Triphasic Sleep: Day 12

This is part twelve of my Triphasic sleep experiment. Please visit this page for more info.

I have cut the morning sleep from between 4~8 to 4~7:30. So far so good. To help my body adjust, I kept the extra 30 minutes nap at 9PM and allowed the room temperature to drop lower so I can force myself awake by kicking off my blanket.

Everything is pretty much on autopilot now. The only time I encounter difficulties are when I am trying to wake up. There are some hidden upside to this strategy due to my day being separated into three sections now. I feel more at ease finishing pointless tasks because I know when I next wake up I can dedicate all my effort to something else.

The down side? My flat mate has started complaining about noise at night now. I don’t know if it’s by me or just her imagination. She is a weird one.

4 Responses to "Triphasic Sleep: Day 12"

Jo says:

January 5, 2007 at 11:52 am

She complains about night noises?

This is the girl that is up at 7am playing WoW?

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Causalien says:

January 5, 2007 at 8:44 pm

No, it’s the other girl.

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SneakyWho_am_i says:

March 3, 2008 at 11:29 am

daytime == sunlight. sunlight is good for you, it helps you convert chemical a into chemical b and so on and so forth.

if you stay up all night though, often, you find your night vision gets easier and your day vision gets harder. Why?? I do think it’s natural for man to generally be up all day – but this fear of being up all night is in my mind entirely a cultural/traditional thing. This is just my opinion as a kid who knows nothing about many things and much about nothing.

Are humans supposed to be helpless and blind at night?

Of course. That’s why we all got eaten by predators at night before the dawn of civilization, and lead to the extinction of mankind. Oh no, wait, we’re still here. Is it possible that our ancestors, unlike us, were able to see and think at night, when they had to?? zomfg Doctor Zaius (spelling!?), that’s sheer blasphemy!!

It’s a well known scientific fact of course that man has never hunted at night, because there are no animals or edible plants at night. And also man has never had any kind of night-time emergencies or problems (flooding, fires, fights/wars, animal attacks)… No, of course, not, every single one of these in history has happened during the day.

You may roll your eyes at this point if you feel that way inclined.

Clearly, situations arise in nature where man is naturally able to see and think in the dark – and survive the next day. The survival of the species has no doubt depended on it (look up evolutionary bottlenecks – observe today’s rate of extinction – in nature, everything has to go right 24/7 or the species disappears)

So why is it that today everyone hibernates at night?

Why is everyone so fear of the dark? What kind of nutjob (yes, I know, everyone) forces themselves to slave away all day in the hot sun, only to sleep through the cool night? Waste of the easiest and most productive part of the summer!!

I know why people all seem to be afraid of the dark, and it’s because they’re just whining, moaning, crazy people. Yes, people should normally be awake during the day, if we have to force everyone to do one or the other. But there’s certainly nothing wrong or unnatural about being able to do something productive at night.

If your flatmate has a problem with it, she should grow up. Must have lived a sheltered life.
It’s just her imagination, she’s making up (subconsciously?) thinks to pick on about what you do, because it justifies her fear of the boogeyman.

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Anyway it’s food for thought, I hoe you don’t mind. I enjoyed your articles, it’s good to know that others have crazy sleep patterns even if only on an experimental basis.
Nice that the site is ad-free too. Moral principle? Very cool, keep it up man.

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Causalien says:

March 4, 2008 at 1:22 am

sneakyWho_am_i: I see that you are quite knowledgeable on this subject of sleep. And you gave me a few good questions to ponder, especially about the part on species extincting when they can’t function at night and how delicate a specie’s eco system is. Why do you think most species shutdown during night time?

Further more, I do think that “This fear of being up all night” is a cultural thing or the way you are brought up. From where I was born, it is natural as being out in the daylight. We even have something we called “night market” that caters specifically to night owls. If you feel lonely in this regard, don’t. Know that there’s a whole race of people (yes about the major part of 1/4 of the earth population). Perhaps you should try living there once.

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