In Popular Culture
In "The Friar's Club", an episode of Seinfeld, Kramer attempts to use this form of sleep, with unintended consequences.
In Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction novel, The Word for World is Forest, the indigenous race practices polyphasic sleep universally and successfully. They are understood to be the result of genetic modification of humans in a bygone interstellar empire.
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