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 * [Polyphasic Sleep Schedule - Week 1](/personal/2011/01/polyphasic-sleep-schedule-week-1/)
+* [Polyphasic Sleep Schedule - Week 2](/personal/2011/02/polyphasic-sleep-schedule-week-2/)

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

content/personal/2011/02/polyphasic-sleep-schedule-week-2.yaml

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+--- 
+title: Polyphasic Sleep Schedule - Week 2
+extra: A summary of my second week on a polyphasic sleep schedule.
+kind: article
+section: personal
+created_at: 2011-02-04 02:54:00
+keywords: 
+- sleep
+- polyphasic
+- schedule
+short_url: http://bit.ly/ffm0Xp