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My second week on a [polyphasic sleep schedule][schedule] has been plagued by
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unplanned sleep-ins during the core sleep. In an attempt to avoid sleeping in I
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tried placing my phone (which is my alarm) at the foot of my bed to force me to
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get up to turn it off. This failed though, as the first time I woke up and
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turned the alarm off but then went to sleep again. The second time I apparently
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slept through all three alarms. So I reverted to having the phone under my
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pillow again but with an extra alarm. So there's now four alarms as as follows:
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1:58, 1:59, 2:00 and 2:05. The last one uses a more obnoxious tone as well.
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[schedule]: /personal/2011/01/polyphasic-sleep-schedule/
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On Mon I slept in 45mins and was extremely tired all day. The train trip into
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work was a total battle to stay awake and the general lack of sleep was having
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a negative effect on my mood. My chocolate experiment which involved having a
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small amount of chocolate on the train to help me stay awake didn't work. On
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Monday night whilst waiting for my train I actually fell asleep for a brief
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second whilst reading on my phone. That's a somewhat disconcerting feeling.
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As a result of this I decided to tweak the schedule again so that I had a nap
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before getting the train to work instead of when I arrived at work. The
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adjusted schedule looks like this:
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<table class="left_headers">
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<tr>
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<th>Core Sleep</th><td>10:30pm -- 2am</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<th>Nap 1</th><td>6:30am</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<th>Nap 2</th><td>12:30pm</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<th>Nap 3</th><td>6:30pm</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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**Note:** I snuck in an extra 30 mins in the core sleep.
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So far I've felt better on this schedule and have not had much trouble keeping
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awake and being able to work on my laptop on the train trips. However the first
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two days on the revised schedule saw cumulative sleep ins of almost 3 hours so
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most of the benefits may be attributed to that.
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I definitely feel like my body is adapting to the regular naps. When I first
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began taking them I felt like a didn't sleep or if I did it was quite shallow.
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Now when I take them I fall asleep quite quickly and feel like I've been quite
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deep when the 20 minutes is up. I have started dreaming in them too, which is a
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sign that its working. The initial problem of waking up around 15 minutes in
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has stopped as well.
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The aim for the following week is to avoid the sleep-ins.
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