OK, two days, and I suddenly oversleep… I think my whole body is tired by the idea of knowingly getting so tired, and just gives up. I have decided to go biphasic for a while, and try polyphasic again when my life is more polyphasic friendly.

OK, I’ve ended the experiment for now. It was a pain in the ass to go to school and stay awake in those classes, I failed virtually every night because of some stupid mistake, and I ended up doing a horrible history test (at least I think so – I’ve yet to see the results).

Tonight, I decided to play it safe and go to sleep at 3:40, so I would wake up with Joar. I went to sleep in a chair – and woke up in the couch around 5:30, with the cell phone (which I’d hidden behind an exercise bike) lying on the table, and both my alarms on the computer turned off.

So – where was Joar? I checked his room, and he was asleep. He’d forgotten to set the alarm. He even asked why I hadn’t woken him up! This made my motivation disappear. When I try again in the easter holiday, I’ll make a checklist to make sure I take care of things like these.

Today, I’ve been sleeping like this for two weeks. I had a the worst night ever tonight – great timing. I’ve decided to stick to polyphasic if I don’t fail this week-end. If I do fail, I’ll try again in the next holidays.

Night (am):

I checked the sound, put on three alarms, and went to sleep in the usual chair. When I woke up in the couch (!) three hours later, and noticed my computer was muted. This is the last time (in quite some time, at least) I go to sleep just after midnight. I’ll wait until 3:40am, so Joar will wake up with me.

Morning:

As if the night wasn’t bad enough, I slept for about an hour after Joar went to Vatland. >.< The next time I feel that tired, I will go out and over to grandma’s. She’s up pretty early, and drives me to the bus anyway.

At the bus, I was way too demotivated to stay awake, so I slept for at least ten minutes. For the first time ever, I managed to (unconsciously) fall asleep in the aula at school:

slept for ~10 min, and woke up just in time for class. The others should have woken me up, though.

A note on my clothes, by the way: I am a pacifist, so why do I wear a military uniform? Five reasons:

1. I like the colours.
2. My clothes don’t make me who I am.
3. They’re comfortable.
4. They’re used and cheap.
5. Why not?

Day:

Nothing to note, other than the fact that I slept in both buses on the way home, too.

Evening:

Nothing to note, but I’ve eaten the same kind of meal as yesterday.

I’m going to try a (dangerous) reward tactic instead of the failed punishment. I’m going to allow myself to have rice and beans – ONCE! Rice (brown) and beans are an addiction of mine, and I have impressed myself in staying away from them in the past – that was the hardest part of going raw. Now I’ll use it as a tactic to keep me going for five consecutive nights and days, and then allow myself to taste it again.

Night (am):

I wrote the wrong file path, and thus didn’t wake up. :( Now I’ve made an alias. It’s tested and works. Why didn’t I do that before?

Morning:

I slept ~5 min. at the “wake” bus, but it wasn’t continually, so I don’t know if it even matters.

Day:

I had nothing to do, and I was all alone, so I slept for ~5–10 min. in the study area at school. Sleeping at school sucks because it’s so uncomfortable. As usually I slept wonderfully at both buses.

Evening:

I had my best raw meal ever! Mashed avocado, salad, and mushrooms with olive oil and salt, everything mixed well together.

I’m going to try a (dangerous) reward tactic instead of the failed punishment. I’m going to allow myself to have rice and beans - ONCE! Rice (brown) and beans are an addiction of mine, and I have impressed myself in staying away from them in the past - that was the hardest part of going raw. Now I’ll use it as a tactic to keep me going for five consecutive nights and days, and then allow myself to taste it again.

Night (am):

I wrote the wrong file path, and thus didn’t wake up. :( Now I’ve made an alias. It’s tested and and works. Why didn’t I do that before?

Morning:

I slept for ~5 min. at the “wake” bus, but it wasn’t continually, so I don’t know if it even matters.

Day:

I had nothing to do, and I was all alone, so I slept for ~5-10 min. in the study area at school. Sleeping at school sucks because it’s so uncomfortable. As usual, I slept wonderfully on both buses.

Evening:

I had my best raw meal ever! Mashed avocado, salad, and mushroom with olive oil and salt, everything mixed well together.

Night (am):

As mentioned, I fell asleep, but woke up after only two hours. The rest of the night went great, as I had Rosine to talk to and Joar woke up at 4.

Morning:

I ate some fruit on the bus, so I stayed awake today as well. I slept very heavily on the second bus.

Day:

During the first period, Norwegian, I felt very tired for a while, but it passed. I slept heavily on the bus home.

Evening:

All is well. :) When I’m alone, I’ll sit on the stool, but for now, the couch will do.

Morning:

Today I’m happy Joar was there for me! I was so tired this morning, I wouldn’t stand a chance alone. I managed to stay awake at the first bus by playing with the “mkdir” and “rmdir”. I slept at the other one, as planned.

Day:

At school, I tried to sleep during study period, but it lasted five minutes at most. I had an uncomfortable position.

Night:

Everything went fine until between 1 and 2 am. I slept for ~2 hours. :(

I’ve been without connection to the Internet for a few days. Sorry I couldn’t update – it happened so suddenly. It will probably be more stable by today or tomorrow.

Saturday, day 9:

I overslept because I didn’t push the enter button properly. The super alarm doesn’t work without enter. If you’re wondering, the alarm looked like this this: [sleep 25m ; age]. Note that “age” is an alias for opening Age of Empires II. My new alarm looks like this: [sleep 25 ; vlc "~/Skrivebord/Teen_Titans_(Japanese).mp3"]. I’ll make an alias as soon as I decide which song to use, though. I think I’ll go with the very loud song “Valhall Awaits Me”, by Amon Amarth.

My brother has agreed to wake up at four to keep me awake. :D He usually gets up at 4:30, at weekdays, but he’ll do it this weekend too.

Nothing more to report, except that I lost a bet with Kent Jonny and now owe him a cake for oversleeping. That was the last time I forgot the enter button.

Sunday, day 10:

Today went great – no oversleeping! If Joar keeps me awake every day, this’ll be a piece of cake. :) I slept on most allowed occasions from 4:00-12:00, and now I feel great. Super Smash Bros. Melee before sunrise really got me going.

Tonight I ate a huge party meal – avocado, mushrooms, lettuce, olive oil, and salt. I think I ate a little too much, because I felt kind of stuffed. This didn’t help in keeping me awake, and neither did the fact that mom put back the chair that I moved because it made me fall asleep. I did oversleep for ~2.5 hours – which made me miss the (rare) sunrise! :( And this evening, there were clouds blocking the sun, so I couldn’t gaze.

I’ll start writing logs when something interesting happens, and update my posts. Around midnight (00:00 GMT +1) I will name the posts “Polyphasic/Powiull Sleep – Day x”, for the sake of neat and tidy archives.

(This was posted late because I overslept.)

Today I’ve been sleeping like this for a week. I think I’m adjusting, but time will tell. Today I’ve tried to sleep twice without succeeding – I guess I’m not tired enough. Good.

After reading different polyphasic sleep logs, I have decided that future updates will be written at the moments, rather than in summary. This will result in more accurate results, as my memory is less than perfect during the night.

Also, my cousin Kent Jonny has been up with me for most of the night, and even kept me awake a little. I’m making him stop calling me ‘Victor’ by referring to him as ‘Bjarne’ when he does. The same goes for my brother, whom I call ‘Stompa’.

Today has been an interesting day, sleep-wise. I did oversleep this morning, by leaning back towards a soft chair and falling asleep for an hour and a half. Technically, I overslept for one hour, since I intended to go to sleep soon anyway. I didn’t get as far as to set any alarm, because I spontaneously blacked out. I suspect this and my previous oversleeping will make either this or the next night extremely hard.

Today I’ve not been feeling very tired, and my nap around 18:00 lasted only fifteen minutes. I hope my half hour naps are all converted into fifteen minute naps – I’ve had a lot of them lately, but until now, I’ve thought it was coincidence. Nicholas Powiull started having fifteen minutes of sleep at a time, so maybe it’s working for me too? I don’t think he overslept at all, though, so the comparison is probably inaccurate.

I got red eyes from sitting at the computer all night instead of sleeping, but now they’re only slightly red. I look forward to be able to do other things than keeping myself awake, though. Part of the reason why I want to adopt Powiull sleep, is to be able to experience the night as something else than a mystic, tiring phenomenon. Simply put, I want to befriend the night.

Today I figured out something obvious – that I should keep track of my naps and their length. I notice that my memory fails sometimes when I’m tired. I’ll start with last nap, which was from roughly 17:57 – 18:13.

Now it feels like every day is divided into phases. The first phase is the waking phase. This is where everybody is awake, and I can stay awake easily. The second one is the early watch stage, where I’m awake and the others are falling asleep. The last phase is the late watch phase, where everything is hard and nothing makes sense. I like the last one the least, and hope it’ll disappear.

Tonight everything will go as planned! Good naps!