Day1 (nap1)

Day 1 (Nap1) Following naps in sub-pages

Saturday, September 12, 2009

12:07 AM

I have decided to re-test Polyphasic sleep. I tried to take my first nap from 11pm-11:30 (did not feel like following the schedule on 1st nap). I did not succeed. I ended up just having to mentally "shut down" parts of my body (from the feet up), and never quite got to sleep. However, I know that parts of my body were at rest, because upon beginning to move, I stretched like most people normally do when they wake up. Side note- The stretching felt really good. :)
Here is my current schedule of class & naps (it's built around my class schedule again).

Nap	12:30am-1am
Nap	3:30am-4:00am
Nap	6:30am-7:00am
Class	8:00am-9:20am
Nap	10:00am-10:30am
Class	11:00am-12:20pm
Nap	1:00pm-1:30pm
Class	2:00pm-3:20pm
Nap	4:00pm-4:30pm
Class	~6:00pm-9:00pm
Nap	9:30pm-10:00pm

Unfortunately, I may have to edit my last nap (9:30pm-10pm) due to that last class and other extraneous factors. If so, I'll just push that nap back to the most reliable time (likely 10-10:30).
So that's the plan. It affords me ~3.5hrs of sleep every 24hrs. As a side-advantage, I will be cataloguing all of this with Microsoft OneNote, which will force me to get back into a habit of… Hmm, actually this will have multiple benefits. I'll list them:
1. Less sleep required each day
2. More effective time for reading/writing/studying/etc…
3. More working w/ OneNote = more familiarity with the software
4. Writing every few hours = getting back into writing practice
1. Can assist with overall writing skill (though not needed).
5. More Halo time lol (jk… sort of)
6. More time for nutrition/health/finance research
So, see there are a bunch of reasons! Oh, not to mention getting to explore more music through Pandora while awake. I'm sure that those of you actually follow me will be somewhat surprised that I'm really doing this again. It's partially to prove that I really can adapt to this schedule, and also to evaluate whether this is a viable option for the next period of my life.
Btw, if you haven't tried OneNote yet, but you enjoy the formatting of this message, then you really ought to try the software.
Good night all my friendly Monophasic sleepers :)