Polyphasic sleep! Remember this awesome craze? I do...and it was awesome. IT IS AWESOME! Many phases of sleep, like a baby, sleeping in intervals ad nauseum. Cult blogger Steve Pavlina popularized the idea of adults returning to this sleep schedule as it would allegedly provide more total waking hours with the same amount of restfulness - all resting on the explanation of increased sleeping efficiency. The general idea is to have six 30 minute naps every four hours for a total of 3 sleeping hours, or, alternatively, 21 waking hours each day. Pavlina tantalized readers with the new lifestyle's perks: picking up new hobbies, engaging in activities that time constraints had hitherto precluded, having more social time during the day, working left for late night hours, having increased funds resulting from more total hours worked (self-employed), etc. Ultimately Pavlina returned to a normal monophasic sleep schedule as the detrimental social and family effects began to outweigh the benefits. Putting aside the paucity of long term effects research and the ability of a person to successfully transition to the schedule itself (supposedly a real bear), are there not some people who could benefit from polyphasic sleep?