I recently tried bi-phasic sleeping. Bsically, I would take a 90 min nap in the afternoon and then sleep between 3 – 4.5 hours at night. I loved it, never have I felt so awake when awake. However, I did find this schedule doesn’t work as well when travelling and/or drinking (SXSW). But I plan to start again now that I’m back home and sober.

We’re kind of bird-like in that we like to sleep when it’s dark out (I know I do). But I wonder if that’s the most efficient means to rest.

There were two small hitches in this plan.

1: The further I progressed through my degree, the more my schedule consisted of three hours studio classes back to back. This left little to no time for the four exceptionally important 45 minute naps a day. Some modification was required in order to conform to my class schedule to do something that was very close to the Everyman cycle.

2: After you adjust (several painfully awkward weeks), the first three or four weeks are awesome. It comes back and bites you when you run out of things to do, a problem that Da Vinci never seemed to mention in his left-handed, reversed imaged notebooks.

There are very few people awake at 4am on weeknights in college. If they are awake, they tend to be doing something antisocial like binge drinking or purging. Not the most compelling company to keep.

If I could have convinced a few others to have joined in this experiment with me, it may have been a different story.