dymaxian sleep
In 1943, TIME Magazine printed an article that started out like this:
Sleep is just a bad habit. So said Socrates and Samuel Johnson, and so for years has thought grey-haired Richard Buckminster Fuller, futurific inventor of the Dymaxion* house (TIME, Aug. 22, 1932), the Dymaxion car and the Dymaxion globe. Fuller made a deliberate attempt to break the sleep habit, with excellent results. Last week he announced his Dymaxion system of sleeping. Two hours of sleep a day, he said firmly, is plenty.
Polyphasic sleep is the general term for this kind of thing, and you can get a more skeptical view of it on wikipedia. There are links to the Uberman sleep schedule and the Everyman sleep schedule there as well as links to Claudio Stampi, founder and Director of the Chronobiology Research Institute in Boston
I’ll toss in a list of blogs about polyphasic sleep and a google group dedicated to the same topic
Then there is:
and last but not least, I was looking for an image of Stampi, and found this:
wtf?
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