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The point of these sleep schedules is to get rid of everything other than REM. Numerous people, including several on this thread, find that after a couple of days of this, they go directly into dreams. That much works. The question is whether getting rid of everything else is sustainable and useful. Incidentally, I have known one person who naturally only had REM. He had problems and was diagnosed with narcolepsy. I have known several other people I suspected were similar, but who hadn't been through sleep studies. ETA: also, he found short naps quite useful.
After reading your reply, my impulse was to shrug and think "that objection is wrong, but I still don't think it's a very good idea." I since realized that what I had written really was my true rejection (besides a blind appeal to lack-of-popularity) and I didn't know otherwise about the success or failure of polyphasic sleep, so I'd better go look it up or risk missing out on some possibly-low-hanging-fruit.
Anyways, I'm still reading through PureDoxyk's blog, but I've seen that it definitely seems to work for some people. I plan to continue to look into it and decide whether I want to try Everyman once I go back to college.
I retract my previous comment. Thanks for the correction.