Polyphasic sleep

Ooookay, since I told you guys that I would explain what this is, and since I missed school and have nothing else to do, I shall explain. It's super interesting.
Okay, let's begin with the basics of sleep first. There are 2 types of sleep. NREM, which means No Rapid Eye Movement, which is composed of 4 parts, and REM, which is Rapid Eye Movement.
If you already know all this stuff, you can skip these next 5 or so paragraphs.

NREM stage 1
stage one is the first stage of sleep (duh). You're basically just drifting in and out of sleep while your muscles relax. It's not a very important phase, since this is just the phase where you fall asleep.

NREM stage 2
This stage makes up 40% to 50% of your sleeping time. Brain waves slow down with an occasional burst of fast waves. Eye movement stops at this stage.

NREM stage 3
Your brain uses really slow brain waves, called delta waves, along with some other bursts of brain waves. It's the first stage of deep sleep. During stage 3 it can be really hard to wake someone up.

NREM stage 4
This is the second stage of deep sleep. In stage 4, your brain is almost exclusively using delta waves.

REM
REM stands for rapid eye movement. This stage is the most important, since this time is when your brain works to heal your body and rest. This is also the stage where dreaming occurs. In this stage, your heart rate gets faster, your eyes move rapidly, your breathing becomes fast and shallow, your blood rate increases, and your muscles are paralyzed. The average person that sleeps 8-9 hours will usually get around 1-2 hours of REM a night. The more REM sleep you get, the more rested you feel.


POLYPHASIC SLEEP
Polyphasic sleep involves taking multiple short sleep periods throughout the day instead of getting all your sleep in one long chunk. A popular form of polyphasic sleep, the Uberman sleep schedule, suggests that you sleep 20-30 minutes six times per day, with equally spaced naps every 4 hours around the clock. This means you’re only sleeping 2-3 hours per day. I’d previously heard of polyphasic sleep, but until now I hadn’t come across practical schedules that people seem to be reporting interesting results with.

Under this sleep schedule, your sleep times might be at 2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm, 6pm, and 10pm. And each time you’d sleep for only 20-30 minutes. This is nice because the times are the same whether AM or PM, and they’re consistent from day to day as well, so you can still maintain a regular daily schedule, albeit a very different one.

How can this sleep schedule work? Supposedly it takes about a week to adjust to it. A normal sleep cycle is 90 minutes, and REM sleep occurs late in this cycle. REM is the most important phase of sleep, the one in which you experience dreams, and when deprived of REM for too long, you suffer serious negative consequences. Polyphasic sleep conditions your body to learn to enter REM sleep immediately when you begin sleeping instead of much later in the sleep cycle. So during the first week you experience sleep deprivation as your body learns to adapt to shorter sleep cycles, but after the adaptation you’ll feel fine, maybe even better than before.

It requires some discipline to successfully transition to this cycle, as well as a flexible schedule that allows it. While you’ll be sleeping a lot less, apparently it’s very important to sleep at the required times and not miss naps.

A side effect of this sleep schedule is that you need to eat more, since you’re spending more time moving around.

The downside to this sleep schedule is that it can be inflexible. I’ve read that you can delay naps by an hour if necessary, but missing a nap can cause a rapid crash that takes a while to recover from. This means you only have about 3.5 hours of waking time between naps, 4.5 hours if you push it. So this can restrict your options a bit. Of course, you have to balance that sacrifice against the gain of many extra hours per day, every day.

Everyman sleep
This schedule is often considered to be less “extreme” than other forms of polyphasic sleep, as it contains a “core sleep” of a few hours, usually in the early morning, as well as short naps during the day. In reality this system may be more physically difficult to adjust to, as the core sleep will delay the sleep deprivation which triggers the brain to adapt to instantaneous REM sleep upon falling asleep. However, the system may be easier to adjust to psychologically than other sleep schedules, as the core sleep provides a sense of delineation between one day and the next.
Everyman sleep is more freeform in structure than other polyphasic sleep schedules; sleepers nap whenever they feel tired rather than at set points throughout the day.

Polyphasic sleeper PureDoxyk notes that not every combination of core sleep and naps works – too short, a core sleep is only as effective as a regular 20-minute nap, while too long a core sleep makes the sleeping schedule more similar to siesta sleeping than true polyphasic sleep.


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And that is the information I gathered. I copied the entire subject of polyphasic sleep and everyman sleep from http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/ and http://www.suite101.com/content/different-polyphasic-sleep-schedules-a117476

Check the sites out if you want more info. I found all this super interesting and I'd like to try it out some day.

A few of my favorite things

In my life I have found many things I love.
A bar of chocolate, a rainy day,
The crescent moon, watching anime.
I love my family, my dogs and cats,
I love horseback riding and awesome hats.
I've learned to draw, write and sing,
All of these are my favorite things.
I love drinking coffee and chocolate milk,
The wonderful feeling of touching silk.
Listening to music, reading in my room,
My friends cheering me up when I feel doomed.
I love late nights when everyone's asleep,
When I find beautiful memories I'll always keep.
These are a few of my favorite things,
Watching Tim Burton and when Johnny Depp sings.
I love motorcycles, Dr. Horrible's sing-along blog,
Waking up to see the lake covered with fog.
These are a few of my favorite things.

During October

Ah, October. One of my favorite months of the year. I like it.

Today, we threw Noah's birthday party. "Blah blah blah, party, etc," skipping most of the party, when we were done eating pizza and had nothing to do, we decided to have a water war, although almost none of us had a bathing suit or change of clothes. We were looking for an outlet to play music outside so we could listen while we were playing, and I was walking around barefoot like I always do. Yay. And then I stepped on a rock. A very sharp rock. Yeah, it hurt. Acting like it wasn't that bad and all, I just pointed out that I stepped on a sharp rock and I'd be fine as long as I wasn't bleeding. I looked down, and oh--hey! It was bleeding. Hurray. Anyways, it bled a lot, then I cleaned it, then we had our water war. It was super fun, I'd say it was the highlight of the party. I had fun. And before that, Keddy and I made COOKIEs! They were so yuuuuummmyyy! xD Yeah, they were good. I had fun.

And now my birthday's coming up!

And school is school and I feel like I've lost track of my homework and I'm kind of stressed. Thank God for weekends. But I would really like a vacation of at least 10 days to try to adapt to the Everyman sleep schedule. For those of you who don't know what that is, I'll post some info on it in the next blog post I do. It's super awesome. But I'd need time to adapt. Anyways, yeah. Guuuurh school is annoying. Not only the educational, but also the social. I've discovered that I'm really antisocial... It really makes me sad. I wanna socialize! But I don't know how... Anyways. I encourage my friends (Keddy and Andrew) to write more on their blogs >.> Because I like to read! xD

I'm done now. Because you gotta save your drama for your llama.

Unconsciousness

...It's so much better than the real world. I feel so happy in my dreams. They all turn out how I want my life to. But then I wake up...
Unconsciousness is a temporary escape from the world. You get to escape from reality for a while, take a break from your normal routine.
I wish my fondest dreams were real.


Ugh.

How come it's so hard to come up with a decent blog title!?

WOOHOO! NEW BLOG POsT!
With the new month started, school started, life continuing, I'm feeling pretty good. Although I have school tomorrow and I haven't finished all my homework. Geez, sure shows you not to be dependent on people. I mean, I need those results, people! Ugh.
Anyways, I was staying at this pretty rich guy's house while my dad was house sitting it, and man, was that place cool! A 200 inch movie screen, around 4 42 inch plasmas, 3 stories high, a pool on the roof, guitar hero, a cubby, etc! It was AWEsOME! Yeah, it was cool.
And now I'm home, and I'm dreading doing homework and going to school tomorrow, and I'm talking to a friend and I'm telling him to make a blog, and I'm writing this blog, and asking people questions about homework, and thinking how Mockingjay could have been sooo much better and blah blah blaaaah!

Geez... I didn't even have coffee recently. You energetic shrub, you. ... shrub? ...I have no idea.

xD

I'm so booooooored!

New Design

Well, I thought my blog needed a little upgrade. And here it is. Autumn themed! I like it quite much.
...Is that even a correct sentence?
Well, anyways. Today is Sunday the 26th of September. Which means it's a sad day. :(
I have a weekend! And I've been trying to enjoy this weekend. And it's going okay so far. I've started reading Maximum Ride: saving the world and other extreme sports. My favorite part so far is "Fang, Fang Fang." I murmured, overwhelmed with emotion. "I love you. I love you sooooo much!" I tried to hold out my arms to show him how much, but I couldn't move them.
xD I cracked up sooo much when I read that part. "I love you soooo much!" XD ROFL
Anyways, it was hilarious. I love this series. Truly makes me crack up.
Anyways, Kaichou wa Maid-sama is over. The show ended! so soooon too! D: It was a good one though. I enjoyed it a lot.
Also, apparently I was made in Narnia. Don't ask. I just wanted to say so.
xD Anyways, I'm done. I don't feel like typing anymore. I wanna get back to my book! :D

Poetic! T.T

I feel so poetiiiiic! But I have no idea what to do. I wanna write a poem...
Good poem titles from last blog post:

Life on a Raindrop
Moonlight on your face
Dreams of Heaven
Perfect roses
Fresh purple
One kiss in the dark
Your first chapter
Crescent Stars
Your own Cheshire Cat
Pencils and coffee.

Now that I have those titles, I'm going to make it a project for me to write a poem every once in a while with those titles. Yay. I'm so smart. :P

Okay... I'm addicted to AQW again. I just can't help it. it's so fun T.T

I've a puppy in my lap. So cute. Finn even strayed from his siblings to hang out with me. What a lapdog. Hah. He's so cute. They're all so cute.

I feel like I've lost the ability to draw. I've been making all these mistakes. It really sucks. Saaaad.

Gibberish and Playpens-- My personal favorite.

I'm feeling better. I don't feel like my whole world is going to fall apart now. I'm getting used to life and it's twists and turns. It's just another chapter in life, you know? Despite how much you'd like to put the book down and break away from it for a while, you can't. You keep on reading. You have to. And the story goes on. And then it reaches a new chapter.
As you can probably tell, I've been doing a bit too much reading recently....
My life today consisted mainly in locking myself in my room, listening to music, reading and eating. Ugh it's so boring.


My soul is like a storm:
My path is unclear,
My voice strong as thunder.
Running through this chaos,
My heart drenched, cold, dead down under.
I'm under water, splashing,
Trying to break free.
The rain is beating down,
Hailing relentlessly over me.
The is lightning inside my being,
screaming to be let loose.
This splash of emotions is too strong,
My mind can't take all this abuse.
Every single thought is its own little raindrop,
A downpour of confusion from one single girl.
Tell me... Will it ever end?
My soul. The never ending storm...
Will it ever die down to a simple sprinkle?
At such a young age, yet so terribly worn.
...My soul is exactly like a storm.


Hah, no. That wasn't one of my emo poems. It's my english homework. "Write a poem about rain using these words!" >.>" Thanks, Teacher stella, you sure made my day by annoying me >.>"""""

And hey-- she annoys me so friggin' much, why not channel my emotions into my work? ...Just like Cinna... T.T He died... D': *sobs*

Uuuuuughabuuuuugh I hate english now. I used to LOVE IT! I called it my favorite subject! But now it's tortuuure! TORTURE I TELL YOU! The most annoying teacher in this whole God-blessed world. Geez, I mean, couldn't they have hired someone with less of an obnoxious and annoying nature?

Coursing through my veins
Life on a raindrop
Moonlight on your face
Dreams of heaven
Lying broke free
Wings of love
Missiles detonated
Detours and darkness
Perfect roses
Fresh purple
Dolls from China
Honestly cried
Ears buzzing
Bows and arrows
One kiss in the dark
Your first chapter
Accepting the dice
Life and light
He made my own chaos
Crescent stars
They're treasured
Your own Cheshire Cat
sincerity or not
Chocolate pudding
Gibberish and playpens
Pencils and coffee

Those were... Random phrases and words going on in my mind. several would make a good poem title, I think. Or something. Anways, I like making long posts, but I think I'm gonna skidaddle now.

But first, I'm reading Maximum ride, and it's the best book I've read recently. It gave me the effect of "DON'T PUT THE BOOK DOWN!" And I haven't gotten that much lately. It's nice being to read nonstop. Heh. Anyways, over and OUT!

Get this

So... My friends are having problems, coming to me when they need help. While I'm having problems and don't want to talk to anyone. Yeah, sure, when I'm mad, I'll rant and talk and ask for advice from someone. But when I'm sad, I don't want to talk to anyone or tell them my problems. I just want to be alone. I prefer it. It's not like I don't have anyone to turn to; I have tons of people that I can turn to. I just prefer keeping it to myself. And it doesn't make me more sad, it actually makes me feel better. That way I don't have people bringing up the subject left and right and reminding me about what's going on. If it's only to myself, I can find a way to distract myself. So don't think I don't trust you if you say "You can talk to me anytime," and have me reply with "Sure, but I'm fine."

Anyways, school is going fine, I'm really enjoying it. But it's boring. The same old story I've been telling you guys for the past 3 weeks, so we'll skip that subject.

I'll finally have Mockingjay! I'm so happy! I'm almost done reading it. It's really interesting.

It seems like KT Tunstall is my "comfort artist". Listening to her music makes me feel better. "Silent Sea" and "Under the Weather" are my favorites for when I want to relax and do nothing. It makes me feel better.

And now I don't really have anything to talk about. Well, then this blog post is over.

Night time

I haven't been writing in a while, so I decided to update my blog post.

school has been tiring with all the homework, school work and social things I have to do there. But luckily, all my classmates are nice and there's no bullies. I spend my days with Keddy and my books. I want a social life....

Anyways, speaking of books, I finally have Mockingjay which makes me amazingly happy. I've started it, and I don't know what to think about it yet. I miss Cinna though :(

I've noticed that the more time I've been in school, the more I've wanted to be alone to think and stuff. I just need alone time, you know?

Uuuugh I would write more, but it's pretty late...
Maybe tomorrow I'll write a better post that's more interesting than this one. Until then...