In reply to lpaulick.

I completely agree! OTOH, I think the same way about walking and running around whilst barefoot–but it took my feet several months to adapt to it. (If you think that might have cheesed me off…yup!)

If the alarms are a permanent feature…well, they won’t be. Because I don’t see myself letting it work out that way.

I have no idea what a natural rhythm for me might be. I could try to find out, but it’d be hard to re-create the “sleep when I’m sleepy, until I’m not” thing I did as a kid at this point. I’d have trouble making/meeting commitments, y’know? Of course I guess I could just head back to Vegas (or someplace) for a few months, and leave the fam behind. Short of that, where do I start? I’ve definitely been teaching myself to nap efficiently. So that’s…well, possibly reasonable. Maybe?

My plan is to see where this takes me, and see whether I like it, and tweak as I go.

Also, yes. The fun! It is. {8’>

-D

OK, David, I have to make this comment; that is, I have to Interrupt and make this comment, which means I also have not read everything you’re doing in your polyphasic sleep experiment. So take it for what it is or isn’t!

This type of pattern/nonpattern sleeping is not supposed to be such a flipping unnatural, forced, pushed event! Alarms are NOT part of this type of thing. Either it happens for you naturally, or it is not to be played with…except for fun, and we all know you’re all about fun, so I’m wasting my breath. But seriously, can’t you just do what is a natural rhythm for you?

Let’s take me (JUST for a second, though). I didn’t plan, or ask, for the odd sleep patterns I’m experiencing these days. It just happened. I do use my alarm if I do not wake up before a certain time when I HAVE TO do something. But the internal clocks have been set at “I’m a morning type” since birth. It’s just what it is.

Oh well, move on, my friend, I’ll read the next one…