A different sleeping technique?

I saw this technique somewhere that says sleeping every 4 hours in 30 minutes increments is supposed to get you lots of REM sleep in the long run, more than the amount you get when sleeping normally. Here's how it works:

You go to sleep at 8 a.m., set your alarm for 8:30 a.m., then take a nap again at 12 n.n., set your alarm for 12:30, then again at 4 pm, alarm at 4:30, etc.

For the first few days, you will want to kill yourself for not sleeping properly, and your mind feels like it's on fire, but in time your mind will play along and adjust to your new sleeping pattern, so that when you go to sleep, you go straight into REM sleep, and counting the number of minutes that you're asleep, a total of 180 minutes or 3 hours of REM! This is supposedly helpful for people who have lots of things to do but don't have the time. And apparently, this means more opportunities to LD :D

So can anyone back this claim up? I'm thinking it's the nREM sleep that rests the body.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the times you sleep are completely up to you. You can adjust the times depending on what's advantageous to you, as long as you sleep in 4 hour intervals for 30 minutes each.

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I dont think it's worth it, and wouldn't work for anyone on a schedule, who works or goes to school for long amounts of time.

I think it is though if you could sneak in a 30 minute power nap during breaks, in the long run at least. Starting out makes you feel like ajfdfdajjsdglkjahdljkl :panic:

Are you currently practicing this yourself?

It just seems like it would screw up my mind so badly because it's so unnatural. Our bodies react to the time of day in a cycle. Different chemicals are released at different times. In the morning, afternoon, evening, night, while sleeping. I don't know the specifics, but it seems sleeping on a schedule like this would screw up a lot.

sounds like a nice exercise to try over the weekend.

I've heard of this, it's called the Uberman sleep schedual. It awesome, and the results i've read about didn't show any medical side-effects.

Still, in non-REM sleep our bodies heal and stuff. You aren't getting any with this.

There's another sleep schedual that's better for people who need to change the times etc. It's called Everyman. It involves one long nap followed by shorter naps which you can change within a 1-2 hour time frame if you need to. I was thinking of starting this, but thought about sleepovers, school etc. I thought it would be wierd if I were sleeping at school etc, so decided against it. I don't really need the extra time anyway.