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...uccessful adaptation. With extra sleep time, the body reduces the level of compression, making it impossible to sustain the schedule without oversleeps.

...and keeps sleep pressures low. The four short cores may also promote sleep compression. ...nto multiple small core sleeps, sleep [[repartitioning]] and [[sleep cycle compression]] is expected to be more intense than on schedules with longer sleep blocks

...p Schedules|schedules]] with a low total sleep time, since much more sleep compression should occur, leaving significantly much less light sleep. This makes the s ...n and/or too far, the adaptation can be destabilized or even ruined if the compression cannot be maintained anymore.

...creases sleep quality, which is detrimental for the schedules with extreme compression, but is tolerated by the easier schedules. This makes [[monophasic]] sleep ...otal sleep time. Extreme schedules have to be very rigid to maintain sleep compression. Even a bit of flexing may fully destabilize the schedule and lead to the [

...Longer naps duration means that it's more likely to reach the needed sleep compression and having long enough SWS episodes for the efficiency of the glymphatic sy ...ap-only schedules above, since the total sleep time is much higher and the compression levels are much lower. Also all needed SWS should easily be placed in the c

...naps]]. The extremely low total sleep time means it requires intense sleep compression, possibly reducing the [[wikipedia:Sleep_cycle|cycle]] lengths to under 60

Like other nap only schedules, Uberman requires extreme rigidity and sleep compression, which makes it one of the toughest sleep schedules. ...ation|sleep deprivation]] which is necessary to produce the level of sleep compression required.

Like other nap only schedules, Uberman requires extreme rigidity and sleep compression, which makes it one of the toughest sleep schedules. ...ation|sleep deprivation]] which is necessary to produce the level of sleep compression required.

...be gained from the naps. At only 1 hour and 20 minutes of total sleep, the compression needed to achieve an adaptation to this schedule is expected to be far more

...es. Compressing sleep, however, requires adaptation, and greater levels of compression necessitates harsher and/or longer adaptations. As such, schedules can be c

...es. Compressing sleep, however, requires adaptation, and greater levels of compression necessitates harsher and/or longer adaptations. As such, schedules can be c

...approach would be to adapt to the standard variant, and then wait for the compression to occur. It is not recommended to directly start an adaptation to a varian

...d to be 4.5 hours. This may naturally decrease to about 4 hours with cycle compression after a long time. Some, especially those with lower sleep needs, may be ab