Biphasic Sleep - Day 1

ok so today i start this new sleep schedule. apparently this is how most great men sleep including Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, JFK and Harry Truman. i left some people out but thats because they were shit presidents. its based on the principle that one complete sleep cycle (all 4 stages) takes about 90 minutes to go through. notice how if you wake up in the middle of a dream you are super groggy? its because you woke up in the middle of a cycle during REM. thats why sometimes you feel much more rested after 7.5 hours (a multiple of 90) than after 8 hours. this doesnt really explain how im expected to go from 8h of sleep down to a total of 6h, but hell its worth a shot.

i wanted to try polyphasic sleep which is about a 25 minute nap every 4 hours but i think that would be too inconvenient for me at this point in my life... im not in control of my schedule enough. so im going to try this biphasic thing for a week and then reevaluate. ill sleep for a core of 4.5 hours and then take a 90 minute nap in the afternoon. it looks like the core will be from 2am - 6:30am (which i just did today) and then nap will be from 12:30pm until 2pm. this is what fits my schedule the best at this point because ill be working at 3pm over the next few weeks while im here on break.

i think my biggest challenge will be finding things to do to keep me occupied. i already have nothing to do for these 2.5 weeks of being home, so finding an extra 2 hours worth of stuff to do per day might be hard. ill keep you posted.