So, polyphasic sleep. I’m going to try it (again), properly, for at least two weeks, and I’m going to experiment: a lot. Simultaneously I’m researching Sleep, so I’ll include what I learn and exclude what isn’t healthy.
Those without dirty hands are wrong
That means I’m going to safely ignore those that haven’t tried it - especially since it’s fairly safe health-wise.
Attempt One
My Schedule
Based on the Everyman 2 schedule, I opted for 4.5 hours of core sleep (for NREM2, since I’ll go to the gym) with two 20 minute naps (for the rest of the REM). It needs to fit my fluid university timetable, hence I have the a moving nap. This should be okay, but we’ll see.
Initially, I plan to not do much during the morning hours whilst I adapt (maybe play some Games, go to the library, or even just watch Netflix.
Have fun, future me :)
How I’m finding it
Day 1
Yeah no shot. I felt super sick at around 3am, but kept going, then just felt even more sick at 5:30am and passed out 6am. Woke up for my lecture at 9am then went to sleep again at 10am until 12pm.
Switching back to monophasic - I think it’s just because I’m ill, though, so I’ll definitely give it yet another go at some point (this is my fourth attempt at adaptation, though…)
Attempt Two
So, my sleep is messed up: I go to sleep anywhere between 23:00 and 04:00, and wake up somewhere around 4-14 hours after that. Moreover, I usually don’t even feel tired when I go to sleep. Now, I’m aware of multiple reasons as to why that might be, but since I probably have pretty low sleep pressure right now, I’m going to attempt this again, with a new schedule.
Schedule
Make an image with “napchart”.
My main goals are to sleep late and wake up early - preferably 5am, so I can workout before starting my day, HOWEVER, I’m getting four hours sleep before beginning this, so the sleep pressure might mean I actually just sleep at a decent time for the first time in weeks, who knows.
How I found it, again
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