Day 17 was great. I felt almost completely alert and refreshed, and if I felt fatigued, it was remedied by my next nap. To counter the effects of drinking on my body, when I woke up at 5 am yesterday morning, I went for a run. A friend of mine used to tell me that the only thing you can do the next day is crack open another beer or go for a run. Alas, the brisk air and pitch black skies didn't make it one of my more pleasant runs, but it got the job done. Day 19 was unfortunately marred by a mistake. I took my 3-hour core sleep at 2 am or what was technically 1 am since daylight savings. Even though I woke up at three, I was exhausted and decided to nap an extra 20 minutes. Either I didn't set my alarm accurately, or it went off and I turned it off, I'm not sure. But the next time I woke up was at 6:30 in the morning. Though I am disappointed that I overslept, I'm surprised that I was able to naturally wake myself at 6:30. Hopefully this won't set me back too far because, besides from blurred vision, the last few days have been heavenly.
Another thing that could set me back is daylight savings. So yeah ... didn't see that one coming. I can't move my naps up an hour because each one is planned around my classes. In the past, I would push my naps an hour back if I was doing something but always with the result of increased fatigue. Honestly, I was and am too tired to clock the specifics sleep events of my night, but there's a distinct possibility that I only had a two hour core sleep last night due to daylight savings. My hope is that my body will shift into its new sleeping patterns as quickly as possible.
So I met the other polyphasic sleeper! While we haven't gotten to talk extensively, it's awesome to know another person doing it. Additionally, our mutual friend took his first nap of polyphasic sleep after daylight savings today. This is exactly what needs to happen. All the other blog about polyphasic sleep have users stopping at around six months -- not because they can't physically take it, but because it's so hard working in a monophasic world -- so what do you to? Change the world, one sleeper at a time.
I should also mention that two friends of mine were explaining that sleep research is starting to find that the non-REM sleep cycles each have their own purpose. Light sleep 1 affects your motor skills and Deep Sleep 4 is the time for muscle and tissue regeneration for instance. Sadly, I have to admit that in the last four days, almost none of my attempted passes or catches (clothing, bottles, gum wrappers, candy, rocket cup, etc.) have successfully reached their target.
Finally, I decided to skip my reboot this week. Gauging how good I've been feeling the last few days, I think it would be unwise to reboot weekly, so I intend on doing it next week or the one after and maintaining an every 2-3 week reboot schedule.
UPDATE
Daylight savings is kicking my ass. I'm tired and the brain fog that I wrote about in the first few days of the experiment has returned.
UPDATE
Daylight savings is kicking my ass. I'm tired and the brain fog that I wrote about in the first few days of the experiment has returned.
