Polyphasic Sleep Experiment: Day 4
For those following along, I’m in the midst of a 30 day experiment with polyphasic sleeping.
It’s dark except for a single lamp. I’ve got a cup of coffee in one hand and a book open in my lap. It’s 5:30am and I’ve had almost an hour of quiet reading since I awoke an hour ago. It will be another hour and a half until my wife and two boys wake up.
This is why I wanted to try polyphasic sleeping.
As a husband, father and a small business owner I have a lot of constraints on my time. The extra two and a half hours before anyone else gets up is a wonderful thing.
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Today I felt almost normal. There’s still an underlying fatigue but I felt like my mind was working normally again and I wasn’t so out of it. I spent the day at the house and doing some shopping with my 4 year old.
Later in the afternoon I unexpectedly felt exhausted and my eyes grew very heavy. I checked and it was 4:30pm – time for the second nap of the day. It was still an hour before I was able to lay down, but I took this as a good sign that my body is already starting to adjust to the schedule.
