Thursday, 4 December 2008

Polyphasic sleep day 4

I’ve made a big decision today and moved from my transition sleep (including core sleep) to classic Uberman polyphasic sleep. I suddenly had an insight today and figured out that I can do it even with my full time day job!
My cycle now is 8am; 12noon; 4pm; 8pm; etc It’s brilliant. It fits perfectly with my schedule.
Today was quite tough during the day. I had that headache and after my noon nap between 2-4pm I felt really tired and drained. It was probably because I didn’t really slept at noon. I found an empty room in the building and laid my mat, I even brought a blanket and a small cushion but it didn’t help. I almost drifted away but I didn’t hit REM for sure.

I then had a nap at 4pm and this same thing happened, no deep sleep. I was worried that I’ll get really tired and I had a 40min. car journey in front of me.
To my surprise I had no problem with the driving, came home, did yoga, had a shower and felt really good. I did some reading and was ready for my 8pm nap. This time I fell asleep and had a dream but unfortunately I didn’t remember it. I still have a problem with recalling dreams. I know it’s a faze because normally I can recall dreams very easily.

The next 4 hours was a bliss. I felt so good. I felt really, really good. I had some salad and read a book for most of the time. I went to sleep with my husband at midnight but I only slept for 20min. So here I’m now, feeling good and refreshed. I had some problems falling asleep because I wasn’t very tired before my midnight nap but luckily I managed to go deep. Still can’t remember my dreams. Never mind, I’m adjusting.
I read some other polyphasic blogs earlier and was surprised that most people had problems with having too much time on hands.
I love it and still don’t have enough but that’s also to do with the fact that I have full time job during the day and I can’t do anything for myself at that time. The extra time at night gives me the pleasure of not chasing time anymore. I used to wait for weekends so impatiently so I could catch up on reading, e-mails, movies, knitting, preparing raw food, and educating myself. Now I can do it all. Wonderful.
I’m a little bit apprehensive how I will feel in the morning, driving to work and going through another day, as this is my first classic cycle. I hope that the transition stage with the core sleep helped me to adapt better and I won’t go through a zombie time.
To be honest I didn’t experienced it so maybe I’m now at the end of the tunnel.

I’m also slightly concerned about tissue repair, which usually happens during monophasic sleep. Will I age faster? I have no idea. I will have to find out by myself. People at work commented that I look very good so far and I’m surprised that I don’t have big black circles under my eyes from lack of sleep.

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