Polyphasic Sleeping - Day 3
In my previous post, I talked about beginning an attempt to become a polyphasic sleeper. I'm now on day 3 (roughly 64 hours since my last full night of sleep), sleeping only three hours per planetary revolution, and I don't feel that bad. Perhaps a bit more brain-dead than day 2, but still quite functional.
Today, I swapped circuit boards between a couple of hard drives (this required going to Sears and picking up an appropriate T8 torx screwdriver) and got one hard drive functioning, tested a failed hard disk and recertified it, studied an Adobe Photoshop book, took a walk, disassembled and tested a laptop battery pack (risky - may explode if shorted), retouched and file-size optimized a bunch of images and then converted them into a PDF document, read through a new 54-page webcomic, and posted a new piece of art to my deviantART account, among other things.
I still have to update my website, but I think that will have to wait for "tomorrow" (next waking period, from 12:30AM-4:00AM). It's about 11:50PM at the moment, so I'll be going to sleep at 12AM, and up again at, you guessed it, 12:30AM. It's a good thing I have dual alarms on my watch - I've been using a 30 minute countdown timer, backed up by an alarm set to go off at a specific time about 2 minutes after the countdown timer, and several times I've only been raised by the second alarm going off.
Today, I swapped circuit boards between a couple of hard drives (this required going to Sears and picking up an appropriate T8 torx screwdriver) and got one hard drive functioning, tested a failed hard disk and recertified it, studied an Adobe Photoshop book, took a walk, disassembled and tested a laptop battery pack (risky - may explode if shorted), retouched and file-size optimized a bunch of images and then converted them into a PDF document, read through a new 54-page webcomic, and posted a new piece of art to my deviantART account, among other things.
I still have to update my website, but I think that will have to wait for "tomorrow" (next waking period, from 12:30AM-4:00AM). It's about 11:50PM at the moment, so I'll be going to sleep at 12AM, and up again at, you guessed it, 12:30AM. It's a good thing I have dual alarms on my watch - I've been using a 30 minute countdown timer, backed up by an alarm set to go off at a specific time about 2 minutes after the countdown timer, and several times I've only been raised by the second alarm going off.
posted by Wireball at 11:50 PM
4 Comments:
Good for you, Wireball! When you master this, it should be a real advantage. I and several friends have various types of non-typical sleeping patterns, so I appreciate what you're doing.
Go for it!
John H. - feenix95
Here i am up at 5:30am i haven't had any sleep for almost a day and a half.
Seems to be a very appropriate time to read this as i know exactly how you feel. This is a very interesting idea i might half to give this a try. Though I will wait to see how you make it first. Good luck to you wireball :).
Aw, I'm sorry to hear of your lack of sleep! Inadvertant or advertant? You might want to get a good night's sleep before trying the polyphasic schedule - I suspect it will make it easier to adjust.
Well, I haven't had any urges to kill, though I wonder why I keep waking up halfway to the front door with this bread knife in my hand... no, just kidding, I haven't had any adverse mental effects.
Also check out Steve Pavlina's experience w/ polyphasic sleep, if you like - his daily sleep logs are more detailed than mine, and he's been going on polyphasic sleep successfully for over 100 days now.
Just insomnia i guess. When i finally did get to sleep i got over 12 hours. O_o I felt like crap when i got up. Im sure you know what i mean. Now im back to a more normal sleep pattern. Im getting ~8 hours a night. Which is the minimum for me to function properly. I really don't think polyphasic sleep would be right for me with my chaotic schedule.
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