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Originally Posted by David Hausladen  Biphasic Sleep, Day 16
This morning I once again overshot my bedtime (staying up until 4:30am), and decided to try something different as long as I was off-schedule for the day. I went to bed from 4:30am to 7:30am, woke up and fed the cats, and then immediately went back to sleep from 7:30am to 10:30am. My intention was to see how close I could get to monophasic without becoming excessively tired during the day.
Results: When I woke up at 10:30am, I ended up taking another short nap immediately then. I think this was lack of self-discipline and not tiredness, but it happened so I'm putting it on record. So I actually got up at 11am. I didn't experience any really major drowsiness during the day, but I was sluggish for the first few hours after waking up at 11am. I laid down and listened to music for a short while between 2:30pm and 3pm, and this probably included some Stage 1 sleep (but I think the music kept me from falling into Stage 2 sleep).
So the day wasn't too bad under a nearly-monophasic sleep schedule, but there was a feeling of lethargy that convinces me to keep my naps separated as they had been before (i.e. by four hours). |
This is interesting. I've tried several things when this happens to me (I get carried away with work and end up staying up well past my designated bedtime); and the one that seems to work best - for me anyway - is to sleep for 3 hours at the time, with a 90 minute top-up a few hours later.
I'm keen to see how you go tonight and tomorrow: my guess is that the times will be back to normal (normal biphasic, that is). Is that what you've got planned, or are you going to tweak things a bit?