Some folks (e.g., puredoxyk) have suggested that you have to deny that some people seem to work okay on short polyphasic schedules (or believe they are lying) to suggest that it doesn’t work as described.
We are talking about two hours a day in extreme cases. No-one naturally sleeps just two hours a day. (If I am wrong here, correct me).
I have one anecdote from a girl who said she was sleeping an hour a day for a year in a context where there wasn’t any reason for her to not be truthful about it. She didn’t even take any modafinil.
More importantly you think that there are a people who do long-term sleep of 2 hours per day with Uberman. Puredoxyk didn’t stay more than half a year on the Uberman schedule. See my answer at Skeptics SE: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/1007/196
If there are reports of people who lived long-term on polyphasic sleep that happened after 2011 when I wrote my post and that escaped my notice, please provide links.
I don’t think that’s harmful to say, but I think you’re wrong. I’m doing it. It’s working. There is your evidence.
A lot of people do well on six hours of sleep. Managing on six hours is not an extraordinary claim.
It’s well established in the literature that regular sleep schedules lead to better sleep.
You could also have gotten the same effect of feeling less tired easily with modafinil. Sleeping less without feeling tired doesn’t mean that the sleep has all the benefitial effects that sleep commonly has.
It’s worth noting that both btrettel and myself are well read in this subject and had discussions before about it. We aren’t simply judging something as not working because we don’t have information.
I have one anecdote from a girl who said she was sleeping an hour a day for a year in a context where there wasn’t any reason for her to not be truthful about it. She didn’t even take any modafinil.
More importantly you think that there are a people who do long-term sleep of 2 hours per day with Uberman. Puredoxyk didn’t stay more than half a year on the Uberman schedule. See my answer at Skeptics SE: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/1007/196 If there are reports of people who lived long-term on polyphasic sleep that happened after 2011 when I wrote my post and that escaped my notice, please provide links.
A lot of people do well on six hours of sleep. Managing on six hours is not an extraordinary claim. It’s well established in the literature that regular sleep schedules lead to better sleep.
You could also have gotten the same effect of feeling less tired easily with modafinil. Sleeping less without feeling tired doesn’t mean that the sleep has all the benefitial effects that sleep commonly has.
It’s worth noting that both btrettel and myself are well read in this subject and had discussions before about it. We aren’t simply judging something as not working because we don’t have information.