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I love the idea of this and tried achieving it twice in my life. It sadly becomes incredibly difficult to stay awake after the fourth day or so and you need to do it for a whole week at the minimum before your body acclimates.
It was a nice experience though, I was surprised by the strength of the visual hallucinations I was getting just from lack of sleep.
The sticking point is that your body acclimates to sleeping at exactly your set nap times. If you miss or delay a nap, you're screwed. If you have total control of your schedule (i.e. work remote with no meetings, no kids, no other spontaneous responsibilities) you can make it work. Otherwise, not recommended.
What are you talking about? This is about sleeping multiple times a day, not skipping sleep for days at a time.
For the first week, it will feel like you are skipping sleep. It's basically rewiring your body to go straight into REM sleeping when it normally takes a few hours but that rewiring takes time.
I was taking the scheduled naps and everything, it just doesn't give any relief for the first week.
Biphasic sleep has always worked well for me but any more than that and I start suffering.
Don't do it.
I hate that this is so difficult to incorporate into a normal schedule. I have some chronic pain thingamabob, which means sleeping more than a few hours at a time has me waking up in severe pain. Being able to split up my sleeping phases would solve that very well.