Polyphasic Sleep: Day 3
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s… The Fog™! The Fog™ will eat your brain, causing you to lose consciousness and not remember a single thing! Were you sleeping? Were you staring into space? Were you robbing a 7-11? You may never know! Bwahahahaha…
On a more serious note, yes, I experienced roughly four hours of “The Fog™” this morning, scattered between 3:00 and 10:30. For several periods during those hours, I simply have no recollection of anything that occurred. No dreams, either. Obviously, I have to assume that I was asleep for at least part of those four hours, but the interesting thing is that I don’t recall falling asleep, or even waking up. In my memory, it’s literally as if I was at this place, doing this thing at this time, and the next thing I know, I’m at a different place, doing something different, with the clock reading two hours later. My memory almost seems to temporarily “shut off”. I imagine it has something to do with microsleeps, but either having many of them in succession or even just blacking out entirely. Very strange, and not something I’ve known to occur with polynapping. (I almost blamed Friday the 13th, then realized that today was the 12th. Doh!)
Strangely enough, this brain fog doesn’t seem to have had much of an effect on my sleeping patterns. I didn’t oversleep my 2:30, 6:30 or 10:30 nap, and I did sleep well during all three of them. (Actually, I haven’t overslept or skipped any naps yet, which is a miracle in itself!) My 10:30 nap was incredibly restorative, but dreamless, which suggests that my body is still adapting. Either my 2:30 and 6:30 naps weren’t restorative (causing the fog), or they simply couldn’t overcome the raw sleep pressure due to being awake in the early morning hours. Regardless, I can’t see any negative short-term effects. I wouldn’t be surprised if my adaptation was delayed by a day or two, but right now, I don’t even see signs of that.
In conclusion, I’ve definitely run over a speed bump, but I’ve yet to determine how damaging it was (if at all). At first glance, it seems that the brain is more resilient to screwups than most people realize - but it’s really too early to tell. According to some records of successful polynappers, I should be approaching the low point very soon. Hopefully, this morning was it. 
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