Group rationality diary, 8/20/12

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This is the public group instrumental rationality diary for the week of August 20th. It's a place to record and chat about it if you have done, or are actively doing, things like:

Established a useful new habit
Obtained new evidence that made you change your mind about some belief
Decided to behave in a different way in some set of situations
Optimized some part of a common routine or cached behavior
Consciously changed your emotions or affect with respect to something
Consciously pursued new valuable information about something that could make a big difference in your life
Learned something new about your beliefs, behavior, or life that surprised you
Tried doing any of the above and failed

Or anything else interesting which you want to share, so that other people can think about it, and perhaps be inspired to take action themselves. Try to include enough details so that everyone can use each other's experiences to learn about what tends to work out, and what doesn't tend to work out.

Thanks to everyone who contributes!

Last week's diary; archive of prior diaries.

This is the public group instrumental rationality diary for the week of August 20th. It's a place to record and chat about it if you have done, or are actively doing, things like:

Established a useful new habit
Obtained new evidence that made you change your mind about some belief
Decided to behave in a different way in some set of situations
Optimized some part of a common routine or cached behavior
Consciously changed your emotions or affect with respect to something
Consciously pursued new valuable information about something that could make a big difference in your life
Learned something new about your beliefs, behavior, or life that surprised you
Tried doing any of the above and failed

Thanks to everyone who contributes!

Last week's diary; archive of prior diaries.

What happened to the polyphasic phase? And how does the biphasic look on Zeo?

Oh, and the first question.

The polyphasic phase got messed up, I believe because I made my first nap too close to my core (2.5h) and so I wasn't properly waking up at that time. I tried fixing this over the course of a month or so, but by then I had really bad sleep habits (in terms of how I would respond to tiredness). Then I tried re-adapting (using an exaptation approach) at the end of last summer (about in time with Leverage), but it failed due to insufficient self-control / systems to keep me awake.

Then I switched to biphasic and have been really happy with it. I could see me trying a 2-nap, 4.5h core at some point, but at the moment I'm happy here.

2MalcolmOcean12y

Wow, I haven't been signed into LW in awhile. Zeo has typically recorded about 2h each of REM, Light, and Deep sleep during my core, plus 8 mins REM during my naps. I finally started actually charting this stuff just about a month ago, and so far can report: (all times in minutes) Average bedtime = 230 minutes past midnight (stddev 62) * REM = 124 (25) * Light = 122 (28.6) * Deep = 104 (14.8) Nap typically 229.6 minutes after wake (76) * REM = 124 (25) * Light = 122 (28.6) * Deep = 104 (14.8) I am totally not a statistician, but models of sleep and my own data definitely support the conclusion that I get much more deep sleep when I go to bed earlier. Given this, I really need to start doing that. The three datapoints I have where I went to bed by 2:30, I got >= 2h deep, which only happened in one later-bedtime case (during which I also slept 7h total, fwiw, due to having missed a nap or something). So I predict that when I start sleeping earlier I'll be back to the 2h of deep I mentioned initially. I'm happy to throw this data at you for analysis. In theory my zeo has been logging it since over a year ago (and decrypted, thank god) but I don't know how to get it off so I've just been logging it in a spreadsheet daily. If you want the raw zeo file, you can have that too.