Polyphasic Sleep Day 15 (Everyman Schedule)
Apr 25th 2008Amy Jo HinesSleep
This is the half-way point of my 30 day trial, and overall things are going well. My thoughts to this point:
Naps and Core Sleep
I now set my timer for 25 minutes, and it seems to work well. Sometimes I am not aware of sleeping, but I wake up rested. I have had 1 lucid dream (last week) and only a few dreams that I can remember. Waking up between 20 and 30 minutes after I lay down is easy to do.
At first, if I missed a nap I automatically increased my core sleep. Doing so always left me tired in the morning, and not wanting to get up. I tried leaving my core sleep at 3 hours, I was ready to wake up but I was tired again within a few hours.
The new plan if I miss a nap or am over-tired is to take 3 hours of core sleep, then add 1 or 2 naps as needed.
Tiredness
From 6:30 am to 8 am is a struggle if I am sitting down (which I am since I’m trying to write). From midnight to 1 am is almost impossible if I am sitting. I am moving my morning nap to 8 am or even 7:30 am, since tiredness is not an issue during the day. In the evening I am trying a later nap time (9 or 10 pm) and I need to keep moving, I have plenty of house projects to do! Daytime, afternoons and evenings I rarely feel tired.
Over-all effect
Since I mainly work from home, and my husband works nights, the adaptation has been fairly painless on my commitments. My evening nap gets shifted back often, but taking it later seems to work better anyway. Major workouts are something I will have to figure out, I will probably try adding more naps.
The Next 15 Days
So for the second half of the trial I’m going to move my naps around (8am, ~2pm, 9:30pm) to combat tiredness. I’m going to take extra naps if needed, and keep my core sleep the same. I am really looking forward to experimenting a bit. Being a night owl and a morning person at the same time is great.
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