walking zombie for about three months, and although there is a certain pride I have at reaching the top of that game multiple times, I felt like I was never fully conscious. It was difficult to study, work, maintain meaningful conversations with friends, and even drive during this time, and I would NOT recommend doing it again.Unless you need to stand guard for vampires every two hours, prolonged sleep is one of the best uses of time a person can have. And our generation continues to lack in sleep more than previous generations. So get under the blankets and have a good night’s rest. Leave the alarm clock off. |
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This article is completely lacking in truth and/or evidence. Before you make such OUTRAGEOUS claims, you should realize that playing an online game every two hours is not good for you. You are not supposed to play games on an Uberman sleep schedule, and your experience with waking p every two hours to play a game does not relate to Uberman at all.
I may not have mentioned much scientific evidence, but I can tell you how terrible I felt experiencing this form of polyphasic sleep. If my sleep schedule does not relate to Uberman at all, I do welcome a response on why. People who attempt Uberman’s sleep frequently mention how uncomfortable it is initially, and for many months typically. I suppose we can all get use to just about anything though, given enough time.
What you described as your experience doesn’t sound like disciplined polyphasic sleep. The key is a regimented schedule. Your claims about the stages of sleep and the way they respond to polyphasic sleep are unfounded. Uberman sleep cycles are definitely questionable, but this article makes several claims without any form of rigorous experimentation, I don’t mean anything personal by this, but your article is worthless.
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