Polyphasing – Day 3 Gone

It is now 5:16 of day 4 of my polyphasic sleep experiment. While yesterday was tough and I think I probably overslept, I felt really good after my evening nap and ended up with a lot of manic energy so I washed another set of dishes and when Maayan came we went shopping and I made dinner. And by the time she was dead tired and wanted to go to sleep, I thought “What? It’s only 23:15! I’m wide awake.” and I ended up reading until about 1:00. And while waking up at 4:00 wasn’t particularly easy, I followed the ‘Jump out of Bed’ idea and didn’t even leave myself time to think about going back to sleep. And now I feel tired but awake. I’m not at a 100% energy, closer to 60%, but I’m keeping myself up and it doesn’t feel like the worst sleep deprivation I’ve ever had.

11:17, waking up from my morning nap, it felt like I didn’t sleep at all but I managed to get a grip and pull myself out of bed. After I did that, I felt better. And while before I took that nap it felt like it was noon (I was awake for about 4 hours), now it feels like half the day is already gone. And I feel great about it. There’s a small grain of tiredness in the back of my head but it doesn’t feel like the overwhelming sleep deprivation I had yesterday. I feel like I’m at roughly 85-90% of normal as of time of writing.

16:41, after my afternoon nap went slightly better, I still feel a bit groggy, roughly at 50-60% mental capacity. Far below what I need to actively concentrate on a task. Which kind of suck but I’ll stretch it for a few more hours and wait for the next one.

12:10, I hate time shifts. While yesterday’s nap went quite ok, my core sleep was weird. I’m not sure exactly what happened but I think I woke up, turned of the alarm and went back to sleep. Luckily, I naturally woke up about 15 minutes later. I felt horrible because the clock said 5 but then I realised it was actually 4 and I haven’t seriously overslept. Because, according to what I learned, if there’s only one rule to sleep adjustment it’s “Don’t Oversleep”. Like when I took my morning nap and barely slept at all, I still got up and started walking. And I’m only starting to feel tired now. Another reported effect I’ve started to feel is the length of the day. At 10, it feels like past midday. At 12 it feels like afternoon and overall I’m noticing my days are starting to contain more… “day”. That’s cool.


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