Polyphasic Sleep, Day 13 January 13, 2007
Posted by The Probabilist in : [News], Dreams, Sleep, Technology, Blogging , 2 comments
I’ve kept myself very busy the last couple of days by tweaking the site with style sheets, ads, feeds and promotion. In fact, after my midnight nap I spent the whole night seeing through that I got my ideas implemented the way I envisioned them. It’s been a great learning process, but there’s plenty left to do. It’s a great feeling getting into that state of creativity where neither sleep nor hunger has a role until half a day has passed.
I ended up taking my inspirational influx even further by testing how long I could stay awake before getting sleepy. I lasted about 18-20 hours without napping and the following one was just a bit shy from an hour’s sleep. This is supposedly very difficult once you’ve fully adapted to systematic polyphasic sleep. I can’t say that I feel totally refreshed from the nap, but I’m still amazed at how well I can function with so little sleep. I may not be turning into a mutant anytime soon, but perhaps I should consider evolving some gills to my body as a following step. I still haven’t been able to brake the pattern of oversleeping every other day, but they’ve gradually gotten shorter, down to an hour.
Additionally, I’ve experienced more dreams lately. In one of them I found myself in a dark room with something evil provoking my mood, making the environment very uneasy to be in. I focused internally on some good thoughts and I managed to levitate upwards away from the room while hovering horizontally, face up. Everything got very bright and I thought to myself that if this is what I think it is, then some 4th dimensional character(s) should present themselves. I blinked my eyes, saw the contours of a being and then I snapped out of it.
I was then lying and shivering in bed in a most unnatural position, with my head down and feet in the air. It was quite an experience. Later on, I was biking up a large hill with a friend of mine to reach the town at the top. That’s when I again woke up and realized that I had experienced a dream within a dream. It was the most refreshing nap I’ve had so far, plus, it was the first one I woke up from before the alarm went off. It felt like hours though. And the 1-2 hour oversleep naps feel like full 8 hour’s rests. Final verdict for the time since my previous post is again a trifling 1.5.
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Polyphasic Sleep, Day 10 January 10, 2007
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I tried some experimenting during the past two days. When I went for a nap, I decided to restart the polynap sleep track from its beginning whenever I was consciously awake to notice that several minutes had past without falling asleep. This way I would always get at least 20 minutes of sleep, but on the downside, the time it took stretched up to 30 minutes past the allocated schedule during the very alert periods when I faced trouble with napping. Consequently, the whole experiment left me more groggy and tired after naps than during my previous schedule of fixed nap times that didn’t question whether I fell asleep or not.
I’d say the final verdict was a 2, because I was faced with much more resistance to getting up for my exercises. On a positive side, I again overslept once - during the noon nap today at the end of the 48-hour cycle, but it was only for an hour and I recalled having some form of a dream at least on this nap. Something was appearing on the other naps occasionally, but they just didn’t project into distinguishable events that I could remember of afterwards.
I’ve always stuck to the sleep - exercise - eat pattern on the polyschedule. It’s just the other 2.5 hours in between that I’ve been tweaking and at times, kept pretty flexible. Now I’m turning back to my original, strict schedule where I won’t accept doing anything else than exactly what is planned.
The weather has been really weird, but to my favour. Yesterday in the middle of the night, we had +9 degrees although last year we were at a 2-week -20 degree stretch at this exact time frame. There hasn’t been any snow since November either. So I’ve been able to enjoy my walks and runs on a more favourable terrain. Even though I’m already far away on adjusting to polyphasic sleeping, I haven’t seen any radically positive changes in a week now. I’m not finished tweaking and optimizing my schedule until I’ve reached a definitely sustainable, no more than 2-hours-per-day working system where I always fall asleep on my naps, and preferably, don’t need any forms of alarms to wake me up.
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