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.

Reading Zee's 'Quantum Field Theory in a nutshell' this cycle. No tiredness at all.

After my nap I popped some chicken into a bag full of olive oil, basalmic vinegar, and spices. Then, removed as much air as possible. This should be ready to cook as soon as I wake from my 7am nap

Time Warner still hasn't fixed their problem yet, so still no internet on my block. after one month and a day polyphasic, the verdict is in: it rocks. I still have to tweak things a bit to account for the missed 7pm nap. PureDoxyk understates the difficulty of adapting to such a tweaked schedule: you can't take an extra nap or core sleep to get around 8 hours awake. Not possible, in the best case you will have nap clusters and zombie mode every day for two cycles. So, this month I MUST solve this. The experiments will continue, even though they'll prolong my adaptation.

Zombie walk was great, but a little small. Next saturday will be much bigger. No zombie mode at all, actually.

Shambling about now, muttering about brains and Mexico. sleep dep completes the zombie outfit: i'm making zombie mode my bitch.

I'll be at the Buffalo Zombie Walk today, dressed as Zombie Hunter S Thompson. The sincerest form of flattery indeed.

I'll be without the interwebs for a day or two. let's see how long a polyphasic day is without this time~filler.

Got shanghaid by sister and her fiancee, no chance to take eleven or one nap.

Contagious Laugh

From Oscar

Small oversleep and movies

I had an extra nap at 12, which I overslept by half an hour. Got up, put on Equilibrium, and paused it for my next scheduled nap which went well.

The zombie mode lessened over the course of these naps in the 11-3am cycle. I now feel fully recharged, and have been hunting through my movie collection for Where the Buffalo Roam.

Edit 4:58: I haven't found it. It's either mysteriously travelled to a foreign land, buried in the trappings of a curiously sensual nun; or I've lent it out. Be well, Where the Buffalo Roam. 

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Without nap clusters or oversleeps it gets much harder. But this distributed zombie mode does mean the adaptation is kicking in at last properly.

Napbeasts of apocalypse

Oddly, my naps, though very light, still removed much of the mass of the zombie from my back. I am now more Hunter S. Thompson than Jerry Garcia. Considering, though, that both are dead, this is not saying much.

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Terrible shambling zombie mode in BJ's

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Took a nap on the road after chewing some caffeine candy. The zombie is morbidly obese.

#polyphasers cohort on Posterous

I created Polynappers on Posterous in the hopes that my polyphasic cohort there can all sync up and share our experiences in one place.

org.mode to the rescue

I created cycles.org to help me keep track of naps.

The template:


* Week
** 1 am
    ** TODO NAP
** 3 am
    ** TODO NAP
** 7 am
    ** TODO NAP
** 11 am
    ** TODO NAP
** 2 pm
    ** TODO NAP
** 11 pm
    ** TODO NAP

Then a little emacs scriptfu can compile the data and pump it to gnuplot, compare weeks, etc.

Simple and just what I want.