Polyphasic Sleep Experiment: Day 3
For those following along, I’m in the midst of a 30 day experiment with polyphasic sleeping.
Today I could tell a marked difference in my mental functions. I had an extremely hard time focusing on anything and I often found myself going in circles on simple tasks. Creating this post took me three times as many clicks to get it started. I’ve already stopped a few times staring at the screen trying to figure out what I was doing. It also took a lot of mental energy to keep going on a single thing until it was done.
Getting up this morning was especially hard. I felt like I was tearing myself out of bed and it took me a half hour to start doing anything productive. If the goal is simply to exhaust myself to the point that my naps start making up the difference, I’m wondering how deep this rabbit hole goes.
Naps did come easier and I was still able to shake the fog within a few minutes but I didn’t feel rested afterwards.
Thankfully this is the last day I’m in the office for awhile so I have a few days to get acclimated.
