Polyphasic Sleeping in Ann Arbor

Hi, I'm Jeremy, a father of 3 and a computer programmer from Ann Arbor Michigan. I switched to a polyphasic sleeping schedule to try to deal with my obstructive sleep apnea more effectively. I started this blog to track my progress.

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Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Saturday, September 01, 2007

So what happened you might ask?

Yeah, I did it. I disappeared and never posted the results just like I hate other people doing. Sigh.

To be honest, I forgot my blogger account name and password pretty quickly and never bothered to figure them out until just now. Sorry for that.

Okay, so after my last post here's what happened:

I had decent success with a quadraphasic schedule for a while. Sometime in early July I purchased a BioPro "BioLife Pendant" and went through another huge change.

It cured my sleep apnea.

Well, not entirely, but I went from waking up every minute to waking up less than 5 times a night. My snoring went WAY down too. Suddenly the motivation I had for the polyphasic schedule in the first place (better quality REM sleep) was pretty much gone.

While I did have some great weeks on the polyphasic schedule, one thing that I always struggled with was night time. Rather than spending more time doing productive stuff I wound up spending more time watching TV. The combination of not being productive with my extra waking hours, the loss of my main motivation (sleep apnea) and the fact that it was never "easy" basically killed the experiment.

Switching back to a monophasic schedule was quick. I think it only took me a couple days to get reoriented. An interesting side-effect from the whole thing is that I no longer have problems waking up really early (something I've struggled with my whole life). That's probably from sleeping better when I do sleep though.

And now I'll send this out into the ether. Take care folks!

EDIT: Removed the salon info... We had to close :-(

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