I broke down and took my 11am-ish nap.
I had my first nap nightmare, if I can call it that.
I was cleaning my teeth with a pick. While cleaning on the backside of my lower front teeth, I began levering out something stuck between my teeth down by the gum. Levering and levering, I ended up removing a chicken wing bone from between my teeth (and partially jammed into my gum). The sensation of a gaping hole in my gums where this inexplicable chicken bone had been, was very vivid.
Damn. Body horror ftw.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Polyphasic Sleep Reboot: another tactic
Since I'm playing around a bit and experimenting before going back to strictness on the third, I'm trying out DSEPAMAYLOSWYAZ.
Don't Sleep Even Polyphasic As Much As You Like Only Sleep When You're A Zombie.
I want to see if zombie-time naps are more or less efficient than regularly scheduled naps.
I've, as of now, accumulated a ton of zombies on my back. I'm holding off for when I begin shambling AND it coincides with a scheduled nap. Then, delicious nap.
Watch as this fails.
Don't Sleep Even Polyphasic As Much As You Like Only Sleep When You're A Zombie.
I want to see if zombie-time naps are more or less efficient than regularly scheduled naps.
I've, as of now, accumulated a ton of zombies on my back. I'm holding off for when I begin shambling AND it coincides with a scheduled nap. Then, delicious nap.
Watch as this fails.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Polyphasic Sleep Reboot: 2pm
As expected, a dud nap. Even dud naps can feel refreshing, though.
I'd much rather have 25 minutes of meditative relaxation, than >30 minutes of sleep.
I'd much rather have 25 minutes of meditative relaxation, than >30 minutes of sleep.
A tentative plan
I'm going to stick with this reboot limbo, blogging after each nap as it happens, until Saturday the 3rd. Working out the biggest kinks in my schedule.
On the 3rd, I'll go back to once daily updates for the month.
I figure, zooming in on my naps hour by hour every few weeks can't help but make me focus on fixing them.
On the 3rd, I'll go back to once daily updates for the month.
I figure, zooming in on my naps hour by hour every few weeks can't help but make me focus on fixing them.
Polyphasic Sleep Reboot: 7am oversleep and nap cluster
I overslept my 7am nap by about 20 minutes, woke up feeling groggy and horrible.
I got up, took a shower, inventoried my food supply for Recipezaar, then took another nap without knowing it. Woke up groggier from that, etc.
Finally at about noon I had a vivid dream waking from which left me more alert.
Now the reboot gets rebooted.
I wonder why so few of my naps lately have had dreams, compared to the 3 weeks of progress earlier.
I got up, took a shower, inventoried my food supply for Recipezaar, then took another nap without knowing it. Woke up groggier from that, etc.
Finally at about noon I had a vivid dream waking from which left me more alert.
Now the reboot gets rebooted.
I wonder why so few of my naps lately have had dreams, compared to the 3 weeks of progress earlier.
Polyphasic Sleep Reboot: 3am
I finished getting all the updated stuff working, made a pot of coffee, and settled down for a nap around 3:50.
I put on Kid A, and as I often do while listening to this album imagined endless snow-covered plains under gray skies. In a few minutes I actually felt cold wind against my face and the tap tap of snowflakes on my hat.
So, while no visual dream elements, this nap does count as rem. I can't remember ever having a non-visual lucid dream before, very cool.
I put on Kid A, and as I often do while listening to this album imagined endless snow-covered plains under gray skies. In a few minutes I actually felt cold wind against my face and the tap tap of snowflakes on my hat.
So, while no visual dream elements, this nap does count as rem. I can't remember ever having a non-visual lucid dream before, very cool.
Polyphasic Sleep Reboot: 1am
Still a dreamless nap.
Right after the nap I began updating my system, as detailed here. I finally got everything shinier and working.
Now for my 3am-ish nap.
Right after the nap I began updating my system, as detailed here. I finally got everything shinier and working.
Now for my 3am-ish nap.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Polyphasic Sleep Reboot: 11pm
No real sleep in either nap attempt.
2.5 more days to get everything running smooth. Come on, amygdala. I will experiment on you like Frankenstein with a poodle and a jar of vaseline.
2.5 more days to get everything running smooth. Come on, amygdala. I will experiment on you like Frankenstein with a poodle and a jar of vaseline.
On SPAMAYL
[17:14] <pookleblinky> I think SPAMAYL should be avoided until a month in.
[17:15] <pookleblinky> It's too tempting
[17:15] <ze> pookleblinky: yeah thats kinda what i was thinking too
[17:15] <ze> its more of a post-adaptation flexibility strategy
[17:15] <pookleblinky> I look back on my first 2 weeks or so, and think that all my tweaks and experiments did more harm than good.
[17:15] <ze> which is cool to have
[17:15] <ze> but probably prolongs adaptation if used early
[17:15] <pookleblinky> It's too tempting
[17:15] <ze> pookleblinky: yeah thats kinda what i was thinking too
[17:15] <ze> its more of a post-adaptation flexibility strategy
[17:15] <pookleblinky> I look back on my first 2 weeks or so, and think that all my tweaks and experiments did more harm than good.
[17:15] <ze> which is cool to have
[17:15] <ze> but probably prolongs adaptation if used early
Polyphasic Sleep Reboot: 11a.m.
Light, hypnogogic images. No real dream.
I don't expect to fall into a dream nap this soon after an oversleep, so I'm going to be happy with hypnogogic imagery.
I don't expect to fall into a dream nap this soon after an oversleep, so I'm going to be happy with hypnogogic imagery.
Polyphasic Sleep: Reboot Plan
I'm resetting my day clock, but I'm not going back to monophasic or even Everyman.
No, this reboot affords me a little freedom to experiment.
Claudio Stampi, in Why We Nap, had a test subject go polyphasic gradually by incrementally replacing 8 hour core sleep with naps. After a few days, the test subject apparently had adapted.
Now, I'm on a modified Uberman. I nap for 25 minutes at 1am, 3am, 7am, 11am, 2pm, and 11pm. I probably can't oversleep 8 or more hours, even if I tried, unless I take benedryl or such. So iteratively applying "subtract 90 minutes and take an extra nap" doesn't apply.
It took me 25 days to get to this point of adaptation, where 5 hours oversleep annoys the hell out of me. I'm not going to start a core nap just to reduce it incrementally.
The plan is simple: these next three days will be perfect. If I have a dud nap, I will treat it like an interrupted pomodoro, wait a few minutes, and try again. If the retry doesn't work, rather than having a nap cluster, I'll wait til the next nap. On the other hand, if I have a nap from which I wake up groggy and in zombie mode, I will entirely avoid nap clusters.
I aim to have a dream within an hour of each scheduled nap, no more, no less.
Rather than having a daily write up during this period, I'll update immediately after each nap. This will give me an extra incentive to analyze what's going wrong and try to fix it immediately.
No, this reboot affords me a little freedom to experiment.
Claudio Stampi, in Why We Nap, had a test subject go polyphasic gradually by incrementally replacing 8 hour core sleep with naps. After a few days, the test subject apparently had adapted.
Now, I'm on a modified Uberman. I nap for 25 minutes at 1am, 3am, 7am, 11am, 2pm, and 11pm. I probably can't oversleep 8 or more hours, even if I tried, unless I take benedryl or such. So iteratively applying "subtract 90 minutes and take an extra nap" doesn't apply.
It took me 25 days to get to this point of adaptation, where 5 hours oversleep annoys the hell out of me. I'm not going to start a core nap just to reduce it incrementally.
The plan is simple: these next three days will be perfect. If I have a dud nap, I will treat it like an interrupted pomodoro, wait a few minutes, and try again. If the retry doesn't work, rather than having a nap cluster, I'll wait til the next nap. On the other hand, if I have a nap from which I wake up groggy and in zombie mode, I will entirely avoid nap clusters.
I aim to have a dream within an hour of each scheduled nap, no more, no less.
Rather than having a daily write up during this period, I'll update immediately after each nap. This will give me an extra incentive to analyze what's going wrong and try to fix it immediately.
Polyphasic Sleep: Day 25* Gah
On Sunday I had to go between 11am and 11pm without a nap to fit in with my work schedule.
I ended up oversleeping til about 5:30 in the morning.
Interesting, that the missed naps expanded out the way they did. I'm curious now about missing a nap under somewhat controlled conditions, then seeing how much oversleep is produced. Can I verify Pure Doxyk's nap:90 minutes of sleep relation? Or does it vary by person?
Since this was an annoying oversleep, I'm going to reset my day clock today. I'm going for a perfect 3 days.
After an oversleep, the first three days are the most crucial. You've got a short time to compress all the sleep deprivation until your schedule begins working; mistakes mean you'll have the sleep dep for longer and harder, making adaptation much harder.
Ah well, 25 day months go with 22 hour days.
I ended up oversleeping til about 5:30 in the morning.
Interesting, that the missed naps expanded out the way they did. I'm curious now about missing a nap under somewhat controlled conditions, then seeing how much oversleep is produced. Can I verify Pure Doxyk's nap:90 minutes of sleep relation? Or does it vary by person?
Since this was an annoying oversleep, I'm going to reset my day clock today. I'm going for a perfect 3 days.
After an oversleep, the first three days are the most crucial. You've got a short time to compress all the sleep deprivation until your schedule begins working; mistakes mean you'll have the sleep dep for longer and harder, making adaptation much harder.
Ah well, 25 day months go with 22 hour days.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Polyphasic Sleep: Day 24*
More time dilation, for some reason less remembered dreams.
I'm now off alarms. I have a few 25-minute long playlists, each without any ear-raping final song. After the playlist ends I just wake up. I'll see what happens when this screws up. For now, it's pretty nice.
About 20 minutes before each nap I go into condensed zombie mode. This is enough time to make and drink a cup of coffee right before the nap. Awesomely, I didn't have any zombie mode at 7pm: I think my body knows that it has to wait til 11pm.
It's funny that on #polyphasers, people are complaining about oversleeping by 3 or 4 hours. Consider, if you are monophasic, that needing only 5 hours of sleep a day is considered excessive. Ya fuckin' hibernator.
I think on day 30 I'm going to call this series "Polyphasic Sleep: Month 2" and get more rigorous. Basically, pretend like I'm starting over again each month to try removing any remaining bad habits.
I'm now off alarms. I have a few 25-minute long playlists, each without any ear-raping final song. After the playlist ends I just wake up. I'll see what happens when this screws up. For now, it's pretty nice.
About 20 minutes before each nap I go into condensed zombie mode. This is enough time to make and drink a cup of coffee right before the nap. Awesomely, I didn't have any zombie mode at 7pm: I think my body knows that it has to wait til 11pm.
It's funny that on #polyphasers, people are complaining about oversleeping by 3 or 4 hours. Consider, if you are monophasic, that needing only 5 hours of sleep a day is considered excessive. Ya fuckin' hibernator.
I think on day 30 I'm going to call this series "Polyphasic Sleep: Month 2" and get more rigorous. Basically, pretend like I'm starting over again each month to try removing any remaining bad habits.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Polyphasic Sleep: Day 23*
Time dilation. Man, this is a weird side effect.
This is no ordinary "man, it felt like forever!"
This is watching the entire world drop into slow motion. Literally on the verge of shouting in impatience as people shamble around you. Long agonizing milliseconds as people formulate responses to you.
What's scary, is that this also works when there's music. Normally music will give you some standard for how fast time is going. Not with polynapping time dilation. A song will come on, and you'll be doing stuff, half an hour's worth of stuff it seems, when suddenly you realize the song is still playing. It has been less than 4 minutes.
I don't want to say this is what being Sarah Goldfarb feels like, because she did not have a superpower but instead a crippling addiction.
This, now. This feels like a superpower. I can now do something for an hour, discover it's only been 10 minutes, and do a few hours more stuff. I have almost literally all the time I need. This is exactly like being five years old again, wondering how on earth you could ever do something for as long as an hour. Remember how long five minutes were? Douglas Spaulding has nothing on the relativistic effect of being five years old.
Now I finally see why five year olds are unemployed. It does somewhat suck working 168 hours a day, then spending approximately 2 months on the way home.
This is no ordinary "man, it felt like forever!"
This is watching the entire world drop into slow motion. Literally on the verge of shouting in impatience as people shamble around you. Long agonizing milliseconds as people formulate responses to you.
What's scary, is that this also works when there's music. Normally music will give you some standard for how fast time is going. Not with polynapping time dilation. A song will come on, and you'll be doing stuff, half an hour's worth of stuff it seems, when suddenly you realize the song is still playing. It has been less than 4 minutes.
I don't want to say this is what being Sarah Goldfarb feels like, because she did not have a superpower but instead a crippling addiction.
This, now. This feels like a superpower. I can now do something for an hour, discover it's only been 10 minutes, and do a few hours more stuff. I have almost literally all the time I need. This is exactly like being five years old again, wondering how on earth you could ever do something for as long as an hour. Remember how long five minutes were? Douglas Spaulding has nothing on the relativistic effect of being five years old.
Now I finally see why five year olds are unemployed. It does somewhat suck working 168 hours a day, then spending approximately 2 months on the way home.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Polyphasic Sleep: Day 22*
Today (meaningless) felt like the first day I've really been adapted. I napped without needing an alarm clock, no oversleep, and very vivid dreams.
I hope this means zombie has finally dismounted.
I hope this means zombie has finally dismounted.
Daily Links
In keeping with my attempt to reduce my web procrastination to about 3 pomodoros a day, I installed Daily Links, a Chrome analog of Morning Coffee for Firefox.
I stuffed it with the sites I go to waste time, set the days, and now I can conveniently compress all the procrastination into a chunk of time. Very nice.
I stuffed it with the sites I go to waste time, set the days, and now I can conveniently compress all the procrastination into a chunk of time. Very nice.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Polyphasic Sleep: Day 21*
I'm still sick. I gave myself the full 3am-7am cycle to sleep. I figure if I have to break schedule, I might as well do so by temporarily switching to Everyman (90-minute-multiple longer sleeps).
Screwing around with your schedule during adaptation is a huge obstacle, but Pure Doxyk strongly suggests you should if you get sick while still adapting.
Since I woke on my own, in the middle of a dream, after about 3 90-minute cycles, I take this as a good sign. It means I'm not sleep-deprived, just in need of more sleep to counter this cold.
That should be my metric. Only oversleep if you're sick, and only then by replacing a cycle with a core sleep. If you manage to oversleep that core nap, obviously your adaptation is still not past sleep-dep; just be aware it'll now take longer to get out of adaptation.
Screwing around with your schedule during adaptation is a huge obstacle, but Pure Doxyk strongly suggests you should if you get sick while still adapting.
Since I woke on my own, in the middle of a dream, after about 3 90-minute cycles, I take this as a good sign. It means I'm not sleep-deprived, just in need of more sleep to counter this cold.
That should be my metric. Only oversleep if you're sick, and only then by replacing a cycle with a core sleep. If you manage to oversleep that core nap, obviously your adaptation is still not past sleep-dep; just be aware it'll now take longer to get out of adaptation.
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