Bubble on my ear!!

the result of being burnt too much by the sun =(
(who in the right mind will put sunblock on their ears!?!?)

=D it’s actually a bit bigger than it seems from here.
Awesome, I’ve never seen anything like this before!

I love the attention.

Hard to shower, hard to sleep. They say it’s a second-degree burn (like wow), and that if I burst the bubble may get infection, and that if ear gets infection very dangerous (ear infection are the most painful, ears are the most vulnerable parts of your body!) like woah.

My left ear got infected before anyway. So it’s a bit hard of hearing. Never really recovered. And I learnt that I got unnatural ears which flap outwards like Jumbo’s.

Wow.

Thankfully I’m a polyphasic sleeper, sure helps in times like these.

Explaining Polyphasic Sleep

in my own terms, according to my personal understanding as a polyphasic sleeper for the past 4 years.

A polyphasic sleeper is basically someone who sleeps multiple times a day (more than two), instead of sleeping 6-9 hours at one go (at night, usually) like the common practice. The number of times may vary on a daily basis, and the amount slept each time may vary too. Some polyphasic sleepers have a core sleep period at a certain time of the day (Everyman), some do not (Uberman).

I was more of an Everyman polyphasic sleeper, though in recent days I’ve slanted more towards the Uberman pattern.

Polyphasic sleep is largely recognised to be a form of circadian rhythmn sleep disorder, and though many polyphasic sleepers are polyphasic by choice, it is also possible to be unintentionally polyphasic. Researchers have cautioned that polyphasic sleep, or the practice of sleeping for multiple short naps, even if the summation of it is equivalent to the standard of 8 hours, levels of performance achieved will always be well below that when fully rested.

Ask any polyphasic sleeper and you’ll know that it’s true.

Polyphasic sleep is actually rather common today. Many people who sleep regularly at night also take a nap in the afternoon, that’s actually called biphasic sleeping. While most polyphasic sleepers, especially intentional ones, only have 4 or 5 sleep phases a day, my average will be about 10 phases a day. Excluding the possibility of microsleep, which I won’t naturally be aware or conscious of, each sleep phase can vary from 10 min to 3 hours. When I’m in Everyman pattern, my core sleep phase can go up to 5 hours, but it is really rare.

And in summation, more often than not I sleep more than 8 hours a day, especially because it’s hard to add them together. Sleeping from 2330 to 0030 adds an hour to yesterday’s and today’s total sleeping time. Unhealthy? Definitely. Unfortunately, I am not a polyphasic sleeper by choice. My circadian clock is screwed up.

To me polyphasic sleeping has connotations of waiting. It often feels like I’m waiting for something. That’s why I keep waking up. It’s a horrible feeling to wake up every hour and yet nothing has happened. It’s a horrible feeling knowing you’re waiting and knowing that nothing will come. It makes the quality of my sleep phases extremely low, and by the time I’m really awake it feels like I haven’t slept at all. So what’s the point of sleeping, when you just feel worse at the end of it? I really cannot help it.

Microsleeping is like fainting. You just totally zone out for as short as a fraction of a second (miliseconds) up to a few seconds. It’s something that’s extremely hard to notice, but I’m sure I microsleep a lot. A lot of people microsleep – they just don’t realise it.

Perhaps I also suffer from insomnia. Not chronic though, just acute, perhaps. Not even as bad as acute, maybe transient. Or maybe I’m just somniphobic.

The world needs to be educated more on people with different (not weird, and abnormal is merely the scientific term for saying different) sleeping patterns. Cut us some slack, we’re tired already, we’re trying already.

That’s why I always say, I do not sleep. Because I’m like almost awake at every hour. And if you contact me, I can easily wake up and answer your queries and go back to sleep. That’s why polyphasic people are more often than not, very available.

To all you polyphasic sleepers out there, to all you insomniacs out there, to all you somniphobics out there, take heart! You are not alone.

And to all you normal sleepers, don’t take your ability to sleep for granted. Don’t try to be nocturnal when you aren’t. Don’t wait till you lose it to regret it. Go and sleep, already. It’s such a blessing, you are so blessed. Know it already. Go and sleep, and cut us who are different some slack.

I must be tired. To think I’m ranting about sleeping. Pills do not help. They don’t make you sleep better, they just make you more tired. It’s sad.

Very sad.