Everyman, Days 8-9

Day 8 was another 4.5+2 day. Nothing terribly interesting about that, except that I'm trying to figure out if core sleep should count towards the day before it or after it. I'm now more inclined to think that the naps determine the core sleep, rather than the other way around.

Today was 3+3, and so far, I've been much less tired than I'd expected. It's a lot easier the second time around. 4.5+2 had been treating me well; as work is rapidly picking up, I'm going to go with mostly 3+3 now, except when I really have to miss a nap.

Everyman, Day 7

Went to bed at 4:00, woke up at 10:00. I'd skipped a nap yesterday (an impromptu music-making session with friends that was not to be missed, and lasted five hours or so -- my (singing) voice is gone today). I know, I know, bad idea -- paid for it with an extra cycle of core sleep.

Everyman, Day 6

Fell asleep around 3:30 am, woke up around 8:00. I've been averaging about 4.5 hours core this week. I'll try to get it down to a consistent three hour core by next week. Homework and activities will start picking up then, so I'll want more free time.

I've discovered that I'm usually running <50% for the first hour or so after core sleep. I figure it's part of adaptation; that's when I'm in most danger of falling back asleep. I need to physically get out of bed when the alarm goes off (no checking my e-mail in bed like I did this summer!). Huzzah for willpower -- let's see how well it holds up in a week.

Everyman, Day 5

Went to bed between 6:30 and 7:00 am (was talking with a friend into the wee hours of the morning) and woke up shortly before ten. Meant to take nap around noon, but it turned into 1.5 hours of core. Everything else was quite normal. I'm not nearly as tired as I'd have expected to be at this point; I think I won't even hit the low point until sometime after this weekend.

Everyman, Day 4

I've learned my lesson: never take naps after my roommate goes to bed, which is about 11:00 pm. (The reason this roommate relationship works is the curtain dividing the room. More about that later.) There is an extremely high probability that the nap will turn into core sleep. I woke up at 9:00 this morning thinking "why the devil is there that much sunlight coming through the window?" I'd tried to take a nap around 3:00. Not good.

Instead, I will now do it like this: a nap in the afternoon (between classes), a nap in the evening (around dinnertime), and a nap right before my roommate goes to bed. I shall be needing my bike back for the first nap; I don't much feel like sleeping like a bum in the quad (though I've done it before). Campus is big.

About the bike: I'm currently being shuffled between a few levels of bureaucracy. No definitive answer yet. They seem to like calling me during my classes, from a private (hidden) number, and leaving supremely uninformative voicemails without a number I can call.

Everyman, Day 3

My core sleep accidentally ran to 4.5 hours this time. I'd meant to take a nap at 12:15 am, but ended up sleeping until 3:05 or so. Waking up, I thought, why don't I count this as core sleep to salvage the situation? I need ten more minutes. (Yes, I know it doesn't quite work like that.) So I went back to sleep, and woke up at 4:45. Hence 4.5 hours. At least it seems that I now naturally wake up after a REM cycle or two, +/- ten minutes (it usually doesn't happen until further along in the adaptation process, I think). It should be quite handy if it keeps up.

Everyman, Day 2

I slept for three hours last night (4:00-7:00 am). I decided to count the time I zonked out in my biology lecture as a nap (put together, it was probably a bit over twenty minutes of sleep); it was a really boring introduction to Mendelian genetics. I think they assume we come into the Biology Core knowing absolutely nothing about biology, because it took nearly a whole period to explain alleles and Punnett squares. It's supposed to get better (I hope!). That was between 11:00 am and 12:00 pm.

I had my second nap just now, waking up at about 8:00 pm. I'll probably take a third nap around midnight. Looking at the intervals, I should have slept before dinner, methinks. I'd wanted to, but I was having problems with the lock on my door, and all the RAs were at dinner, so I couldn't get let in, either. Ah, well.

So far, my function is still pretty good; I'd say I'm running 90% full. It would be better, were it not for the fact that I had no bike today. The storage people lost my bike! They're "working on it", whatever that means, but it doesn't look promising. I'll go bug them again tomorrow; I've been calling them every few hours to see if it's been located.

Polyphasic, Take 2: Day 1

The hiatus has ended! I am back on campus and readapting to Everyman. I'll record the experience here, since this is the first time I'll have gone straight to Everyman (last time, I switched to Everyman having already done Uberman).

I don't yet know what my sleeping schedule will look like, because it depends on my class schedule, which I have not quite finalized. I plan on doing mostly 3+3 (3 hr core + 3 naps), and sticking to a more regular nap schedule this time. I was rather too careless about that last term.

Last night, I slept for 4.5 hours (I'm easing into it), naturally. I was really tired and passed out on top of the covers around 3:30 am, and then woke up naturally at about 8:00. I took a nap around 5:00 pm, and another around 1:30. The intervals are off, but I plan on doing 3+3 tomorrow, so they'll change anyways. So far, I'm not tired at all. Let's see how I feel in a few days...