Birth Pains - Day 1

Perhaps it was my daredevil mind that caused me to want to push towards complete insanity. At the time it looked like a logical idea, but now the future is cast in horrendous reality.

To succeed would be enviable, but in order to do that a hellish experience awaits.

I don't remember what promoted it, but last week found me staring at the computer screen with a growing anticipation to try out a rediscovered concept - the concept that our body can function on only two hours of sleep a day. How is that possible, or even healthy?

Apparently our brains goes through several cycles of sleep when our heads hit the bed. Of all those cycles, REM sleep is the most important; by conditioning the brain just to use REM sleep, two hours of sleep is very doable to live off of. For me that means 4-5 naps that are 30 minutes long throughout the day (Dyxamion style of polyphasic sleep). But to get to the point where the body is forced to make a nap solely a REM cycle requires some major sleep deprivation, and that is where I am heading.

There are two remaining questions: why do I want to try this and when should I start? To be honest, at first my reasons for doing this where very time centred  Hypothetically, I could get in more then 50 hours of piano practice a week! This mindset changed the more I thought about it and read up on polyphasic sleep - if I try it for the benefits odds are I will fail when the going gets tough, but if I try this as an experiment I might just succeed.

Right now I'm just a tad bit tired to really think it through, other then say I am really curious as to the outcome of this next week. The events have lined up perfectly for me to start this new sleep system today, Friday night. I've already had two naps, and while my fatigue has gotten slightly worse and worse, I'm still awake. It is a weird feeling because I've only pulled one all-nighter in my lifetime and even that was hard to do. I know I'm just feeling the birth pains of the beginning of a tiredness I've never known. Bring it on.