Still not quite settled in

I haven't gotten a wired connection yet, so my internet is still spotty.

I have gotten all my books out of storage, and my living room is now completely lined with bookcases.

My bedroom is still mostly empty. All that's in there is a desk, a chair, and a table.

I've been taking naps on the floor and on the oddly large bay windowsill. It's amazing how big an apartment looks without a bed taking up an inordinate amount of space. Got a one bedroom apartment or studio? Go polyphasic, it'll look like a mansion once you ditch your bed.

I've been neglecting posting, because I've been gradually moving, working more hours, reading through the Achewood archives, and trying to find a girlfriend.

Woo, my cat is fat and life is good.

I'll get out those longish posts sooner or later.

Man this heat is screwing me up. for the past several cycles it not only took longer to fall asleep(ten minutes feels like an hour, also) but I've been waking earlier, drenched in sweat. Luckily the sleep I am getting is enough, but I have to be going on at most 1.5 hours a day since the fifth. I've created a spreadsheet to keep track starting today.

I'll post on this later when my local internet returns. I have augmented my modified Uberman schedule with an equiphasic micronap schedule spaced every 6 hours. So at 1, 3, 7, 11, 2, and 11 I take full 20ish minute naps. At 2, 8, 2, 8, I allow myself ten minute naps if I can. This prevents any monophasic tendencies, provides more flexibility, and also gives me an idea of how efficiently I'm sleeping: I can have full dreams in these micronaps. This isn't SPAMAYL, and is not for people who still have zombie mode.

I'm using the cat's belly to hold a book open

I'm going warwalking this cycle. Guide me oh linksys muse.

Woke with pins and needles and numbness in arms and legs from sleeping in such a strange position. Will do it more often, though: I'll take pins and needles after a nap to sweating during.

I'm going to nap on the benchpress machine in the basement, the only place in the house not boiling hot

I had a four minute dream nap. I woke at four past one with a strange, vivid dream, then just lay there till the playlist ended. Even more oddly, I feel perfectly refreshed.

I walked outside to take a walk, and found the street full of running cops searching for someone. Life is getting odder.

No zombie mode in days. I am the Lizard King, puny primates. Time dilation seems even stronger, every word I hear sounds carefully enunciated, reflexes definitely faster.

Back, after having discovered no end to the path. For all I know it cuts right through downtown, winding through alleyways and into the abandoned skyscraper. There, underground grizzly boxing and a billion rusty tricycles.

At some point it crosses a four lane highway.

The walk ends at a concrete cliff, part of an old railroad bridge. Below, it continues as if there were no 30 foot drop.

The last few cycles I've been taking long walks. On one now, a bike trail which seems to go everywhere in Buffalo.

I'll have to give it a few days, but I definitely think that having an auxiliary nap schedule of ten minute naps, after the initial hell, does wonders for stabilizing a schedule. It reduces the risk of oversleep, introduces flexibility. Only after you've gotten onto the schedule, though. (Time Warner still hasn't fixed my block, so it may be another day before I can post my long post on what I learned in a month of polyphasic sleep).

Interesting. Once you go onto polyphasic sleep, you can take ten or fifteen minute naps that are easy to wake from naturally, and have the effect of a shot of espresso. Hm, what about creating an auxiliary schedule of micronaps? Maybe it can ease adaptation and provide flexibility. But I think during the first two weeks they would only increase your risk of oversleep.

Today I'm trying an experiment. I've set alarms telling me to nap every hour. I'm then going to see how ease of napping is distributed throughout the day. I think I will only sleep during scheduled naps, but any others will indicate sleep debt and a possible place to tweak.

Euphoria. Reading Timpson's 'quantum information theory and the foundations of quantum mechanics'

Since I have to skip my 2pm nap today, I took one as close as possible to it. Bracket the skewed cycle with extra naps, might work.

The chicken turned out orgasmic. It impregnated every woman in a 2 mile radius. Old men spoke in tongues. Cthulhu briefly woke and licked his chops.