Total Sleep Time: 4 hrs 20 min
3am – 00 min
Started Late – about 30 min
Meals
- Artesian Water
- 1 Beer
- 1 Pizza
I laid down, but couldn’t fall asleep. Although I am a little tired right now, I am concerned about how this will effect the rest of the day.
7am – 3hrs 10 min
Started Late – about 30 min
Meals
- Artesian Water
I was going for 20 minutes. The alarm went off and I was thinking about getting up, but fell back to sleep. I eventually woke on my own, but I way overslept.
11am – 18 min
Meals
- Artesian Water
- 2 Cups of Coffee
- 4 Jalapeno Pretzels
I went right to sleep and woke via my cell alarm. I feel good and awake.
3pm – 16 min
Meals
- Artesian Water
- 2 pretzel rods with organic mustard
I fell asleep fairly quickly and woke via the cell alarm.
7pm – 18 min
Meals
- Artesian Water
- Cottage Cheese with Flaxseed oil and organic trail mix
I was very tired going into this session. I fell right to sleep and woke via the cell alarm. I feel very rested and awake.
11pm – 18 min
Meals
- Artesian Water
- 1 cup of coffee
- 2 Pretzel rods with organic mustard
- 4 Pretzels with garlic cheese spread
- 2 handfuls of Organic trail mix
Was very tired as this time come upon me and I fell right to sleep. I woke via my cell alarm. I feel really rested and awake 
Total Sleep Time: 4 hrs 20 min
Thus ends day 54 of the Polyphasic Sleep Project and overall I felt awake and on a pretty even keel. Now, each time a session came up I got tired, but other than that and the total hibernation at the start, it went pretty well today.
Sleep Well,
JD
If I’ve observed correctly, your current pattern is: a few days of less than 3hrs per day followed by a day of slightly more than that, and then back to less than 3hrs. I think that’s pretty good! A day of “oversleeping” isn’t bad at all when you get all those extra hours the rest of the time.
I find it funny because a couple months ago, I regarded myself as someone who did not sleep much in general (~6-6.5hrs), but now I have another standard set.
And by the way, I seem to have a somewhat similar sleep pattern where I’ll be perfectly fine on my 5.2hrs of sleep, and then I’ll mess up having a slightly longer core sleep (and thus will skip a nap to keep the total number under control). I’m really wondering if after a few more months this will normalize, and our bodies will just be able to accept polyphasic sleep fully.
In any case, my 5.2hrs look like so much more compared to your sleep
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It is strange to now think of 4 hrs a day as a little too much sleep. I am looking forward to making 3 hr 50 min – 4 hr a day schedule at the end of this month. I think I will also stop the daily updates and just do a once a week thing. Although I will probably keep the daily total amount of sleep on the main page, but only make a summary once a week.
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Well I will certainly miss your daily updates if you decide to do so. Although I didn’t comment on every single one of them, I certainly followed them. But I do understand why you’d switch to that… I started doing updates once a week, and now I’m doing them more like once every two weeks… I sometimes wonder whether the time I spend writing about polyphasic sleep doesn’t take up all the gained hours from my experiment
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That is the main issue, the time involved in making these post begins to wear on me. Don’t get me wrong blogging overall is fun and sometimes therapeutic, but it is also time consuming and most people just don’t realize how much it takes to maintain something daily as I have been doing here. Like you said, you started posting once a week about polyphasic and now even pushed that back and feel like it is a time consuming task instead of something fun. However, that being all said, I am excited about this new 10 minute nap time I am doing, so I may continue daily, just to see how it develops.
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Oh, I absolutely understand you. I love blogging and writing, but as some of my friends have mentioned to me, lately, my blog has been mainly about polyphasic sleep, while I used to talk about many other topics, and I feel this is somewhat hurting what I’m trying to do. Ideally, I’ll keep up giving valuable information about my polyphasic experiment, but also maintain my other topics… This however requires I revisit how often I give polyphasic updates.
And yes, I can’t even imagine what it must be to do this daily — despite having more hours in the day, I still barely have enough time to do it weekly so… daily is just amazing
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