Polyphasic Sleep Day 13

Posted by Chris on September 7, 2009

Not as bad as day 12! I'm pretty tired but so far its manageable. Nothing like yesterday.

Since most days are similar I will go a bit more into detail about my alarm and sleep time habits. At the beginning I used to set my core sleep to 3hr 20mins. To account for a 20 min time to fall asleep. And naps where 30min because it was hard to fall asleep during the day. After the first week I adjusted all the naps to 25minutes(5 min fall asleep time) and the core nap at 3 hours and 5 minutes.

Now as I have said before. The experiment is fun and interesting. But currently there is no productive time gain(5 hours of drowsiness on an average day). I will give it until day ~30. If I have not adapted well enough by then I will heavily modify it. Either mixing in 6 hour cores every few days. Or switching to 4.5 core and 2 naps. Or even lengthening the naps to 45 mins. As long as I end up sleeping less then 8 hours and feel awake and productive its a winner.