Polyphasic Sleep, Day 28 – Thursday, 4/6/2006
Predictably, the missed/delayed nap with being woken in the middle of that nap led to a big oversleep – a solid 6 hours worth. Hmm, it is very frustrating, oversleeping like this. Even though every-other-night I am up all night so that I am still getting a few extra hours awake per day on average, it doesn’t feel good yet. Should be more consistent.
In reading blogs, and from postings on the “Uberman” yahoo group, it seems the large majority of people fail on their first attempt. Oversleeps are the big culprit. Some who succeed have used 1.5 or 3 hours of “core” sleep in the late-night hours to avoid this oversleep. That might be something I need to check in to. Some people start with 3 hours core sleep. Then go to 1.5. Then eliminate it entirely. If I can’t get fully on program cold-turkey, this might be a good way to go. Maybe this weekend in LA, we’ll see.
I shower, get to the train, but find out that trains are more than 1 hour delayed due to someone being hit by the train down in Mountain View. So, I decide to just drive to campus. I park in the ‘C’ permit lot, and walk over to my lab. The day passes relatively quickly – I work until 8 PM, with naps at noon and 4. I should have napped at 8 before driving back to SF, but need to get to Thursday night dinner, hosted by Andrea and Tammy. So I decide to head there and say some brief hellos before heading back home. 10:30 arrives before I can get my 8 PM nap in. . But, I manage to get up just fine, and do some more work until 12:30 AM.
