Polyphasic Sleep - Day 9, Getting There!

While last night could have gone better, this morning between 12:00am and 3:00am was not the worst it could have been. I just had to keep my mind active and I would not fall asleep too early. That wasn't too bad but I think it will be even easier tomorrow morning. Just to clear that up, I've been going by morning is from 12:00am to 12:00pm and I now call 1:00am morning not night. So when I say tomorrow morning that is in one hour from now even though you can still call it night time.

I'll admit that last night I was feeling a bit annoyed when I wrote my update so it was short and more negative than last ones but at the time it was how I felt. Now I feel more confident that I've gone further with the adaption even if I am going slowly so I am no longer going downhill.

So I went to bed at 3:00am like usual, and quickly fell asleep within a minute most likely. At 3:38am the cat woke up me so I could take him outside or bring him inside I don't remember but it's not important. That actually helped me because at that time I realised I just awoke from a long dream that felt really clear and memorable. Of course, I've forgotten now but that always seems to happen with dreams. The reason that is important is because I was only 38 minutes in to sleeping. Usually dreams like that only happen deeper in to the 90 minute sleep cycle so that means I am going through sleep cycles quicker in my core sleep. This probably means in my 4.5 hour sleep I have 4 cycles instead of the usual 3, but that's just an observation from what happened I don't know if it is exactly true.

After I woke up from my core sleep I was not quite as tired as previous days and I felt I was functioning pretty normal. Maybe my core sleep is getting better or I was just lucky today. I had my nap at 3:00pm without much issue and that went better than it has before even though I am still not exactly sleeping the whole way through. I don't know if I was asleep during my 10:00pm nap but I didn't have full consciousness during it so I guess that is improving too. I've also increased my nap time to 24 minutes up from 20 minutes to allow extra time to fall asleep.

So still all I need is those naps and I have finished adapting. I just have to get them sorted out before I oversleep but with the way things are going I don't think oversleeping is a problem. Since I'm usually awake it might take me some days from now before naps become like they should be. That's the only problem with a long core sleep, it's hard to nap and takes longer to adjust. At least it is relatively risk free and harder to oversleep.