Polyphasic Sleep Log - Day 1&2 by Nicholas Powell
As I type this monophasic sleep cycle (normal 8 hours a night) stopped 48 hours ago. Day 1 of the new polyphasic cycle was surprising interesting, it was too easy to stay awake. In fact I found difficulty with the napping. I feel mainly is because I am very interested maximizing opportunity to the fullest especially in the area personal development because I know in any undertaking that my perspectives will offer new insight about myself and therefore offering others the same thing about themselves. So in the passionate pursuit to get the most out of this experiment my proactive thoughts were running through my mental construction in a very clear way without hesitation for slowing down and relaxing, which as you well know is invariably needed to ease into the process we call sleep. Creating an obstacle to choose over one of two ultimate decisions:
1. Do I allow my thoughts to keep building momentum to come to various conclusions about my new found perspectives?
2. Do I interrupt and influence the thoughts to pursue a scheduled nap pattern and take advantage of the much needed nap because without the naps I will not be able to keep this experiment going seemingly disrupting any further insights?
Intuition was the deciding factor. I appreciate the conclusions of the inner-sight I received. The insight I received you can find be
clicking here. This is why I decided to built a website in the first place because of the insights I discovered and continue to discover.
I typed as much as I could before I had to take the naps, but by then the schedule I had planed out was off course. I just took one nap at a time and eventually found a rhythm that matches my writing inspiration and extreme overwhelming tiredness causing forced naps. I can go 6-7 hours in-between naps. My main purpose is to write as much as I can and get it out so I don't loose train of thought between writing and naps.
After each nap I feel groggy and want to sleep longer, but I push myself through it and get up as soon as the alarm goes off my will is passionately forceful because I am getting the results I wanted to get from this experiment. The problem is that I was think this would happen after the adoption process when my body is used to the new sleeping pattern, but if I am too tired to where I don't think I can handle taking much more, and then I either walk around the block or take a shower.
I find taking showers works best because my body is used to taking showers in the morning to wake-up. My body has been conditioned in such a way that it doesn't matter what time I take a shower I seem to wake-up.
My progress is going quite well, but brings a lot of questions to the surface and discovering more about myself in simple terms. For example, I noticed that I used to do the things I do base around a schedule of day and night. I would go to the bathroom, take a shower, eat breakfast and brush my teeth after I woke up.
However now I have to rely on my body to tell me when I need to do these things because there is no schedule anymore. My night and days merge into one on-going process of one moment to the next and the 30 min naps are not long enough to see any difference so it is like I am not sleeping at all. I lost track of when one day ends and the other begins. I notice the day and night shifts but I don't shift with it.
I just noticed the 2nd day of this new sleeping pattern I have not eaten or drank anything in about 16 hours! So my suggestion for you if you are interested in experimenting with polyphasic sleep is to figure out the schedule that best fits your life-style and keep to it, apply in the schedule to make a list of every need you must take care of within the four hour naps. For example the human body is said to need to eat every four hours so I suggest you eat every time you wake-up so that your body has time to digest before your next nap. Then put in the schedule that every two naps (8 hours) you will shower and try to keep on a consistent planed schedule until you get used to your body giving you signals of what it needs.
My mental construction as of now is clear of all the mental chatter. Every thought I am having, I am conscious of. It seems to be that the only thoughts coming in are a result of one or more of the five senses. If I sit here with my eyes closed and ears closed to anything outside myself (which is easy to do because it is at night and nobody is around or sleeping) while also keeping my body very still, I notice my state is extremely relaxed. I would describe it at best a state of meditation: no thoughts. But, I also notice that I can stare at the wall and not see anything. In other words, the capability of my senses to bring input to my conscious is dull to the point of almost not being there because I seem to be able to sit in any position and be able to relax quite easily. I feel this is due to lack of sleep and sleep deprivation taking over.
Polyphasic Sleep Log - Day 3&4 by Nicholas Powell
I have been getting my naps on schedule now and still am forcing myself to get up without oversleeping (which seems to be a problem for most who have experimented with this) and the naps are starting to feel more restful. I am not having any dreams (having dreams means REM has taken place) that I remember, but I feel REM has begin to merge in to my new sleeping pattern.
My senses seem to have taken a more of a duller phase. My room-mates children were here watching TV and they turned the volume up on the TV to the highest sound possible. Walking into the room I didn't even notice it was that loud. My senses seem to be fading more and more.
I lay down on the couch and was watching the cartoon movie they were playing and I quickly realized that my conscious mind has dulled my logic mind and heightened my creative mind. I was watching the cartoon and couldn't make logical sense out of what was happening in the cartoon movie, but it was fun because it didn't have to make logical sense, even though I know there was an logical aspect to the cartoon by the way my room-mate was responding to it. It reminded me of being a child and how everything seems so much fun, new, and exciting. I literally felt uplifted by this feeling and an extreme sense that everything is perfect fine. As if I found a part of me that I lost and gained it back without ever noticing I was missing it. I truly see things in a different light now, but then again I could be suffer from sleep desperation too
I feel I have a basic schedule now to where I am not putting myself at risk and I can sense a change in the way my body is responding to me so I feel I can start listening to what I need by my 'body message.' I am still found amazement by how many things I did just out habit alone not because my body needed anything. A lot of my thoughts seemed to be formed out of habit as well and the two just 'do their own thing' without a sequence, you really feel a connection to every part of yourself that can't really be explained. It is like you realize yourself a lot more.
I am beginning to feel as if I were in a different universe then what I belong because everyone is always sleeping so long. I am the only one awake at night no matter where I go. It gives me a lot of time to think. I went for a walk late this morning and there was no traffic at all. The silence was peaceful yet eerie at the same time. Feeling like I am the only one left in the world. I guess I am just beginning to get used to the idea of so much alone time. Total in a week I now have 35 extra hours to myself.
It makes time non-realistic because there is so much of it and my life is no longer being programmed by time. Time is non-existent in my mind and how I understand it now. When people refer to yesterday I have a difficult time trying to remember which moment followed by another moment was yesterday. It is all a streaming reality with no approach on separation between day and night to me.
Polyphasic Sleep Log - Day 5&6 by Nicholas Powell I have been a polyphasic sleeper for over a month now, if your still interested in hearing more then please click here… I continue to up-date it every few days.