5:30 - 6:00a nap went off without a hitch. Once again it's early in the morning and I woke up easily (considering my iPhones 'End of the World' alarm tone) and without drowsiness or fatigue. I even went into the kitchen and chopped 3 mostly frozen chicken breasts up into cubes with a very sharp 10" Chefs knife without any issue. Completely alert... focused...
Won't ride the bike until after the bridal show so that'll be after the 5:30p nap... 12 hours away. The only real thing to note here is my easy return to the 25-30 minute naps without further fatigue issues.
Based on what I wrote about polyphasic sleep in the last post, it looks like I'll have to spend some thought on what to do when those inevitable phases of desire to be in bed crop up. ADD makes you prone to wanna give in to hedonistic desires, so I'll have to offer myself some other carrot to stay out of bed.
I'd also really like a pair of bluetooth headphones. I wish I'd asked for some for Christmas. I'm currently tethered to my laptop which isn't that close so there is little slack in the headphone cord. They would also work nicely with my iPhone in the car for those trips up north etc. I'm picky, though, so I need time to figure out which ones I'd like... Why am I posting this? Only because music really seems to help me focus in general, and, though my environment is usually not shared at this hour... sometimes it is and it's just one of those things that someone on a polyphasic schedule would often employ. It makes total sense to me how polyphasic sleepers begin to feel like they lead very different lives from the rest of the world. I've had 5.5 hours between my 12:00a waking to my 5:30a nap. 5.5 hours of doing what I want time while most people are sleeping for the entire time.
Organization in my life is becoming more and more important. Without it, you end up awake in the middle of the night knowing there is stuff you should or could be doing, but without organization you are a little aimless. Middle of the night aimlessness is weird. You have to be up, the world is dark and still, and you're not doing anything. So far, I've been letting myself watch things on Netflix and other silly stuff so acclimation was easier. Soon I'll have to be more productive, as I really don't see that it's been that difficult so far to operate on this crazy schedule. List making, which I've been meaning to focus more on will be very helpful.
My next post will likely not be til either just before my 5:30p nap or after. I haven't found my sleep mask so we'll see how well the 11:30a nap in the car goes.
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This is more about your last post but I'm just going to post it here because I'm a lazy monophasic bastard.
Based on what you described from your Saturday morning I'm thinking your calendar could help. Everything you described made perfect sense to me. I'm not surprised that happened at all.
So: what to do about those periods?
I could be wrong but it SOUNDS (as I read this blog) as though you haven't be leaving much, save the couple bridal shows and errands. I suggest you need to fill up your spare time (i.e. time you wouldn't necessarily use for work) with some new activities. If you'd left breakfast with Julia and headed somewhere (go see the Dequindre Cut, tour the DIA, take a class, help Jim and Mark clean their gutters, ANYthing) you'd have made an important and complimentary alteration to your habits.
Whereas your monophasic lifestyle generally led to a hedonistic lounging period on a Saturday morning, recouping from a week of hard work and poor sleep, your new lifestyle should dictate activity, interactions, experiences. Isn't that what this is all about? Getting more out of your living and lifestyle?
I say fill your calendar up. Call people. Make plans weeks in advance. Seek out your interests. You're going to have all this time going forward. More time for work yes, but just as important, more time for play. In my book, if you're going to make this work, your polyphases have to generate polyphuntimes™.
Well Jack... I think you're completely right... As a general rule. There will still be times when a lazy sleep in will sound really good... I'll just have to consciously combat those. It was an interesting revelation however.
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