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.