I could live 10 years longer if I didn't sleep?

Submitted by Laura on Mon, 09/15/2008 - 02:18

Grant Stoddard has written a great article, all about an interesting sleep experiment to try and live longer by sleeping less. It begins with:

“I’d been adding items to my to-do list at a much faster rate than I was checking them off when I heard about the Uberman sleep cycle. This extreme form of polyphasic sleeping involves 20-minute naps every 4 hours. (A monophasic sleep pattern would be your typical 8-hour block of sleep every 24 hours.) Some converts to Uberman claim that after an adjustment period, usually lasting anywhere from a week to 3 weeks, they feel no less alert than they would have if they’d been clocking 8 hours a night.”