Last night was the hardest night so far. I did not have anything planned in advance for the middle of the night, so the tiredness was really noticeable. I had to take an extra nap at 1 AM because I did not get any sleep at midnight (I think). It is actually really weird, but I am not always sure if I actually fall asleep or not. Upon waking, I am generally pretty disoriented for a minute or so. My naps so far today have been really good, though. I fell asleep quickly, felt like I slept for a long time, and woke up rested. It is really weird to look at my alarm and realize that it has only been 20 minutes, when it felt like an hour.
In short, I have a lot of different feelings as I go about this experiment. I will stick with it and cannot wait to get past this awkward and uncomfortable transition stage. Then the benefits successful polyphasic sleepers have written about will come, like feeling energetic and rested all the time.
My health seems to be only slightly out of whack.
On Thursday evening I ran for about twenty minutes before ending up at the local gym's pool. At first I swam laps in the lap pool, but it was crowded, so I took a break in the hot tub. After sitting in the hot tub and talking for fifteen minutes I began to feel unwell, so I got up to walk back to the lap pool, and had a rush of blood away from my head. I had to sit down on the deck and regain vision and strength and then sat in the shallow water of the steps into the pool to get acclimated. This incident was a little disturbing to me. It happened pretty frequently before the sleep experiment, though, usually when I stand up quickly after lying down. Anyway, the weakness was probably from sleep deprivation (I'll still be in that stage for another week); it could also be related to my diet, which I am now improving.
I have gotten a little bit of a throat cold, which is understandable from the stress my body is under.
I have spent a lot of time today pondering, writing down my goals and the steps I must take to reach them. Hopefully this will help me to fill all this extra time better... If I cannot use the extra time effectively, I might as well not have it.
I am actually going to turn the computer off now. It's about time!
Chris
Friday, April 18, 2008
Polyphasic Sleeping Experiment - Day 5
Posted by chrishaum at 3:38 PM
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I don't know how much you check facebook Elder so I'm resorting to commenting on your blog. If you're like me you never check facebook (I let my wife tell me if anything serious has changed, she checks it for me) I sent you the following on facebook a couple days ago. Don't know if you got it:
"It was good to see you on Saturday.
Ever since that day at the MTC when you told me you were going to try Polyphasic Sleeping I was pretty sceptical and to be honest I thought it was foolish. But tonight I read a lot about it and read some blogs about it. I am now interested! This is facinating. I think you can pull this off.
I read Steve Pavlina's entire blog on his experiement. I don't know if I have the discipline do this and I am not living the healthiest right now but if after a few weeks this starts to work for you then I might consider trying it. If you decide to continue it for more than a month or so then maybe I'll have a chance to join you. Of course this is something I'll probably need to research more and I'd pray about it first before attempting but maybe if I try it you can support me in it and I'll help you keep going too.
Actually, right now I don't have a very good sleeping regime (It think that's a Russian word I don't know the right English one) anyway, so this might be a good time to adjust to this since I'm always drowsy and groggy anyway. All nighters have been occuring a couple times a week for me. I just dont' have enough time.
I think this could work well with my lifestyle right now since I am in school and my job is a work at home internet-research job so my hours are extremely flexible. Anyway, I will be reading your blog and keeping up with this. Good luck."
So yeah, I really want to try this. I'm pulling for you! (If this is an anoying post you can delete it if you want.)
You've probably done more research on this than me but I read on Steve Pavlina's blog that he started out with 30 minute naps and then once he overcame the tiredness it naturally turned into 20-25 minute naps that he automatically woke up from. (if I read it right.) I don't know, starting out with 20 minute naps sounds too grueling to me. I don't thing I could fall asleep fast enough. I think I'd need the extra ten minutes of actual sleep. Anyway, interested to know your opinion on this.
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