{"id":1272,"date":"2012-04-19T07:07:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T06:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/six40winks.com\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2012-04-19T07:07:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T06:07:16","slug":"day-43-4-days-of-monophasic-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"Day 43 &#8211; 4 days of monophasic sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attending the conference (and the intense networking which ensued) made it impossible for me to continue with the schedule. \u00a0My great friends in Copenhagen offered their hotel for napping through the day, &#8230; but the commute, napping, waking and such meant losing 3h &#8211; 4h\/day of precious networking and customer development time. \u00a0I was also walking many\u00a0kilometres\u00a0each day, standing for 8h to 10h straight &#8230; so I needed a little extra rest.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the monophasic attempt, I did not manage to sleep much. \u00a0The week was very busy both with the 12h working days and catching up with friends. \u00a0So here are the hypnograms:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120419_EWEA_WEEK-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1279\" title=\"sleep phases in April - hard work, little sleep (intense REM and deep sleep)\" src=\"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120419_EWEA_WEEK-1.png\" alt=\"sleep phase diagram - hard work, little sleep (intense REM and deep sleep)\" width=\"766\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120419_EWEA_WEEK-1.png 766w, https:\/\/six40winks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120419_EWEA_WEEK-1-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the overview of activity:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1286\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Screenshot-from-2012-06-15-090904-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1286\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1286\" title=\"physical activity activity as seen on fitbit for 16 - 19 April\" src=\"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Screenshot-from-2012-06-15-090904-1.png\" alt=\"physical activity activity as recorded on fitbit for 16 - 19 April\" width=\"500\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Screenshot-from-2012-06-15-090904-1.png 500w, https:\/\/six40winks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Screenshot-from-2012-06-15-090904-1-300x284.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">physical activity activity as seen on fitbit for 16 - 19 April<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The first night was a little restless (You can see all the spikes as I toss, turn and drink some water). \u00a0Sleeping in a new place (sofa) and the nerves about the next day are probably to blame. \u00a0The next day had a large amount of deep sleep (maybe to recover from the physical exhaustion). \u00a0A couple of interesting things happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was able to work very hard with only an average of\u00a0<strong>5h35 <\/strong>of sleep per day (although much of it was\u00a0fuelled by coffee which I chose to use this week).<\/li>\n<li>Coming back to monophasic (plus a nap on the 17th) was very easy and the REM seemed to find its regular patterns easily<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The question is now, will it be easy to come back to the Everyman-3nap schedule? \u00a0Or will I have to endure the whole adaptation phase again? \u00a0Find out tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attending the conference (and the intense networking which ensued) made it impossible for me to continue with the schedule. \u00a0My great friends in Copenhagen offered their hotel for napping through the day, &#8230; but the commute, napping, waking and such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/?p=1272\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16,4,7,10],"tags":[54,172,183],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adaptation","category-biphasic","category-data","category-log","category-monophasic","tag-deep-sleep","tag-travel","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}