What I understood by polyphasic sleep is the practice of “ultra-short napping to achieve more time awake each day”, the point being to get more productive hours per day. There’s no suggestion that segmented sleep involves sleeping fewer hours than normal, but it might increase the quality of the waking hours.
From La Wik on segmented sleep: “Peasant couples were often too tired after a long day’s work to do much more than eat and go to sleep”. I sometimes have days like that, whereupon I’m likely to wake once or more through the night. Maybe I should get up and meditate or something, instead of turning over and falling asleep again.
What I understood by polyphasic sleep is the practice of “ultra-short napping to achieve more time awake each day”, the point being to get more productive hours per day. There’s no suggestion that segmented sleep involves sleeping fewer hours than normal, but it might increase the quality of the waking hours.
From La Wik on segmented sleep: “Peasant couples were often too tired after a long day’s work to do much more than eat and go to sleep”. I sometimes have days like that, whereupon I’m likely to wake once or more through the night. Maybe I should get up and meditate or something, instead of turning over and falling asleep again.