Polyphasic Sleep - Day 11, New Napping Idea

Again today I had difficulty napping. I felt more awake than before so I assume my core sleep is just becoming strong and keeping me going. Staying up until 3:00am was even easier than it has been in the past and getting up was no issue. But I am still never significantly tired when it comes to napping. Sometimes I still have spots in the day where I feel tired so from now on, I'll just nap when I feel like I should, not when the clock thinks I should. Maybe tomorrow I won't nap at all and I'll see if it makes a difference. If it doesn't it means my naps are doing nothing.

When sleeping polyphasic, it is supposed to only take a few minutes to get to sleep once adapted and naps are meant to be deep and contain lucid dreams. Maybe 4.5 hours of core sleeping and 2 naps just does not have enough emphasis on the naps to achieve this. It is unfortunate that I can't nap because otherwise I have been going well and would have adapted by now.

I could just stick with this schedule until it exhausts me and I start napping or until long term sleep deprivation starts and I have to stop, whichever comes first, but I don't think I could keep this up for much longer than 2 more weeks if I don't adapt. So I'll just take it easy, sleep 4.5 hours, and nap when I feel like it like I said I would.

If that doesn't work, I'll have to adapt to an Everyman sleep schedule with 3 hours of core sleep and 3 naps. It will be harder, but after seeing what I've done the past 11 days I think I can manage a week of that. It is harder but quicker mostly because of the importance of naps while on this version of the sleep schedule, core sleep is more important. I would then attempt to bring this back to 4.5 hour core sleep with 2 naps, unless I can manage to make a 9 hour gap with no sleep for 4 days a week.

Another idea I am having while writing this is I could bring my core sleep back 1 hour and start at 2:00am and wake at 6:30am. It's earlier than I'd usually get up but it might have a more positive effect as I'd be spending an hour longer during the day instead of when it is dark.

So I think the plan is right now to sleep from 2:00am to 6:30am and nap when I have energy sinks. If that doesn't work I won't start taking 3 naps until after Christmas but until then I am going to hold where I am and try to take it further if that is possible.