Alternate Sleep Schedules

My friend and I are starting the Uberman sleep schedule (six 20-minute naps spread evenly throughout each day) tonight. Have other lesswrongians experimented with alternate sleep schedules? Are any of you qualified medical experts who can give input or advice? Success stories and failure stories would both be appreciated, and I'll keep you guys posted on our progress.

Here is PureDoxyK's response to the Wozniak criticism. There's a funny bit...

There are no women doing polyphasic sleep. Which makes myself, my friend who first did Uberman with me, and my hero Heidi who’s gone more than a year-and-a-half on Uberman by now the most attractive, clean guys in HISTORY! Mind you, he doesn’t just state this silliness, but uses it as EVIDENCE for the fact that polyphasic sleep can’t work (because women’s “hormones” don’t allow it somehow). Yeah, ROFLcopter.

Wow -- thanks for providing that link -- it was great to read her whole response and the comments. This is a fun reply, as I can say that:

I've spent the evening reading tons of posts from PureDoxyk and Steve Pavlina
I essentially retract everything I wrote above; I agree that Wozniak is heavy on rhetoric and short on data
I think PureDoxyk's posts, blog, and book show that even if she is only one data point... at least it's an empirical data point vs. Wozniak's speculation.
Given this... I'm going to try this myself! How's that for a rapid mind changing

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