Biphasic: Day 12 (Good stuff...)

I decided to go ahead and move back into the 3 hours core sleep. I miss the extra time in the morning. Woke up this morning a listened to the radio for about a minute, then stretched all over to get myself "activated". Then I walked upstairs, made a bowl of cereal, took my dog outside, ate my cereal, returned the empty garbage bin and went back inside. Then I put away towels.Who does that in the first 15 minutes of waking up? The reason I say this is simply because I don't think I could have processed things enough to do all that when I was waking up at 5:45am in high school. I suppose you could say that I have adapted to this way of life, the biphasic dark side... It's something I can do without it being really too difficult, it fits well with my schedule, and it just feels good.

Sure, I am tired in the morning, but I was always exhausted in high school and the first few years of college when I constantly had 8am classes. But now I've decided to take that a step further. I have early morning classes for the Fall semester, at 8am and 9:30am (Mon-Thur), but I also work three times a week at a dorm from 6am-noon (Fri-Sun). That means that I have given myself a schedule in which I CANNOT sleep in. Ever. And it doesn't scare me like it probably should. In fact, I see it as a challenge that I already have almost accomplished. By the time the semester begins, I'll be so biphasic that I'll be converting others. Going to bed late, waking up early, being able to take a nap AND feel all round well rested? I never would have asked for all these things before because I didn't actually think it would be possible. Now I'm doing it and it doesn't seem like a big deal... it seems as obviously needed as eating or bathing. Since I am sticking to the schedule, perhaps I'll treat myself to some refreshing organic green tea for the morning...

I stumbled upon www.stevepavlina.com when I first tried polyphasic sleep in the Winter of 08. Now, my research again brought me to his website, especially a few forum threads all about those who were trying biphasic sleep. What I didn't realize is that I have it down already. From here on out is just getting used to the system. I never oversleep, I feel like I can function and participate in the world, and I actually like sleeping twice a day. So many people are having difficulties with biphasic sleep, I suppose I was blessed to have a system in place that allowed for a biphasic pattern to be subtly injected and enforced.

Check out www.stevepavlina.com at your closest convenience. It has some great information on many facets of life, not just the non-normative sleep patterns of the borderline insane.