This is called polyphasic sleep. It is associated with the name of the genius artist and inventor of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci. This scientist was constantly in search and implementation of a huge number of ideas and the time for him to study and learn everything, of course, was not enough.
Resourceful da Vinci decided to find new reserves of time in daily sleep. He broke the usual night rest into several parts, making it polyphasic. Now he slept for 15 minutes every 4 hours. As a result, the total duration of sleep was reduced to just one and a half hours a day! He used this polyphasic sleep for many years of his life without experiencing fatigue.
It is known that physiologically the most productive time for work and creativity is after sleep. At this time, the body's performance is especially high. Interruption of the waking time every 4 hours, followed by a short rest leads to a sharp increase in the time of increased efficiency.
Years of practice and experimentation by the followers of the great genius made it possible to single out several of the most "working" polyphasic sleep techniques:
- sleep every 6 hours for 30 minutes (dymaxion mode);
- sleep every 4 hours for 20 minutes (uberman mode);
- sleep at night for 1.5-3 hours and then 3 times during the day for 20 minutes (everyman mode);
- sleep at night for 2 hours and then 20 minutes in the middle of the day (tesla mode);
- sleep at night for 5 hours and then 1.5 hours in one fell swoop during the day (siesta mode).
And it works!
But you need to know that each organism is individual and not everyone is suitable for polyphasic sleep. The main thing is, if you decide to try to switch to it, you need to temporarily give up driving.
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