Day9 (nap7)

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Day9 (nap7)

Sunday, September 20, 2009

9:55 PM

This nap was somewhat restful. I believe it was something similar to what Puredoxyk has described about some her sleeping habits while adapting to uberman. Essentially, I not quite asleep, but my body was technically "asleep." It was similar to having a foot fall asleep due to improper positioning, but the effect was through my entire body. The whole thing started fairly slowly, centering around my legs. Since I had an idea of what might be happening, I tried a couple different things. At first, I tried consciously trying to have it expand down to my feet. That made the effect seem to dissipate from my legs, so I calmed down and let it resettle. Then, I decided to go with the opposite method. I tried to calm my body even further, slowing everything down. After I did that, I tried just "coaxing" the feeling further around my body, which worked wonderfully. This was an interesting twenty-ish minutes that didn't involve any actual sleep, but that was restful nonetheless. Oh, and as for the whole mp3 thing… well, I guess we're just going to wait and see if it works when I actually do fall asleep on one of these next naps. PSA:
Psychological State Analysis ( 1=low --> 5=high)

Feeling of "Tiredness"	2
Hunger	1
Clarity of thoughts	4
Willingness to exercise	2
Willingness to write	4
Memory recall ability	4
Awareness of surroundings	3
Feelings of anxiety	1
Calmness	4
Frequency of odd thoughts	1
Errors of mind/typing	1
Schedule Adherence	5
Productivity	3
Hydration Level	5

Day9 (nap6)

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Day9 (nap6)

Sunday, September 20, 2009

8:25 PM

I managed to fall asleep for this nap. I used a modified mp3 that I had extended to ~20minutes, plus a second mp3 track that was louder and that I used as my "wake up" file. The "sleep" track definitely helped relax me and get me to sleep. I'm not so sure about the "wake up" song though, because I still only woke up when my regular alarm went off. When I woke up, the music was off, which was a little weird. I'll be testing this method again at N7 (9:30pm-10). PSA:
Psychological State Analysis ( 1=low --> 5=high)

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

Last nap of the day comin up. Looking forward to testing this mp3 method out again :) Hopefully I can get to the point where it is my primary alarm with only annoying ones as "backups."

Day9 (nap5)

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Day9 (nap5)

Sunday, September 20, 2009

1:37 PM

Didn’t fall asleep on this nap, but I did rest some. It's weird, even after the oversleep, it seems like my body is still trying to get used to the whole polyphasic thing. That's definitely a promising sign. PSA:
Psychological State Analysis ( 1=low --> 5=high)

Feeling of "Tiredness"	2
Hunger	4
Clarity of thoughts	5
Willingness to exercise	3
Willingness to write	3
Memory recall ability	4
Awareness of surroundings	4
Feelings of anxiety	2
Calmness	3
Frequency of odd thoughts	1
Errors of mind/typing	2
Schedule Adherence	4
Productivity	2
Hydration Level	4

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.