Three days have passed since I last updated this polyphasic sleeping schedule. I've actually surprised myself with how long I've already kept up with it.
Day 8:
I don't remember what happened, I think it was rather uneventful as far a logs go. It resembled Day 7 in terms of sleep-wake quality. I'd say the only thing being a general feeling of sleepiness over the course of the day. Nothing like being zombified though. Also, I remember not being able to sleep at all during the nap times this day.
Day 9:
Yesterday was interesting. I overslept on my core sleep by about twenty minutes tops, but the funny thing is when I woke up I genuinely believed that I'd accidentally overslept by hours. The time dilation is becoming more impressive every day. I failed at failing asleep on the first nap and decided to change my brainwave entertainment feeling like it was hindering my sleep. It's frustrating to say the least that after nine days of half the amount of sleep I'm still apparently not tired enough to sleep during naps. The second nap with the different track worked though and I fell asleep to towards the end before irritatingly being disturbed prematurely by the sound of the pipes flushing away someone's toilet water.
Day 10:
I decided to shorten my core sleep from 4.5 hours to 3.5 hours. This is for two reasons. One is because 4.5 hours is half way through my third cycle and therefore not a natural nor beneficial time to wake up from; 3.5 hours I've noticed is the time I naturally wake up from, from the end of my second cycle. The second reason is because I need to get myself used to power napping, and hopefully depriving myself of further sleep should do this. I have no idea why I'm unable nap.
Just an hour or so less of sleep was enough to put me back to a state similar to day one, except with waking hallucinations every time I closed my eyes. It felt like I'd pulled an all-nighter; I've been quite zombified all day. Whether due to the extra sleep deprivation or to the different music track, I managed to spend what felt like a third of both my naps drifting in and out of Stage 1 sleep. I certainly needed it and definitely feel a lot better. Hopefully with this altered schedule I'll be sleeping properly during naps in a few days.
One thing that's majorly impressing me is how I'll sleep 3.5 hours and it feels equivalent to a full night of eight hours sleep, so much so that over sleeping by twenty minutes felt like I'd accidentally been asleep for nine and a half hours or so. My body is still adjusting and staying up in the early hours of the morning is still difficult, but the thought of going back to a monophonic schedule and wasting all those extra hours revolts me. I feel like I could keep this up permanently, but at the end of the day it boils down to whether I can fall asleep during the day or not. If I'm still doing this after month and yet unable to nap during the days then I'll have to consider giving it up. It's not healthy sleeping so little without sleeping extra in the day. For reference, my eyes look like death. I swear don't feel as tired as I look.
I think I'll wait till the end of the week to next update this, hopefully the adjusted schedule would've taken by then.
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