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Polyphasic Sleep, Day 8 January 8, 2007

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48 hours since my previous oversleep I repeated the loop. I simply end up unconsciously turning off my alarms, polynap audio files or removing my earphones altogether. The kind of sudden tiredness that arrives every time I end up oversleeping from, arose about 30 minutes before my scheduled noon nap. Even though I could find myself reasonably satisfied with this pattern, I’m still not convinced of its sustainability because the gap between level 2 tiredness periods is increasingly increasing.

I did some running again at 4 am identically to last night, except that this time I got some minor soar joints and muscles afterwards. They dissipated during my oversleeping nap and might have aided to feed the urge to sleep and recover for that extended period of time. Overall, I’ve decided to turn up the stakes and try some changes for a change.

The first alteration is increased dream induction. This was the first time for me that I actually recalled having a dream. I’m not saying I’ve been getting very little REM sleep during this experiment, but actually remembering my dreams would certainly help to evaluate at which naps I definitely did get a dose of REM. Simply reading more material about lucid dreaming and dream recall is bound to have an impact, something I haven’t been focusing on very much for about a month now. When I get totally occupied with something new, the old sources of inspiration start to stagnate and drop lower down on my subconscious’ pile of to do tasks.

Secondly, I’m stepping up to get more disciplined over my schedule. By this I mean what I tangibly do between the naps. I’ve found myself falling astray and doing different things at different times strongly according to my inspiration. Everything I do is still in tune with personal development, but I’m thinking that stronger discipline may induce the subconscious mind to feel an obligation to wake up from every 20-minute naps, because what’s in the schedule, must be done. This may be against my best interest, but I don’t really know for sure which one of them is dominant until I give them both a go. I may start to update my advancements every two days from now on unless radical events start happening on a frequent basis. The final verdict is 1.