View Single Post
Old 04-28-2007, 09:43 AM   #255 (permalink)
MLT
Junior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 4
MLT is on a distinguished road
Default My trial of polyphasic sleep

A couple of months ago I started with biphasic sleep, getting down to a good 6 hours of total sleep a day with a standard 4.5/1.5 split. The mid-semester break came up, and after getting the rather important assignments done and handed in, I decided to use the mid-semester break to try out polyphasic sleep, using 30 minute naps every 4 hours.

I got to about 2 days before I quit for a day or two while I worked on the one thing I had not really considered --- what to do during all that free time. So I went ahead and got myself adictied to a couple of web browser based games that I still play to this day.

I restarted on the 15th of April, this time more intent on keeping up with polyphasic. On the start of the first trial I had fully given up caffine, and now I report that I am still not drinking any... where was I? Oh right, polyphasic sleep. For a good week or so I had no problems with any oversleeping, but then I am usually the one who gets out of bed in the morning after the first alarm, not using any sort of snooze option.

I am still working on my battleground (with seems to be about 2-6 or 7 am), but I tend to be quite awake during the rest of the day. Also, out of the last 5 naps, I am sure I had dreams in the first 4 of them.. I think that once I have the battleground sorted out, then I will be able to say I am adapted.. but for now I can claim partial adaption and still sleeping less than I did when I had adapted to biphasic.

Last edited by MLT; 04-28-2007 at 10:23 AM. Reason: Added details about my schedule to the first papgraph
MLT is offline   Reply With Quote