Strangely enough, adaptation was going really well. It was much easier than the first time, but all the same, I ran into a few minor…
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Category: Personal
First, a bit of history. I switched to polyphasic sleep at the beginning of the year and kept it up for about 4 months or…
I’ve decided that it’s time to live up to the tagline on this blog and go back to polyphasic sleep again. For the unenlightened, Polyphasic sleep is a different sleep cycle where you sleep for several short periods over the course of 24 hours, not just in one big chunk during the night.
There’s several different polyphasic sleep patterns where the most hardcore one allows you to sleep only 2 hours a night – This one needs you to have a 20 minute nap every 4 hours and is very inflexible. You can read more about polyphasic sleep on my previous blog post:
http://riaancornelius.com/personal/what-is-polyphasic-sleep/
For this attempt, I’ll tag all the posts with the tag Polyphasic sleep 2.0 to make the posts easy to find without wading through the previous posts, and I’ll do an index post again.
I’ll also cover some other information about Polyphasic sleep in some extra blog posts:
- A review of the Zeo (Which is an awesome device)
- What sleep pattern I’m trying and how I came up with it
- How to analyse your Zeo data for polyphasic sleep (Zeo is catered to monophasic sleep)
- Some other things I might still think off 🙂
From my analytics, I see that people are finding my site when searching for:
- Polyphasic headache
- Puredoxyk
- Zeo polyphasic sleep (and polyphasic sleep zeo)
- Ubersleep
So let me address these as best I can.
Day 20 – 21 After oversleeping on day 19, Day 20 and 21 was fine. I didn’t oversleep, and I wasn’t too tired during the…
Seems I got excited too soon… We took a bus up to Nicaragua yesterday (It’s about 9-10 hours trip) and I had serious difficulty staying…
There has been no real changes in the last couple of days. By setting another (loud) alarm, I can prevent oversleeping, but I am waking up very groggy and sleepy. After 45 – 90 minutes I’m much better, but I’m somewhat tired until after the 6AM nap.
“PureDoxyk” have been sleeping polyphasicly for years, and also coined the names for both the Uberman and Everyman schedules, so she is somewhat of an authority on polyphasic sleep (As much as anybody is). This is her attempt at giving you everything you need to know about polyphasic sleep.
For the Core sleep, we were woken at 00:30 by a phonecall from the bank. I’m a South-African living in Costa Rica, but despite my instructions, the bank felt that they had to phone me to tell me what number to phone to sort out my credit card…
After this we overslept again and woke up at 4 AM.
This was the first day we screwed up big. We completely overslept for the Core sleep. We were supposed to get up at 01:30 but only woke up at 03:50.
Day 12 finally brings success! Decided to start moving in the other direction and trying less core sleep. With 2:50 of core sleep I woke…