Polyphasic Sleep: Days 12-14
It hasn’t been easy or convenient to find time to nap during my lunch break at work, but so far, I’ve managed to catch myself “microsleeping” on several occasions while sitting at my desk. In my last post, I mentioned having a lot of problems with falling asleep for several hours in the middle of the day. Obviously, I’m no longer doing that, but I’ve instead pushed this “core sleep” back until immediately after I get off of work, around 4:00pm. The good news is that I’ve been able to shorten it to about three hours… the bad news is that I haven’t gotten rid of it (yet)!
My goal as far as the core sleep is to get it to at least a controllable level. Right now, the most common scenario is that I’ll spontaneously decide, after waking up from a 25-minute nap, that I want another nap. I will set my alarms (usually only the auditory ones, not the water) another 25 minutes ahead… and inevitably sleep through them. I want to be assured that I can set an alarm and not sleep through it, whether it’s 25 minutes ahead or two hours ahead. This will probably become easier once I figure out how to slip in a nap during work. Until then, I may have to live with this core sleep, but I’m definitely going to attempt to shorten it. The most positive sign of adaptation I’ve seen is that, regardless of how exhausted I am when I lie down or how long I’m out, I almost always wake up feeling that I slept for a long time. There’s never that thought of, “But I just got into bed!” My brain has undoubtedly adapted to the general pattern of polyphasic sleep; the difficulties will now lie in controlling that pattern and reducing the time I’m asleep.
In other news, I’ve also decided to discontinue the Brain Power test until I’m fully adapted. I fear that the reason my performance has improved is not because of the adaptation, but simply because I’ve gotten used to the test itself. If, after returning to the test, my scores are still in the 140’s (or higher), we could probably guess that the adaptation has had some positive effect. Until then, you’ll just have to deal with my sleep-deprivation-spawned drivel. 
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