How it started
If you read the About Me page, you know by that now that the numerous grammatical mistakes you are likely to encounter here are because I am French.
More pertinent to polyphasic sleep however, is the fact that with my partner, we are the proud owners of two new businesses.
That last fact means we have been working our asses off for the last three years with little to no down time, so polyphasic sleep could be a godsent to us for different reasons:
- more time to consolidate our business
- more time to spend on leisure and social life
- doing all this while not being sleep deprived like we’ve been in the last years
- avoid sleeping problems (Seb has apnea and Isabeau suffers greatly from Seb’s nocturnal noise pollution)
- more time for Isabeau to play video games, something she had to grudgingly give up and still hasn’t been able to accept with grace
A bit more about Polyphasic sleeping:
The important phases of sleeping are REM and SWS sleep, during which you consolidate memories and repair your brain and body. Usually those phases consist of 20% of your total night’s sleep.
The idea behind polyphasic sleep is to train your body to go directly in these phases of sleep, avoiding the other less productive phases, thus reducing your total sleep hours every day without compromising on the quality of sleep you get, nor it’s necessary virtues.
By becoming an efficient sleeper, you get considerably more awake time and that’s a mighty attractive prospect when you are a new business owner
There are different patterns for polyphasic sleeping. We personally opted for the überman schedule, which implies a nap of 20 minutes every four hours. The reason? It sounded like the craziest one. The 22h of activity in a day were only a mild incentive 
Scientific information on Polyphasic Sleep
Although I usually like to understand anything I do and it’s impact on my life, I find very little research on the subject, which bothers me.
The best I could find except some info and blogs on the internet is a book called “Why We Nap” by Claudio Stampi that I’ve just ordered and should receive soon.
Despite the lack of scientific experimentation, Seb and I decide to give it a go nonetheless, the payoff is just too interesting to ignore. Plus brilliant minds like Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson & Benjamin Franklin having been known to use a polymorphic sleep cycle, it has to count for something, no?
To play it on the safe side, I have decided to keep this journal as a reference point. I am making it public because although there are a million blogs on the subject out there, there are none from a fetishist, so you never know who may fInd it useful Also, what we aim to do is to use the überman schedule during the summer and the everyman schedule for the rest of the year, which is far more lenient and includes a longer nap akin to regular sleeping at night.
Being in Canada, I hardly imagine myself locked in my badly insulated condo for the night during winter. I love my boyfriend and although we miraculously manage to not get on each other’s nerves although we are together 24/7, I don’t want to put our ability to find each other perpetually interesting to the test
We’ve decided to start this Saturday, as Sundays are usually quiet for us at the store and we have Mondays day off, thus making our load lighter for the heavier phases of sleep deprivation