Uberman Sleep Schedule

 (my “HW001 English Proficiency” oral test preparation)

Good afternoon everyone. Today, I’m going to talk about a unique sleeping schedule named Uberman sleep schedule. It’s a  kind of polyphasic sleep. Polyphasic sleep is a practice of sleeping multiple times in a 24-hour-period. Usually more than two, on contrast to normal biphasic sleep that we usually do. Uberman sleep schedule, which is named by Dr. Claudio Stampi, a chronobiology researcher, is adopted by many animals sleep behaviour. Instead of sleeping in long chunks of time, such as the eight hours a night recommended to humans, certain animals sleep for short periods of time throughout the day and night.

Uberman itself propose 6 times of sleep in a day of 24-hour-period. Each of them is 20 minutes long and separated 4 hours after another. In total, people doing Uberman schedule only sleep 2 hours in a day. If you do a searching on google about it, you will find that todays more people doing this sleep schedule. Anyway, every type of sleep schedule has its own pros and cons.

There are at least four pros why people doing Uberman sleep schedule. First, you have a lot of time to do everything you want. With 22 hours a day you may feel like superman since more things can be done compare to normal people who only have 15 up to 17 hours. Secondly, you will not lose every phase of your day, because you will be ready every time. You willl see the morning, the afternoon, the evening, and even the dawn. Thirdly, for those who want to have a diet, this kind of sleep schedule perhaps will help you much. Lastly, some resources say that many geniuses have this type of sleep. For instance, Leonardo Da Vinci and Thomas Alva Edison are said to be success having Uberman sleep schedule. So, maybe you will also become genius, if you do so.

On the other hands there are at least four cons as well about doing Uberman sleep schedule. The most important one is lack of sleep time. Based on the normal standard of sleep time, 2 hours in a day is said to be very unhealthy. Generally, lack of sleep may result in aching muscles, headache, blurred vision, and so on. Second, it is very difficult to move from the normal sleep schedule into this Uberman sleep schedule. People who are doing Uberman sleep schedule usually needs about 2 up to 4 weeks before they feel comfortable. The next one, Uberman schedule in a way can be very boring since you have to maintain the right schedule. Once you missed a sleep, you can screw up the whole schedule. Last and maybe the weird one, it gets hard to keep track of what day it is while you doing Uberman sleep schedule. Normal humans can easily recognize what day it is because they only have one long continuous sleep.

For myself, I have not try it before. But I think I will try it in the first or first two month in the next semester. The reason why I do not try it now, because I do not want to have a trial during my exam period If its fail then I will not have my exam back.

In conclusion, it may be interesting to try this unique Uberman sleep schedule, moreover if you have a lot of assignments or projects to do. But don’t forget to keep you healthy as well.

That’s all my speech. Thank you for listening.

March 26, 2008

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