A Brief Introduction

This blog is my reports on my sleeping activity during my polyphasic sleep experiment. For this experiment, I am sleeping for 5.1 hours each day: a 4.5 hour core-sleep at night, and two 20-min naps scheduled evenly throughout the day. In order for this to work, I need to be strict about my sleeping schedule. Bedtimes must be punctual, and naps must be within an hour of my assigned times. It is a tough endeavor, but may eventually be worth the 4 hours I gain during my day.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Day 10

Day 10 - Saturday

6:30 am: You are no longer my enemy!

I would like to mark today as the day that my body is finally adapted to the Everyman schedule! It has been 1 week + 2 days since starting, and I was not tired when I woke up at 6:30. This is extremely exciting- it means that I am ready to have more productive mornings, doing things instead of wallowing in my tiredness for an hour. Breakfast is a situation that I'll have to figure out with my sleeping roommate in the room, but it should be easy once I have some fruit to eat.

So today was my voyage back home to NJ for thanksgiving break. Why do I mention this? I have an affinity for sleeping in cars, buses, trains, and other vehicles. The constant rumbling and motion has a soporific effect on me. On the train into Boston, I slipped into a dream for around 30 seconds and immediately had a dream about missing my stop. That woke me up!
On the bus, I had my regularly scheduled nap, but allowed myself to oversleep (sleep is inevitable for me in cars, so I rather take one long nap than two short ones). Interestingly- I woke up exactly 20 minutes after falling asleep. I used this opportunity to fall back asleep again. My cycle is now officially burned into my body. I'm so happy!

At night, I am starting to feel a little tired at 2:00am. This is amazing, my body is finally shifting forward two hours. Success with the everyman!
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