April 14, 2012
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day 36, April 12: Perseverance seems to be paying off. There are small difficulties (but not that different from the monophasic ones: snoozing, tiredness at work, etc). Generally I can feel my energy levels improving day after day. Smart Wake … Continue reading
April 11, 2012
by alvaro
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Day 33 (April 9th): (2012/04/09, awake all morning, slight dip at 5pm) health: Sore throat + sneeze. adaptation: After about 1 month I’m surprised by how well I feel only sleeping 4h30 per day. However I’m not sure if I’ve … Continue reading
April 7, 2012
by alvaro
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Dear readers, First of all apologies for the long delay in my posts. I’m working very hard while carrying out this experiment, and I haven’t managed to automate the data processing yet. This combined with some travelling means I take … Continue reading
April 5, 2012
by alvaro
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Warning! Geek post! If you’re not interested in the tech side of measuring sleep, just scroll to the bottom for todays sleep graphs. It’s been very frustrating to find out that the very tool I bought to track my whole … Continue reading
March 28, 2012
by alvaro
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Day 20: Today I have felt amazing clarity and wakefullness. Which is great as I had an important meeting with my friend and co-founder. Have I readapted already? I should adapt faster and faster when I oversleep now, so perhaps … Continue reading
March 25, 2012
by alvaro
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After oversleeping in the ferry yesterday I felt quite rested. I was physically tired after the 26,600 steps the day before and 10,000 today, but my mind and body felt rested. I couldn’t sleep on the 19h nap … but … Continue reading
March 23, 2012
by alvaro
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Today my 7:00 nap was intense, filled with dreams and helped me solve a riddle! How did it do that? … I’m not really sure, but I had an instant of clarity similar to mathematical insight. I haven’t had them … Continue reading
March 22, 2012
by alvaro
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A few of you have been sending me tricks to stay awake, recommending not to overdose on coffee, and sharing your experiences. The first clarification is that polyphasic sleep is impossible if you use stimulants and depressants. It’s common in … Continue reading
March 21, 2012
by alvaro
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Hello again. I’m still alive. Unlike some of you have suggested (Sergio!) my pineal gland has not exploded, and I have not finally fallen asleep for 3 days :). I was just a little busy, that’s all. The processing of … Continue reading
March 19, 2012
by alvaro
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If you don’t know about polyphasic sleeping read this first. Today I slept very well. I had REM on all naps, and two nice periods of REM in the core sleep (It may be true that doing 3:20 instead of … Continue reading