Now that I’ve finished with the core functionality of the website, I’ve found I no longer have a project to fill up the time. I spent most of the night practicing violin badly and reading up on polyphasic sleep. Buckminster Fuller reportedly successfully followed a four-30-minute-naps-a-day cycle. He said that we get short term energy and long term energy from sleep and we’re much more efficient at recovering the short-term energy. He basically took naps whenever he got slightly tired and distracted from his work, which for him naturally happened every six hours.
That makes more sense to me than the REM sleep thing, considering I haven’t had any vivid dreams since I started five days ago. I’m feeling even better today than I was yesterday, but it’s really hard to get out of bed now. I found playing some music gets me going. Once I’m up for 15 minutes and have a chance to clear my foggy head, I feel pretty normal, if there is such a thing as normal anymore. More than real fatigue, I’m getting psychologically pretty tired. I’m up and running all. the. time. I never really take the time to stop and relax and clear my head. On a monophasic schedule I’d automatically reflect on the past day and relax as I was trying to fall asleep. Because I fall asleep so suddenly with the polyphasic schedule, I don’t get the chance to organize my mind. Perhaps I need to take some time aside each day to meditate or simply zone out. Hopefully, once I start getting better quality sleep, the naps will naturally clear my thoughts.
Time passes very slowly. Days feel like they are twice as long because of the boredom. So far I wouldn’t recommend uberman as a lifestyle to keep up during vacations. Having an uneventful day takes on a whole new meaning when your “day” is 22 hours long. The reason I’m adapting during my vacation is because I think the polyphasic lifestyle will work really well in school.