This page is a stub, collecting thoughts and resources on my phenomenological experience of sleep!
at some point i really need to write up a phenomenology of what sleep is like for me because it’s really much deeper and more spiritual than “did i get my eight hours my physical body needs to be a material being in a material world.”
my sleep schedules
i have basically four sleep schedules:
- 8-11 hours of sleep per night
- 6-7.5 hours of sleep per night
- 3-4 hours of sleep per night
- biphasic period—”up for a few hours in the middle of the night”
i think of these as like gears of a manual car. i just notice which one i’m in and shift accordingly
all of these assume napping!
rest /= sleep! see Help for Insomnia: Yet Another use for Mindfulness – Shinzen Young
kinds of fatigue
there are several different kinds of fatigues i experience, and they really are not all created equal. mind-tired. body-tired. soul-tired.
Sleep Rearranging Things
one of those nights of sleep where a bunch of stuff gets rearranged under the hood
was talking to myself a ton lol
feels like something is being channeled through me that comes out at that time
Savor Your Sleep – Zencephalon
Other:
i think of all my 100k bangers in the middle of the night on waking from dreams and then promptly fall back asleep and never tweet them
i wake up a lot in the night.
i am a light sleeper.
i can nap easily, under any circumstances.
one time—just once in my life—i was falling asleep while walking. that was when I was doing polyphasic sleep. i have an essay in An Autodidact about doing polyphasic
Resources:
sleep deprivation as treatment for depression
note to self: if and when U write these essays, make sure to search your tweets and journals for sleep-related terms. there’s gold there. u’ll notice the patterns