60 - The Saltwater Room

so, sleep debt. i was pretty bummed out when on saturday i woke up at 12:30, because i slept at like 12:30 which was early as.

then i realised i was getting like 7 hours a day on the week, so it was all just sleep debt.


i celebrated that fact by sleeping at 3:30am, and good morning i woke up at 9:45, come at me week2

at around 2am i said tomorrow i wont play any games so i can make a start of conflicting perspectives which i dont even know what essay thesis what

i guess i'll still be wasting away watching sc2 @ MLG


anyway, something really really fascinated me yesterday when tom posted it on his wall, "polyphasic sleep" and i probably wasted around 2 hours researching into it yesterday.

essentially, you're wasting time when you sleep right now because sometimes you take like 20 mins to fall asleep, and then you take a while to get to the sleep that actually matters.

as you grow older you get better at doing it, which is why for us we still need a bit more than 8 hours, but eventually we can live with a bit less than 8.

so anyway, polyphasic sleep trains your body to enter deep sleep immediately. it also trains you to fall asleep literally immediately.

as a result, instead of 8 hours of sleep every 24h, we can survive with 2 hours of sleep every 24h.

that's 6 extra hours in a day to do whatever.


it works by 20 minutes of sleep every 4 hours. perpetually.


anyway, i know you shouldn't make huge life decisions in a couple of hours, but i seriously want to do this after the hsc. won't be much school or any other time wasters to interfere with the cycle. so in 2 months i should be able to get used to the cycle, and after that i can start being flexible, ie, sleep 30 mins here and stay awake a bit longer to accommodate x outing or whatever.


i found it interesting this morning that some people seem to be able to have less sleep already without this cycle. people who take naps regularly. so that's just a thought.

pros: complete badass, 5 extra hours a day (going with 30 min sleep instead of 20)
cons: electricity, means i definitely won't be growing taller ever again, 1-2 weeks of transition where i'm a zombie, might interfere with real life, have to be always checking the time and carrying some kind of alarm and planning how/when i'm going to sleep, my eyes are going to go to hell from 20 hours of computer a day, my computer is going to be on like 24/7 as well

one of the huge points is that people stopped because they simply had nothing to do with the extra time. the whole 2 hours of sleep thing worked perfectly for them, but they ran out of movies to watch, books to read etc. so they were up at 5am and just ... waiting until they could sleep again. i don't think this will be a huge issue for me. i can use the extra hours to ladder sc2 - which i'm going to be doing a lot lot lot of - happy 10:37 - and i think a few others will be attempting it as well, so they'll be awake etc.

i'm going to create a 'polyphasic sleep club' group on facebook and it's going to be sweet.


they're right. having goals and things to look forward to is great.

sometimes in chess, you have a couple of moves to choose from. what you're meant to do is calculate a few turns into each move and decide which move is the best. but sometime's you just that "i can't be bothered to calculate, i know this is a good move because it just is", and you just move it instead of wasting time. you just go !@#$ing do it

that is, when you look at something you should be able to make a quick judgement of whether it's right or wrong, good or bad. you don't need to calculate it, you should be able to just judge it from seeing it quickly. like in multiple choice questions.

i think this can apply into real life as well. i could probably think and plan and discuss it for days instead of making a rash 1-hour decision, or i could just go !@#$ing do it because i know it will be fine.


well actually, the transition days you have to have a really good immune system because you'll get sick so easily. but whatever, i'm still going to try.

i haven't indulged in spontaneity for a long time ... and those times weren't even legit spontaneity.

^^ ~