Polyphasic sleep suggestions are quite popular on the internet, but they also do seem quite irrational. The negative risk of trying it is very high, you could seriously damage your health by doing it (risk of the fatal car accident could possibly increase) sleep deprivation, while reward is low to medium at best and depends if you can take advantage of more time available to you.
And i’m just scratching the surface here.
Also consider:
High entry barriers—minimum 2 weeks just to change your habits
Requires very disciplined approach
Very little science supporting it, mainly anectodal evidence
Maybe a good analogy would be to suggest someone who has financial problems to try a radical approach of robbing a bank.
I see what you’re saying, certainly. But we’re talking about someone who is already having a lot of sleep problems, and has exhausted all the other options they could find. They may find they’re better able to keep up a consistent polyphasic regime than a more standard sleep pattern, and if their sleep problems are already bad enough, it may be worth the drawbacks to give it a shot.
Polyphasic sleep suggestions are quite popular on the internet, but they also do seem quite irrational. The negative risk of trying it is very high, you could seriously damage your health by doing it (risk of the fatal car accident could possibly increase) sleep deprivation, while reward is low to medium at best and depends if you can take advantage of more time available to you. And i’m just scratching the surface here.
Also consider:
High entry barriers—minimum 2 weeks just to change your habits
Requires very disciplined approach
Very little science supporting it, mainly anectodal evidence
Maybe a good analogy would be to suggest someone who has financial problems to try a radical approach of robbing a bank.
I see what you’re saying, certainly. But we’re talking about someone who is already having a lot of sleep problems, and has exhausted all the other options they could find. They may find they’re better able to keep up a consistent polyphasic regime than a more standard sleep pattern, and if their sleep problems are already bad enough, it may be worth the drawbacks to give it a shot.