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JoeKinley · 04-02-2007, 09:33 AM

Hello Readers,

actually I wanted to write about my experience with the transistion to biphasic sleep in an own blog, but I yet had no time to finish my application, and I do not want to use an external software. But as I want to share my experiences with the transition I decided to write it in here.

About me
For now about 7 years I have had much problems with sleeping. I have chronical insomnia, chronical problems to sleep through well, light sleep, and felt most of the time very miserable upon waking up. So sleeping was most of the time one hell of a time. To this comes the fact that there is an annoying little "gimmick" within my family. I do not know how it is called, or if it is usual or not, but there are some times in the night that I wake up, can not move nor breath. I am not really awake, just in between dream and reality, and I see something appearing towards me. Thats where I want to scream or breath or run away, or whatever, but I can not move, breath or scream. This situation lasts for some seconds and finally I awake watching this something disappearing and breathing like crazy. Well that sucks but never have been any problematic though.
Also it started some months ago I have some weird nightmares. But these are not real nightmares. It is more of someone or something happening when I awake that reaches into reality. Maybe some person ore creature appearing or hiding in my room, some spider falling on me, or seeing the computer on my desk crashing. I do not sleep very deep before it, it happens in about 10 minutes total. I fall asleep in some light nap and wake up about 10 minutes later with this nightmary stuff. It sucks but also is not very problematic.

So last thursday, now 4 days ago, I started to switch to biphasic sleep, because I read Steves experiences and about some others in this forum. I liked the idea that the amount of quality sleep enhanced with the people.

So I wanted to sleep from 2am to 6:30am, 4:30h for the core sleep phase. The second nap should be around 4pm to 7pm, somewhere in between.

Thus I started going to bed Thursday morning from 2am to 6:30am. I thought that awaking after this short time it would be hard to go to work, but it was not. Actually it was really easy because when I finally went to bed I was really tired and fell asleep very easily. So my experiment started well.
The first nap in the afternoon was okay, though it was hard to fall asleep in the beginning. I think I had a dream, but it was not very clear.

After this the experience changed. Falling asleep in the night became quite hard up to this night on monday. Waking up is sometimes easy, but sometimes a pain.
The nap in the afternoon starts to become more easy, fun and helping. I dream something and wake up refreshed.

I am not very tired anymore throughout the day, but the quality sleeping could get better. I hope it will. But as it is still within the first two weeks I keep trying to stick with it and await the results.

So far for my first experience. I hope it interessts you.
Maybe some of you have tips for me, or questions for their own transitions or whatever.

04-02-2007, 09:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
JoeKinley Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 20	My switch to biphasic sleep Hello Readers, actually I wanted to write about my experience with the transistion to biphasic sleep in an own blog, but I yet had no time to finish my application, and I do not want to use an external software. But as I want to share my experiences with the transition I decided to write it in here. About me For now about 7 years I have had much problems with sleeping. I have chronical insomnia, chronical problems to sleep through well, light sleep, and felt most of the time very miserable upon waking up. So sleeping was most of the time one hell of a time. To this comes the fact that there is an annoying little "gimmick" within my family. I do not know how it is called, or if it is usual or not, but there are some times in the night that I wake up, can not move nor breath. I am not really awake, just in between dream and reality, and I see something appearing towards me. Thats where I want to scream or breath or run away, or whatever, but I can not move, breath or scream. This situation lasts for some seconds and finally I awake watching this something disappearing and breathing like crazy. Well that sucks but never have been any problematic though. Also it started some months ago I have some weird nightmares. But these are not real nightmares. It is more of someone or something happening when I awake that reaches into reality. Maybe some person ore creature appearing or hiding in my room, some spider falling on me, or seeing the computer on my desk crashing. I do not sleep very deep before it, it happens in about 10 minutes total. I fall asleep in some light nap and wake up about 10 minutes later with this nightmary stuff. It sucks but also is not very problematic. So last thursday, now 4 days ago, I started to switch to biphasic sleep, because I read Steves experiences and about some others in this forum. I liked the idea that the amount of quality sleep enhanced with the people. So I wanted to sleep from 2am to 6:30am, 4:30h for the core sleep phase. The second nap should be around 4pm to 7pm, somewhere in between. Thus I started going to bed Thursday morning from 2am to 6:30am. I thought that awaking after this short time it would be hard to go to work, but it was not. Actually it was really easy because when I finally went to bed I was really tired and fell asleep very easily. So my experiment started well. The first nap in the afternoon was okay, though it was hard to fall asleep in the beginning. I think I had a dream, but it was not very clear. After this the experience changed. Falling asleep in the night became quite hard up to this night on monday. Waking up is sometimes easy, but sometimes a pain. The nap in the afternoon starts to become more easy, fun and helping. I dream something and wake up refreshed. I am not very tired anymore throughout the day, but the quality sleeping could get better. I hope it will. But as it is still within the first two weeks I keep trying to stick with it and await the results. So far for my first experience. I hope it interessts you. Maybe some of you have tips for me, or questions for their own transitions or whatever.