Yesterday I had my first undisturbed nap for the last few days, yet I couldn't fall into deep sleep. I would say it was frustrating but I've started taking 5htp which is an anti-depressant, and it sorta made me zoned out enough mentally to not care. It's also used for insomnia, so when I went to have my night nap I actually accidentally fell asleep early, which has never happened before. I overslept by 35minutes though to make up for not having an afternoon nap, which almost doubled my original intended time asleep. Today I haven't felt tired at all in order to take an afternoon nap. It could be down to the extra sleep at night or due to the anti-depressants, or down to both.
I'm getting fed up of this now. Trying to keep my afternoon naps consistent around my family is not just difficult but goddamn irritating. So, bare with me, I'm thinking about changing schedules again. I'm thinking about changing to an Everyman 1.5/Spamayl/Freeman hybrid schedule proposed by yours truly. This would essentially be a mixture of three different schedules. I would have a fixed 1.5hr nap at the same time every night like on the Everyman 1.5 schedule, with an indefinite amount of 20 minute floating naps, usually ranging between 3-6 like on Spamayl (Acronym for sleep polyphasically as much as you like). That means instead of having the same amount of naps at set times per day, I'll just sleep whenever I feel tired. This way I don't have to worry about missing naps or being sleep deprived, as long as I have at least 30minutes between each nap, the idea is that most of the naps can be taken at night, which is slightly more convenient too.
I know I'm not really a fan of taking only 20 minute naps, but I find they're lovely when I'm seriously tired. On top of that I propose that once to thrice a week, preferably on the weekends when there's less chance of me napping during the day, I have a full night's 6-8hrs monophasic sleep to make up for any sleep deprivation I may have, like on the Freeman schedule. (A schedule someone suggested on the trypolyphasic forum.) It may be hard for me to sleep monophasically again but I think I need to learn to go straight into it from time to time because normal sleeping is quite often inevitable. I think to aid the process I'll take some proper sleeping tablets before hand. Altogether the idea is to still average around 5hrs of sleep per night, but in a more adaptable way.
I'm not completely decided yet on whether to do it or not or how to go about it exactly but I'm sure thinking about it.
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