There is an interesting discussion going on about sleep and the influence on health and longevity over at the Futurist Salon Yahoo Group. That reminded me of a kuro5hin.org article about Uberman's sleep Schedule:
Background
The Uberman sleep schedule is a method of organizing your sleeping time to maximize your REM sleep and minimize your non-REM sleep. The goal of the sleep cycle is that you are actively in REM sleep within a couple of minutes of falling asleep and remain in that state until you awaken. I originally read about the schedule on everything2.
In essence, someone utilizing the Uberman sleep schedule is actively modifying their sleeping habits so that they can immediately jump from waking to a few minutes worth of stage 1 sleep straight to stage 5 REM sleep, as described in this discussion of sleep stages.
People claim to need 3 to 4 hours less sleep per day, which sounds interesting to me. Turns out, there is also a discussion group about it.
I thought readers might be interested to know that I created my own Uberman's sleep schedule blog to document my experiences with polyphasic sleeping.
Posted by: Brandon Goldman | June 23, 2005 at 17:58