Day 3 - waiting

Day 3 started just great: This time not only my 03:20am, but also my 07:20am naps were filled with dreams. Weird dreams about my friends speaking Japanese or my room being damaged by water. So, am I really getting REM sleep already? It would be nice to know that 3 moonths of preparations didn't go to waste, but it's still hard to believe. And I don't think it was a coincidence that I dreamt only on 03:20.am two days in a row. Well, today the first nap wasn't as restorative as my first 03:20am nap, but after 07:20 it was all back to normal.

Now there was one change after all. Just like on my first 03:20am nap, I slept on the couch instead of the bed. And so far all the three times that I slept on that couch, I had dreams, but not one time when I was in bed. Maybe it's some kind of magical dream couch...

I found the hardest time of the day to be between 12am and 3 am. Depending on what I'm doing, it's kinda hard to keep my eyes open. It's not the whole time, just everyday on this time frame one hour occurs that really strikes me.

Overall I still felt like I was on my first day. No fatigue (except the time between 12am and 3am) and not even a bad feeling disturbed me. It was like... waiting for some sleep dep. I really wonder when this will start and how I will fell then.

At the moment I am really amazed of how easy it is to live vegetarian. I thought I would miss my meat on every meal, but it doesn't seem that way. And just today my mother decided to go vegetarian as well. She isn't a heavy meat eater at all, so she won't have any problem I guess.
And tomorrow will be my first Tofu meal... I'm curious.

Day 2 - Just another day

After my 3.20 nap I felt a lot better. The fatigue was gone and I was able to make some food and write the previous post. The rest of day 2 was like a copy of the first day. I had no problems with my naps at all, until it came to midnight. The fatique started again and I was really looking forward to my 3:20 nap (already on day 3). And surprisingly, I had another dream at 3.20am. I did not awake before the alarm this time, but the intensity of the dream was even. The only difference is that I'm still very tired after this 3.20 nap.


I noticed that I was quite confused after some of my naps today. At first glance I didn't know why the alarm was ringing, and what I was supposed to do. One time I even expected that the alarm would turn me off. On the other hand I felt great all the day. Ok, in the moring I still was not able to read , but later I could even bathe in the sun with my eyes closed without feeling the urge to start sleeping right away.


I wonder if the 3:20 nap will always contain dreams form now on. I would be nice to have at least one REM nap right from the start. For now I just hope, that my sleep dep will not get any heavier, but I don't have high hopes for that. I think I will soon begin to play more videogames and the piano to stay awake.

Day 1 - What the heck?

Ok, this day was crazy. Just as this post will be.

In the Prologue I said, that I had no duties and no work until October. This changed a bit. As I wrote, I worked the last 9 months in the local protestant church. One of my duties was to clean the homes of three old ladies on a weekly basis. Until August there will be no one to replace me, so I agreed to continue this until the next "Zivi" arrives. One of my better assignments was to take the dog of my boss out for a walk 2 times in my 8 hour working day. Since I started my polyphasic sleep experiment just now, I decided to continue with this as well, but now it's only one time a day at 8am. I hope this will be able to wake me up in the morning, at least on workdays.

So, my first day as a polyphasic sleep began at 03.50am. I made some changes to my website, listened to some music and waited for my first nap. I was not able to sleep (what a surprise!) and when my alarm went off after 30 minutes I felt a little bit dizzy. Just as I expected.
The next naps were not successful either. I was sort of asleep, but then I woke up in the middle of my naps, just to spent some more minutes completely awake. I decided to shorten the 30 minutes naps immediately on day 2.

At 9pm I went to a friend of mine to play some Heroes of Might and Magic V while watching M.D. House and Monk. Even before my 11.20 nap I became very sleepy, but after this 30 minutes I was really down. It was hard not to fall asleep in front of the monitor. I actually thought about stopping the experiment. No joke. On day 1. As if my body was speaking to me, I asked myself: "What's the point in all this? Is it worth the effort?". I'm still wondering that this tiny bit of tiredness made my thoughts go into that direction. I felt exhausted.

Now it's already day 2, but I can't just skip what happened on my first nap (3.20am). This was the first nap with 25 minutes instead of 30, so I expected to feel even more tired than before. But.. BUT! I woke up about 10 seconds before the alarm went off. I woke up from a real vivid dream. A DREAM! And I still remember what happened. I thought my first dream would occur on the end of the first week, or some days later. And I wasn't sure if I EVER would be able to wake up without an alarm. Now it happened both on day 2 on the critical 3am nap.

I think my 3 months of daily napping (exactly 25 minutes - every time) are really paying off now. I already wrote that I woke up in the middle of my 30 minute naps, but when I think about it again, I bet that I woke up after 25 minutes every time.

Now? Now I feel great. This last nap really changed everything. I'm really curious how long my adaption will take with a success like this in the beginning.