The sleeper must awaken
Polyphasic sleep, pros and cons.
The point of the thing, and the main good thing about it:
Time. Mornings start to exist once again (imagine that, days actually don't start with the sun somewhere right above your head... who'd have thought!), and you actually have time to read during the night. In addition, the fact that you are sleeping less to get things done gives you an itching to do get the things done, so you're more productive indeed.
(If you're the kind of people who'd say "oh but what would I do with all that time": get a life. But then again, that kind of person does not read this blog.)
Technical issues:
The alarm clock. The thing is, you need to sleep 20 minutes, 30 max, but if you're not sure how long you're gonna need to fall asleep, the best of course would be an alarm clock that would auto activate. But an alarm clock that would be in terms of delay and not time of awakening would be cool, like a big alarm clock that you could just hit on the top, and it would activate, and you'd deactivate it by hitting it once it wakes you up 20 minutes later, and then reactivate it the same way. So I guess a special alarm clock would help a lot.
Speaking of alarms clock, sometimes fail waking up for unknown reasons, that is, must have turned off the alarm clock but don't even remember it, which is kinda scary.
Bad:
- Social life or polyphasic sleep, it's either or. If you have to sleep every four hours, you just can't go out, period. Even going shopping is troublesome... For me the issue has been that even going out once a week, say on saturday, which would seem reasonable, screws your rhythm, and actually does so at the very moment you were starting to get adjusted.
- Having to cut off often in the middle of working on some code sucks, too.
- Especially in the day, even when sleeping good time can feel "tête dans le cul" after waking up sometimes. Taking a shower or swimming in pool does help.
- You have to quit tea. :-(
2007-09-13
The sleeper must awaken
Funny. I used to spend so much time reading forums and political weblogs. Another few things I've quitted. Now I tend to read more personal blogs, and uncommented pure news.
2005-09-17