sleep record

I went to bed at 22:45 last night.
I got out of bed at 8:10 this morning.

Let's see... that makes about 9.5 hours of rest.

sleep record

0:40 to 8:08 sleep.

Going to bed at 22:45.

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 18

yesterday to 5:05 sleep.

It seems I don't really want to go back to polyphasic sleep. I just slept 7 hours in a row and I don't feel any better waking up than when I was only sleeping 30 or less minutes at a time. It will probably take a half hour to an hour to fully wake up.

6:05 - I have now been awake for an hour, but not fully awake. I can feel something around my eyes, maybe puffiness. It's strange. When I don't have enough sleep, I feel like I need more sleep. When I do have enough sleep, I feel the same.

7:10 to 7:30 and 8:10 to 8:30 nap. I was lying down from 6:45 to 8:37.


21:55 to 22:35 nap.

I don't feel like doing this any more. I think I'll just go back to sleeping however long I feel like sleeping. It's nice to be awake for a long period of time without getting sleepy.

Total for today: 6.5 hrs

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 17

0:00 to 0:15 nap.

1:30 to 2:10 nap.

2:15 to 8:20 sleep. I have a few days off so I've decided to work my way back into polynapping gradually. Maybe it won't work. I don't know. I wasn't awake enough earlier, so I just wanted to sleep awhile. Anyway, I'm doing this polyphasic sleep as a skill that I can use to adjust from night shift to day shift work.

10:06 to 13:42 sleep. After doing some studying, I took a nap to consolidate the information in my brain. I thought it would be only a short nap. You know, just let myself naturally wake up. So far, I've slept over 10 hours today. I will try the same study technique again and see if I sleep for so long.

21:53 to next day.

Total sleep today: 12.75 hrs.

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 16

from yesterday 23:15 to 5:30 sleep.

Worked all day.

21:45 to 22:14 nap on train going home.
I actually slept past my station and woke up two stations down at the end-terminal station. I had to wait a few minutes for the train to head back. That's the first time that's happened to me.

I will be returning to my short naps.

Total for today: 6 hours

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 15

12:30 to 12:50 nap. The dreams make you feel like you had been sleeping for a long time, not just 15 or 20 minutes.

3:00 to 3:42 nap. This time, I set no alarms. I just intended to sleep for however long was necessary.

5:30 to 8:30 sleep.
14:06 to 14:26 nap. Not sure about this one. I don't know if I slept or not.
17:15 to 17:40 nap.
21:25 to 21:45 nap.

22:50 to 23:10 nap.

Since I'll be working tomorrow, I've decided just to get a long period of sleep tonight.

23:15 to (see the next post)

Total for today: 6 hrs.

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 14

1:58 to 2:18 nap. This one felt really long. I haven't really paid much attention to how long the naps feel, but during this one I woke up at 2:13 to check my watch. I felt I either overslept or that I must be right close to the end of the nap time. I was surprised to see it was only 13 minutes past. I decided not to get up right away. But anyway, I got up when the 5-minutes-left beep rang. My timer beeps when there is 10-minutes left and 5-minutes left. I have been setting it for 25 minutes lately.

4:40 to 5:50 sleep.

I'll be working today.

13:33 to 14:03 nap.
18:07 to 18:26 nap.

What a day. We've got this alert that comes up every 10 minutes. Just waiting for that alert is not real exciting. So I'm sitting there waiting for the alert and then entering the commands to check the server. There were several hours where I was just falling asleep between alerts. So I got more sleep than what is noted above. I just don't know how much sleep it would add up to. The problem is, I've got no Pepsi to drink at work.

Total: more than 2.5 hours

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 13

Between midnight and 1:00, I was sitting in my chair falling in and out of consciousness. I got some restorative sleep but it's difficult to quantify.

2:30 to 2:50 nap.

6:00 to 6:20 nap.
10:25 to 10:55 nap.

15:00 to 15:40 nap. I think I remember checking my watch and it was 15 minutes past and I was wondering if I was going to be able to fall asleep or not. The timer alarm should have rung at 15:30, but I got up at 15:40 because of a phone call. So I must have slept through the alarm. There must be a stage of sleep from which I cannot wake up.

21:30 to 21:52 nap.

Total: 2.5 hrs or so

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 12

1:40 to 1:53 nap. I think this is all I slept at work.

Then after work, I slept on the train from Mitaka to Tachikawa. About 15 minutes, I think. I was at Tachikawa until about 14:00. Then I continued home and slept maybe 20 minutes on the train.

15:25 to 18:10 sleep. I was supposed to get up after 30 minutes. I had set my timer and my powerful alarm. I can't believe that I slept through the alarm. That thing usually scares me.

18:40 to 19:05 nap. I had decided to get a few more Zzz's.
21:05 to 21:40 nap.

Total: 4.5 hours

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 11

Around 3:00, slept for a few minutes. Wasn't trying to, but needed it badly.
5:53 to 6:03 nap.
11:10 to 11:35 nap.
13:30 to 13:55 nap.
15:40 to 17:00 sleep.

I think I slept on the train on the way to work. Perhaps 15 minutes.

Total: 2.5 hrs

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 10

3:00 to 3:25 nap.
6:21 to 6:51 nap.
11:30 to 12:00 nap.
14:30 to 15:00 nap.
15:55 to 17:00 nap.

On the train to work, napped for maybe 15 minutes, around 19:50.

Total: 3 and 1/4 hrs.

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 9

1:30 to 2:00 nap.

I will be working today.

6:15 to 6:45 nap.

12:30 to 13:10 nap.
19:10 to 19:40 nap.
21:50 to 22:35 nap on the train going home.

Total: 3 hrs.

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 8

1:05 to 1:35 nap.
5:00 to 9:30 sleep.
10:30? to 13:00 sleep.
14:15 to 14:50 nap.
17:40 to 18:10 nap.

Total: 7.5 hrs

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 7

I have to go to work today, and I realized that with my current timings, the naps would not occur at convenient times, i.e. lunchtime. So I decided to try giving one longer sleep period before work a try. I hope this will get me through the day longer and then I will return to 30 minute naps.

So, I slept from 3:30 to 6:30.

12:00 to 12:13 nap.
15:15 to 15:51 nap.
16:05 to 16:39 nap.
21:55 to 22:10 nap on the train going home.

Well, the 3-hour sleep did not help me avoid sleepiness at all. Two 30-minute naps would have been just as good or even better. But it did allow me to get away from the computer and allow my muscles to relax completely.

Total for today: 4.5 hrs.

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 6

3:00 to 3:30
8:10 to 8:40
13:00 to 13:30
17:00 to 17:30
22:30 to 23:00

Total: 2.5 hrs.

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 5

4:00 to 4:30 nap. I awoke before the alarm, so no problem there.

10:00 to 11:00? nap. It seems I got up after a half hour nap and then I must have been sleeping in the chair.

16:00 to 16:30 nap. I was out to the store just before, otherwise I would have taken this nap sooner.

21:40 to 22:10 nap.

Total: 2.5 hrs.

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 4

3:18 - getting ready to nap starting from 3:30. Don't feel overly-tired or anything. Slightly feel drowsiness ready to pour over me. Actually, I barely feel sleepy. But I suspect my body knows that the time to sleep is coming. Have to take an antacid for my stomach.

3:30 to 4:00 nap. Waking up is difficult. Falling asleep was not too bad. Although, when I lie down, my skin gets itchy in some places. It's a little annoying. When my timer alarm started ringing, I didn't realize right away that it was time to get up. I feel like I was very much deep asleep. Now if I could just get my body awake. I think I need to wash my face.

9:30 to 10:00 nap. Easy to sleep. Difficult to wake.

14:05 to 14:35 nap.
15:58 - Since my last nap until 15:40, I was sitting in my chair in front of the computer fighting the sleepy demons. I could not get awake, so I was sleeping while sitting in my chair and occasionally waking up a little and trying to snap out of it. It seems I am at the same place I was on Day 2. Actually, I was fine before I went to sleep. But I did decide to take my nap early because I almost fell asleep while using the computer. I thought that was a good sign that I could get to sleep for a nap. Well, I will go outside for a walk in the sunlight now.

18:00 - Well the walk was good, except my ankle is a little weak. I need to get more exercise, I know. Sitting back down and using the computer, I'm getting sleepy again. I guess the best thing to do is to stay awake until it's time to nap again. That is because it is so difficult to wake up from the naps now.

21:50 to 22:20 nap. I awoke before my timer alarm rang and then realized that it was almost time for it to ring so I must have gotten my sleep. The sleep seemed to have gone by quickly, but at least I did not have to wake up while deep asleep this time.

I realized this could be like the movie Groundhog's Day. Every time I wake up, it's not a new day. It's the same day. Another thing I have observed is that I'm using the computer too much now. I usually spend all my time on the computer but now I have so much more time. I have to try to limit my keyboarding and mousing.

Total approximate amount of sleep for today: 3 hrs.

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 3

I lied down for a nap from 22:00 to 22:30.

And again from 1:37 to 2:02. I think I did not get much sleep from this one.

Napped from 5:30 to 6:00. I didn't fall asleep quickly. I would like to fall asleep within a couple of minutes but I'm not at that point yet.

Another nap from 10:30 to 10:55. After 13:00, I became very sleepy and so started doing nothing. That led to almost falling asleep in my chair at my computer.

Decided to take my next nap at 15:38. With timer alarm set, got up 30 minutes later from a deep sleep. Felt like I slept for quite a long time. Hard to fully awaken from. I forgot what I was dreaming about. That's what usually happens with the use of alarms.

Took a nap from 21:30 to 22:00. I was sleepy prior to this time but when this time came around, I was not sleepy. But I decided I don't want to put the naps any further apart than 6 hours from the start of the previous one. I didn't know how well I would be able to fall asleep. I think I fell asleep within 5 to 10 minutes. I think I did not sleep so deeply. I'm not sure how beneficial this nap was. But I did sleep and that is what counts.

Overall this day was not too bad. Perhaps the next 24 hours will be worse. We'll see. This is probably more like a day 1 or something since I had slept too much yesterday and not enough the night before. Not sure how much that set me back. I guess it couldn't set me back any further than to day 1, which is essentially starting all over. As a temporary side effect of this adaptation, my ability to compute numbers and such which involves holding things in your short term working memory, has been seriously hampered. Since I don't follow any schedule for the naps, I keep trying to figure out how many hours I have been awake since the last nap or since the last nap began, and I keep having trouble figuring it out. Well, one problem is that I wrote 15 on the paper but it looks like a 16. Anyway, as you would expect from a person who is sleep deprived, I am not too sharp and I am easily irritated by noise.

So I am just going with the 30 minute nap times and I will try to sleep every 6 hours, or sooner if I feel that the nap before was not of quality. I will change my writing style from the next post. Instead of always writing in the past tense, I will create a draft and write down things as they occur along with the time of entry. So then at the end of the day, I will publish the post and there will be exactly one post for a day. I will set the post time to the actual time of publishing the post. Normally, if the time is not manipulated, a blogspot post is set to the time that the writer began writing the post. So if a writer takes two hours to finish a post, the time would be set to when he started and not when he finished creating the post.

Total approximate amount of sleep for Day 3: 2 and 1/2 hrs.

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 2

I took a nap from 11:15 until 12:00. Then I had 2 grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch. I couldn't fully awaken myself so I decided that I would try sleeping for 90 minutes, which is 1 full sleep cycle, in hopes that I would feel good after that. So I slept from about 12:30 for 90 minutes. That didn't make me feel any better. So then I started debating with myself whether I should continue this polyphasic sleep experience or not. Soon the debate was over and I lied back down. I got up at 17:50 for supper.

Obviously, the period at work in which I couldn't take a nap was too long. I have the next 4 days off, so I'll see if I can continue this sleep experience and get my naps when I need them.

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 1.5

I went to work last night. I didn't get the nap on the train that I thought I would get. After getting off the train and exiting the station, I ate at KFC and then walked to the workplace. It took about 30 minutes to walk, I think. I can walk faster though.

So then my next nap was from 21:15 to 21:40. After that, I didn't get another nap at work. Left work at 9:00 this morning and took the bus to the station. Waited for my train and got on it at 9:22. It was full. I couldn't sit down until the next stop which was about 10 minutes later I think. Then I got a nap on the train for probably 25 minutes. I woke up because of some little kid who screamed so loud. Then the train came to a stop at a station. I didn't think it was mine, but I looked out the window and everything looked familiar. It was my station! I thought maybe it had only been 10 minutes. I couldn't recall any of the previous stations. I was surprised that I was lucky enough to not go past my station. My neck was a little sore from the sleep.

I will need another nap soon. I still haven't fully awaken from the last one.

Polyphasic Sleep - Day 1

Since my last post, I went to work, worked all night, until 9 am. Then walked to the train station. Arrived there by 9:30. Took the 9:35 home. I slept only a very brief nap of 5 to 10 minutes on the train around 10:00. I expected to sleep longer but it didn't work out that way.

I got home about 10:30. I tried to take a nap at 11:00. I set my timer for 30 minutes and my alarm clock for about 11:40. 8 minutes later the alarm clock rings!

So then I tried it again at 11:30. And again, the alarm clock rang after 8 minutes! A second attempt foiled, so I checked the instructions. Found out, I should set the alarm time by winding the needle counter-clockwise.

Got real sleepy before noon. So I prepared my alarm clock and set my timer again for 30 minutes. At approximately 12:30, my timer rang and so I got up. Everything as planned.

I ate instant ramen and two slices of toast for lunch. Drank some milk too but it was not delicious. Although it said low-fat, it seemed too thick.

Then while downloading language files from the internet, I began getting sleepy around 15:00. I kept myself up until 16:00 and took a 30 minute nap. This time I woke up within the last minute, just before the timer was ready to ring.

Waking up from both naps was hard. The second one much more so than the first. I will be going to work tonight. I will surely catch a nap on the train. I'll have to transfer once as the train will come to a terminal station, so it will be safe to nap on the first leg of the journey. On the second half, it would be risky to fall asleep as I would run the risk of going past my final destination (station). From there, I will walk to work.

I think I will eat at KFC. I always have a chicken fillet sandwich when I eat there. This I will do after getting off the train.

Sleep Record

Yesterday, I got a light nap of 10 to 15 minutes on the train. I got home about 22:20. Then I got really sleepy at 2:58, so I got to bed by 3:10. I almost fell asleep in 5 minutes, but then had one of those involuntary movements that snaps you out of it. So I readjusted my sleeping position to sleeping on my back and then I fell asleep within a few more minutes. I slept pretty well until 10:14. I didn't get up as that is way too early because I have to work tonight. From then I was sleeping and waking up all the time. At last I got up at 15:10.

Sleep Record

Last night, I got home at about 22:40 and went to bed at 23:40. I think I probably fell asleep around 00:30. I got up at 6:30. I have to work today.

Sleep Record

I went to bed last night at 22:40. I think it took a couple of hours to get to sleep. My body kept waking me up. I always sleep on my side and as I would fall asleep I would suddenly move (like a person trying to stay awake while driving). I got up at 6:30 this morning.

Today I will be working a 12-hour day shift.