I haven’t slept for a full cycle in three nights… and so far, I’m feeling just fine. This isn’t exactly polyphasic sleep again (yet), but I’m feeling that hyper-awareness state coming on.

What’s this all about? Just another experiment, mostly. I’m using a software-based alarm that plays music and resets itself every 23 minutes around the clock, kind of like an extended snooze button. Even if I sleep through once, it won’t be long until it attempts to arouse me again. And again. And again. I should mention that this music gradually builds up to full volume, and the only way to “hit the snooze” is to wake up and log into the computer; actually shutting the alarm off requires typing commands, something I’m not likely to be able to figure out in a zombie state.

Yes, it’s probably more complicated and geekish than it needs to be, but I thought the concept was worth a mention since I’d never heard of anyone else attempting it — a 20-25 minute snooze button that never gives up! The goal of this would be to first train oneself into sleeping entirely in naps before ever attempting deprivation. Assuming someone could adjust to taking 4-5 naps each day and enduring the constant reawakening at night, it would be extremely simple to cut out that extra sleep at night. The only problem I can foresee would be that simply awakening every 20 minutes wouldn’t be enough to bring someone completely out of sleep (hence immediately returning to a normal sleep cycle rather than “resetting” to a new nap). I guess the best way to test this would be an EEG, wouldn’t it? But where will I ever find one of those…

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