Hexadecaphasic Sleep

I’ve not posted anything here lately since my discipline in the last few days was terrible and I haven’t really had anything interesting to add. Just a cycle of “oversleep; get up angry, go to school, skip a couple of naps, go home, oversleep, and repeat”. My getting sick didnt really help things; it probably caused most of my troubles. Yesterday I decided that 8 naps was not a sufficiently stupid idea to be worth trying, so I’ve changed it to 16 per day. Also, “hexadecaphasic” sounds much cooler than “octaphasic”. (4 mintutes each). I may have to structure them a bit better later on if this is to work, but for now I’m just taking 4 minute naps “as required”, though with not less than 56 minutes separating each in order to avoid excessive sloth during the night. At the moment I seem to have inadvertently arrived on a rather strange everyman pattern of a 4hr core (2-6 am) and 4×4 min naps. (all in the afternoon). I cant complain since I get a little extra time and I don’t feel sleep deprived, but I still plan on adapting to the 16×4 min pattern. And the accidental core naps are getting shorter, which is good.

I suspect the next few posts will just be random ramblings, but hopefully they’ll provide a reasonably accurate perspective of what this is like for someone as slack as myself and cant be f***ed getting up at 2 in the morning. When I’m done with this I’ll hopefully condense the thing so it’s a little less long-winded, and repetitive; and so it may even be of scientific merit.

Last night seemed to be going well, I was sleeping well and waking up fine. After my 0200 nap I even felt reasonably alert mentally, but slightly lethargic so I thought I might press the snooze button. Oops. I’ll just have to keep refining the art of waking up.

One last note about the naps: by some miracle I’ve actually been getting to sleep. Usually for the full 4 minutes. Interestingly, after waking up from these it doesnt feel like I’ve been asleep any less  than it did waking up from an Uberman nap.