Polyphasic Sleep Week 6

Posted by Chris on October 7, 2009

All in all a good normal week on the polyphasic sleep schedule.

Flipping between everyman3 and 2 seems to work pretty well. The reason for this is exercise and its supplements. Some of the supplements I take keep you awake for longer than 5 hours. So sometimes I just cant fall asleep during 1 of the naps and that pretty much turns the next day into a everyman2 to recoup some of the time lost. Its much harder to stay dedicated now that the 30 day experiment is over and It has turned into something habitual. I actually am less tired usually, its just so easy to not get up. Its getting a bit colder outside so its much easier to stay in my warm bed. Even with all the redundant alarms I had one 8 hour oversleep this week. I keep some warm clothes near my bed now to make it easier to get up in the cold.

Starting today I'm going to experiment more with a pure Everyman2 schedule to see if I could stretch 2 naps apart enough to get an 8 hour window. Why stick with what works ? Where is the fun in that, haha.

So my new schedule will be:

Core: 4.5 Hours 11pm – 3:30am

Nap1: 25 mins 7am – 7:25am

Nap2: 25 mins 4pm – 4:25pm

This has some significant benefits that could be very useful to a lot of people. There is a 8 hour window without any nap interruptions for work. And another big window in the after noon for exercise or other activities. The early morning time frame is a bit smaller but It was my least productive time so thats fine. And 3.5 hours is plenty to prepare for the day maybe do some cardio.