Safety and Disclaimer

I write this blog to increase the amount of data available about polyphasic sleep. Hopefully I will adapt to the Uberman sleep schedule and this blog will provide some useful information about what one may feel during the adaptation period. Possibly some people will find this blog useful while they experiment with polyphasic sleep. I would not do this experiment if I had reasons to believes that it will cause serious harmful long term problems to my health. But I am not aware of any evidence that polyphasic sleep is safe when done over many years, and I do not know how safe polyphasic sleep is even for shorter periods of time like one or a few months. Although I have not read about any serious health problems for those who adapt to the Uberman sleep schedule, maybe that there are serious health consequences that will show up only much later after the polyphasers have discontinued their experiment, or perhaps the few people that did not seem to get health problem are exceptions, or maybe I am an exception, and maybe I will get serious health problems as a result of this experiment.

Among polyphasers it seems to be well acknowledged that we do not know whether or not there are serious health problems associated polyphasic sleep. But I am unaware of any such serious health problems, so like other polyphasers I do try this experiment. I do so at my own risk, and I know that there is a risk. I have enough confidence in polyphasic sleep to try it, but I don't have enough confidence in polyphasic sleep to advise anyone else to do it.

One of the reasons why I try the Uberman sleep schedule is because I believe that my body will adapt and that there will be positive changes to my health and well being. So I do not deny that there will be changes to my health. Some of which may be permanent. Hopefully this experiment will not cause serious permanent problems to my health.

DISCLAIMER: If you are considering polyphasic sleep, or if you are already doing polyphasic sleep you may find this blog useful. However what I describe in this blog may not be safe to do, and even if it looks safe it may not apply to your situation. If you use this blog as a source of information for a sleeping experiment do so at your on risk.