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!

Polyphasic sleep Schedule - Day 25

Day 25:

I know yesterday I had planned to write a lot but now I can't remember what I was gonna write so this'll probably be really short.

Yesterday it got to about 3:30pm and I realized that I'd forgotten to take my nap. I only realized that though because all of a sudden I was super tired and couldn't stop yawning. I decided to go for a nap then and there. and surprisingly I fell asleep within five minutes. I woke up five minutes later though before falling straight back to sleep. This happened about three or four times. I remember waking up for the last time with the phrase "remember I had a dream," running round and round in my head. I can't for the life of me remember what the dream was, although I have a nagging feeling that it was Doctor Who related. On top of that I couldn't get back to sleep after 20 minutes exactly, but I didn't really mind. I think I'm gonna shorten my naps to 30 minutes in future rather than 45.

I went to sleep last night at 1:10am and woke up at 6:50am. I slept a total of about 5 hours and 20 minutes considering it probably took me about twenty minutes to get comfortable enough to fall asleep. Last night though I actually got tired enough,, no more strange hyper-ness. Today though I've been feeling super lazy all day. I got through two episodes of Supernatural before 8:30am instead of writing this journal and exercising. I didn't exercise yesterday either. I might do some later. Otherwise, I don't particularly like going to bed at 1:00am, I've got used to falling asleep at 2:30-3:00am, which I prefer. If I go to bed that late though then I can't wake up earlier. So in a way it does feel like my day has been shortened, although this is only psychological and it doesn't feel bad as such.

Another weird thing I've noticed is that towards the evenings it feels like my brain is expanding, like a constant pressure coming from inside, from dilated blood vessels or something. This may be down to higher blood pressure levels due to increased Cortisol from sleep deprivation. As for my eyes, the weird swelling on my bottom eyelid disappeared but for some reason it moved to the top eyelid. I have no idea what that's all about. Also, my eyes do have slightly dark shadows underneath, but they're pretty much invisible in comparison to when I was sleeping 4.5 hours a day. I really want to go back to 4.5 hours a day with one long 45 minute nap actually, maybe even 3 to 3.5 hours with a one 1.5 hour nap, but I really can't fit all those naps into my day around my family. And of course I don't want anyone to see the black circles under my eyes that would ensue if I changed to such schedules.

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