Day 8
2.5 hours of oversleep at 12:40 AM nap. Other than that it's perfect. I still have difficulty at falling asleep though
Mental: 10
Physical: 10
Social: 8
Alertness: 9
Will: 7 - I'm not making any progress.
Hours slept: 3 hours - I slept well on 3. nap and I think I slept a bit at my 4. nap.
Day 9
2 hours of overlseep at 8:40 AM nap. slept 30 minutes at 4:40 PM. I couldn't sleep other naps
Mental: 9
Physical: 10 - it was a tiring day and I'm not even tired
Social: 8
Alertness:8
Will:8
Hours slept: 2.5 hours
2010/06/30
2010/06/29
Day 7 - End of Week
My second biggest oversleep. I slept at my chair and overslept at my 4:40 AM nap and woke up at 7 AM. I couldn't fall asleep at other naps (I tried sleeping on a chair). Also I tried sleeping on a bed to fall asleep easily and overslept at 8:40 PM and woke up at 12:30 AM. So I slept for 6 hours and 10 minutes. That's not my longest. But when I was monophasic I was sleeping for like 12 hours so this isn't that big to me.
It's end of the week. Let's take a look.
As you can see whenever I slept a good ammount of hours (2 hours) I always oversleep next day. To avoid this I will be more careful when I sleep well. This week was like preparation period. I will reduce my oversleeps next week. Wish me luck!Mental: 10 - Sleepy but I can read books easily. I got a lot of reading done these days
Physical: 10
Social: 7
Alertness: [6 after first nap] [9 after last nap]
Will: 8
Total hours slept: 6 hours 10 minutes.
2010/06/28
Day 5 and Day 6
Day 5
I couldn't fall asleep at first naps but I wasn't feeling tired too. Everything was fine until last nap. I slept from 12:40 AM to 2 AM. When I woke up I felt really groggy.
Mental performance: 7
Physical performance: 10
Social performance: 9
Alertness: 6
Will: 8
Total hours slept: 3 hours 10 minutes
Day 6
My day started fantastic. At my 8:40-9:00 nap I actually saw a dream. That means ... REM sleep!. I couldn't sleep at my 2. 3. and 4. nap. I don't know if I slept at my 5. nap. See, if you don't have the REM sleep it's very difficult to rembember if you slept or not. It's like microsleeps. But that morning nap was great. Dream was very vivid and strange I still laugh whenever I rembember it. It was about to turn into a lucid dream. At the last nap I slept for an extra hour. I always oversleep at the last nap. Also until the last nap I felt really sleepy. My alertness hit 4 (If you need to know the number) and I was like "aaah there are only 17 minutes left". My eyes were tired so much, I wanted to sew my eyes shut. I was too sleepy to go to chair I ended up sleeping at my long sofa.
But that sleepy and groggy feeling I got after my last nap means I'm adapting. Didn't make any sense? When you are monophasic if you take short naps like 20 minutes you won't even feel the sense of sleeping. You might be refreshed a little bit if you managed to sleep. But when you are polyphasic if you sleep for long hours you will feel groggy and much more sleepy. Whenever I slept for 1 hour or more than 1 hour I felt better. But now I feel awful.
Mental performance: 10 (after last nap 6)
Physical performance: 10 (after last nap 8)
Social performance: 7 - I have a reputation for weirdness
Alertness: 10 (after last nap 4)
Will: 8
Total hours slept: 2 hours 40 minutes
About that social performance thingy. Now people around me started hearing about what I do. Most of them know one thing about sleeping and it's wrong. "WE NED 2 SLEEP 8 HOURS EACH DAI. THAZ WUT SCIENCE SEZ" So it's a pain in the ass the explain all this. I start explaning from zero and at the end of it I get the "GTFH and get some sleep" look.
Sleep less, live longer? Sleep is full of mysteries.
I couldn't fall asleep at first naps but I wasn't feeling tired too. Everything was fine until last nap. I slept from 12:40 AM to 2 AM. When I woke up I felt really groggy.
Mental performance: 7
Physical performance: 10
Social performance: 9
Alertness: 6
Will: 8
Total hours slept: 3 hours 10 minutes
Day 6
My day started fantastic. At my 8:40-9:00 nap I actually saw a dream. That means ... REM sleep!. I couldn't sleep at my 2. 3. and 4. nap. I don't know if I slept at my 5. nap. See, if you don't have the REM sleep it's very difficult to rembember if you slept or not. It's like microsleeps. But that morning nap was great. Dream was very vivid and strange I still laugh whenever I rembember it. It was about to turn into a lucid dream. At the last nap I slept for an extra hour. I always oversleep at the last nap. Also until the last nap I felt really sleepy. My alertness hit 4 (If you need to know the number) and I was like "aaah there are only 17 minutes left". My eyes were tired so much, I wanted to sew my eyes shut. I was too sleepy to go to chair I ended up sleeping at my long sofa.
But that sleepy and groggy feeling I got after my last nap means I'm adapting. Didn't make any sense? When you are monophasic if you take short naps like 20 minutes you won't even feel the sense of sleeping. You might be refreshed a little bit if you managed to sleep. But when you are polyphasic if you sleep for long hours you will feel groggy and much more sleepy. Whenever I slept for 1 hour or more than 1 hour I felt better. But now I feel awful.
Mental performance: 10 (after last nap 6)
Physical performance: 10 (after last nap 8)
Social performance: 7 - I have a reputation for weirdness
Alertness: 10 (after last nap 4)
Will: 8
Total hours slept: 2 hours 40 minutes
About that social performance thingy. Now people around me started hearing about what I do. Most of them know one thing about sleeping and it's wrong. "WE NED 2 SLEEP 8 HOURS EACH DAI. THAZ WUT SCIENCE SEZ" So it's a pain in the ass the explain all this. I start explaning from zero and at the end of it I get the "GTFH and get some sleep" look.
A six-year study of more than one million adults ages 30 to 102 has shown that people who get only 6 to 7 hours a night have a lower death rate. Individuals who sleep 8 hours or more, or less than 4 hours a night, were shown to have a significantly increased death rate compared to those who averaged 6 to 7 hours.
Stole this one from here
Sleep less, live longer? Sleep is full of mysteries.
2010/06/27
Day 4 - Fatality
I slept on my comfy chair at 1:40 and rolled into my bed which is quite far away from my chair and slept until 7:15. Not much to say I guess.
Mental: 10
Physical: 10
Social: 7 - Oversleeping makes me angry
Alertness: 10
Will: 9 - I have 2.5 months to succeed. I will do it one way or another.
Total hours slept: 6 hours 45 minutes
I guess it's time to tell the way I sleep monophasicly.
When I was monophasic I slept for 10 hours each day. If I have an exam I sleep for 7 hours and take a nap at class. I take naps if we don't have any lessons. If we have I just microsleep until the day is over. At weekends I sleep for 12 hours. To change this weekend-laziness, I tried sleeping at 12 and didn't set any alarms to see if I was going to wake up early myself. It didn't work. It doesn't matter when I sleep. I slept at 12 AM and get up at 12 PM. I slept at 3 AM and get up at 1 PM. I slept at 5 AM and get up at 2 PM. I sleep for 12 hours at weekends because I don't want to leave a warm, comfy bed and throw myself into cold, ruthless world. Sometimes I just be like "Oh shit, another boring, monotous and stressful day is starting. I better wait in my bed until this is over" I cover all my body and my head with blanket and draw the curtain. But I'm not in depression. These are just my low-days. In my high-days I go out and live the life. But I had a lot of low-days past months. I had so much things to do I was multi-tasking like crazy.
And now I'm sick of it. I'm sick of spending an hour or two in the bed to fall asleep. I'm sick of waking up at the midday. I'm sick of feeling sleepy at day and feeling energetic at night. I'm fucking sick of my delayed sleep phase syndrome shit. If this doesn't work I'm gonna take sleeping pills or something. I said my will is 9, but it's 10 now. I'm declaring war on my brain.
Mental: 10
Physical: 10
Social: 7 - Oversleeping makes me angry
Alertness: 10
Will: 9 - I have 2.5 months to succeed. I will do it one way or another.
Total hours slept: 6 hours 45 minutes
I guess it's time to tell the way I sleep monophasicly.
When I was monophasic I slept for 10 hours each day. If I have an exam I sleep for 7 hours and take a nap at class. I take naps if we don't have any lessons. If we have I just microsleep until the day is over. At weekends I sleep for 12 hours. To change this weekend-laziness, I tried sleeping at 12 and didn't set any alarms to see if I was going to wake up early myself. It didn't work. It doesn't matter when I sleep. I slept at 12 AM and get up at 12 PM. I slept at 3 AM and get up at 1 PM. I slept at 5 AM and get up at 2 PM. I sleep for 12 hours at weekends because I don't want to leave a warm, comfy bed and throw myself into cold, ruthless world. Sometimes I just be like "Oh shit, another boring, monotous and stressful day is starting. I better wait in my bed until this is over" I cover all my body and my head with blanket and draw the curtain. But I'm not in depression. These are just my low-days. In my high-days I go out and live the life. But I had a lot of low-days past months. I had so much things to do I was multi-tasking like crazy.
And now I'm sick of it. I'm sick of spending an hour or two in the bed to fall asleep. I'm sick of waking up at the midday. I'm sick of feeling sleepy at day and feeling energetic at night. I'm fucking sick of my delayed sleep phase syndrome shit. If this doesn't work I'm gonna take sleeping pills or something. I said my will is 9, but it's 10 now. I'm declaring war on my brain.
2010/06/25
Day 3 - Oversleeping
I couldn't sleep at my 1. 2. and 3. nap. I slept at my 4. and 5. nap. Overslept on my 6. nap for 2 hours. I can't find a way to avoid oversleeping. I don't even rembember touching my clock. I set it off unconciously and go on sleeping. Sleeping on chair didn't help much. I don't know what I'm gonna do...
Mental performance: 9 - maybe a bit bad
Physical performance: 10 - did lotsa tiring stuff today. I don't even feel tired.
Social performance: 9
Alertness: 8 - I could say it was high until 4. nap. After the last nap I felt very groggy
Will: 8 - I can't find a way to avoid oversleeping
Total hours slept: 2 hours 40 minutes.
Mental performance: 9 - maybe a bit bad
Physical performance: 10 - did lotsa tiring stuff today. I don't even feel tired.
Social performance: 9
Alertness: 8 - I could say it was high until 4. nap. After the last nap I felt very groggy
Will: 8 - I can't find a way to avoid oversleeping
Total hours slept: 2 hours 40 minutes.
2010/06/24
Day 2 - Getting Better
I couldn't sleep for first 3 naps. But I think slept at 3. nap (8:40). Also at the 4. and 5. But it's not really clear. At the last nap I slept for 2 hours.
I tried this "Isochronic Tones" thingy today. At my 3. 4. and 5. nap I think that's what helped me get up. First I listened to a tone named "Sleep" after that "Adreline Rush" and I think "Adreline Rush" really did wake me up.
http://www.iso-tones.com/tones.html
Summary
Mental performance: 9 - I was confused after my last nap. I'm feeling groggy now.
Physical performance: 8 - got tired easily this morning when I was walking.
Social performance: 10
Alertness: 6 - Very groggy and sleepy
Will: 10 - My overslept only left me wanting to fight more.
Total hours slept: 2.5
I will start sleeping on chairs now. Since I'm sleepy falling asleep isn't really a problem.
I tried this "Isochronic Tones" thingy today. At my 3. 4. and 5. nap I think that's what helped me get up. First I listened to a tone named "Sleep" after that "Adreline Rush" and I think "Adreline Rush" really did wake me up.
http://www.iso-tones.com/tones.html
Summary
Mental performance: 9 - I was confused after my last nap. I'm feeling groggy now.
Physical performance: 8 - got tired easily this morning when I was walking.
Social performance: 10
Alertness: 6 - Very groggy and sleepy
Will: 10 - My overslept only left me wanting to fight more.
Total hours slept: 2.5
I will start sleeping on chairs now. Since I'm sleepy falling asleep isn't really a problem.
2010/06/23
Beating Sleep Deprivation
Sleep deprivation can have serious effects on your health.
-Impaired moral judgement
-Memory loss
-Tremors and aches
-Impaired immune system
-Hallucinations
Dealing with sleep deprivation is really difficult. I never overslept consciously. Some of the things I do to deal with sleep deprivation:
-Don't wear comfy clothings. Wear tight jeans or something like that.
-If you are standing in a room and if there is a bed inside there, get out of there. You will "lie down a bit" and sleep eventually
-Drink water
-Take a cold shower
-Don't read a book. You will fall asleep quickly. That happened a lot to me.
-Listen to metal music or anything that makes a lot of noise.
-Drink caffeinated drinks
But the best things to do when you are in zombie-mod are these:
-Jogging. This really helps. Go outside and take a walk when you get up from your nap. Be careful, when you are in the zombie-mod you sometimes forget what were you doing
-Let's assume something happened and you are stuck in a room. If there is TV watch it but don't watch it like stupid. Think about everything you see. Watch commercials and find their flaws.
-Think about everything. Play games that require attention. Count how many steps does it take to the bathroom.
-Shout. That helps a lot. Look at the mirror and scream. That may sound a bit hardcore but you are trying to be polyphasic. Nothing is hardcore after that. If you are sick of adapdation period you can shout like "THIS [bleep]ING SYSTEM DOESN'T WORK" You will feel better.
-Impaired moral judgement
-Memory loss
-Tremors and aches
-Impaired immune system
-Hallucinations
Dealing with sleep deprivation is really difficult. I never overslept consciously. Some of the things I do to deal with sleep deprivation:
-Don't wear comfy clothings. Wear tight jeans or something like that.
-If you are standing in a room and if there is a bed inside there, get out of there. You will "lie down a bit" and sleep eventually
-Drink water
-Take a cold shower
-Don't read a book. You will fall asleep quickly. That happened a lot to me.
-Listen to metal music or anything that makes a lot of noise.
-Drink caffeinated drinks
But the best things to do when you are in zombie-mod are these:
-Jogging. This really helps. Go outside and take a walk when you get up from your nap. Be careful, when you are in the zombie-mod you sometimes forget what were you doing
-Let's assume something happened and you are stuck in a room. If there is TV watch it but don't watch it like stupid. Think about everything you see. Watch commercials and find their flaws.
-Think about everything. Play games that require attention. Count how many steps does it take to the bathroom.
-Shout. That helps a lot. Look at the mirror and scream. That may sound a bit hardcore but you are trying to be polyphasic. Nothing is hardcore after that. If you are sick of adapdation period you can shout like "THIS [bleep]ING SYSTEM DOESN'T WORK" You will feel better.
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