Personal Growth

3:15am

I’ve had a bit of time to rearrange my schedule for tomorrow’s plans. I’m meeting some friends at 1pm which means I wouldn’t be able to have a nap at 2pm as it would be under the current schedule. So I’ve decided to shift the morning naps from 4 hours to 3.5 hours. So I had my first nap at 1:30am, and I’ll have the coming naps at 5, 8:30am and 12pm at which point I’ll resume the 4-hour gaps with the proceeding naps at 4 and 8 pm.
At the moment I feel basically awake; some background tiredness, but for this time of night it’s not so bad. However when I first got up from my previous nap I didn’t feel so well so I ate a banana for some energy and put on some upbeat music to jumpstart myself a bit. Seems to have worked. Another factor is I’m reading a new book that’s keeping my interests longer (which I can read hours on end) that the previous one I was reading.

5:45am

Recently got up from my 5am nap. The 15 minutes before it were extremely hard. I was really tired and my eyes couldn’t read any further and I just wanted to sleep. I feel the same except now I’m over 2.5 hours from my next nap. I’m going to try stimulating some increased alertness. I really don’t feel like crashing tonight.

10:10am

Well, I made it through that horrible period between 5:30 and 8:30am. That was definitely the hardest period I’ve been through for this polyphasic experiment. I feel good about overcoming it, and hopefully it’ll mean some definite progress.

11:55am

I had my 4 and 8 pm naps and then at 9 looked at my schedule and adjusted it for work tomorrow. It involved taking a sleep at 11:30pm, which I’ve just taken followed by naps at 2:45, 6:15 and 9:45am tomorrow and following the normal 4 hourly from there.