Polyphasic Sleep: Day 45 (The Saturday conundrum.)
From the beginning, one of my biggest hurdles with polyphasic sleep is the Saturday Morning conundrum. Basically when I wake up, there’s nothing good on TV, I don’t feel like working, and realistically there’s not much for me to do by myself.
2-7am is my “by myself” time. Typically its spent in the pursuit of some work-related goals during the week, but on Saturday mornings I catch up on lots of things I missed during the week, like old episodes of 60 minutes, SNL, and other comedies that I don’t have time for. (30 Rock!)
I used to sleep on Saturday mornings, but every time I “oversleep,” aka get a regular amount of sleep, it worries me that I’m going to get back into that habit, which is fairly easy to do.
On top of that, if I’m going to be by myself for an entire day, like today, since my wife is working, it really gives me less incentive to do the polyphasic sleep thing.
But I do it anyway. I’m addicted to the benefits. It’s sort of like some bad habit– and some could argue it is a bad habit in itself– but I want it for all the right reasons. I like having more time. I like being on east coast time with my west coast family. I enjoy fixing problems with my business earlier than the rest of the world. I’m thinking that the only advantages I really have are the ones I create, so the more I create, the better I’ll do.
That’s what I tell myself, anyway– when I’m alone on Saturday mornings.
