I first read about polyphasic sleep in a comment to a Slashdot-story about medicines that reduce the need for sleep. Since I’ve always been a bit skeptical about taking pills — the big companies have almost no incentive to avoid long-term health-risks — I wasn’t interested at all by the article, but that comment got me going. I kept reading, both on Wikipedia and on several blogs, and the potential advantages seemed to far outweigh the potential health-risks: I would just be able to set my biological clock back if sleep-deprivation would creep up on me, wouldn’t I?
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