Personal Growth

Polyphasic Sleep Diary – Day Six 2006, February 19, Sunday

1am

At the moment it is very difficult to keep my eyes open. Eating a banana doesn’t seem to have worked, nor the upbeat music. But with the volume I’ve got it on at least I won’t be falling asleep.

9am

Another Crash. I must’ve fallen asleep with the music playing and then taken the earphones out. They were still playing when I woke up. I fell asleep at about 2:15am and I woke just now at 9am. Over 6.5 hours of sleep. I’m going to have to reassess my progress. If it doesn’t look like I’ll be able to have fully adjusted by the end of next week I’m going to have to cancel the experiment for now. I think the biggest problem is that I was a bad sleeper in the first place. I have mild insomnia and take between 10 and 60 minutes to usually fall asleep, and only then when outside stimuli are minimal. If I don’t keep going with this now I’ll try to sort out my insomnia and then try again in about 4 months.

10:30pm

I had my 9:45am and 1:45pm naps as planned but didn’t take the following 5:45 nap until about 6pm so I decided to go with the 4-hourly schedule from there and planned my next nap at 10pm. I couldn’t really fall asleep so I just lay there and I was in a semi-paralysed state for most of the time. So far I’ve simply gone on when this happens but I’ll try again this time, as missing naps will probably make things a lot harder. And I am very tired so I should be able to fall asleep.

11pm

No such luck with the nap; still couldn’t fall asleep. I’ll just have to wait till the next naptime comes around.