Polyphasic Sleep Day 5 and Dreams
Posted by Chris on August 30, 2009
Its getting better!!
My eyes don't hurt and I'm half as tired as yesterday. I feel really good. I'm not perfectly awake but its definitely an improvement. A comment on day 4 asked me about Dreams so I will go a bit more into detail today.
After about Day 3 on the experiment I started dreaming during my naps. At first it was very little. But on day 4, every time I laid down to take a nap, within minutes I would be in this half dreaming half awake blended reality state. I would start to dream about something and then kind of wake-up but fall right back into a different dream. Sometimes I would wake up during a dream and realize it and fall back asleep in the Dream itself. Its really interesting.
Another thing I should mention is: I have not messed up once in my schedule. Reading other sleep blogs I believe missing even 1 nap or oversleeping is the #1 cause of failure or prolonged adaption phases. You need the sleep deprivation to force your body into REM sleep during the naps. If you over sleep in the adaption phase you just kind of reset your self back to almost day 1.
As it is only 3 am right now I will leave it at that and update later as the day progresses. I want to see if the evening hours (9pm - 11pm)will improve in the same way as the morning did.
End of day update: I think I over ate so I got a bit more tired for the rest of the day. Ironically the 9 - 11pm wasn't all that bad.
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How you attribute the fact that you aren’t messing up?
Hmm. I set all my alarms ahead of time in my phone. So even if I where to forget, it would go off and remind me that i need to take a nap.
Other then that. I’m just determined to follow through with this and i stick to the schedule.
Getting up at 2:30 am on the weekend wasn’t all that awesome. I wish i could have slept in.