Biphasic: Day 10

The weekend may have impacted my sleeping more than I thought. It feels like my body can't get enough sleep, so I may be running on a battery that is not fully charged, only charging it a little during my sleep, but never to peak performance. So I am going to take this opportunity to adjust my sleep schedule and allow myself an extra 90 minutes of sleep during the core section. I will now be getting 6 hours of sleep (four full cycles), and sleeping from 1:30am - 6:00am and 4:30pm - 6:00pm. If this ends up being too much sleep once my body has recharged a bit more, then I'll later reduce it down to 4.5 hours a day. But I've been too exhuasted the last few days to really keep track of my body. Though I've already been up for almost an hour, I'll go ahead and give myself the extra 90 minutes of sleep, from 7:00am to 8:30am. I honestly need it very badly.


Edit: Someone brought it to my attention that 6 hours is essentially a normal monophasic core sleep and it somewhat defeats the purpose of doing a polyphasic schedule. I agree and disagree.

I wasn't very clear earlier (mostly because I was so exhausted), but I intend to switch back to 4.5 hours. The 6 hours of sleep is a bit counter to polyphasic advantages. It would make sense to take a day off, sleep as much as I'd like, then try again from the start, but I just can't bring myself to do that. So I'll instead give myself a little extra, then once I get back to that feelgood point I had late last week, I'll drop the extra 90 minute cycle.

I do, however, think there are advantages to biphasic 6 hours of sleep over monophasic 6 hours of sleep. For one, you aren't running an entire day on one charge, but instead get a moment in the day to rest. Think of the siesta. And another personal reason is the available time awake during the late night. I am really most awake in the first few hours of the new day (as in midnight), and if my core was a full 6 hours, I would need to be in bed by 11pm in order to get up at 5am. I honestly could not force myself to sleep at 11pm. I would just lie there, awake and active in my mind, likely for the entire night. With a biphasic system in place, I could go to bed at the later 12:30am, which would be early, but much more preferred. I suppose I see biphasic as advantageous over monophasic, regardless if time is saved or not.