Thanks to Nadia I now have a couple of very interesting articles to check about polyphasic sleep. For those of you interested, here are some links she sent me, and I've added some other articles I dug up.
- Meerfase slaap (Dutch)
- Polyphasic Sleep on Steve Pavlina's blog
- Polyphasic Sleep on Wikipedia
- Polyphasic Sleep : Facts and Myths
- Polyphasic Sleep on Lifehack.org
Whether or not I will attempt this remains to be seen. Going by the bits of information I've already read, a very strict schedule is required to successfully keep it up, and unfortunately a nap every 4 hours is out of the question for me. I don't think I'll be allowed to doze off for 20 minutes in the midst of my shift at work. Then again, maybe there are ways around it. If one can train the body to go through all the sleep cycles in 20 minutes every 4 hours, I take it it may be possible to train towards 40 minutes every 8 hours as well, wouldn't you say?
If anyone has attempted or successfully lives their life using polyphasic sleep, I'd love to hear your experience with it.