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Hi, I was wondering if polyphasic sleep is dangerous? What kinds of long term health effects could it have? Did anyone try it?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Purely anecdotal but I accidentally fell into this during university when studying for final exams. 3 hours sleep at night, 3 hours in early afternoon. Was great and never felt better so tried to keep it after exams but it was just impossible. Once I got back to real life, it was impossible to keep such a rigid and inflexible system. I didn't do it long enough to see any long term effects but just found it impossible to keep anyway so naturally reverted back to 7-8 hours overnight