Polyphasic sleep is the practice of sleeping multiple times in a 24-hour period—usually more than two, in contrast to biphasic sleep (twice per day) or monophasic sleep (once per day).
I've gone full weeks with only 5 hours of sleep a night (with no adverse affects), so this sounds interesting. Would you take multiple naps a day, or just sleep once at night?
I would try it tbh because it's interesting. Monophasic is probably the best because you're taking up hours where it's dark, and then you can be awake for all the daylight hours. But it's nice to have alternatives
I've tried this before, back in 2012, cause I wanted so badly to have extra time to study and do well on my SATs - well, the equivalent to those here in Brazil, at least. I failed, cause the transition is so hard, so I can't say if it actually works. What I can say is, even you manage to get past the transition proccess, this is bound to fail anyway, unless you're some sort of an hermit.
From what I've read, you become a slave of the Polyphasic Sleep, and you can't miss the sleeping naps around the day, or skip them for much time, or else the whole thing starts to crumble.
