Polyphasic Sleep: Day 5
When you’re awake for 22 hours out of every 24, the days don’t exactly fly by. My calendar claims that I’ve been polynapping for five full days, but I think it’s lying - it must be at least seven. This “no-break-between-days” pattern definitely requires getting used to. But, on the whole, I feel like a million bucks, and I think that’s only going to improve. I love polyphasic sleep, and I’m never going back to the world of nightly hibernation. Get used to it. 
Several major “breakthroughs” occurred today, the most significant one being that I remember having dreams during at least three naps today (out of nine so far). This means that I’m falling directly into REM sleep rather than going through the 90-minute NREM cycle which normally precedes it. I keep being awoken by the alarms during these dreams, which means I may need to set them a bit later to get the full amount of REM. (One of those dreams was pretty cool, too; I almost wanted to go back to sleep so I could finish it!) As far as napping every two hours, I’ve decided against it, so I’ll be going back to the four-hour interval from now on. I think the multitude of naps this morning may have done its part in speeding up my recovery, but I ended up feeling pretty groggy for much of the morning, and I’m not sure why. At this point, it’s not worth the risk of oversleeping, so I’m going to take the recovery period at a steady pace. Also, I’ve begun taking the Brain Power Test after every nap, and I’m interested to see how my performance will change post-adaptation.
I’m going to write another page with more details on polynapping facts/myths, how to survive the adaptation period, and my own personal experiences once I’m “off the ground”.
Note: I’m aware that this website has recently turned into mostly a polyphasic sleep site with a few other random articles scattered around. Let me assure you that this is not my intent, and I’ll begin writing non-polynap content (in addition to these updates) very soon. Polyphasic sleep just happened to be the first major “project” I’ve undertaken since launching the site… there will be others. 
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