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Biphasic sleep : Day 3

Scott Birdby Scott Bird
September 12, 2006
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Day 3Oops - a bit of oversleeping last night. I’m not overly concerned as it was only an extra 3 hours (making 6 hours total) and I woke up naturally between the last few cycles (90 minutes each). Quite possibly a natural part of the adaptation phase.

Something I noticed last night was that I’ve been eating more often; if only because I tend to eat when either cold or tired. The late meals (between napping and the main sleep) are probably too high in carbs, but things like toast + blueberry jam call to me at that sort of time. These are followed by a simple protein shake just prior to the main sleep (and occasionally another one upon rising).

Following nap

Any fears I had this morning about being unable to sleep (after oversleeping last night) proved unfounded - I fell asleep within minutes and was quite unaware of time passing until the alarm went off 90 minutes later. I’d decided to move the nap back a bit to a 19:45 start; I think I’ll keep this start time flexible (to allow for daily changes in tiredness) and leave the main sleep around 02:30 - 05:30.


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Comments

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Yowza, you’re trying that. Apparently it’s tough, but once you’ve trained your body to drop into REM quickly it is pretty incredible.

Good on ya for trying! With all that extra time you can get down to some serious blogging.

Apparently the trick is that you need to eat

Posted by: steph | September 13, 2006 4:56 AM

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Sorry, link dropped, no what I was saying was that in the article I read, the guy said he had to eat hell of a lot more than he was used to, he put it down to simply burning a lot more energy being awake than in the paralysis of sleep

Posted by: veetsa | September 13, 2006 5:37 AM

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I guess it makes sense to eat more; after all my body’s doing more when awake than asleep. Regardless of the reason, eating more isn’t something I mind at all - as long as it’s reasonable stuff :)

Posted by: Scott | September 13, 2006 7:08 AM

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