Back At It! Everyman 3 Re-Adaptation Imminent
Okay, buckle up, because this is going to be a little crazy.
(Then again, could I have believably done it ANY OTHER WAY?? ;)
So, the first big piece of news is obvious if you've read the title: I'm re-adapting to my Everyman 3 schedule, after a few months of stone-cold (and miserable, if I might opine) monophasic sleep. This effort starts next week — but what I mean by "starts" is that I'll begin preparation in earnest, and begin documenting it.
If a week of documented prep sounds lame to you I apologize, but in all seriousness, about 75% of the questions I get from polyphasers (and wannabephasers? :) are concerning issues that could have been solved by better preparation, so I want to highlight and explain those steps while I'm doing them. Expect a lot of posts, including pics and possibly videos; but at least for next week, expect them to be short and rushed, as I won't actually have any extra time to do them in yet!
Oh, also, I'll be in the process of moving. Yes, I got me a nice apartment in the Boston area finally (after weeks of working here while crashing at a friend's place — thank you, friend!), and I start sleeping there on Monday night. I completely agree that this is an insane time to be re-adapting, and indeed, my original plans were much more sane (no, I swear! really!) — but there are reasons. Keep going. ;)
The following week (beginning Monday Nov. 8), I'll start my Everyman 3 schedule again. Basically I plan to pick up the schedule I had before: Naps at 7am, 1pm and 7pm, and sleep from 1a – 4a. Lord knows there's public transit and everything involved now, and so I'll be the first to admit modifications may be necessary; but it sounds like a good plan, anyway.
So here's the kicker — and the why now. Zeo, a company that does personal sleep coaching for (usually) non-crazy people, has offered to sponsor a scientific study of people adapting to polyphasic sleep, using their portable-brain-wave-monitory thing and their website, plus a small scientific panel to look at the data. While I would have rather waited a bit for things to settle down before re-adapting myself, I simply couldn't pass this opportunity up!
So, next week it is! Everybody ready?
(Me neither! ;)
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Hey PureDoxyk !
That sponsoring sounds great ! How did that happen ?
I've been very curious about this monitoring thing. can't wait to read your posts. ^ ^
I've been browsing your site for a while, it's extremely helpful. Thanks for putting all this together and good luck with re-adapting.
I am planning to adapt to Everyman 3 in December, when I'm off college for 3 weeks. If I don't oversleep too badly, 3 weeks should be enough to get through most of the sleep dep, right? Then when I return to school I will be functional, even if not fully adapted. I am used to being somewhat tired, but not zomboid. I have been researching and putting together a few files of "prep" stuff, but I'm definitely going to be following your blog closely. Thank you for blogging your experience, it will surely help us less experienced/knowledgeable (wannabe) polyphasers! :)
(Sorry if something weird happens with this comment… I've been getting the internal server error.)
Very Cool!
I am Looking Forward to it.
Wow, great news!
Up til now, it seems we've only had personal experiences telling us how the body reacts to polyphasic sleep.
I can't wait to see some scientific data on how the brain deals with this radical change in sleep pattern.
Hopefully there will be some major studies on this in the future.
Good luck on your adaptation!
A sponsored scientific study! Yay!
This is exciting! Can't wait to read about it :D
Nice! I just continued adaption today after a 3-4 day break due to traveling and other stuff, so it sounds like we will be starting at the exact same time! I thought your schedule was 1-4 8 1 8
rather then 1 7 1 7
hmm do you think the 7 works better then 8? if so why is that? just because you get tired in the mornings?
nap on!
Woohoo! Finally a scientific study! Looking forward to the results.
Awesome! I'm so glad that you are doing this. I have one small suggestion – probably not strictly necessary.
I would log some zeo data on monophasic for at least a few nights before the adaptation. I'd do just enough so that you get a baseline, so if you had two nights in a row that looked more or less the same, then you're golden. If not, I'd persist with monophasic until you get a sense of how your sleep data fluctuates.
A non-obvious reason for doing this is that using the zeo could throw off your sleep a bit. It'll be a new thing and might take some getting used to. That way your transition data will be more likely to be about actual sleep and not getting used to sleeping with a RF headband.
Again, it's awesome that you're doing this. It's getting me excited to start planning an adaptation. Perhaps I should see about this zeo thing ….
I'm using a Zeo, but its software doesn't understand the notion of polyphasic sleep. We figure some code will need to be written to interpret the data from polyphasers. Has Zeo said anything about this or recommended how you should handle your data?
Good luck!
Hi Pablos — Actually, yes, they have; they gave us their developer API to get the raw data dump, which is what they’ll be looking at in order to read the data. I’ll update everyone on how that goes when there is some. ;) Thanks!