Biphasic sleeping

In response to a heavy workload and need to stay up relatively late, I have looked into sleep cycles. From the research, I discovered polyphasic sleep which consists of multiple ("poly") phases ("phasic") of sleeping each day. In the most extreme case there is the Uberman cycle that calls for a rigid schedule of 20 minute naps every 4 hours. Do a bit of math and the total amount of time asleep is only 2 hours. Aside from possible side effects, that pattern doesn't fit with many schedules and is typically used only in extreme scenarios.

The most common pattern is monophasic sleep: one 8 hour slumber. What I have been experimenting with, however, is biphasic sleep. This is composed of a 1.5 hour long nap coupled with a 4.5 hour core sleep: grand total of 6 hours. This cuts back 2 hours of sleeping and therefore logically adds 2 hours of being awake. The timing of these naps are crucial as they need coincide with natural sleep cycles you go through while unconscious (REM and non-REM). As a result, someone on this cycle is able to stay up later and wake up earlier.
After school, I take my nap at 4:30 PM, waking up at 6 PM. I then do whatever needs to be done including homework, and at the latest I sleep at 2 AM. This allows me to wake up at around 6:30 AM and so far no sign of sleep deprivation have shown up. If that continues to be the case, this might become a long term thing.
This sleep pattern coupled with a sleep cycle alarm clock app that I found works wonders. By monitoring your sleep cycles, it is able to coerce you awake at just the right moment during light sleep rather than startle you. This leaves you feeling refreshed and full of energy, ready to start a brand new day.

Thrive by Switchfoot

"I've been awake for an hour or so
Checking for a pulse but I just don't know
Am I a man when I feel like a ghost?
The stranger in the mirror is wearing my clothes

No, I'm not alright
I know that I'm not right
A steering wheel don't mean you can drive
A warm body don't mean I'm alive

...Feels like I travel but I never arrive
I wanna thrive not just survive"

These lyrics, this song, the message have stirred up a sort of discontent in me. Although it hasn't evoked an emotional response, this is probably the hardest a song has hit me. It been on my mind for quite a while now, constantly surfacing here and there bring along with it an exasperation analogical to a catchy song stuck in my head. Annoying in a sense of incessantly poking at me.

Simply existing and living are on far ends of a spectrum. The essence of the song sums itself in the line, "I wanna thrive not just survive." To not just go through the motions but rather go against the established flow of things: to fight and steer our lives as we desire.

It's a great song with a great message which I completely agree with, but how I'll repsond to it I don't know. Will I live by it or just remain pacified in "death."

Lying there with life dwindling away.