Caffeine’s generally a bad idea in a long-term polyphasic pattern. You’d build a tolerance to it, and have to start taking more, and it starts to make napping difficult. But what if you’re not looking for a pattern that’s sustainable indefinitely?
Scenario: you have a month in which to do an amount of work which isn’t [...]
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Idea – Tesla, with caffeine-naps.
16-Feb-10Day one
14-Dec-09First day went as expected. Unable to sleep for the most part, starting to feel a little tired. Same as last time – just sleep deprivation.
An epic fail to start off with
13-Dec-09Overslept on my 0300 nap, woke up at about 0510. Lesson learned: use audio track *and* alarm.
Feeling kind of dead at the moment; probably just sleep inertia.
Nap schedule
13-Dec-09I’ll start out with naps at 0300, 0700, 1100, 1500, 1900 and 2300. Simply chosen so that in the event of a party/other late-night activity I will in most cases only have to miss one nap.
Back with Uberman
13-Dec-09So I’ve been off Tesla for a couple of months now. I didn’t stop because it wasn’t working, but Tesla is very inflexible and I wasn’t able to make it mesh with end-of-year exams.
Missing the sheer number of hours in my day, I’m adopting Uberman again – Uberman because it’s more flexible and skipping naps [...]
Suggestions?
01-Aug-09Just a thought – for those interested in Tesla in particular or polyphasic in general, is/are there any topic/s you want me to cover? Any questions you want answered?
My eventual goal here is to get as much information about polyphasic sleep as I have access to out on the Web, and I’d like to know [...]
Drugs and other fun substances: caffeine
28-Jul-09It’s one of the issues that every polyphaser has to work out for themselves – to what extent can you use stimulants? My experiences below.
When I first started to adapt I was moderately addicted; 2-5 coffees a day (or equivalent in energy drinks). I started on the Tesla pattern, but soon realised that I [...]
Drugs and other fun substances: alcohol
26-Jul-09I’ve been avoiding drugs (including alcohol and caffeine) for the most part during my adaption. Over the next few days I’m going to see how they mix with napping. Nothing illegal, but the major ones should be covered.
First is alcohol.
What I tried:
single shot of whisky
two glasses of wine (maybe 2.5-3 standard drinks)
four shots of [...]
On alarms
23-Jul-09I’ve always had trouble waking up with a normal alarm (or indeed multiple alarms), so after some experimentation I’ve come up with something that seems fairly perfect – a twenty-minute track of pink noise laced with binaural beats which is padded on either side with music.
Using headphones, I’m much more sensitive to changes in [...]
And we have a name
23-Jul-09A friend of mine has recently switched from Dymaxion to the pattern I’m following. Now that I know of more than one success story with this pattern, I thought I’d better name it.
So I give you the Tesla pattern. Because a) Tesla’s awesome and b) Tesla’s one of the few people known to sleep [...]