Sleep for the Weak.

Well, I screwed up last night. I skipped my nap at 10 because I was with people. I was feeling so tired I decided to sleep from 2-6 AM so I could go to sleep an hour earlier. Unfortunately, I extended my sleep until 9. Worst of all, waking up after getting 7 hours of sleep left me feeling even worse than when I got 4 hours the night before. This whole situation is just teaching me that this sleep cycle is a bigger adjustment than it seemed. It was going so well yesterday, I assumed I would be fine to skip my late night nap. I was definitely wrong, and I definitely need to start taking all of my naps unless it is absolutely impossible.

Day one of the Everyman Sleep Cycle is surprisingly been great! I slept about 3.5 hours and have taken 2 of my twenty minute naps so far. I have only been feeling sleeping right before it is time to take my nap, and I have woken up from my naps refreshed. In my first nap, I did a relaxation technique that relaxed my body, but it was very bright at 11 AM and the light kept me awake for a while. I don’t know if I ever actually fell asleep, but if I didn’t I got close. My second nap was supposed to be taken at 5, but I wasn’t tired enough and didn’t settle until 6. That nap was probably only a little over 10 minutes, but I definitely fell asleep. I do begin to feel sleepy right before it is time for one of my naps, but besides that I have truly been feeling great. It will be tough making it to 3 AM tonight, so we will see.

It is currently 7:27 A.M. in Athens, GA. I am awake. And I don’t have to be.

This is my first sleep on a polyphasic sleep cycle. I decided to try a new sleep cycle after coming across an article on HighExistence.com. A monophasic sleep cycle (sleeping 6-8 hours each night) is a very inefficient way to sleep, and some polyphasic sleep cycles have been proven to be much more efficient and result in feeling just as refreshed and being just as healthy as someone on a monophasic sleep cycle. I’m going to do the Everyman’s cycle: a 3 hour core nap supplemented by 3 20 minute naps, resulting in 4 hours of sleep. For the first night, I decided to sleep 4 hours…just to ease myself into it. But here is my first draft of my sleep schedule:

• 3:00-6:00 AM - Core Nap
• 11:30-11:50 AM - Nap 1
• 5:00-5:20 PM - Nap 2
• 10:30-10:50 Nap 3

Why am I doing this?

To be honest, I don’t know all the reasons. I just want a change. College life has been busy, but more than busy, it’s just been loud. There are always people around me, and very little time for me to be alone. I want to use the time when everyone else is asleep for personal growth. I want to understand myself better, and then begin a journey to become a more enlightened person.

I don’t know if I will use this only for the sleep cycle, or if I will post other things on here as well. But for now it is devoted to keeping track of my progress in the Everyman’s Cycle.