My polynapping - Q&A
Q. How long is your nap now?A. I've started with 30 min naps and now switched to 25 minute ones, since my REM sleep completes in about 15 minutes.
Q. How do you know when you reach REM?
A. Well, actually, that's a guess. I loose the sense of time, my thoughts are very dream-like and I awake very refreshed, even if I had a headache before. As far as I understand that are traits of REM sleep.
Q. Do you dream each time?
A. Yes, though I don't loose a contact with reality every time, so it's something between a deep meditation and a dream. To have a sleep (with reality contact lost) every time I found the calm music and no light to be usefull. I use wonderful Enya music.
Q. How much time of your nap you lose consicousness?
A. I can't give a straight answer since my sense of time becomes very mixed up to this point. I loose my awareness at 2nd-to-7th minute, then I have from 10 to 25 minutes of "sleep", then I wake up either by myself (feels like a strong inner impulse, btw) or by an alarm.
Q. Are the dreams during these 10-25 minutes?
A. Yes
Q. But you have a bit of contact to reality during these dreams?
A. Sometimes yes, sometimes not. Daynapping, in general, leaves more contact to the reality. And my night naps usually end with an alarm.
Q. Do you have control over the dream like a lucid dream.
A. Not (yet?). But I had no such goal :)
Q. Do you remember your dreams before going poly?
A. Well, I hardly remember my dreams even now. Perhaps just a general context - and not for a long time. BTW, usually I drift asleep starting thinking about my current tasks and plans (in relaxed manner) and that sets general context of the subsequent dream.
Q. What else have you learned by going poly?
A. Now I, perhaps, won't rush as I've did originally into complete uberman schedule. I'd suggest to start with daynapping with an alarm and then start heavily cutting the night coresleep time. But even now, after the second week, I have terrible time between 04:00 and 07:00 - the infamous "dog watch".
Q. Is the time so terrible that you can basically do nothing or only less than usual?
A. Nothing at all. my eyes are closing. Simply closing. The only thing that helps is physical activity.
Q. Real sport?
A. Anything. Washing dishes, walking, cleaning the rooms.. But there's only a limited amount todo really, so I have to be creative - or fall back in 3hr sleep.
Q. Do you live together with someone who could wake up from the noise of you activity?
A. Yup - that's the reason I can't have much physical activity at night.
Q. Have you tried some kind of hard mental work? Even if it does't produce results?
A. Constantly - I'm a software developer and a team leader. That was one of original goals going polynapping - to have more personal lifetime while keeping hours. While at night I can do some development and, in worst case, reading ... At "dog watch" time I can really do nothing: if I sit down - I fall asleep.
Q. But to much bugs in the code that you write during your dog watch?
A. I don't develop during this time. And my development process saves me from bugs :)
The questions and answers where taken from irc log at #PolyphasicSleep at irc.quakenet.org
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