Back to Everyman 3

I think I've finally got fed up of constantly switching between schedules. It's starting to get very annoying. I had a good run on Everyman 1.5 for a week, with the intention of working my way down to Spamayl. I encountered one tiny problem though; boredom. Sure, there are plenty of things I could potentially fill my day with, every day, but as humans our attention span isn't that great and it becomes tiring mentally, even if you're not actually tired in the sense of the word. I found myself accidentally falling to sleep quite often due to boredom. At night I would finish whatever fun activities I was doing, reading a fanfic, watching an episode, chatting to acquaintances, and then I would just lay in bed mulling everything over, unsure what to do next. And because only sleeping three hours per day means falling asleep happens in under one minute when having a restful mind, I found I would either blackout and not wake up for a couple of hours, or I would end up micro-sleeping away a whole hour or two, just because I had nothing I actually felt I need to do. Also, my morning nap was confusing my body because it was so close after my core sleep, and so I would just think, "right, whatever, no point in waking up." I had no motive. And so whilst sleeping only 2 -3hrs a day is awesome, I found it a little impractical. And since I'm fed up of experimenting now, I've decided to just go with the schedule that's the easiest, the most efficient, and the most practical. I've decided to just try and stick with the Everyman 3 schedule.

I've fallen quite easily into the Everyman 3 schedule, albeit accidentally. I'll sleep between 3-4hrs per night between the hours of 3am and 7am. I'm not particularly a morning person, finding it easier to stay awake in the late night before a core sleep rather than after a core in the early-ish morning. And although I like being awake before anyone else, chances are I may end up falling into an Everyman 2 schedule on weekends or something, with a forfeit on the afternoon nap. But I should be averaging around about 4hrs sleep like this. Not too much, not too little. I've found it the perfect amount of time to sleep in the past. And of course if I ever do need to sleep less again I can always just postpone my core with another nap and then fall into the next Everyman schedule up like that. I've experimented enough now to be able to think that I can just switch between them as and when needed. No matter what though, I shan't be going back monophasic, or sleeping more than 6hrs ever again. If I do need to go back to monophasic then I'll just sleep 6hrs on it's own. This is my own personal Everyman guideline:

6hrs = no naps
5hrs = 1 nap (Evening)
4hrs = 2 naps (Evening, Night)
3hrs= 3 naps (Afternoon, Evening, Night)
2hrs = 4 naps (Late Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night)
1hr = 5 naps (Late Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night, Early Morning)

What's interesting is when I first started this experiment almost 3 months ago I started with the Everyman 2 schedule and found it unbelievably difficult and near impossible, giving up in favour for biphasic. Now look, I'm switching between all sorts of schedules with barely any hassle. I'm not saying it's consistent, but it's not difficult either. But now I favour consistency and am going to make Everyman 3 my lifestyle choice. I shall probably keep this briefly updated. I think if anything I'll just log the times I've slept and leave it at that.

Everyman Spamayl Adaption - Days 9 to 10

Day 9 was good. My nap quality went back to normal, whatever that was on day 8. Felt a little tired half an hour leading up to the nap times themselves but no biggie.

Day 10 went well as well. Last night though went a little awry. I accidentally fell asleep thinking at about 12:30am and didn't wake till 3am. I felt good upon waking but decided I should go back to bed to keep the pattern as I usually go to bed at that time now. So I put my alarm on for 5am like usual. Except when I woke I couldn't be bothered to stay awake. So I fell back to sleep at 6am and woke up at 8am. One thing I've noticed is that the more I sleep the more I feel the need to sleep, which is where all my will power disappeared to. So altogether I slept about 6.5hrs but in parts.

It felt like an eternity. I don't feel particularly bad since it wasn't anything like sleeping 8hrs, except the fact my head feels extremely sensitive, almost migraine like, but after looking at my sleep graph it's obvious that the last two hours were completely pointless. I don't like the way everything seems though. It's like the world seems different on more sleep, like it's there but it's not really. It feels like a dream. Which doesn't really make sense but I don't like it. And of course my day feels much too short.

I doubt I'll be able to nap today. And considering 3hrs of sleep can make me go 22hrs awake, I wouldn't be surprised if I stay all the way up to 3am without a lick of tiredness today. It shouldn't be too difficult to get back into it though. A sleep-in never killed anyone.

So today is a bit of a failure, but mainly out of laziness than anything else. I haven't actually slept more than six hours in over about two months. It feels so wrong.

Everyman Spamayl Adpation - Day 8

Last night I skipped my evening nap as I didn't feel tired thanks to that oversleep in the afternoon. The next nap I took after that was at 11pm, which went as normal. I was okay all night, no problems. I went to bed at 3am feeling a little hyper, as I'm still not used to going to bed so early. I got woken up by my smart alarm at 4:45am and was feeling a little tired but preocuppied myself with some more youtube fan vids until it was time for my next nap. For reference, I haven't had any hallucinations in the last 30hrs or so, which I really see as an improvement.

For some reason though this morning, I decided to take two naps back to back, which I think really ended up as three naps back to back and about half an hour after that of microsleeping due to laziness, but I'm not really sure as it was all a little blurry. I probably didn't actually sleep more than half an hour extra all together, I'm not sure. My need to stay in bed and think in the morning is my downfall. But I forgot that I'd had so many naps in the morning back to back, and so come my afternoon nap when I couldn't fall asleep even after 20 minutes I got really worried. I didn't feel tired, but I've fallen asleep to every afternoon nap for the last month now, so of course I was a little worried. But then I remembered all the back to back naps I had in the morning and it kind of astounded me. It really does work then with this SPAMAYL approach, that if I need to skip a nap later in the day, then I can take it back to back with the last nap and be fine.

Considering I may have had three back to back naps then I may not be able to sleep for my evening nap as well, but we'll see at the time. I shan't really be worried about it. If for some reason I have just instantaneously lost the ability to nap then I can just go full on SPAMAYL for a day or two and that should fix it, as I'll be so tired that I'll have to sleep during the naps. But that's a far away possibility at the moment. Otherwise, I've come to an average of four naps per day, this here is a pie chart I compiled of the times I'm roughly falling into sleeping:

I was initially worried about that large gap in the morning but two days into the schedule and it's caused me no further problems. I can go the whole morning with no tirednes, completely alert until the early afternoon when I just have to crash for 15mins. This is about 3hrs sleep altogether. I know that at the moment it's not exactly consistent (I'll make an excuse as it's the weekend), but the point is for the last four days or so I've been sleeping around 3 to 3.5hrs with no problems, except for hallucinations early on. I really love this schedule. It's the best I've been on as of yet. Also, it feels like the day almost never ends as the only credible amount of time I sleep for is the early-mid morning for a couple of hours. It's a very nice feeling. I have no plans to come off this schedule, or this amount of sleep. It agrees with me perfectly. Tomorrow I'll continue sticking to the schedule as I was before the weekend and we'll see what follows.

Everyman Spamayl Adaption - Day 6

Progress!

Yesterday I found I only needed to take 5 naps. I took naps at 7am, 2pm, 7:30pm, 10pm, and 12:30am, along with my core at 3am. However I found myself extremely tired during the evening, around about 5pm, I was literally falling asleep on my feet. I could've done to have a nap there instead but I rarely can there. I know it'll get better though. After a week or so my body should improve the quality of my afternoon nap to help me ride out the whole afternoon and early evening without becoming ridiculously tired. Otherwise no blackouts or oversleeps! Well, not per se, as I'll write below, but generally the last 24hrs have been extremely good. It didn't hit me as hard as I thought it would. Usually in any adaption day 2 is always my hardest so now I know I'm out of the dark and actually have a chance at making this work. It should be plainer sailing from here on out.

I found myself taking micronaps during the early hours of the morning. I was having mild hallucinations too, although now I have experience with them I recognized it for what it was at the time and shook myself right out of it. I tried many things to keep me awake. I tried watching tv as if it's something I'm really interested in it'll wake me up, but I found that I couldn't let it stream without having a million micronaps, and I was having difficulty getting any links to actually work, probably as I was so tired. In the end I found going on youtube and fangirling over some Supernatural fan vids worked. It woke me instantly as obviously fangirling is a dangerous business. I joke, but I guess it's something to do with the onslaught of happy endorphines. It took me about 2hrs to figure out that this was the only thing that was going to keep me awake, but lo and behold 2hrs after this discovery and I was still just as awake. I hadn't experienced anymore microsleeps or hallucinations, or not even the urge to sleep. It was miraculous. I did this first thing in the morning too and I was awake instantly and stayed like that for the rest of the morning. I had no problems. It's definitely my new stay awake trick. Hehe. Me gusta.

I took my core at 3am. The night before I found that waking up after 1hr45mins felt a little premature, so I set my alarm for 2hrs instead with a half an hour gap for my smart alarm to wake me up in. I woke up just before 5am feeling like I'd woken on time. I guess I'm good to go with a 2hr core, with four or five 15 minute naps. So altogether I'm sleeping about 3hrs, which was my initial goal. I'm getting no light sleep now, perhaps 20 minutes at most, and that's a stretch. The first hour cycle of my core was all deep sleep, followed by 20 minutes of my second cycle in deep sleep before being followed up by about 40 minutes of REM sleep. 40 minutes of REM I think is sufficient for a person to live on, but I believe the reason my core is more deep sleep heavy is because although I can't be certain for sure, I think that around the first 5mins of each nap is REM sleep, which would make up for another 20 to 25 minutes. I can't be certain for sure because it's all at the beginning, I can't remember and I have no zeo, but today I decided to take a short timed 5 minute nap to help me through the large morning wake period and I awoke in the middle of a dream, which was the last in a series of separate dreams. So that's why I believe at least the first 5 minutes of my naps are REM, whilst my core is cushioning all my deep sleep.

One weird thing I found though is that I keep waking up with hiccups recently. I recently  read someone else's Uberman adaption log who said they get this too, but that it went after a few days. I can't for the life of me figure out why this is but it is annoying for sure. The only other thing I have to report is about my idea of setting an alarm every half an hour during the night and morning hours just in case I blackout or oversleep. In the night I didn't need it as I managed to prevent myself from blacking out, but it came in extremely useful in the morning. I have a tendency to want to stay in bed and think for at least half an hour, and it's usually the cause of all my oversleeps. I think I went through about 2 or 3 backup alarms spaced five minutes after each other before finally realizing I needed to get up and move. I did a few stretches before going on youtube to try out my new stay awake trick and was okay until my morning nap. I don't know why exactly but my morning nap always feels so freaking long, like I've been sleeping for another 2hrs. I woke up and again stayed in bed in order to think, out of habit. Of course if it hadn't been for my alarm set every half an hour I would've overslept, as by the time the alarm went off, 10 minutes after initially waking, I was already in stage 1 sleep. So all these alarms were definitely a good idea, and now with my new stay awake trick, tonight should be a breeze!

Everyman Spamayl Adaption - Day 1

I'm sad to say that last night I failed once more. I managed to prevent myself from blacking out by pacing up and down my room, but I overslept twice. The first time I overslept it was by half an hour only, which isn't too much of a problem. Although for some reason for the first half an hour from waking I was experiencing some very vivid and freaky hallucinations. Which is a first for me in my life ever, and definitely not desirable again. The main problem came about though when I went for my core sleep; I didn't wake up for another four hours. I can now see that plunging into this is not the answer. I've decided yet again to go about this in a different way, as the end goal remains the same, to be a fully adapted Spamayl sleeper, perhaps with a short core, by lengthening the adaption period.

My body obviously can't override the urge to sleep for longer than at least a couple of hours in the morning, as I've been sleeping like that for a while now. So I've decided to go about this by following a basic Everyman 3 schedule for the first week, except with floating naps as in Spamayl, instead of having fixed nap times. Usually an Everyman 3 schedule consists of a 3 hour core with three 20 minute naps, yet as stated in an earlier post, I prefer 15 minute naps, so I shall be taking four of those instead of three. This shouldn't be too much of a stretch as I was sleeping a number of different ways for naps before, yet the 3 hour core was always constant. This will give me 4 hours sleep altogether, which should be enough for me to live on, as before I started this I was sleeping an average of 4.5 hours comfortably, whilst giving my body enough time to adapt to repartitioning my 15 minute naps.

After a week or so when I feel adapted enough, the idea is to cut 45 minutes off the end of my core and replace it with another 15 minute nap in the day. And after a week or so of that, repeat, and so on and so on until I'm at my goal of sleeping between 7 and 9 naps a day, perhaps with or without a core. This way it should take me at least a month to adapt, and probably two at most. It is longer this way, but it should be the most pain free. It also gives me a tangible goal to work towards. The idea is to cut my needed amount of sleep down to a minimum of 3 hours, although I'm sure that once I'm adapted to this schedule, 2 hours won't be much of a push from time to time.

Here is a series of pie charts I compiled to show how the ideal adaption process would take place. Remember that although the naps aren't fixed they would be around about these times as they're more ideal, and because I feel tired at these times.)

First week with a 3hr core and four 15 minute naps = a grand total of 4hrs sleep:


Second week with a 2.25hr core and five 15 minute naps = a grand total of 3.5hrs sleep:


Third week with a 1.5hr core and six 15 minute naps = a grand total of 3hrs sleep:


Fourth week with a 45min core and about seven 15 minute naps = a grand total of 2.5hrs sleep:


Note that I haven't put up the full Spamayl schedule without any cores. As much as this would save me an extra half an hour per day, I don't think it would be very efficient, as I would have to nap most of them in the late morning, and I can't really be bothered to nap-wake-nap-wake constantly, nor do I see the benefits in it. I think I would prefer a core anyway to help reset my circadian clock every morning by going to bed while it's still dark and waking up when it's light. Once properly adapted this can probably be shifted throughout the seasons without much problem. So this here is my end goal, and this is the way I shall be going about it. This shouldn't pose much of a problem and should be easy enough to adapt to. I really want to adapt to Spamayl because it seems like the perfect schedule, saves hours and yet isn't rigid. I have my whole heart dedicated into somehow perfecting and adapting to this schedule.

Spamayl w/Core - Day 5

Here I list the times I've slept over the last 24hrs so far, all being 15 minutes long except the core taken at 04:45am which was closer to 50 minutes long:
20:00
22:40
23:45
00:45
01:45
02:45
03:45
04:40
06:00
07:15
09:55
12:20
13:30
16:00
As can be seen I've taken 14 naps, which equals a grand total of 4hrs. This seems to be a good start. I found it a little difficult sleeping on the hour every hour throughout the night, but it was necessary. I realize now that the point isn't to start at a larger amount of sleep solely to soften the adaption of sleeping less, but instead to pull the body through on enough light sleep for the first few days while the deep sleep and REM is repartitioning itself to fit within the 15 minute naps I gave it. Otherwise without those extra naps it would be similar to going completely without sleep for those first few days, which is near impossible, especially without oversleeping and blacking out.

It is a little annoying to have to sleep so often but it should only be necessary for the first three days at least. Then I could in theory start to omit naps. Already after following the 15 minute nap rule for the last 24hrs I can see a major increase of nap quality. I even believe I received some deep sleep in a couple of naps during the day, more so than I did last night.

Last night wasn't too difficult although my legs were aching from sitting up most the night. Last night there was no chance of blacking out, but tonight will be different. Tonight I'll stand between all my naps, without a wall to lean against. I believe this will prevent me from falling asleep standing up, lest I fall and wake up anyway. Otherwise it still felt like I'd been awake all night, the only psychological reset I've managed to have my 50min core. Time is already seeming to go a lot slower, almost dilated like, and as if there's no beginning or end, morning or night, yesterday or tomorrow. Time seems to be standing still once again.

I am dedicated to seeing this through without one blackout or sleep-in. I really want this to work. I find that 15minute naps are extremely convenient. I can't count how many times I've woken up from a nap today just about to be disturbed. Five minutes longer on the standard 20minute Spamayl schedule and I wouldn't have stood a chance. I really like this so far. I feel great. I am rooting all my luck and will power into surviving the second hardest day of adaption. The second night.

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Spamayl - Day 4

Last night didn't go very well at all. I didn't feel as tired as apparently I was. I had two blackouts and failed to wake up in the morning when I forgot to take my nap. Here are the times I've slept over the last 24hrs:

20:30 - 15 minutes (Planned)
22:30 - 30 minutes (Planned)
12:00 - ~60 minutes (Blackout)
02:00 - 30 minutes (Planned)
03:00 - ~40 minutes (Blackout)
04:45 - 40 minutes (Planned)
06:00 - ~100 minutes (Forgot to reset my alarm)
14:30 - 15 minutes (Afternoon nap)

=a grand total of 5.5hrs.

I am pleased with myself over the fact that I didn't blackout for hours at a time and only needed five hours or so to recuperate. My body seems to be accustomed rather well to polyphasic sleeping now. One thing though, I had a hell of a load of dreams last night. This is probably due to the REM rebound I've often heard about, seeing as I barely had any yesterday.

I was on the trypolyphasic forum earlier discussing my schedule and someone suggested that I need to keep all the times asleep the same, rather than having two separate times. That would apparently confuse my body. So instead, I've decided to try just 15minute naps, for convenience. I've learned from my past failure. Waiting till I'm tired to sleep won't initially cut it. It'll just end in blackouts, and that's something I don't want, nor need.

The idea is to start with around 15 naps per day and then reduce down to around 10 to 12. I'm going to start then by sleeping 15 minutes on the hour every hour for ten hours during the night. Then I'll sleep an extra five or so in the day. Hopefully one or two before lunch, two or three before dinner, and two or three before nightfall.

I created these pie charts earlier to help me visualize the schedule.

Here is an example of what I'll be doing for the initial week or so in order to get my body used to sleeping in 15 minute increments without cutting too much time off my current amount of time spent sleeping, with purple being the time awake and red the time asleep:

Eventually though over the next month or so I should be able to cut it down to something more like this:

Obviously a lot of time could be saved on a schedule such as this. First though, I need to worry about any more blackouts. I've decided that to prevent anymore blackouts I'm going to do a somewhat crazy yet necessary thing. I am going to spend the whole night awake standing up, no matter what I'm doing, tv, japanese, writing, chatting, ect. That way I can't fall asleep without falling over, which isn't really possible anyway. Yes it will be painful, but it's necessary. That and a load of backup alarms. I don't trust myself to not fall asleep accidentally anymore. The only three blackouts I've had in the last two months of polyphasic sleeping and they've all been this past week. I take that as a warning.

So I realize how extreme this schedule is compared to the others I've done so far but this time I'm trading comfort for results. Apparently, if I'm disciplined enough. I should adjust within 5 to 7 days. I can do this, if even to prove the depths of my own will power to myself.

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Spamayl - Day 3

The last 24 hours have been good, although so far a little inconsistent with the periods of time spent sleeping. I found that I only needed my alarm twice and would often wake 5 to 15 minutes early. The nights that I would often be awake I found I couldn't sleep more than 15 minutes at a time, which I'm sure will change and stabilize soon enough. So here follows the times I slept in the last 24 hours or so, and for how long:
20:00 - 15mins
22:30 - 30mins
12:00 - 15mins
01:00 - 15mins
04:45 - 45mins
06:00 - 30mins
07:00 - 30mins
10:30 - 15mins
14:00 - 30mins
So altogether I've slept for 3.75hours, which is quite an improvement. I found I really enjoyed the night naps, even the premature ones. They felt so long and refreshing, and would often end with REM. I haven't particularly felt tired during the day, although when I have I've taken a nap. I can only seem to sleep for 15 minutes at a time in the day though, and often feel groggy if I try to sleep for longer. So these two things I've noticed.

First that 30 minute naps are more refreshing at night when they involve deep sleep, and that 15 minute naps are more refreshing during the day, and that if I need longer I can always take two back to back, separated by at least 30minutes. Also this is more convenient, only having to sleep 15 minutes a time during the day.

So my Spamayl plan has changed somewhat. The idea is to get between 4 to 6 thirty minute naps at night, followed by 2 to 6 fifteen minute naps during the day. I believe this will work much better. That would average to about 3.5hours of sleep per night. I'll probably sleep a little more at the beginning though, although I'm hoping to tone it down to about 2.5hrs though over the next month or two.

Otherwise I haven't felt particularly tired today. Surprisingly I haven't felt any different to the way I was sleeping before, whatever that was. I'm really rooting for this personalized schedule. Tomorrow shall be interesting.

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Spamayl - Day 2

So last night I had two thirty minute naps at 10:30pm and 12:00am. I didn't really feel tired till my core at 4:30am so I left it till then. Well that may have been a bad idea as I had my first blackout today. I assume I awoke to my alarm at 6:00am because the only thing I remember is waking at 8:00am naturally with no earplugs in or sleeping mask on. Initially before realizing any of this I thought I'd overslept but that was impossible because my alarm is set to vibrate infinitely until I wake up and turn it off. And it wasn't vibrating. Plus when I looked at my sleep graph it had apparently stopped recording at 6:00am, so I must have turned it off. Everything points to me waking up, going through the motions, and then accidentally blacking out so fast that I don't even remember anything. Very weird indeed.

After looking at my sleep graph I noticed that at the half an hour mark I had REM on my core sleep, which I guess was only confusing my body with the two different times. So I've decided to skip the core sleep and just go full on spamayl. I think this would probably be easier not to oversleep on due to it being quite short. I just have to make sure I get a couple more naps in the nights, at least for the first couple of weeks. Just in case I oversleep or have anymore blackouts or whatever, I've decided to have multiple alarms from the 4:30am nap onwards, separated by a couple of minutes each. I have no trouble sleeping for short periods of time at night, unlike most people, and tend to have a problem waking up for my morning sleeps instead.

So last night I had 4hrs of sleep altogether. Fast forward 7.5hrs. I've been feeling good all morning, and just had a 30min afternoon nap. I tend to feel more tired after my afternoon nap though and I've finally come up with a hypothesis as to why. It's probably because I get almost next to no stage 2 sleep at night anymore, meaning come afternoon, my nap is the perfect place to be enriched with stage 2 sleep. That's also probably why I get the urge to just sleep and sleep and sleep till the evening. As seen previously, I can easily stay in bed for 2hrs in the afternoon, lazing in and out of sleep. I have to realize that this is pointless on this schedule, and that if I still feel tired upon waking I can always wait 40mins before having another 30mins sleep as a back to back. I feel okay now though.

I may have a nap pre-8pm, but I'm thinking it's probably not a good idea. Although with this schedule I don't have to go to sleep at any certain time, I'd still like my first nap to be between 10 and 11pm, just as for now I'd rather keep a nap at 4:30am for convenience purposes. This may change over time though if I manage to successfully work the schedule. So here's luck for my first day tonight starting the true spamayl schedule.

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Spamayl w/Core - Day 1

Today was my first attempt at the SPAMAYL based schedule that I wrote about yesterday. Last night I slept half an hour at:
-10:30pm
-11:40pm
-1:00am
They were half an hour long because even though I gave my smart alarm a 15 minute period to wake me up in for some reason it always woke me at the 30min mark, which I'll now be changing to 25 minutes.

I have to say though that sleeping like this was really interesting. I had a second nap soon after the first because I was feeling quite groggy. I noticed that upon waking from the second nap I felt much more awake. Falling asleep was no problem. When I awoke overtime I felt like I'd slept forever. I don't really understand how sleeping less more frequently feels better than sleeping more less frequently, but it does. My third nap I took because I was bored. Now that was a blessing, not having to wait up pointlessly for my next scheduled sleep. I awoke alert from a vivid dream on that nap, which pleased me to no end. Already I'm seeing benefits.

I noticed I got really tired at about 3am though, which doesn't usually happen. I decided not to have another nap though because I wanted to be tired enough to fall asleep for my core. I ended up having a ton of micro-naps. Come 4:30am I fell asleep straight away for my nap. The entire last hour was REM, although I don't remember it because I woke a little late at 6:20am just as I was falling back into deep sleep.

Now. I ended up oversleeping. I haven't woken up before 7am in over six weeks so of course the first thing I would do is look at the clock and think, omg. Why. Even though I felt awake enough I decided to just go back to sleep and have a normal three hour core and wake at 7:30am instead. So it figures that I forgot to set my alarm and I woke naturally at 8:30am drenched in sweat. Somehow that always seems to happen, and although whenever I oversleep I never have my sleep graph running, it seems like I got straight back into deep sleep for that hour before waking.

So altogether I actually slept about 6hrs. I'm not too bothered though, I felt like that sleep in was due for a long time, and is a good way of feeling rested when about to attempt another extreme schedule. I didn't feel awful when waking either because it was all taken in parts. In future though I'll probably just have a nap an hour after waking for some more REM. All in all over the first three naps and 90minute core I recorded, I had about 2hrs of deep sleep, an hour of REM, and twenty minutes of light sleep. Of course then I accidentally slept an extra 2hrs so it was probably more than that in total.

I had a tired period a couple of hours ago and so decided to prepare by having an afternoon nap. I had about 10 to 15 minutes of light sleep. I may refrain from having an evening nap though, even if I'm tired because I've already slept so much, and sometimes it can still take me up to half an hour to fall asleep at night if I'm already so well rested.

So concludes my weird first day of a SPAMAYL type schedule.

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Back to Triphasic - Days 9 to 10

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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