Polyphasic sleep is starting to click. From this adaptation experience, I can say with a fair level of certainty that being biphasic prior to polyphasic had little benefit to the adaptation process. Uberman sleep is entirely different from biphasic sleep. It requires its own set of rules. You need a whole new set of tricks to learn it.
Biphasic sleep probably helped quite a bit indirectly -- I felt like sleep experimentation was familiar territory; waking up to alarms was a familiar thing (though you really test your limits with Uberman); and psychologically I was already used to staying awake at night, which is an area many people experience trouble.
But I don't think there was much in terms of direct benefit. Biphasic sleep didn't get me "half way there" or anything.
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