Well it’s been over a month, so it’s probably time for an update as to how I’ve been doing with my polyphasic sleep schedule.
I love my naps, they have been going great. On a normal day where I have done some physical activity I will typically fall asleep in about 2 minutes or less. If I haven’t it will be more like 5 minutes, and if I’ve had a stressful day it might hit 7 minutes before I fall asleep. By far and away It is around 2 minutes though.
Another cool thing to note is that for a month now I have been doing naps only with the timer on my watch. it is loud enough to wake me up if I need to be woken up and I never have to worry about bringing an alarm clock or my ipod with me.
Something that messed me up as of late was a sickness that hit me for around a week. I was doing pretty bad and there were a couple of days where I had to hibernate. I also was taking extended core naps in an effort to kick this thing. Then by the time it was finally gone I had an incredibly stressful weekend at work that didn’t help anything in terms of recovery. So that weekend was just this past weekend. The past 3 evenings I slept right through my 11 o’clock nap and woke up somewhere in the middle of the time my core should be taking place. I’m taking steps to recover from this issue. I’m hoping that it won’t be detrimental and that it will be a quick recovery.