Polyphasic sleep involves sleeping for three or more short periods throughout the day. If you follow a polyphasic sleep ...

An curved arrow pointing right. I slept 4.5 hours per day for a week as part of a polyphasic sleep routine. Most people follow a monophasic sleep schedule, which involves seven to eight hours of ...

For example, technically a tomato is a fruit, but we all think and refer to tomatoes as a vegetable. Most people are ‘cognitively polyphasic’, which means they can handle different thought content at ...

Every day at 5 p.m., the prime minister would drink a weak whisky and soda before taking a nap for nearly two hours. Churchill said this "siesta," or short nap, allowed him to get one and a half ...

The default state is not a single block of sleep but bimodal or polyphasic. Prof Russell Foster The National Sleep Foundation tells us that the healthy range is between six and ten and a half ...

Referred to as a Polyphasic rather than Monophasic approach, the next step is to have a clear pre-sleep process, moving from light to dark, warm to cool, mental download, tech shutdown ...

This is the second in a series of columns about the importance of adequate sleep for optimal physical and mental health.

"Once I'm already in my room I still have to open a door to get into my bed," Phelps said on the CBS News program "60 Minutes" in 2012. "It's just like a giant box. It's like 'boy and the bubble.