Polyphasic Sleep

It has been a year since i have been on this site! I'm still raw but I made some adjustments to suit my body in different weather conditions and seasons. I shall talk about it in my next post.
I'm starting a new phase in my life. It sounds big and scary and strangely enough I don't call this new phase an experiment, only because I'm adamant that I will succeed.

I learnt about Polyphasic sleep just yesterday and it just rung true for me. It was like switching from vegetarian/vegan to raw food. I didn’t know raw food diet existed as I didn’t know polyphasic life style existed.
I discovered this life style through raw food listening to Steve Pavlina (www.stevepavlina.com), it was a revelation to me. I read the whole blog by Steve Pavlina on polyphasic sleep and decided to try it.
Polyphasic sleep is opposite to monophasic sleep, where you don’t go to sleep for more than 30min. and nap throughout the whole 24 hours. You should aim for 6/7 naps during that time. Amazing concept.

Today is my first attempt. It’s Sunday and I was aiming to go to bed at 8pm. I had a shower at 7pm, and at 7.40 went to bed. I decided to do some energy work and chakra meditation beforehand trying to fell asleep at around 8pm.
My idea was to do a core sleep for 4 hours and then start napping. This decision was purely based on my life style. Unfortunately I’m not the master of my time yet as I work full time. I love my job at the moment but working all day long in an institution leaves me no time for other things (like writing this blogg), so I decided to try a different strategy to transfer to polyphasic sleep. Normally you start with naps straight away and become a zombie for two/three days. I can’t afford that and I didn’t want to wait until Christmas break as I’m so exited and itching to start straight away.

At 8pm I fell asleep with no problems but to my surprise woke up at 8.45! I just had a dream and open my eyes totally refreshed and awake. I decided to get up and change my plan to moving my core sleep to 11pm but shortening it to 3h. that way I would get 2 sleeping cycles of 90min.each. The main point of this is to get full REM sleep, which is the most important sleep for humans to function.
Another surprise ☺ I woke up at 1.55 before the alarm clock went on. Again I was fully awake and refreshed so I decided to write this blogg.
My next phase is switching to naps only so it may be difficult but hopefully my excitement will keep me going. I’m planning to take my first nap at 4am and then another one at 6am. I leave the house to go to work at 7am so that should work well.