polyphasic sleep?

About 5 years back, some folks had posted on polyphasic sleep, where you take several short naps during the day.

Has anyone with OSA tried this, and had any success? I'm not asking from a xPAP perspective (as presumably you would still use the xPAP during every single nap), but from a general perspective of if anyone has tried and had success or failure on things like EveryMan and Ubermann sleep systems.

Even with CPAP and pretty good OSA control, I'm tired if I sleep less than 6 or more than 8 hours. The less than 6 is understandable, but I find if I oversleep on a weekend and get even a minute more than 8 hours, I end up dead on my feet all day. Wondering if getting a smaller amounts of individual sleep instances and more sleep instances would help.

Thanks for any feedback. I'm not ready to jump on the polyphasic bandwagon, but I am definitely interested in starting to collect information.

Is that several short naps during the day to replace a full night of sleep? Or are those in addition to a night of sleep?

While I do agree that short naps during the day are beneficial, if not essential, I don't think they can replace regular sleep since you need time to get into rem sleep and I just don't think that can be achieved in short naps. That's just my uneducated guess.

I also find it interesting that you say that if you get a minute over 8 hours, you are dead on your feet. I'm wondering if I'm dealing with the same thing. Before sleep apnea, I did fine with 6 to 7 hours. Now with the machine, I'm logging about 8-1/2 and I find it extremely difficult to get out of bed and it takes me quite a while to get going. I'm wondering if I need to cut back my sleep to maybe 7 hours. The problem is when 7 hours hits, it is very hard for me to actually open my eyes, wake up, and force myself out of bed.

Maybe I'll do that after I retire.
Nice; napszzzzz.

@Ameriken the sleep system I was looking at most was EveryMan - you get 4.5 hours at night and 2x 20 min naps during the day.

I'm like you though, 6-7 hours doesn't seem enough, and 8 is too much LOL