I've been attracted to the idea of polyphasic sleep for a while now. Recently I've invested too much time reading into all the blog posts, articles, and testimonials on the subject and I feel that I could put this to work at some point in my life. I also have a week of vacation coming up, and my schedule has holes in just the right place to accommodate a rough 2-6-10 schedule. Perhaps this is the time in my life to complete this goal.
To start sleeping in this broken fashion will not be cake. I will not be able to will myself into obeying my mind simply by telling myself what to do, so I wanted to blog the experience to get it more "out there" accountability-wise (even if no one follows me) as well as develop some muscle memory ahead of time.
Two points for tonight. My schedule at the moment, and my prep training.
I normally sleep from 1am to 8:30am for a total of 7.5 hours of sleep. I enjoy the early morning hours as well as the late evening hours when no one is up yet/still, but my days tend to drift away from the early mornings. I am as of yet undecided whether to do uberman (6x20minutes 4 hours apart) or everyman (1x3hrs, 3x20min ~6 hours apart). Uberman fits my schedule better (I know, it should be the other way around with my schedule fitting my sleep) but it's also more daunting. We'll see.
As prep, besides doing the naps and shorter night, I am working on creating muscle memory at the sound of my alarm. The snooze button is not feasible so I gotta get that out of the way. I wrote a computer program that plays an mp3 (World's End Girlfriend - 100 Years of Choke) in increasing volume at some specified time (I have all 7 days set to 6am (I can set specific times for each day)). For naps it is able to work in a timer-like configuration so I can run `alarm 20` and it will go off in 20 minutes.
I would like to add detail and linkies, but it's past my bed time ;)
;hunter
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