first time doing any polyphasic sleep, heard about it from a friend and decided i wanted to try it. im also getting school cred for it too : D im a junior in high school, 17yrs of age, living w/ parents and determined to do this.

i decided to start the dymaxion for it best fit my schedule, i would nap every 0500 and 1100 and wake up 30 minutes later. i also decided to kinda ease into this sleep pattern too by taking my naps during the day with my regular sleep to get accustomed to it. my schudule looks like this 0600 wake up, get to school at 0745, lunch is 1100 - 1130, 1245 leave and go to philosophy class, 1330 schools out and go home, 2100 - 2300 go to bed. i have to do school so i centered my schedule around lunch, i can eat later.

day 1 thursday april 9th

took my 1100 nap, didnt work to well i couldnt find a relativly quite spot but was determined to nap. i could feel my body slipping away, i may have gotten sleep but im not sure, im just assuming i didnt get sleep. took my 1700 nap and slept quite sound, was worried i would oversleep but i didnt.

health- healthy
mind- sharp
energy- moderate to high
social- im a beast :]

day 2 friday april 10th

took my 1100 nap, same as day one, slipped away but not quite sure. so i say i didnt sleep. took 1700 nap and again it was great. : D

i decided today i would sleep at 2300 and wake up at 2330 and see how long i could stay up.

health- healthy
mind- determined
energy- high
social- didnt talk much cuz i didnt feel like it

day 3 saturday april 11th

well i ate cereal and stayed up till 0500 and decided to sleep till 0530 and continue to stay up. i failed that, i was playing Fable TLC and got bored and started to doze off around 0615ish and finally gave up on Fable and in to sleep :[ i slept until 0915ish. i had plans to hang out w/ a friend. her mom wanted to meet me and my mom so we went to starbucks, i dont like coffee so i didnt get any. missed my 1100 nap, didnt feel all that tired, went home and took my 1700 nap and again it was good, im starting to like this nap : D took my 2300 nap meh it was alrigh.

health- little phlem developing
mind- very forgetful, i forgot what i forgot and couldnt remeber what i was thinking of
energy- moderate
social- well i socialized, it was decent

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well its the end of my day 4 of which wasnt good. i took my 0500 nap and woke up at 0530 and just felt soo comfortable and bored i fell back asleep. i woke up at 0630 if i recall right i dragged myself to my bed and slept some more which was a fatal mistake. i woke up at 1230 because one of my alarms i set for 1100 wasnt set for daylight savings. apparently my mom came into my room to see what was up for i normally wake up around 0900, and attempted to wake me, no recollection of that. after that i had to meet a friend and hang out around 1330. rode my bike there hung out till 1700 and rode back home, total distance was roughly 6 miles. i planned on being home before my 1700 nap but that didnt happen, i got home at 1730 but wasnt sleepy at all. again i got busy near my 2300 nap and went to nap at 2315, woke up and now its been about 15 minutes since then.

 im just worried about my 0500 nap but the latest i can sleep in now is 0600 because its monday and i start school again, this week will be exciting. oh and another thing is i relized that my last post i was thinking a week ahead than it really was, ill keep it there but make a note of it now.

health- pysically tired, lots of exercise today
mind- feels like a stagnant pool of forget and stuff
energy- could have been better, i should eat more
social- no comments on it yet; but social interation with real people, exciting :]

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gaaaaah i feel very tired, and i would imagine the rest of the week will be going down hill now but atleast it'll be exciting.

i dont remember what i did before my 0500 nap but i went to sleep and got up on time, actually today i got up and went to sleep on time all day which was awesome. i couldnt nap in my classroom during lunch so i went to a different classroom and had a "phantom nap" i dont snore so no one knew if i was asleep or not. wait, i think i overslept my 2300 nap, i dont remember when that was though. was it this morning or last night? i dont know anymore. but i did oversleep it by an hour. during quite time (night i guess normal people would call it) i got busy installing a game and making it work and finally played it, it was amazing. didnt get sleepy during this time.

i woke up on time and i ate a big bowl of cereal, i dont normally eat just drink some juice and go. well now im extremely hungry, its like ive been starved for 3 days, or when you drink an energy drink for breakfest and dont eat food. i think i could eat 2 bowls of cereal now but i also feel like i might puke too : ( on the bus i was dozing off and having "micro naps" i believe, im not sure. but i remember when i looked at the seat across from me it seemed cartoony and like wobbled or wiggled or something. when i stepped off the bus i felt like i could have fallen over easily.

both

health- starved
mind- lost in conscienceness
energy- running on w/e left
social- im going to be exciting today. *yawn*

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the rest of today was actually better than i was beginning to think. i also didnt think i would eat a big bowl of cereal or drink coffee during this experiment either. this morning was quite a rough start, i was dozing off every 5 min, having to force myself awake. it got to the point where i was just like "screw this ill just down some coffee" and well i did and ate doughnuts. after that tho i wasnt tired like i was earlier but i just didnt feel like working on anything. this thursday i have a 45 min speech on what ive been doing this past quarter (exhibition) and im not really prepared for it but i have a feeling ill do alright on it.

i missed my 1100 nap but decided i would take a 15min nap as a compromise between not taking one and having your schedule set in stone or take it later because you will have to anyway or you'll be very tired for the rest of the day. i actually thought it was a good idea, not a full nap but some nap time none the less. shortly after waking up i began to talk to a friend about polyphasic sleep and then the topic went to meditation, and he made me relize that when i cant sleep during my naps i focus on slowing my heart rate, then my breathing, and then i begin to relax. thats how ive kinda forced myself to nap and i didnt realize that it was meditation i was doing. im considering if i get dymaxion set in stone ill replace a few naps with meditation and see how that goes, possibly even replace all my naps with meditation, but thats just a thought. after that 15 min nap tho i felt really energized and did a got quite a bit for my exhibition, and helped some classmates on their prep too.

now to my 1700 nap. i over slept that one, and my memory is quite foggy around that time after that too. i know my alarm woke me up but the time it did was not right, i was confused when i looked at the time i was suppose to and did wake up, it was something close to an hour or hour 1/2. not happy about that. 2300 to 2330 nap was alright, i decided to investigate why my alram suddenly sucks around my 3rd and 4th nap now so i set up another alarm thinking if they both are weird then im doing something to them while im asleep. i woke up on time without any complications.

health - organ failure because stomache go hungry ad started to eat itself and other organs. j/k, but i was pretty hungry today, more so than ever, srsly no joke.
mental - mind started to wake up around 1030 but felt physically tired. memory still sucks hella bad.
energy - this moring wasnt fun, after 2nd nap i was good till 1700
social - talked a lot today about philosophy and meditation, didnt think i had it in me. teacher and students commented on bags under my eyes

right now its tuesday quite time and im feeling kinda tired/ worn out, not a suprise tho.

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i started off tired today, i think i slept a little on the bus ride to school. lunch came around and i slept in a rather unpopulated classroom. after that i was energetic and good to go, the time for me to leave for my 5th period class at a different school comes. i believe i micro slept during class.

so it was philosophy class an pretty early on we found out we were going to read an article. first we got words and wrote what we thought they mean, then we read the article and change our answer if necessary. we were told we had to read the article for 20min and i didnt pay attention to the clock so i had no idea when we started my teacher there knew i was doing my polyphasic sleep and was a little worried i might fall asleep during class. well as i was reading my article i was highlighting the words to come back and figure out the definition, during my reading i was fiddling with my pencil and was scratching the back of my head with it. i blacked out, and i dont know for how long. when i came too i tried looking for the word i found again with little success. i then freaked out because there were 15 min of class left and it looked like everyone was close to done with the assisgnment and i was only at the very beginning of the article. i decided to continue on my own anyways. then i found another word and started looking for my pencil and i couldnt find it, i grabbed another pencil from my back pack. i then began to scratch the back of my head with my new pencil and i hit something, pull it out, and find it was my old pencil. after class i talked to my teacher about what happened and he chuckled and told me that he wasnt sure if i could do the assisgnment given, but he didnt notice that i was asleep. so i wasnt out for more than a few seconds which is a little relief.

i took a nap after a nap, 1700-1730, and then a nap after that, i was in and out of it, thats all i remember.

alright, well its like 0400 in the morning now and i didnt sleep like i wanted, i overslept today because all my alarms have failed me. my ipod died, and my DS was set wrong, i have no idea how that happened. i looked at my DS and it says i had like 20+ hrs before i was suppose to wake up because i set my alram probably to 2330 the next day. i woke up on my own somewhat cold and annoyed with my light at about 0345, and disappointed that i overslept on my friends whom i wanted to IM again after i awoke, now im going to hear about oversleeping today at school. today is also the day of my quarter finals, my 45min long speech about what ive been doing this quarter which i feel is like nothing, yes these are not the credit getting speeches but theyre still pretty important, letting everyone know if your on track or not.

i would just like to know when this personal hell called sleep deprivation will end; do i have to continue forward, or will i have to accept it cant be done?

health - ive been eating more food but its not that much more
mental - my memory is failing me, is this what its like to have dementia?
energy - as much as i have been napping when i shouldnt, im still really tired
social - my best friend came over and he asked about how things were, i repeated a few things like failing memory

debating whether i should or shouldnt take my 1st nap of the day, i think ill cut back on how much i sleep by like 15 min for it instead.

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today was pretty good, i dont remember oversleeping or anything like that. i had my quarter finals today, at my school we do 45 min speeches on what we have done during the quarter so far.i did pretty good for my lack of sleep. most of the time i go over my 45 min and into 1 hr to 1 1/2 hrs but im glad i stayed in the 45 min zone. there were a few comments on my lack of focus, normally im good at looking at people when i talk but this time i didnt do so well. during my speeches i am thinking of so many things during it all, but this time i didnt really think of a whole lot, i just wanted to get my speech done.

physical - started feeling like i was going to get a cold
mental - if my teacher had asked more questions like she normally does, i would have lost my train of thought and couldnt finish my speech
energy - this area was decent
social - i could function but not like i used too, was told my speech had slurred a little, my comment on that was "my mouth feels weird"

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well at oh 0530ish in the morning, i decided to see how long and what effects would happen to me if i went to sleep normally. i had read somewhere that all the great minds/sleepers would sleep 24hrs one day every once in a while, i also read stuff that disproved those great people slept polyphasically. anywho i wanted to know what would happen, so i did. i hadnt slept in my bed all week cept til this morning. i went to sleep and woke up at about 1500, oh about 9-10hrs later. i felt extremely tired when i woke, i could have went back to sleep but that would have given me a headache, i cant sleep forever. now its been about 40min later and i ate a big bowl of cereal and im starting to wake up. i kinda feel like im back to normal.

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everything went alright, all conditions are moderate nothing to exciting, went monophasically again and got a few hours of sleep. stayed up and took naps like normal, nothing exciting.

health - moderate
mental - moderate
energy - moderate
social - moderate

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slept in, played computer games, went to dinner, missed 1700 nap, took 2300 nap, broke computer, went to bed. that basically sounds like my day.

health - nose was o so slightly runny
mental - functioning?
energy - bah it was alright
social - not much socializing

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