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Intro to Polyphasic Sleep | First attempt (lasted 30 days) | Second Attempt (lasted 7 days) | Third Attempt (ongoing) After yesterday's hell on Earth, today has been markedly improved. And I've been sleeping less than I ever have in the past - between 2hr20min and 2hr40min a day (7 or 8 naps a day). The normally-hellish early morning hours have been an absolute breeze for me and I've worked 4.5 hours without even thinking about a break. This is the life! Though I'll be quick to point out I'm still struggling to wake up as quickly and efficiently as I was 2 weeks ago before stuffing everything...


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Intro to Polyphasic Sleep | First attempt (lasted 30 days) | Second Attempt (lasted 7 days) | Third Attempt (ongoing) Yesterday I mentioned I was going to try and bit more rigid with my naps, at least until my polyphasic sleep is back on track (I've been oversleeping a lot ever since I went on a ski trip). It's nearly killed me. Yup, I'm back to the zombie feelings and lethargy that plagued me during my initial few days of adjustment (though I will concede, a tiny bit less intense. But still pretty bad.) Looks like you really can't go back to monophasic sleep (sleeping 8hrs consecutively)...


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Intro to Polyphasic Sleep | First attempt (lasted 30 days) | Second Attempt (lasted 7 days) | Third Attempt (ongoing) I'm pretty much over the cold I've had for the last few days, with nothing more than a slightly-blocked nose now. I'm pretty impressed with that; 4 days is a fairly decent turnaround for a cold, especially when the really bad symptoms only lasted about 2 days of that. However, I must admit I've had to rely on a lot more naps than I was having before. I didn't really keep track but if I had to guess I'd say I probably had about 12+ naps a day. That works out to a minimum 4 hours...


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Intro to Polyphasic Sleep | First attempt (lasted 30 days) | Second Attempt (lasted 7 days) | Third Attempt (ongoing) Well I'm still very sick from yesterday. I've got an annoying cold which is putting a drain on my energy and making polyphasic sleep a nightmare. But I'm glad I'm sick. One of my biggest curiosities was how polyphasic sleep would fit in with a cold or fever. I can report it's basically the same as normal (meaning I don't feel any worse or better than when I was sick and getting 8hrs of sleep). However, the huge downside is that normally when you're sick you can just sleep...


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Intro to Polyphasic Sleep | First attempt (lasted 30 days) | Second Attempt (lasted 7 days) | Third Attempt (ongoing) The last 2 days I've fallen off the wagon to some extent; I've overslept once each day, the worst being today when I overslept by 4 hours and woke up feeling half dead. Not fun. I'm attributing it to pure laziness. I haven't been setting alarms as systematically as I was before. I've been eating too many carbs and I've had a cup of coffee every second day and I've been having a drink or two every second day. And I've been going too long between naps or skipping them entirely,...


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Intro to Polyphasic Sleep | First attempt (lasted 30 days) | Second Attempt (lasted 7 days) | Third Attempt (ongoing) I should probably point out that's 24 hours over 3 days, not 24 hours in a row. Yup, I slept 8 hours the two nights I was away and the night I got home. I was away on a ski trip (only the second time I've seen snow in my life! :D) and was camping below the snow line in a clearing in bushland. It was raining non-stop during the nights, and it was also cold as heck, which meant I had to stay inside the tent both nights we were away. I also couldn't set my alarm because it would...


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Intro to Polyphasic Sleep | First attempt (lasted 30 days) | Second Attempt (lasted 7 days) | Third Attempt (ongoing) Hey peeps! Not a lot to report today so I'll keep this short. I struggled a bit in the early morning (6am) with tiredness during work - it was so bad I had to resort to having a very weak cup of coffee to pull myself out of it. I really didn't want to but I felt like I had no choice. I even managed a quick 10 minute nap but I was still zombied to hell. The coffee wasn't very strong so it didn't seem to affect my naps at any point during the day. That's definitely a handy ace to have...


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Intro to Polyphasic Sleep | First attempt (lasted 30 days) | Second Attempt (lasted 7 days) | Third Attempt (ongoing) It's just occurred to me over 2 weeks have passed since I started polyphasic sleeping. Crazy! One strange effect of polyphasic sleep is night and day start to become less defined. Night to me is the time when it's darker and I don't go outside. Day is the time when it's bright and I do go outside. Other than that, there's nothing separating the two. It's strange how I've lost track of individual days - as far as my brain is concerned, I've been up for 15 days straight. 20 minute...


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Intro to Polyphasic Sleep | First attempt (lasted 30 days) | Second Attempt (lasted 7 days) | Third Attempt (ongoing) Hello boys and girls! Yesterday I mentioned how fabulously I felt during the normally-atrocious "graveyard" hours (between midnight and 6am or so). Well, I'm happy to report that carried on until about 7am, when I started having some mild-moderate tiredness symptoms. I didn't have the option to nap so I kept working until 9am without too much fuss. I'm pretty happy with that! In all that time (between midnight and 9am) I only had 1 nap, so  clearly the meditating idea and the light-fix...


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Intro to Polyphasic Sleep | First attempt (lasted 30 days) | Second Attempt (lasted 7 days) | Third Attempt (ongoing) Today was probably the hardest day I've had. Not because I was sleep deprived - I've put up with that for almost 2 weeks now. Not because I could barely keep my eyes open between 2am and 6am - I'm used to that. Not even because I overslept by 2 hours this morning (more on that in a minute). Nope, none of that. It was because today was the first day I've had doubts about this whole thing. I've struggled with the early morning hours the last few days. The hours between...


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