End of Polyphasic Sleep Week 1
Dan on December 25th, 2005
It’s the end of my first polyphasic week. I have to say that it went extremely well. I started with 3 days of 6h core and one day nap. Then I moved to 5h core and 2 30 min naps. In both cases I woke up from all of my cores without an alarm. I was pleasantly surprised how well my body did that. For the past two days I followed the 4h awake/30 min asleep pattern (on the 1, 5, and 9 hours) - sort of. Thursday went perfectly, all 6 naps without a hitch. Last night and today were a bit different. I was doing fine and wasn’t very tired. At 3AM I was bored and decided to take an extra nap. I was tired but that wasn’t my motivation. I figured I could use the extra sleep in case I skipped a nap today due to family obligations.
After waking up from the 3AM nap I felt horribly tired. I sat at my computer and couldn’t concentrate on anything. After trying to read some investment info for 10 min I gave up and decided to take a long nap. That way I would be able to skip at least one nap on Christmas. I woke up around 5AM. I was still a bit tired but it was more sleep inertia than anything else. I ended up taking only one nap today at 10AM. I’m a bit tired now but nothing horrible. As planned I’ll be taking a full night’s sleep tonight due to family obligations tomorrow. I’ll probably take a core sleep Monday night since I will be driving 5.5h back to Rochester from my parent’s house.
So far I’m very impressed with the results. The only time I felt extremely tired was after the extra nap. Once I’m back in Rochester I’ll be back to full polyphasic sleep. Watch for future updates.
