Polyphasic Sleep - Day 5

I am surprised that I have managed to get so far without failing yet. Today was challenging in the morning but now at the end of the day I am fine and have made it through.

I actually left the house this morning to go shopping for a little while and being out kept me awake and although I have been getting little sleep I felt quite conscious and aware of my surroundings and I didn't have to keep refocusing on what I was doing. By the time I got home I was quite awake and not at risk of falling asleep.

Before that, the 12:00am to 3:00am section was probably the most difficult. I got to about 1:00am fine but then sleep deprivation started hitting me hard but I exercised patience, listened to music and walked around my room until it was time to go to bed. I actually decided I would sleep on my bed to see how it affected the quality of my sleep. I still slept with no sheets on and I think sleeping on my bed was not a bad idea. It doesn't really matter either way if I sleep on my bed or the floor, but for my core sleep I think I'll stick to the bed. For my naps I'll stick to the floor.

To make sure I get up properly now that I am getting deep in to the adaption phase I downloaded an alarm clock program on my computer and set it to play a song at 7:40am in case I forget to wake up when my alarm clock goes off. This morning I used it but I turned it off before it went off. It gives me that extra security so I will continue to use it. I do not think I need to use it for my naps because it is not difficult to wake up after 20 minutes from a light sleep and when the naps get more deep I'll be adapted anyway, so I will get up easily.

It is still difficult to tell if I was properly asleep during my naps today but I feel that I was or as close as it is going to get until the adaption happens fully. Naps have been very restoring at least for a few hours(so I am still awake from my 10:00pm nap) and a lot better compared to last time I tried polyphasic sleep.

I think I've almost hit the point with the most sleep deprivation for this type of schedule but I am definitely not out of it yet. Tomorrow should be worse but it might start to get better after that. I expect that the quality of naps will improve so although I might be more tired in general after naps I should start feeling great. Then after a few more days I should feel great all the time. It's good to feel that I already have a decent amount of the day that I spend fairly awake. I've been able to sit down and do things most of the day without running too great of a risk of falling asleep. It's only in the morning and for a small part early in the afternoon that I was actually tired beyond normal.

It would be terrible if I overslept tomorrow and it put me back a few days, but I don't think that will happen because I am confident and have come so many days and I have so much motivation to get this done properly. While I don't have a lot of support behind what I am doing I have been telling people how far I've come and what it is. I think it helps to tell other people because they can show support or you might not feel alone knowing that other people know what you are doing.

Sleeping 4 and a half hours at 3:00am then 20 minutes at 3:00pm and 10:00pm seems to work fine for me but I guess that I am not quite used to only sleeping 4.5 hours in the morning so that is why I am still fairly tired after waking up. By the time I adapt I expect that the morning will be one of the best parts of the day. That's easy to work out because I'd have slept for 4.5 hours instead of 20 minutes the other two sessions have but polyphasic sleep is weird enough so I could be completely wrong.

For now I am excited to see where this goes and if I'll make it through(I should) but let's see if my 7:30am self agrees with my 11:30pm self. ;)