Ceaseless Student

So I was looking at my schedule for this coming semester and some of the times lined up all pretty for me to schedule a nap…

So I’m doing biphasic again. I’m also going to be working out and doing something aerobic - a combination that I haven’t done for something like 4 years. The first time I did biphasic I was hitting 4.5 hours every day. And I would get tired/bored when people weren’t around (eg 04:30). So I’m going to try to avoid some of that this time around.

My schedule works somewhat better for it this year. Instead of staying awake and bored until 5, I’ll be in bed at 2 or 03:30. This should help with boredom at night and it gives me a nice chunk of time at 06:30 when the Babson gym opens.

Sadly, the schedule is a bit less straightforward. I wake up every day at 06:30, but there’s two different times I go to bed. On Wednesdays, SCOPE steals a nap. At the end of the day I’ll average just under 5 hours a day of sleep. I will, however, be adding in a bunch of physical activity so I might find myself needing more rest - we’ll see.

There’s two ways to go about a new sleep schedule. Gradual transition and habit forming or sleep deprivation. The second one is what I’ll be trying this time around. The abrupt change from summer sleep hours and the addition of running or swimming should make sure my body is begging for whatever sleep I decide it can take. That’s the quick, if plausibly painful, way to go about it. At least I’m not doing an uberman schedule where I don’t sleep at all for the first three days or anything that extreme…

Still haven’t figured out why I like toying with my sleep so much… I’m sure I’ll babble about how it goes in my blog