Today was really interesting. I manged to get all my naps on time without oversleeping. As I thought, sleep deprivation was getting worse. The strange thing however is, that this was only true for the next two cycles or so. I also had to add in one additional nap in my 4a-8a cycle at 6a.
During the time from midnight to 8am I really had to fight fatigue. However it was still mild, compared to the fatigue I had to deal with during my previous trials. I remember having bouts of narcolepsy (falling asleep against ones own will) when I was visiting a friend. I practically fell asleep while I was talking.
So far I haven’t even come near to that state.
I’m not sure why this is so, but I think, that in the last couple of month, I might have conditioned myself to fall asleep quickly and to get at least some rem sleep during those naps. I’m uncertain yet whether this is a good or a bad thing, as I don’t know if it will help adaption or actually make it take longer.
Starting from 8am I gradually became less tired. I don’t know if I have to attribute that to my naps or just the reaction of my body to the daylight and an increased activity level.
#1 written by Alex December 23rd, 2009 at 20:27
Hey good luck with polyphasic sleeping. I hope it has gone well since this update. I’d like to see more people succeed at it. My polyphasic sleep experiment can be found in my blog at
http://improvingpd.blogspot.com/search/label/polyphasic
I am up to day 14 now holding out on 4.5 hours sleep a night just have to fix my napping and I’ll be adapted. I am also Beuford on the Steve Pavlina forums if you see me over there.