Day 8 - Mornings Are Still Impossible

It's kind of weird that I have no trouble while sitting, but if I start laying down I instantly start to struggle - and then in mornings I just pass out all the sudden despite sitting. This is certainly weird behaviour from my brain. Also, why doesn't the sleep dep escalate? None of what I've read about polyphasic sleep has actualized. I feel I'm not mentally the sharpest, but very close, close enough for gained 5-7 hours a day, even with oversleeps.

My aim tomorrow is just to avoid the oversleeps. I said I'll do the extra nap in SPAMAYL mentality, but we'll see. If I'm totally dead in the morning, then fine, I'll do it. I'd like to manage to adapt to real Uberman though. Also I'm interested to see if I'd not do the oversleep, whether I'd struggle for the whole day or just the couple of first phases.

I feel like I'm pretty free to do anything - I'm sort of partly adapted. I feel I'm not accumulating sleep deprivation as I'm getting REM often enough during my naps.

Day 8.1
Naptime: 1:35-1:55, 20 min
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last oversleep: 10 h
Successful naps in a row: 3
Fin typing test: 319
Eng typing test: 278

I just watched a Simpsons episode right after waking up and amazingly I didn't fall asleep, but it must have been close; although I don't remember missing anything, I entered different state of mind. I need to be more careful from now on. I want to avoid all the extra sleeps.

As for my typing speeds, my top speed keeps deteriotating. Is it a mark that I'm beginning to get sleep-deprived? It doesn't seem a temporary hitch for sure, but we'll be wiser tomorrow.

I've been putting my computer alarm to sound every few minutes and I have my headphones on. It's really effective in keeping me in alert state - I always startle when the sound bangs all the sudden and sends a surge of adrenaline through my body.

Day 8.2
Naptime: 5:35-5:55, 20 min
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last oversleep: 14 h
Successful naps in a row: 4

Oh man, I'm tired. And cold! It's freezing. We'll still see about those extra naps, but they do seem more desirable.

Ugh. I overslept four hours or something. I went for the extra nap and instead of one nap it turned to oversleep.

Day 8.3
Naptime: 10:40-11:00, 20 min
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last oversleep: 1 h
Successful naps in a row: 1

I don't feel like staying awake for long. I'll do another supplemental nap soon as I'm still tired.

Day 8.4
Naptime: 12:00-12:20, 20 min
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes
Time since last oversleep: 5 h
Successful naps in a row: 2

Finally some REM. Hope this eases this phase. I hate it though how I seem to instaforget what did I dream.

Day 8.5
Naptime: 13:35 - 13:55, 20 min
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last oversleep: 6 h
Successful naps in a row: 3

Day 8.6
Naptime: 17:35 - 17:55, 20 min
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes
Time since last oversleep: 10 h
Successful naps in a row: 4

Great nap and as we're in the evening all the tiredness has subsided.

Day 8.7
Naptime: 21:30 - 21:50, 20 min
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes
Time since last oversleep: 14 h
Successful naps in a row: 5

To be honest I'm completely undecided what I do tomorrow morning. SPAMAYL-styled naps really didn't seem to solve anything on the basis of one morning - I'm still destroyed at that time and will still oversleep and can't help it at all. However if I wake up from an oversleep those extra naps might help in evening out the groggedness, but I'm not even that sure about that.

Only staple seems to be that I'm tired morning to noon and completely fresh afternoon - small hours, peaking at around midnight. Now I would like to know if it stays that way if I don't oversleep in the morning. I guess that's my next morning's experiment. It might lead to wasting a few hours, but they'd be wasted sleeping anyway so whatever.