Leonardo da Vinci’s Polyphasic Sleep
Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance genius, reportedly followed a polyphasic sleep schedule: 20-minute naps every four hours, totaling just 2 hours of sleep a day. He believed this “Uberman” sleep cycle maximized time for invention, painting, and philosophical pondering.
Though historians debate how long he kept it up, da Vinci’s obsession with efficiency shows in his prolific output—from the Mona Lisa to flying machines. Friends described him as energetic and oddly immune to fatigue. While modern science doesn’t recommend it, da Vinci’s radical rest proves one thing: sleep is what you make it… or break it.
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