n is as yet undefined.
I decided to take a couple of blocks of sleep last night, about 2×2 hours, as I need to be out late tonight and won’t be able to nap at 10pm, and possibly not at 4am. I also need to be out tomorrow, with the same sort of possible disruption to […]
I spent day 7.4 (last night - 10:45pm to 4am) completely zombified - Video
I’m feeling much better today though and have kept to the nap schedule without too much trouble. I woke from the nap right after that video was taken feeling refreshed, so it would seem I haven’t caused any great setback to my […]
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I want to make a couple of observation about oversleeping when adapting to polyphasic sleep. One of them is mainly for other people who may be trying this or thinking about it and the other is a note-to-self.
First, the observation for other people is that I see people who try this beating themselves up when […]
I accidentally set my alarm for 2:30pm instead of 2:30am last night. Doh.
I can’t even remember what time I did this, it must have been around 1:45 since I normally set it for 40-45 minutes. I woke up at 6am so that’s at least a 3.5 hour oversleep, quite possibly more depending on when I […]
I’ve just woken up from a 2.5 hour oversleep.
I had been experimenting with how far I could push the naps back and forth at this stage, it was too early in the adaptation to be doing this. I moved my 4pm and 10pm naps back half an hour each to 4:30 and 10:30, which I […]
It’s now the 5th day of the Dymaxion schedule for me and the 7th day on polyphasic sleep overall. My average sleep for the last week is 3 hours per day, and a little less than that over the last 5 days.
Overall I feel I’m adapting pretty well. I’m not as functional as I would […]
Well after I posted, about an hour later I started having a lot of trouble keeping my eyes open: Video
Between 6am and 7am I had about 3 or 4 instances of falling asleep for a few seconds at a time, and a couple where I fell asleep for 5 to 10 minutes at a time. […]
Well I’m into day 4 of the dymaxion polyphasic sleep pattern and although I’m not remembering dreams during the naps yet I must be adapting since I would surely be in zombie mode now if not.
I am feeling very alert and awake, although I didn’t exactly spring out of bed after my 4am nap - […]
I have decided to adopt another convention to make posting reports easier. Since my convention for what is night and what is day says that day starts at 4am, I will call my 4:30am to 10am waking period day n.1, 10:30am to 4pm day n.2 and so on. Technically then my last report was misnamed […]
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