After reading about polyphasic sleep, I decided to give it a try.
My sleep schedule is probably more irregular then a quantum filament, and this causes me problems both social and professional.
I have on many occasions tried to get up as normal people do, around 8-9am, and sometimes I went to school or just out for a walk. It felt great. Getting up early is a truly great feeling, however in the end I always return to irregularity.
First, in order to get to a normal sleep schedule, I usually need to spend a few days without sleep. After a few all nighters for a school or work project, I make a decision and a few days later I am waking up early.
All is well, except that a week into all this, I accidentally start watching a movie too late, or some friends come over, or I am working on some project that I just cant stop working on, and here I am, going to bed a 2 or 4 am. 2 OR 4 AM is my normal sleeping time. It rarely happens that I go to bed at 1 or 3, its either 2, or 4.
Even when I have to get up at 7 the next day for some school thing, I usually fail to go to bed early, unless I have an exam maybe… I really don’t like spending so long time sleeping, but unfortunately, I have been unable to reduce the time I spend sleeping to even 6 hours.
I accidentally stumbled upon it in the comments on Joi’s page this morning (funny, because it was 3PM and I had just woken up…).
At this time I have some exams coming up in the next two weeks, so I am not gonna start now. However after this term’s exams are over, I am going to spend my christmas time to try the experiment and carefully document the whole thing.
This will be interesting. In the mean time I will do more research on the subject, so I can be well prepared.
