Puredoxyk is one of the two (back then) college girls, who lived on the Uberman Sleep Schedule (and gave it its name) back in 2000. She is also author of the original E2 node about Uberman SS. http://everything2.com/node/892542
Pavlina's ex-wife and business partner is a telephone psychic. Pavlina has extensive blog posts in which he takes her occupation seriously. He's a garden variety crank, frankly.
I was going to post Puredoxyk's rebuttal here too, but noprocrast kicked in. Thanks.
The main weakness in Wozniak's argument/rant is that he assumes all people work the same way. For most people, monophasic or biphasic sleep is most comfortable, and normal human biology seems to back that up.
But Puredoxyk says she has always had spectacular sleep disorders, and that prompted her to try Uberman originally. I doubt her brain chemistry follows the usual biphasic pattern, so it makes sense that frequent, regularly timed naps would work better for her than a forced monophasic schedule.
Steve Pavlina seems to have incredible self-control.
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Here is a very good reply to the arcitle from Puredoxyk:
http://www.puredoxyk.com/index.php/2006/11/01/an-attack-on-p...
Puredoxyk is one of the two (back then) college girls, who lived on the Uberman Sleep Schedule (and gave it its name) back in 2000. She is also author of the original E2 node about Uberman SS. http://everything2.com/node/892542
There is great discussion on the Google Polyphasic Group about this [Dr. Wozniak's] article: http://groups.google.com/group/polyphasic/browse_thread/thre...
Here is my quick summary:
1. There is not enough scientific data to backup either side (for/against polyphasic);
2. Dr. Wozniak has his own agenda - he advocates so called "free-running sleep";
3. Some of the "facts" [mentioned in Dr. Wonziak's article] are in contradiction with experiences of people who tried polyphasic sleep, like Puredoxyk ( http://www.puredoxyk.com ) or Steve Pavlina ( http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/ )
Pavlina's ex-wife and business partner is a telephone psychic. Pavlina has extensive blog posts in which he takes her occupation seriously. He's a garden variety crank, frankly.
I was going to post Puredoxyk's rebuttal here too, but noprocrast kicked in. Thanks.
The main weakness in Wozniak's argument/rant is that he assumes all people work the same way. For most people, monophasic or biphasic sleep is most comfortable, and normal human biology seems to back that up.
But Puredoxyk says she has always had spectacular sleep disorders, and that prompted her to try Uberman originally. I doubt her brain chemistry follows the usual biphasic pattern, so it makes sense that frequent, regularly timed naps would work better for her than a forced monophasic schedule.
Steve Pavlina seems to have incredible self-control.