Polyphasic Sleep Schedule - Day 13

Day 13:

I'm really enjoying my personally biphasic adjusted version of the Everyman 2 Schedule. It's simple, not inflexible nor demanding, and I genuinely feel good on it.

Last night before my core sleep was a breeze, I basically watched Heroes most the time. Waiting till 2:30am to fall to asleep rather than till 3:30pm is a real blessing, it's no way near as hard. It took me a while to fall asleep though, probably down to the fact that for the last week and a half or so my body seems to have adapted to falling to sleep at 3:00pm.

My 4.75 hour sleep itself was good, here's the sleep graph for it:

As can be seen, last night's sleep was a lot more restful. According to the statistics, out of the 4.75 hours I was actually asleep, I spent about 4 hours of it alone in deep sleep. Unfortunately though I only spent about twenty minutes of my sleep in REM, which isn't nearly enough. The other twenty-five minutes or so left of the sleep was spent in transitional phases. Overall though I slept extremely well, the amount of deep sleep I was calculated to have have incredible.

I did some exercise immediately upon waking in the morning after my core sleep, but all that extra physical pressure left me feeling a bit sleepy during midday, so I decided to take my 45 minute nap. Here's what the sleep graph shows on my nap:

I still don't exactly understand how this awesome app works, especially with such an incredible sensitivity, but it does work. Today I was pretty much in the house on my own so I decided to forfeit the usual earphones/eyepatch that I use to energetically isolate myself from the world at such an active time of the day. I didn't think I'd fall asleep, especially with my failure yesterday and the consideration that I'm such a light sleeper. Anyway, last thing I remember was shifting into a more comfortable position, which can be seen as the two large spikes almost halfway through. Next thing I know I'm suddenly conscious and wondering how the time went so fast. I knew I'd fallen asleep but it was just so unexpected.

Also, I thought it'd be worth mentioning that with this nap I actually fell asleep before my previous nap time of 20 minutes and woke up about 20 minutes naturally before I was about to fall into deep sleep. I woke up after this.

Unfortunately I made the stupid mistake of drinking alcohol tonight, and too much of it too. I got severely intoxicated, and since it coming to pass I've felt super tired and nauseous. Right now as I'm writing this I'm having auditory hallucinations and my eyes can barely focus. That's definitely the alcohol combined with what's probably counts as a favorable amount of sleep deprivation.

Due to the tiredness from the alcohol, and the need to recover from my fortnight of accumulated amount of sleep deprivation, I've decided to truly try and sleep at least seven hours, just this one week a day a week. I am slightly concerned as to how I would go back to adjusting on monday, mind, but I'll leap that hurdle when I get there. What'll also be interesting to see is what my graph will look like.

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