Day 4

I slept 8 hours, and I did not take any nap. I feel alright.

Day 3

I slept 7:30, and I woke up without an alarm.

Free running sleep day 2

What I am doing is similar to what is described at this link http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm#Free%20running%20sleep What I referred to as free sleep, should have been referred to as free running sleep.

Yesterday I had a nap at the library. I don't know how long it lasted because I did not check the time before I started the nap, but it is possible that it lasted over one hour. Last night I slept 8:30.

Free sleep Day 1

I think that the free sleep thing may be a good thing. I sleep when I am tired and I get up when I wake up. Last night I had 6:26 of sleep and I don't feel I need more. The day before I had about 6:30, and yesterday I made a 25 minute nap in the library. I'll keep a blog to see how much sleep  I get with free sleep.

Day 4, oversleep

I slept 9:40, because I purposefully did not set any alarms, so I woke up by myself. Currently I don't really have any sort of sleep schedule, every day I sleep differently. I think I might try to sleep without alarms for a while.

Day 3, oversleep

I slept about 4 hours, and I feel somewhat sleepy but I can't sleep more because I have to get ready for my courses.

Day 3, nap 2

I did not really want to get up. But I feel great now.

Day 3, nap 1

I feel much more awake than before the nap. My sleep latency is still high; probably above 10 minutes.

Day 2, nap 1

It is 22:30 and I finished the first nap of the day. I feel refreshed. This is perfect because I have an assignment to finish, and I will need to work on it most of the night.

Day 2 oversleep

I slept more than 6 hours. I felt sleep deprivation, and I have too many assignments due soon, so I cannot afford to be sleep deprived. But I will probably continue this tonight because I will have to spend the whole night up to finish an assignment. Maybe I can oversleep every other day, and do double Uberman every other day.

Day 1, nap 7

This time I almost stayed in bed when my timer woke me up. I had a timer and 1 alarm. I could turn off the alarm in bed (it is very close to my bed), and my timer stops ringing after one minute. So after one minute I was still in bed. It took a few minutes of thinking to convince me that I was better to get up. Despite the fact that I would rather have stayed in bed to continue sleeping I do not feel sleepy. I will have to add many more alarms and timers to ensure that I always get up.

Day 1, nap 7

I took me a long time to fall asleep. It was somewhat difficult to get up, but I don't feel sleepy.

Day 1, nap 6

I feel good every time I wake up. I did not feel sleepy in my combinatorics course. I think that this sleep schedule is very adaptable because I end up sleeping more than required. I have some reasons to think that sleeping 12 times per day each time no more than 30 minutes is more than enough even though the total is less than 6 hours. I think I will be able to miss 2 to 4 naps per day, randomly and still feel great. We will see how it will go.

Day 1, nap 4 update

It is amazing, I made it through my mathematical analysis course without feeling sleepy, and I felt sleepy almost every other times that I attended that lecture, and I always attended that lecture. I ran to university and back home from university (each run about 8 minutes). And I still feel great.

Day 1, nap 4

This is amazing I just went through the hardest part of the night without at any time feeling more sleepy than during a monophasic day. My sleep latency (the time it takes before I fall asleep) is very high, probably more than 10 minutes, maybe even more than 15 minutes. So thus far I feel no symptoms of sleep deprivation.

Day 1, nap 3

This time I woke up about 10 minutes before the nap, then I fell back asleep before the end of the nap. Anyways it is amazing to see how awake I feel.

Day 1, nap 2

I slept. I feel as refreshed as in a normal monophasic day.

Day 1 nap 1

I feel awake enough to be productive.

Day 0, nap 3

It took less time to sleep. Probably less than 10 minutes. I feel very good.

Day 0, nap 1

It took a while, before I fell asleep, but I fell asleep because my timer woke me up. I feel refreshed.

Day 0, Double Uberman

I often feel tired during the day when I sleep monophasically. So I decided to do a double Uberman sleep schedule. That is I will sleep 30 minutes 12 times per day. This will give me 12 awake cycles of 90 minutes per day. I think that I will be more productive this way. I think that I will not be sleep deprived during the adaptation.

I did my first nap about 10 minutes ago. I did not sleep, but this is normal when adapting to polyphasic sleep. I feel quite refreshed.

Equibiphasic update

The equibiphasic experiment did not even last two days. I slept monophasically since then.

Day 1, Equibiphasic

I had decided to do monophasic 7 hours, but then I thought I would be very sleepy at the end of the cycle so I decided to do what I call equibiphasic. This is biphasic sleep, but each sleep cycle is the same length, and each wake cycle is the same lenght. Since I will sleep twice per day, I think I will not need more than 6 hours per day.

My schedule will be like this

04:00 Sleep

07:00 Wake up

16:00 Sleep

19:00 Wake up

I may or may not blog about the progress of this experiment.

Day 22, End of Uberman

I had a few (3 to 5) oversleep since day 11, each 2 to 6 hours long, and I did not feel better overall than when I slept monophasically 8 hours. Of the six awake cycle per day, I felt sleepy in about 2 or 3 of them. So right now I am not more efficient than when I slept on a monophasic schedule. Perhaps I would adapt if I would continue, but I am not sure. Maybe I had too much oversleep, for adapting. I thought I was probably going to be better to do monophasic 7 hours. This would be more normal. And I read that in general people who sleep 7 hours live longer than those who sleep a different amount of hours monophasically.

Day 11, University schedule part 2

I just finished my nap that had been moved from 11:30 to 12:35. I felt very good. Moreover I woke up naturally during this nap after about 9 minutes, I stayed in bed and I had another phase of sleep before my alarm woke me up. Thus it is possible that my atomic (smallest) sleep cycle are smaller than 10 minutes. If this is the case I will notice things like that more often, and then I will probably post something on the length of atomic sleep cycles.

So it seems that my body adapts well to small changes in nap time and nap duration.  Since this was so successful, I will finish today as if it were a Monday, (all my naps will be 25 minutes long), and tomorrow (Sunday) will be a trial of the Tuesday schedule.

Day 11, Why I blog.

I think that there are two main reasons why someone on polyphasic sleep could blog. It could be to get encouragement and to commit to not failing the experiment, or it could be to describe what occurs during adaptation so that others may have a greater knowledge base about polyphasic sleep. In my case I do not write for encouragement. I disabled the comments on my blog because I don't want to feel forced to reply to comments. Since I am doing this blog somewhat anonymously, I do not feel peer pressure to succeed.

I blog because when I did research about polyphasic sleep I had a hard time to find good information of how it works when adaptation is successful. My main source of information was Steve Pavlina's blog and Pure Doxyk's book Ubersleep. I found both of these resources very good, but I would have wanted to have more than two good sources of information. Thus I wrote about how I my body felt, but I did not write much about the emotions I experienced. This may make it look easier than it was, so I will try to add at least on post on the emotions I felt during the adaptation.

Day 11, University schedule

My university schedule will require me to move my 11:30 nap to 12:30 on every Monday (this means starting in two days). And I will have to move my 7:30 nap to 8:30 and the 11:30 nap to 13:30. I know that this is not the best thing to do because I am not fully adapted, but I think that it will not be so bad. It is not like taking naps whenever I think I feel sleepy. I will follow my schedule rigorously and only 3 of the 42 nap of the week will change. However to prepare for this change I am trying it now. I had my regular nap at 7:35 (my naps are now 25 minute) and I will take a nap only at 12:35. For now I don't feel much more sleepy than normal. In fact I don't notice any change for having missed a nap for close to an hour.

Day 11 25 min nap vs. 30 min nap

I was rereading Steve Pavlina's blog, and I realized I should try to decrease the length of my naps. Because I don't feel refreshed after my early morning nap. Also even though I know that I have dreamed when I wake up from most of my naps, I don't remember what the dream was about. This is probably because I have time to enter another phase of sleep before my alarm wakes me up. And when the alarm wakes me up I am probably in a non-dreaming phase, so it would make sense that I have a very hard time recalling my dreams. The previous nap was 25 minutes, and I felt more refreshed, but by now I know that how I feel after a single nap is not necessarily representative of how it will work in the long term. So I don't know yet if this is a change for the better.

Day 11 Overview

There has been many things going on since I wrote here last time. I am going to try to post something on every key aspect of my adaptation, during the past couple days. Instead of writing one big long post I will write small posts on different subjects. I think in this way I will be more motivated to write in here. I don't really feel like writing here for many hours in a row, but writing short post should take less time and seem less intimidating.