Polyphasic Sleep Days 3 - 4 (Everyman Schedule)
Apr 13th 2008Amy Jo HinesSleep
Day 3
Yesterday I was dragging in the early morning. I overslept (communication error about my wakeup time) for my morning nap. In the mid-morning and afternoon I felt great. I had a difficult time sleeping for my afternoon and evening naps.
I was productive: I organized / simplified my email. So now everything goes to one gmail account and I will be setting up filters as I receive mail to properly tag items, and to automatically archive my “routine” emails (so they do not appear in the Inbox at all, just under their labels). I am not done tweaking but I got the entire base system set up.
Mentally I even managed to explain the backend process of a database driven web page to a client in a way she understood, but most of my activities today were physical. It was a pretty good day though.
Day 4
Today it was a little harder to get up, but still nothing like when I was sleeping normal hours and attempted to get up early (or I failed to get up early). This morning I actually was able to work at my computer, filing in sample data on a client website for the purpose of showing them how the web site works. (We are going from a mostly static website to using Drupal). Not a lot of mental processing, but a very promising start - getting up at 4 am to do dishes won’t motivate me for long.
I slightly overslept on my morning (about 1 hour) and afternoon nap (35 - 40 minutes) - apparently adding 30 minutes to the current time is difficult right now. I was unable to sleep at all for my evening nap but I did set the alarm properly.
I am trying to be honest in my experience and strike the right balance between detail and brevity. The next four days will be easier (my husband will not be on graveyard, so he can watch the kids and I can be more strict on nap times) - I hope to be physically adapted by then.
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