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Finally Working Out
I finally have time to update the site. I’m now working out at school 3 days a week. I haven’t devised my entire workout plan yet but the general idea is 10-20 min of cardio with 10-20 min of targeted weight training. I’d like to make that 5 days a week but that’s just not possible with class 8-5 on the other 2 days. I have to leave at 7:30 right now to get to class on time. I’d have to make that 6:30 if I wanted to have enough time to workout and shower. I’m not even sure if the fitness room is open then, plus I’m giving a ride to a friend and I don’t think he’d like having to wake up an hour earlier.
In: Health & Fitness, Sleep
Sleep Hatred Continued
I’m happy to report that I feel great, despite skipping two of the five naps I will be normally taking. Here’s hoping that the new schedule will work well.
One thing I haven’t commented on is how other people perceive polyphasic sleep. Nearly everyone I tell about it reacts like I’m crazy. I have to reassure them that yes, I do it and yes, it does work. They still think I’m nuts and that I’m either going to die, go crazy, or I’m lying. I this reaction continues to intrigue me. I guess it shouldn’t be surprising considering how close minded the masses are. It’s truely unfortunate how little people think for themselves now.
Return To Polyphasic Sleep
My one week of reset is over. It was interesting to see how quickly I readjusted to monophasic sleep and waking up at 8AM without an alarm (on non-school days). If anything this has taught me that I hate wasting 8 hours on sleep. Since I lived like this for 24 years it feels normal again, but I miss having that extra time. This is especially true now that I’m in school and have a part time job. My available time has been cut to about 1/3 of what it used to be, not including sleep.
Sleep Reset, Memory Lapse
It happened again last night, another oversleep and another memory lapse. I went to sleep around 11:15PM and woke up at 4:30AM. When I woke up the timer was sitting on my bed, physically switched off. I never turn it off since I just have to hit the stop button to end an alarm. I have no idea why I turned it off. I seem to have a lingering memory of waking up to the alarm, but I’m not sure about that. I had even set a second timer placed on the other side of the room. It seems I just ignored the 2nd one.
Polyphasic Dreams
I briefly touched on the dreams I’ve had a few times, but nothing in any depth. I’ve found that dreaming in polyphasic sleep is much different than monophasic dreaming. It seems that the brain speeds up the processing so that the perceived passage of time is much faster than real time. I will frequently wake up from a dream and feel like I’ve been asleep for 1+ hours. Even so, the preceived length of dreams tends to be much shorter than during monophasic sleep.
Downward Sleep Spiral
This weekend has wrecked havoic on my polyphasic sleep cycles. Since Friday I’ve overslept at the 2AM sleep. Saturday and Sunday were pretty much allowed. I woke up at my alarm and then fell back asleep. My body seems to really like the extra sleep in that time period so I’ll be making that nap 1.5h starting tonight. On both Friday and Saturday I reduced the frequency of naps to make up for the 8.5h and 6h oversleeps respectfully. Today I slept an extra 4.5h, so I’m only dropping my 6AM nap. I need to move back to my normal cycles. If I keep this up moving back to 4h/25min cycles could be hard.
The Body Wants What The Body Wants
When your body tells you something you should listen to it. Last night was my second extended oversleep due to missing an alarm. I took my 2AM nap late at 4AM and proceeded to sleep to 12:30PM (8.5 hours). Every time I’ve either not used an alarm or slept through it I’ve taken 8-8.5 hours. I think this is my body telling me something: that I’m not getting enough sleep. I’ve been practicing polyphasic sleep now for a few days shy of a month, so I think I’m through the adjustment period. The kicker is I NEVER slept through an alarm before in my life. The only two times I’ve done it were on polyphasic sleep.
Two sleeps forward, one sleep back
I’ve been sleeping polyphasicly off and on for nearly a month now. I’ve come a long way but I have a lot farther to go. It seems that every few days I’ll oversleep a nap for one reason or another. Recently they have been due to issues with alarm settings and placement.
Polyphasic sleep adjustment finished!
I believe that I have finally reached the end of the adjustment period. Yesterday was the first day I made it through without feeling excessively tired at any point. Today has been about the same. I’ve been loosely following polyphasic sleep now for 3 weeks. It has been enough time to conclude that it is a very real alternative to wasting your life with normal sleep.
I feel that the nights I slept 8 hours helped my body adjust and refresh itself. I will be using at least one monophasic sleep night a month and I suggest that others on this schedule should try it as well. It doesn’t seem to have any negative effects on the polyphasic cycles.
Fall Asleep Faster!
Yesterday the topic of having trouble napping came up in the uberman Yahoo group (link here). I wrote a method of falling asleep faster here. After rereading it and seeing how it could be quite helpful to others (such as Chris Beams) I’ve decided to restate it here in my blog. Hopefully this can help you too.
Surprisingly I haven’t had any trouble falling asleep for my naps. Only when I was at a friend’s house did I stay awake through two attempted naps in a row. One of the reasons for my success is the method I’ve developed to speed up falling asleep. It doesn’t always work if I have something gnawing at my mind but 95% of the time it does the job and does it well.
