After a few weeks:
Still going. Polyphasic was blissful for a couple of weeks after the last post. Blissful, but incredibly inflexible. Missing a nap screws me up for almost 24 hours afterward. This got irritating, and I went back to monophasic for a few days, but more than anything else it was really boring.
So [...]
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Update
21-Jul-09So
03-Jul-09Hey.
First, many apologies for the Epic Fail that was this blog. I had every intention of updating it daily; however, life got in the way.
The last couple of weeks have been all-over-the-place. The lack of sleep combined with the possibility of oversleeping, as well as assorted life-stuff that all hit me this week, I’ve been [...]
Made it to Day 3
20-Jun-09Yesterday afternoon nap was excellent, got the full twenty minutes, and didn’t do too badly in the exam (not an A-grade paper, but I think that that can be accounted for by things other than the sleep deprivation).
Last night was harder – not just tired, but the kind of emotionally-fragile state that one gets after [...]
Day 1 – morning
19-Jun-09(as a half-day, yesterday is hereby declared ‘day 0′)
After sleeplessness during naps 1 and 2, 1730 and 2330 yesterday, ’twas a welcome surprise when I dropped off pretty much immediately at 0530 this morning. I slept the full twenty minutes, perhaps even a minute or two over.
For what it’s worth I’m awake and somewhat coherent. [...]
Midnight update
19-Jun-09Second ‘nap’. I think I might have gotten 60 seconds’ worth of sleep there. >.< Definitely drifted off in the second half of my twenty minutes.
This is promising. Coming from a relatively monophasic pattern, I'm capable of at least getting to sleep during that time, and I've barely started yet.
I anticipate that the difficulty of [...]
First (non-) nap
18-Jun-09Unsurprisingly, spent the 20 minutes in a drowsy kind of half-sleep. Ordinary sleep deprivation is catching up to me though – I should be out very quickly come 2330.
Welcome.
18-Jun-09This is yet another polyphasic-sleep blog. Why? Because there’s still too little information out there, and too small a signal:noise ratio.
Starting today, I will be adopting a modified Uberman pattern – 20-minute naps every six hours, for a total of eighty minutes of sleep per 24 hours.
Aiming to keep this as single-purpose and bullshit-free as [...]