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Polyphasic Sleep, Day 13 January 13, 2007

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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.