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Originally Posted by Excelsius  Scott, are you still doing biphasic sleep? If not, why? |
Yep, still happily biphasic. The most recent milestone was the 2 month mark, which you can read about
here.
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Originally Posted by Excelsius Thanks David. I'll try to post my results as frequently as I can, but probably what I'll end up doing is just publishing the entire data after I'm done. I have made an excel spreadsheet and this is what I'm recording:
1. Date
2. Sleep start time
3. Sleep end time
4. Duration
5. Caffeine amount ingested
6. Time when caffeine was ingested
7. Time when began feeling tired
8. Tiredness level (scale of 1-5)
9. Physical Activity level (1-5)
10. Mental Activity level (1-5)
11. # of Hours of TV
12. # of Hours of Internet
13. Notes
Are there any more fields that you think I should add? After I have reliable data, it will be very easy to make 2 and 3D graphs and correlations will come through. It's not likely that I will take on a rigid discipline right away until my finals are over at mid-December, but I have started recording the data anyway. Recording qualitative data consistently (fields 8 to 10) is going to be the most difficult, but I'll do my best.
I believe that if all of us were able to unitize our time 100% efficiently (no TV, internet, etc.) we would not need to cut down time from our sleep. Including the # of hours spent on these can really make us realize our addiction to these media and thus take corrective action. In US, people watch more than 4 hours a day. In 75 yr lifespan, that adds up to 150 months or almost 13 years! Now consider that 20% or more of TV are ads. This means you spend almost 3 years watching only commercials! This is just crazy. Even tying shoelaces eventually adds up to several days. Unlike polyphasic sleep, these small things in our lives are much easier to control. I haven't been in a movie theater for 2 years and only watch 0-2 movies a week on commercial free HBO. BUT, I think I spend too much time on the internet, even though it is mostly for educational purposes. |
The TV and Internet things will vary greatly from person to person (as an example, I only watch around 2hours of TV per week and most of my work is internet-based; so I'm hardly typical). The other items sound good. Another thing you may wish to consider is a note or two on dreaming. Did you remember your dreams? Were they more vivid than before? I noticed a marked improvement in dream recall and clarity when I switched to a biphasic schedule.
Incidentally, one of the benefits of biphasic sleeping (and a reason to do it) is the improved quality of sleep, not just the reduced quantity. My productivity increased as a result of both changes.