Friday, December 11, 2009

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 0 and 1

So far I've completed day 0 and 1 of my polyphasic sleep schedule detailed in my last post. I'll talk about what happened yesterday first.

Day 0
Day 0, yesterday, is probably going to be the second easiest day of the adaption. I didn't even sleep polyphasically which is why I called it day 0. It was a preparation day, all I did was practice napping at 2:00pm and 9:00pm to get the feel of having down time at those times. I still had my full regular sleep in the morning and the naps were merely spent lying there. It was quite simple and nothing significant to report there.

Day 1
Today was when I actually started, because I only slept 4 and a half hours this morning. I still did not get to sleep during the naps, but I was much closer than yesterday. The reason I said Day 0 is going to be the second easiest day is because today I was awake all day without being tired. Usually when I sleep regularly I have tired spots during the day but I guess 4.5 hours of undisturbed sleep left me feeling more awake than 9 hours of disturbed sleep.

So this morning(you could say last night, but technically it was today) I stayed up until 3:00am and went to bed for 4 and a half hours. I was going to sleep on the floor but I ended up on my bed. I did not sleep in my bed, just on it. I am not going to sleep under covers at all during this adaption phase. It is likely that would make me too comfortable and cause me to sleep in.

Now all I have to do is stay awake until 3:00am tomorrow morning (it is slightly past 10:30pm now), and repeat what I did today. Each day should get more challenging and sleep depriving until It starts going back to normal. I don't think this schedule gets to the point where I have to stand up and walk around to stay awake, like more difficult ones get, but I am still not going to take it lightly. I think the adaption phase should be pretty much over in 2 weeks so if I make it to then, I should successfully have adapted to polyphasic sleep.

Other than that, there is little I can go in to detail about today. When things start to get interesting I'll be able to post longer and more elaborately but for now, this is all.

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