I'm starting a polyphasic schedule for better sleep and reduced total sleep time. I'll try logging as soon as I'm up
as I'll likely be too groggy at first for other things. And I need to practice my writing - I gotta write, ya'know?
Today is day two of starting my Everyman 2 schedule (23:30-04:00, 07:40-08:00, 14:40-15:00). It's the most reasonable for my goals while still reducing total sleep. I'm still drinking coffee doing this, alcohol is okay but I drink so rarely and so little that it isn't worth mentioning further. Also next to no social life as I'm a full-time student, work part-time from home, married with two kids - my social circle tends to respect their own time and especially evenings so no late nights in the foreseeable future. Oh, and for what it's worth I'm continuing to eat keto and intermittent fasting that I took up from early March 2020 'cause it makes me feel just so much better that not doing it.
Some thoughts on adaptation: I have gone through severe sleep deprivation since 2013 routinely up until 2018 due to my old job's schedule. Zombie me and normal me are best friends and zombie me is fairly okay at imitating normal me by now. On the other hand crashes and microsleeps happen randomly due to my lifestyle without attempting polyphasic sleep and it's the first time I actually have a sleep schedule, so I guess here goes..?
Log for day 1:
First core (now two days ago technically) I got woken up (family life, huh). First nap I chilled out but didn't doze off, still refreshing. The second nap yesterday actually had a short dream, something about
playing outside with balloons - beats me but I woke up refreshed and
happy and that's all I care about. Last night I microslept (possibly napped or crashed for almost an hour) some time after 22:00 and was woken up at 23:00 having no memory of dozing off. Did not seem to affect my core much today (just groggy) but since this was day one, worst case I can count one day less and just continue on as I am, no gains lost. I just really have to avoid laying in bed doing nothing.
Witty catchphrase,
Dif Pol the Differentiative Polynomiality