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		<title>eight-month reflection</title>
		<link>http://birkin.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/eight-month-reflection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Been a while! Background info My usual schedule is to have a core-sleep of 4.5 hours at night, and then 20-minute naps at around 7am, 11am, 3pm, and 7pm. If I start the core-sleep particularly early or late, I may add a 3am or 11pm nap. A primary goal of mine is flexibility, so although [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=birkin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=277766&amp;post=40&amp;subd=birkin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>two-month reflection</title>
		<link>http://birkin.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/two-month-reflection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Background info My schedule is to have a core-sleep of 4.5 hours at night, and then 20-minute naps at around 7am, 11am, 3pm, and 7pm. If I start the core-sleep particularly early or late, I&#8217;ll sometimes add an 11pm or a 3am nap. A primary goal of mine is flexibility, so although I never skip [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=birkin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=277766&amp;post=39&amp;subd=birkin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>days 30 through 45</title>
		<link>http://birkin.wordpress.com/2006/07/24/days-30-through-45/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 03:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nap-sloppiness&#8230; On Saturday, July 15, I forgot my first nap; just worked right through the 3pm target. I realized it about 5pm when my partner picked me up from work. I thought I might take a nap in the car on the drive home (in passenger seat!) and count it as a late 3pm, pushing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=birkin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=277766&amp;post=38&amp;subd=birkin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>one-month reflection</title>
		<link>http://birkin.wordpress.com/2006/07/11/one-month-reflection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of these thoughts duplicate the information in my &#8216;two-week reflection&#8216; post. As I said then, I plan to continue this method of sleep indefinitely. I love the extra time. Some of the time I use for chores, and some is more personal time I use creatively. The creative personal time has obvious appeal, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=birkin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=277766&amp;post=21&amp;subd=birkin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a partner&#8217;s perspective</title>
		<link>http://birkin.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/a-partners-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2006 12:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Tracy&#8230; I was not enthusiastic about the polyphasic sleep experiment. I was worried for a couple of reasons. First, I was worried that it would set Birkin apart from the rest of us. Second, I selfishly worried about having an alarm go off in the middle of the night waking me up and my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=birkin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=277766&amp;post=35&amp;subd=birkin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>day 30</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my last daily post of my sleep experience! In the next day or so I&#8217;ll post a &#8216;one-month-reflection&#8217;, and then give a day 45 and day 60 update. Again this morning I awoke without an alarm. Again I didn&#8217;t check the time, but guess it would have been about a half-hour before the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=birkin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=277766&amp;post=34&amp;subd=birkin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>day 29</title>
		<link>http://birkin.wordpress.com/2006/07/08/day-29/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2006 03:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I awoke early this morning from the core without an alarm, but decided to go back to bed. I didn&#8217;t check the time, but guess it was within the 3 to 4.5hr time-frame of this experiment in which my core-sleep is 4.5 hours, but I&#8217;ll allow myself to get up from a core sleep anytime [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=birkin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=277766&amp;post=33&amp;subd=birkin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>day 28</title>
		<link>http://birkin.wordpress.com/2006/07/07/day-28/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 03:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[11:46:20 PM Great morning. The alarm woke me out of a deep, deep 4.5 hour core sleep at 3:30am, but after stumbling about slowly for the first 5 minutes, I was able to do two hours of computer work after getting some &#8216;active&#8217; chores out of the way. The mini experiment score (seeing if I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=birkin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=277766&amp;post=32&amp;subd=birkin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>day 27</title>
		<link>http://birkin.wordpress.com/2006/07/06/day-27/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 02:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Awoke spontaneously about 35 minutes before alarm wakeup! (mini-experiment score: 1/3) I didn&#8217;t take advantage of the time; just noted that I felt fairly clear and then crawled back in bed. I think I knew that the alarm also meant that I&#8217;d be going to the gym soon, which I didn&#8217;t feel like doing. We&#8217;ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=birkin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=277766&amp;post=31&amp;subd=birkin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>day 26</title>
		<link>http://birkin.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/day-26/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Didn&#8217;t awaken spontaneously last night (mini-experiment score: 0/2), but the wakeup was comfortable. I&#8217;ve noticed occasional proof that the body is capable of reaching a REM state in the 20 minute naps that, monophasically, occurs more often in cycles of about 1.5 hours &#8212; but I haven&#8217;t known quite how to put it, given that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=birkin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=277766&amp;post=30&amp;subd=birkin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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