I know many of you must be expecting my polyphasic update for last week. And believe me, it’s coming up really soon with (finally!) the interesting observations I promised you a while ago. However, today, I’ve got something just as interesting for you. Let’s talk genetics.

It is without any doubt that genetics play a huge role in our life – I will therefore spare you the talk on the subject and advance straight to my point.

Wanting to take… [Read more.]

This morning, I am in a rush. In three hours, I will be headed to Union Square to meet a friend of mine who currently lives in Australia and whom I haven’t seen in four years. But before doing so, I’ve got several items on my To-Do list, including writing this post and squeezing in a run…so let’s start with the actual update of week 5, shall we?

To be honest, I was really… [Read more.]

As promised, this week’s update is about to be slightly different. Apart from a short recap, I will try to answer one of the most popular questions I’ve been receiving from people around me, both online and offline: how come I’ve transitioned so well to the Everyman 2-nap, so quickly?

But first, the recap.
It is now officially over a month since I started polyphasic sleep! I still can’t grasp the significance of this and believe an entire month… [Read more.]

After my last post, I thought I’d keep this update short. My polyphasic sleep is going great! (Many thanks to Daniel and to doviende for the advices they gave me on my first update.)

I believe the greatest improvement this second week has been the disappearance of this “weird” feeling I felt during the first one — as if I was sleep deprived, but not really.

My second biggest achievement is that… [Read more.]

Today, I have officially completed my first week of polyphasic sleep. To “celebrate” the occasion, I decided it’s time to write my first update on polyphasic sleep and to let you know how I’ve been doing.

I’ll start off by the question most people ponder about. Or, as my friend Nikolay actually asked me two days ago, on Twitter:

are you “less sleepy?”

My answer is… both yes and no.  (You didn’t really expect a simple… [Read more.]

I wrote this post yesterday, but wanted to read through it once more, with a “fresh” mind, today… you’ll understand what I mean by this once you read it. Be sure to check the update at the end of it too.

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From Jan 14th:

3:13 p.m.

I always feel very wary about starting a post with the time at which I start typing my first words. In fact, it is a daring way to… [Read more.]

I always get what I ask for, don’t I?

Last night, I went to bed thinking that if I must put first things first, I should probably blog before my spinning class (as I’m having a harder time writing after it). That however would be possible only by getting up no later than 4 a.m.. And, of course, with this last thought in mind, I woke up at 3.5 hours after falling asleep around 11:30 p.m. … With this joyful… [Read more.]

Expressing gratitude toward people or for what we have is a great habit.

It reminds us of how good are life is and helps us build a positive attitude toward challenges: just as we should focus on solutions rather than on the problems, we should focus on what we are thankful for rather than on complaining.
It is also a habit I’m trying to acquire. And in this spirit, today I’d like to say how thankful I am for… [Read more.]