Polyphasic Sleep log Day 3

So I am on day three now, and I have to admit I am proud of myself. This is something I've been talking about doing and now I am.

I woke up from my 30 min nap alittle while ago and I was sweating a lot. Probably because I was under three blankets, or maybe because of my dreams. My dreams recently have been very chaotic. Best way to describe it is mind chatter, where your mind kind of talks to itself. I cannot recall anything specifically. so for my next nap i will try removing one or two blankets to see if I still sweat. I still had the "I hate everything" feeling when I initially woke up, but after the shower I'm feeling okay again.

I still need to get the supplements Alton mentioned to me the first day, I think I will try getting them as the morning goes on when stores start to open.

One of my concerns is that I like to work out, and I do a lot of physical activities: jiujitsu, judo, working out, skating, and sometimes running. It takes 8 hours of rest for your body to recover from a workout which is usually done when you are asleep, so using some logic you can see a problem and my concern. So what I am thinking of doing is alternating my sleeping pattern every week. One week follow the polyphasic sleeping pattern then the next week try to have a singular 6-8 hour sleeping period. This way I can train my body to switch back and forth between both and that way I can work out intensely one week and then the next week take care of other matters that I feel that need to be addressed.

I am also thinking about investing in an alarm clock outside of my cellphone. It hasnt been a problem yet, but what I am worried about is that someone may call or text me while I am in my sleep. So what I wan to do is turn off my cellphone to prevent interuptions and use an actual clock for an alarm. On day two I took two naps at home. One thing that was really nice is that my bed at home is way more comfortable and I fell asleep like a rock. One problem though is that the chance for an interrupt is a lot more because I have 3 dogs, also my parents dont know of my experiment and may try to wake me for whatever reason.

I also may have to delay a few of my future naps in order to align my sleeping schedule to my classes. I think it may be a tad bit off. Not sure but something I have to look at.

I not sure what to do at this point because I overslept now, by quite a bit. The alarm clock never woke me up, somehow i hit it off while i was still sleeping because i dont remember waking up. im not sure wither to wrap it up and give it another try some other time or to keep going. I think I may count my losses for now and continue again next week. Maybe next time I will be able to get farther or get through the week.

I'm a little disappointed but in a way it's fine. Now I can workout at least, but I was starting to get used to it. It was like running a long distance, you get tired but you try to keep chuggin' along. Also I was worried about my Tuesday and Thursday classes where my sleep schedule would be interupted and sleeping 30 min every 4 hours was not possible. So maybe I should wait til a break to start again. Or maybe next week, not sure for now. I will figure it out later, but i have some sleep to catch up on now...this won't be my last attempt at polyphasic sleeping though.

So while I did fail the initial experiment I decided that I would try to alter it now because I truly did enjoy the extra 5 hours of awake time, I want to try to see if i I can control it now. Somedays during the week I have only two classes so it would be easy for me to do the polyphasic sleeping while tuesdays and thursdays I have a lot of classes where it would be better to get 8 hours of sleep. I will try to continue the experiment in this fashion. So for the rest of the day I am going to try to stay awake, meaning my next nap will be at 2:00am tomorrow. Then from there I will try to sleep at 10:00pm and wake up at 6:00am (I have a 7:30) class. Although it has only been 3 days I believe I can control it a little. We will see how it goes.

Scratch that, Im going to try to do the polyphasic sleep today, meaning next nap is in a half hour. I still feel tired and hungry. I just fuond out my phone was on vibrate which would explain why I didnt wake up to my alarm.

So my first nap was kind of hard, it was more resting than sleeping, just like the beginning of the experiment. I woke up fine. I was still able to hold a conversation, and an argument (a debate rather) with friends. I went home and had dinner with the family and family friends for Chinese New Years. This gave me a chance to test some social dynamic experiments I've been wanting to try out.

My 6:00pm nap came along nicely. I fell asleep no problem, it was back to the chaotic mind chatter dreams again. There was something about baseball, and saving seals and other random things in my dream. Right now I am fine, if anything I think my slipup helped more than hindered. My friend Alton mentioned biphasic sleeping, which is still polyphasic sleep, and I may try that for my longer days of school. I will just need to redo my schedule on Excel.

Tomorrow I need to buy an alarm clock, because I did have my sleep interrupted today. Actually, my 6:00pm nap was the most interrupted so far. I was at home so this kind of expected. First my sister came in looking for me, then my grandma, then ralph my silly dog, then I got a phonecall. I explained to my dad about polyphasic sleep and to my surprise he's supportive of me for doing it.

My 10:00 nap was alright, it got interupted once 5 minutes in by a phone call. waking up was a bit of a challange, but it always is. Once im up im good to go though. I was able to stay awake, not too tired. I had a chance to work on my video project! I am really pleased with the way its turning out.