{"id":14,"date":"2012-02-14T10:07:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T10:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/six40winks.com\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2012-02-14T10:07:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T10:07:27","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/?page_id=14","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a site exploring the polyphasic sleeping schedule known as\u00a0\u00fcberman<\/em>. \u00a0This means sleeping 2h a day! \u00a0and I’ll be doing it for 6 months.<\/p>\n

Polyphasic sleeping simply means that you sleep many times a day (vs. monophasic sleeping where you sleep once at night).\u00a0 The most common sleeping pattern is 2\/3 of the day awake, 1\/3 of the day asleep. Like so:<\/div>\n
\"monophasic<\/a><\/div>\n
But I’m sure you’ve all heard of bi-phasic sleep (or the famous Siesta) which looks something like this:<\/div>\n

\"biphasic<\/a><\/p>\n

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and is sometimes used in certain latin countries. \u00a0But perhaps a less well known is triphasic sleep (also known as Everyman sleep): \u00a0A\u00a04.5 hours major sleep episode and two 20-minute power naps.<\/p>\n

\"triphasic<\/a><\/p>\n

Yet some people chose to go further. The first recorded attempt to change dramatically our sleeping patterns was performed by architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller<\/a>. \u00a0He coined\u00a0the Dymaxion sleep schedule<\/a>\u00a0(Four 30-minute naps a day — one nap every 6 hours) … which meant sleeping a total of 2 hours per day. \u00a0Multiple variations around this schedule have been tested by people around the world. \u00a0 However there is little actual data describing these experiments. \u00a0My goal is to share the first 6-month long set of polyphasic sleeping data for this schedule:<\/p>\n

\"uberman<\/a><\/p>\n

about the author<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

I’m a 33 year old scientist, programmer and entrepreneur.<\/p>\n

At age 12 I was reading astrophysics books about the universe (La m\u00e9lodie secr\u00e8te, Trinh Xuan Than) and two years later I discovered Quantum Mechanics (Le cantique des quantiques, S. Ortoli). Obviously I did not understand even the principles of it but was fascinated by the unsolved mysteries of the universe.\u00a0 I did an MSc in Theoretical Physics (with some neuro-physiology in my final project) and after a gap year went on to do a PhD in Quantum Information at Imperial College, London. \u00a0In paralel I also collaborated with Engineers Without Borders<\/a> and explored small scale renewables.<\/p>\n

After completing my PhD I went on to work in the renewable energy industry. \u00a0With my engineering and modelling experience and my self taught programming skills I have now started my own company to help spread renewables around the world.<\/p>\n

On this journey, my fascination with the great questions of the universe and the mind have not withered, and I’m always eager to explore new fascinating projects like polyphasic sleep.<\/p>\n

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about the site<\/strong>: \u00a0This is a wordpress<\/a> blog (a free and open source PHP-based blogging platform). \u00a0 The contents and pictures of this site are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License<\/a>. (or CC-BY-NC).
\n\"Creative<\/a> and is hosted at Webfaction<\/a> using green energy powered servers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a site exploring the polyphasic sleeping schedule known as\u00a0\u00fcberman. \u00a0This means sleeping 2h a day! \u00a0and I’ll be doing it for 6 months. Polyphasic sleeping simply means that you sleep many times a day (vs. monophasic sleeping where … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}