Log for days 6 and 7:
- Due to external factors I suddenly need to do a lot more physical work for the next few weeks so I am reverting to monophasic sleep. Using night hours productively is beyond cool but I need to be physically well rested and can't risk any sleep deprivation just yet. I may as well take the opportunity to recover any sleep debt if there was any and work out my monophasic sleep length properly - silver linings, right?
- Having said that, here are my takeaways so far:
- A six hour core at night is amazing - I have two young kids and get woken up at least four times a night and am considerably more refreshed after six hours sleeping like this than doing shorter cores or even monosleep before normalising my sleep schedule.
- I can get REM naps in the mornings when I can sneak them in. They're short and I barely sleep 5 out of the 20 minutes sometimes but even then it's still nice. While it feels like that should be a core in its own right time does not currently permit much sleep during described REM peak hours. Afternoon naps for me are hit and miss, it's hard to actually make time for them due to my life commitments and such.
- None of this could have happened due to adaptation due to the short time frame - maybe some sleep deprivation assisted in having REM naps but anything else occurring from adaptation is unlikely. I think actually having a sleep schedule and sticking to regular sleep times made the biggest difference so far.
- I usually work at a computer either teaching, working on projects or studying myself so the extra night hours polyphasic sleep unlocks are beyond perfect. I can actually work with clients in far away time zones more conveniently because of that so, literally, polyphasic sleep upped my bottom line this week. Definitely coming back to this once I catch up with things in a few weeks time.
Witty catchphrase,
Dif Pol the Differentiative Polynomiality
Dif Pol the Differentiative Polynomiality
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