If you’ve been reading this you know I haven’t posted in a while.  Mostly due to a lack of time.  That’s right I stopped.  I wanted to keep going, but really I was looking worse and worse.  a couple days after my last post I woke up from oversleeping once again and looking in the mirror at the dark circles under my eyes I decided I would put off the experiment… at least for a time.  I really like having the extra free time, but I felt like I kept messing up when I would fall asleep for a few hours at a time.  The idea had been brewing in my head for a while that if I could get some real rest maybe I could try again with better results.  I just wanted to get rid of the bags under my eyes so I didn’t look like a zombie.

I guess I also had some other things going on that leaned me toward the decision.  I was made a team leader at work recently and my manager would like me to set an example of timeliness for my fellow employees.  So, with that and my wife not liking it so much and wanting to stay up for a while sometimes I thought it best for now to go back to monophasic.  I would like to do it again sometime, and I can see some applications of napping at intervals for a couple days to catch up on projects or homework once in a while.  I think I’ll try that out sometimes if I don’t just all out do polyphasic again… we’ll see.  Though next time I may try a different approach to the transition.

Coming back off of polyphasic sleep was really no problem except that the first couple of days I wanted to take a nap after I got off of work.  I keep wanting to stay up late though… not because I can’t sleep, but rather I got used to having more time and still want it.  Alas, staying up late and getting up early on a monophasic schedule has never felt that great to me… at least not for my morning self.