Day9 (nap1-n4)

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Day9 (nap1-n4)

Sunday, September 20, 2009

10:50 AM

K, so here's the day that I was looking for, but also kind of dreading. I just got up after sleeping from ~1:30am-10:30, a 9hr oversleep. I know why it happened, and I even know how to prevent it next time. I was feeling sorry for myself, about not being able to sleep because my neighbors were loud, so I allowed myself to sleep under my sheets and even brought my alarm (ipod touch) to bed with me. Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that an adapting polyphaser will hit the snooze button and eventually turn off an alarm as soon as possible. And with it in bed with me, it was very easy to justify going back to sleep for "just a little while." Basically, it was a mixture of terrible judgments, which ultimately led me to sleeping much longer than I should have.
The good news, however, is that because of this massive oversleep, I have less accumulated sleep-dep, which will lead to a minimally easier time adapting from here on. Also, I have more information about what not to do, and better evidence of my own limits of willpower. It looks like this haha: Note to self- NO sleeping under the sheets, nor alarm clocks in bed!
I know some ppl would look at this and decide that it was a sign that I should just quit. Hell, some people would have already quit! I had basically done so by day5 of my 1st attempt. It's hard, and it's boring at times, and people give you some strange looks. But, you know what, I'm using this as a mid-experiment mini reset. Like, I was in the middle of a race, and just glanced back at the rest of the pack to make sure I was moving on at a good enough pace. Sure, that made me trip a bit, but it won't cost me the race!
I am going to do a PSA for this, because we can use it as a kind of benchmark to say: "It looks like monophasic sleep is better" OR "Looks like monophasic isn't any better than poly."
PSA:
Psychological State Analysis FOR BENCHMARKING MONOPHASIC( 1=low --> 5=high)

Feeling of "Tiredness"	2
Hunger	3
Clarity of thoughts	4
Willingness to exercise	2
Willingness to write	4
Memory recall ability	4
Awareness of surroundings	4
Feelings of anxiety	1
Calmness	3
Frequency of odd thoughts	1
Errors of mind/typing	3
Schedule Adherence	1
Productivity	1
Hydration Level	1

Well, looking at the PSA, without any variance software or anything, I'd say there are definitely some differences. Obviously the last 3 criteria have very low scores. It's interesting that I didn't rank anything as "perfect" though. That alone points to either extreme bias in multiple polyphasic posts, or a lacking of perfection behind monophasic. And, to be honest, I think if we were to look back at the polyphasic posts before this, we would find a fairly rational person who extracts as much bias as possible before filling out the PSA's.