My attempt at polyphasic sleep, part 2

Log for day 2:

• Both nap times yesterday I found it hard to fall asleep initially. First nap woke up groggy (probably aftermath of the crash before) but subsided 20 minutes after. For the second nap I woke up before the alarm but was not at all rested, again subsided 20 minutes after. At night, one hour before the core it was really hard to stay awake. I kept microsleeping but took measures to not crash by watching youtube tutorials for some freelance work I'm trying to get into - dropping my phone on my face seems to help avoid microsleeping longer than the time it takes for the phone to fall. 2/3 of the time into my core I got woken up (family life, what can you do) and fell immediately asleep after addressing the issue. Waking up from the core after an interruption was DIFFICULT. Probably only thing that kept me awake were immediate parental duties as soon as my alarm went off.
  

Now time for coffee before work.

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Dif Pol the Differentiative Polynomiality

My attempt at polyphasic sleep, part 1

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.

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Dif Pol the Differentiative Polynomiality

Initial post

Dear reader,

This is an introductory post about this blog. Yours truly has never blogged nor really written much informal non-academic or non-technical anything so this will be a lot of fun and a lot of awkwardness in one place.

Having recently started implementing some significant lifestyle changes and wishing to contribute to documenting what I have found in trial and error when research turned up empty, all what I found will slowly be making its way here.

Witty catchphrase,
Dif Pol the Differentiative Polynomiality