Alright, so a couple of weeks back I decided I would attempt polyphasic sleep. The hardest part is getting past the initial 7-10 day adaptation period. One of the biggest problems with people who are attempting to do this, is that they oversleep which basically screws up the whole thing and extends how long it takes to adapt. Well, unfortunately for me, I have still not fully adapted to polyphasic sleep, because I keep oversleeping every 2-3 days. This has been starting to get very frustrating, as I have been pretty unproductive for the last 3 weeks or so, simply due to the fact that I am too tired to really do any brain intensive task.

What I have come to realize after oversleeping yet again last night… is that my single biggest mistake was the fact that I decided to allow myself to take extra naps during the 1-9AM period where I am usually super tired. I thought it would be okay, since I had read on stevepavlina’s personal account of it that he would sometimes get in an extra nap during his 1am - 5am period.

I didn’t really think about it until now, but I realized that virtually every time that I have overslept has been during this “extra” nap that I decide to take. In a lot of cases because I allow myself to simply fall back asleep without resetting the alarm or something similar to this. I have a renewed desire to get this done now, as I am tired of losing so much time. February wasn’t a very productive month for me, and I plan to make some big changes starting now. I assume the first week will be quite dreadful, due to my fasting AND trying to adapt to polyphasic sleep completely, however I have made the decision to do it whatever it takes.

I will no longer allow myself to take an extra nap just because I am extremely tired. When I say extremely tired, I do it mean it too. It gets to a point where I am literally falling over in my chair. My best advice for anybody attempting polyphasic sleep, or anything mentally and emotionally challenging like this, is to NOT allow yourself to get by with exceptions to the rule like I have done for myself. Lesson learned.

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