VoodooLabs

Continuing to partially document my experiments with polyphasic sleeping.

Day 3 was the hardest day to get through, but every now and then I have another cycle that just isn’t working for me. I’ve ‘crashed’ about twice a week for the last couple of weeks. This is still a lot less sleep than normal: 2 hours x 5 days + 8 hours x 2 days = 26 hours instead of the 8 hours x 7 days = 56 hours. But I’m still dissapointed I haven’t become completely polyphasic.

I do have more time to do things, but I haven’t been sticking strictly to the polyphasic cycle. I think the longest I was on the cycle continuously was 4 days.

The truth is I enjoy sleeping.

Anyway I’ve had some naps in interesting places:

The couch in the meeting room at work.
Propped up against the wall sitting on a chair in the kitchenette at work.
In Alex’s car.
In a Daytona bucket seat in a huge busy Auckland arcade while friends played Daytona around me.
Sitting on a bar stool in a pool hall while friends played pool.
In friend’s houses.
In a moving car travelling from Auckland to Hamilton.
The couch in the flat lounge.
And many many naps in my bed.

I drift off to sleep 6 times everyday. I would like to say I’m now good at it. I am better but falling to sleep isn’t something I can do on command yet. Sometimes it takes a good 30 minutes for me to fall asleep, the problem is I’m continuously adjusting my alarm. I need to sleep for 15 - 20 minutes and this doesn’t count time falling asleep. There is no other way to do it other than perhaps being tuff - if I don’t fall asleep in the allocate time I’m not going to get any until next time. I think this would severly mess me up so I continue to adjust the alarm.