Millionth Day 1

Day 1
Phase ratings:
Core 5
Nap I 4
Nap II 4
Nap III 4
Nap IV 5

Average 4.4

Total sleep 5h 50 min
Total REM 1h 45 min
Total Deep 50 min

I had to estimate some numbers from my core, as my band slipped off before I woke up and put it back on. It has been doing that a lot lately, which tells me that I've tossed and turned more. Also perhaps it has gotten a bit loose, I should tighten it up. I feel great after the core, but you gotta remember that I've been literally oversleeping lately. Basically I've had both mono- and polyphasic tendensies. The "nap" lenght has been monophasic, but I've still felt like going back to bed with only few hours in between. I know I can't adapt back to monophasic and I don't even want to. So even a schedule that has low return in terms of hours gained is fine for me at the moment.

SmartWake didn't wake me, it went off something like 20 seconds after I had woken up. I doubt it will wake my many times during this, but I also hope that somewhere under 3h 40 mins would naturally be enough for me. Also hopefully that time is easier for me to wake up to alarm.

I missed the first nap but overslept quite nicely for the second nap. Nothing drastic but I just kept pushing it until it finally happened. It's the standard, all the mistakes possible - streching the naptime after not properly falling asleep, staying bed with only one alarm set, snoozing endlessly, etc. I spent nearly 2 hours in bed, but the exact stats were 1h 25 mins of sleep and 40 minutes of REM. I had a weird dream as well, though not a nightmare. Still, nothing too bad. Third nap overslept again, almost the same time, 1h 20 mins. So, yeah... I guess this data can be used as a baseline, or what I should aim once I get my numbers right. I'd really need another person at the moment to my corner, of course summoning the required discipline myself is a preferable alternative, but I just can't seem to do it at the moment. I missed the fourth nap as well, but that's little wonder after three cores.

I'll start also updating more regularly and throughoutly. Not because I think it holds really any value to you guys, but mostly because it helps me focus and gets me to correct mindset. It's impossible to succeed in polyphasic sleep if you're taking it half-assed. Well, it's impossible to succeed in anything that way, but now I'm getting too philosophical...

Frankly I don't think it really matters too much how many hours I gain. I've gotten used to going to sleep every few hours and that is the effect I can't and don't even want to get rid of.

I'm a Mess

I guess I have to finally admit it. I've slided back into monophasic schedule instead of starting any kind of nap system.

I'll have a one final try to restart my Everyman with slight changes. I'll try to utilize the SmartWake function of Zeo and use a core of 3h - 3h 40 min, depending on when it wakes me. Basically this means that I'll go to sleep about 40 minutes earlier. I wasn't very productive with that time anyway.

Core 2.20-6 Smartwake
Nap 1 8-8.20
Nap 2 11.40-12
Nap 3 16.40-17
Nap 4 22-22.20
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Total sleep 5h

Of course given that this is Everyman and the fact that I've added more time to the core and one extra nap means that I have some flexibility with the nap times. But we'll see if I can even wake up to alarms once again.

I'm also mantaining that I am planning to go for Uberman next summer. If I manage to adapt to this permanently, maybe it can help with that adaptation as well.

Another Heavy Oversleep

This is becoming redundant. I slept pretty much full night, except that it was rather day. But yeah... I'll increase the volume of my computer alarm, hide my cellphone further away and put my Zeo under my computer desk. Also I stopped adding minutes for my naps, that's a stupid mistake I already rid myself once but for some reason thought it was reasonable this time. That should be enough to get me on the right track again. Or not. We'll see.

Just Randomly Oversleeping

Yeah, my schedule is all over the place at the moment. I just have struggled to summon the willpower needed to avoid oversleeping. I've been lazy and there has been lot of personal matters that have distracted me. Also like I've said, it's pretty hard to adapt to non-core programs during the winter as it's so cold that getting up sucks.

I hope I can start finally succeeding tomorrow. I should just try to follow some kind of schedule. Now I just do random stuff at random times and as usual that just doesn't work for me.

Day 2 of... Experimenting

Another quick update. During the small hours of the night it occured to me that I might make my schedule match more my Everyman. So I ended up adding one extra nap and changing naptimes just a bit. My new schedule reads:
2:00-2:20
5:40-6:00 - Waking up at 6:00, like I would with core.
8:10-8:30 - Same naptime as for my first nap with Everyman.
11:40-12:00 - Same naptime as for my second nap with Everyman.
15:00-15:20
18:40-19:00
22:20-22:40

We'll see how it works. I'm not really treating this as Uberman attempt anymore, it's more of just experimenting.

Well it went well for some time, but my 18.40 nap saw four hour oversleep. It's still better than sleeping all night, but that oversleep actually did frustrate me a bit. I guess I need to kick the alarms up - I haven't used my computer's alarm yet pretty much at all, trusting that I wake up to lesser alarms while only napping.

Day 1 of Another Uberman

Well just a quick update, I'll edit this to summarize the whole of day one later. But just approaching my third nap and I'm struggling to stay awake. So I decided to use one method I developed while on Everyman - picking up glass full of liquid. It worked like a treat, my lap is now all nice and wet with milk. At least I didn't fall asleep.

Alright here's the first day's update - most of naps went as planned, I missed one and overslept on one. I'm not too concerned about it yet as I'm just easing myself into this. I've felt excellent the whole day except prior the oversleep, which by the way lasted four hours. Tomorrow I'll crank the discipline a bit up and hopefully start stringing succesful naps together.

That said, now that I did oversleep after all, I feel a little bad that I poured milk over myself. That kind of got wasted now that I let myself go anyway. But I'll improve it tomorrow.

ZQ Record

Well it didn't go as planned. I slept through all of my alarms with such a ridiculous ease that I in fact made my record ZQ. Over 9 hours of sleep with over 4 hours (!!!) of REM - ZQ was a nice and solid 106.

I thought at first that I'll have a few days break going monophasic but looking at those stats, that indicate a lower light-sleep percentage than a month ago, made me realize that it might get worse and I won't be wanting that. However, it is clear that I'm simply not waking up to my alarms. Not at least on my core sleep. Then it came to me, an easy conclusion - get rid of the core! I've woken up to my alarms so far on my naps every time, so I'll just return to Uberman and get myself retrained to getting up instantly. Here's my new nap schedule:
6:00-6:20
10:00-10:20
14:00-14:20
18:00-18:20
22:00-22:20
2:00-2:20

I'd hope to string at least 12 naps together (obviously adapting to Uberman would be awesome, but I'm not really expecting it - just using it as a tool to get going again) and get back to my napping groove. I might give myself more chances than just one oversleep, but we'll see. Once I decide to go back to Everyman I'll probably figure out some more hardcore ways to get up as well, because I don't expect the core to being troublefree anyway.

Event

Yeah, so the "event" ended and it fucked the rest up if there wasn't anything to fuck up anymore. I guess I could treat tomorrow as new day one. Just makes it simpler to keep up with the streak, if I even notch another one up.

Mistakes caused by the "event":
- Missed nap on Friday.
- Supershort nap on Friday.
- Only 2½ core on Saturday.
- 2 hour oversleep on Saturday.
- Core hour late on Sunday.
- 6 hour oversleep on Sunday.

So... Yeah. Messed up stuff. Restart tomorrow with clean records.

I don't know about updating this so regularly, I mean it's getting redundant. Maybe I'll post like once in a week if there's anything to update.

Day 30

Core
Rating: 4
I woke up from the core and definitely the dynamics of my sleep have changed since the errorfree days, but I hope my brains can quickly switch back, otherwise I might have trouble coming up. My schedule is also about half an hour late so I'll take Naps 1 & 2 a bit late. Nap 2 will be the last thing I report before Sunday.

Naps 1 & 2
Ratings: 4 & Pending (probably 5)

I cheated a bit again on my rules. I stayed on bed after the alarms, but there was little danger of me falling asleep. During the second nap I laid down for full 30 minutes after waking up because my cat protested loudly to me trying to get up.

These are the last updates that will come to the blog until Sunday. See ya.

Day 29 - Third Fuck-up in A Row

Well okay now I really need to figure out a solution to my core oversleeping. Again slept for 7 hours and I'm probably getting back used to monophasic, if not ruined everything already. I seem not able to string two days together. I mean if I could do some days properly again I'd probably see the extent of the damage, but at the moment that looks impossible.

It didn't look too bad in the morning when I woke up, realizing I've overslept 4,5 hours. "Okay", I thought "well it was just a 4,5 hour core. Some people use that as their schedule and it's okay sometimes". But then my tired mind messed up and decided to have the first nap right at that instant, since it was time for that. That was a mistake, I shouldn't go to bed so close to previous nap.

But basically, yeah, I slept through my alarms twice, or I don't know, maybe I woke up but just didn't get up. I don't remember. I had the phone as a back-up that was supposed to go off 6:20, but I guess even that didn't move me.

I just need to stop the cycle probably. I'll check the data.

Looks very normal, monophasic stats. I guess the proportiong of useful sleep is slightly up, but very slightly about one or two percent. I don't know what they should be, probably monophasic sleep would still be similar even after long spell of polyphasic. I had woken up during the original alarm, probably to my computers alarm. But the second alarm, I had no data of being wake there, so I suppose I slept right through it. Now that I can set Zeo off asleep it's as useless as any other alarm. I don't know, I guess I need the whole set - more alarms (and more effective ones) and better rutine for waking up from core. By that I mean what stuff I do right on the alarm.

I am understandably very frustrated. This fucked up everything for the day as well, there was stuff I had planned to do.

Oh wait, I remember morning - or not exactly, but I remember how I woke up. My alarm song had gone for some time, as it always starts with a calm part, but it was blasting away already at the point I woke up so I must've struggled to get up. But after that I still don't remember what happened. I probably didn't think straight.

I just noticed 26th day is missing. I wonder what's up with that? I probably just forgot to post, as my spreadsheet shows normal data.

But yeah I need to figure out more alarms so I have more to shut down. An increase the difficulty of the current ones. The first step is to simply make up I stay awake. If I have long project of shutting down the alarms, well perhaps that in itself shakes me then up enought that I don't feel like going back to bed.

That said, there' only one normal night anymore. That event I've been talking about starts in friday. I will sleep tomorrow night normally, but after that it's shift to foreing environment. I can't really have loud alarms as well because there's other people and it would be ankwatd to wake them up at 6 am. Luckily Zeo is very calm alarm - a little too call even for me.

But basically I was sounding desperate at the start of this post and I probably was, but I was just making a meal of the situation now that I've reflected through it. I mean it fuckin' sucks that I overslept and I've probably ruined everything (always expecting the worst), but it's really not a hard problem to solve. Core being the problem saves a lot of hassle as well, I don't need to use million alarms on other naps.

Day 28... Not Adhering Perfectly Yet

So basically this is the deal at the moment - I completely fucked up everything last night, but only slightly in terms of Everyman. I didn't go to sleep on time for the core. So when I finally went to sleep, I decided that fuck it, I'm going to put the alarm for the normal waking time. I went to bed 90 minutes from the alarm time, but was not tired. So in the end I tossed around for 30 minutes before falling asleep.

I know what you're expecting. I overslept, right? Wrong. I got up after 62 minutes of sleep (according to Zeo) and felt pretty good straight away. Actually that's my best core awakening in a while. Weird. Anyway, I'm not counting this day as perfect yet. But at least I don't have to fuck around with my sleeping times.

Speaking of them, perhaps I still should. Those times that I have work perfectly, but I'm just wondering whether the phases should be more even. I'm just worrying about adaptation, nothing else. Perhaps that's nothing. I mean the fourth nap should make sure that I'm getting enough everything, regardless of how naps are spaced. My shortest phase is 2 hours of wake-time and longest is 5 hours of wake-time, so neither sound anything outrageous. I can't move the last nap any closer to core so that really limits how much I could change the schedule. But I guess I keep it. I am already enjoying the predictabilities of it, mostly the certain-REM noon nap. I would love to make that a WILD nap.

In terms of lucid dreaming I still very much struggle. I had decent dream recall last month, but for some reason there has been no trace of it during December. I hope it improves. But getting up for alarms all the time with great hurry kind of doesn't fit with that. But enough reflection, I need to get back doing other stuff. See ya tomorrow with normal updates... I hope.

Day 27

After a perfect day I oversleep heavily - I'm starting to succumb right back into old habits. For some reason I didn't get up in the morning, I sort of remember waking up from the core but just staying in bed. I guess I should've at least set alarm to wake a little later. 10 minute oversleep would've been much more acceptable than 7 hour sleep.

That's really all I need to say today. I'll return tomorrow. Of course I'll try to hit the naps today as well.

Day 25

Core
Phase rating: 3

Well that was probably the best core sleep so far. Changing my alarm order and rhythm worked as I was up from my bed at 6:03 without the usual "10 minutes in the bed until computer's alarm goes off" -routine. I also have felt quite good during the phase after the initial groggyness wore off. I mean, for a core sleep. There was only 55 min of deep sleep, but humongous 50-minute junk of REM at the end of my sleep more than makes up for that. It was all in a row. Looks awesome on my Zeo.

Nap 1
Phase rating: 2

I feel fine now, but I was pretty close to falling asleep earlier. That said I probably wouldn't have as I picked up a glass (double points for it having liquid inside) when I started feeling drowsy. If If I'd fallen asleep I'd gotten an apt punishment, a wet surprise. I cheated a bit here - I picked up the blanket after all to ease my coldness and I did stay for 3-4 minutes in the bed waiting for my computer alarm. I guess I should still have it closer to my normal alarm. It might as well be my main alarm as it's the only one that actually gets me properly up. I'm going to keep my current arrangement though. The nap itself was basic light sleep failure of a nap. I had 5 minutes of REM in the end of it, but that's pretty worthless. I guess the next nap has been the most consistently REM-including, so hope that is the case now as well.

Nap 2
Phase rating: 1

Well the streak won't start today. I dozed off for five minutes while watching football and while I could let that go, I'm not going to as I'm going to have a strict line from now on. I guess I should figure out some sort of punishment from these unintentional sleeps. The second nap itself was perfect, 20 minutes of REM.

Nap 3
Phase rating: 3

I was still tired during this phase and I fell asleep a few minutes early for my nap. Also I woke up late, my alarm had been on for a while.

Nap 4
Phase rating: 4

Yeah I finally started feeling alright during this phase. Nap was okay.

Total sleep 4h 40 min
REM 1h 40 min
Deep 1h 00 min
Day rating: 2.6

Pretty bad day - I slept slightly too much because of the oversleeps and felt bad all day. Most of it was watching football, though. Being passive just doesn't fit with tiredness, it just adds to it. If I'd played the whole day or written stuff etc. I would've been alright. I won't be watching football for over a week now (expect for tomorrow evening), so that shouldn't be a problem anymore. After that I'll simply get up and watch while standing if I start to feel sleepy.

Day 24

Core

I won't be bother with the ratings for today as I really overslept for the first time in 24 days. I strung 23 days with under 5 hours of sleep a day in a row before oversleeping with today's core. 6 hours was my total today and I will be doing my naps normally as well, I mean I missed one of them already but I'll do the rest like nothing happened.

It's a real click in the teeth. I didn't feel like I was adapting but I think this was unnecessary. I simply went back to bed for some reason when the alarms went off. Another disciplinary thing ruining everything. I don't know what to do with that but simply decide, that I WILL NOT GO BACK TO BED UNTIL CLOSE TO NEXT NAP. I won't even take a blanket with me when I go sit at computer if I'm cold. I'm just going to endure it. But yeah, I could deal with oversleeping if it were not so god damn long. Losing that under 5 hour streak sucks. But now it's time to start a brand new streak, without mistakes for the next 60 days! (In my dreams).

The fact is, that the history will continue to repeat itself unless I change something. I need to:
- Recognize when I'm tired and act accordingly - no slow activities then.
- Like I said, get up and stay up. No compromising. I need to just figure out a good punishment for myself for not adhering it. That said, I don't fully like just springing up the instant my alarm goes off, because that kills my recall, but I guess I don't have a choice until I adapt.
- Take my tiredness seriously - I have had slight attitude problem toward the tiredness Everyman causes. It has never gotten anywhere near as unendurable as Uberman got, therefore I'm being a bit arrogant towards it. I might not be as heavy as with Uberman, but it still can drag me to sleep so I really should reread combating narcolepsy section of PureDoxyk's book.

Only thing I haven't come to conclusion about is the alarms. Should I space them out evenly or have them go off close to each other? If I go for decent gaps, that just going to invite me to stay in bed a little longer ("I'll lay down 'til the last alarm"- and then you sleep through it). On the other hand, alarms close to each other can cause it to be more or less one getting up to shutdown alarms. That might not be enough.

I'm going with the best of both worlds from now on - Zeo goes off first, then my computer almost instantly after it. It should create some psychological pressure to get up for Zeo before my computer wakes up the whole house. Then have my phone sound it's alarm 10-15 minutes later as a back-up. I'd like to have a fourth back-up too now when you think of it, but I guess this is fine.

Sucks that it happens now as well. I mentioned earlier that I'm attending an event and hoped I'd be adapted by then. We'll the event is 6 days away and I overslept, so... fuck.

So in the end it's just another failure but I think I had a pretty good run and I'm definitely improving in this, just shame my initial level is so horrendous that I'm going to take an effort after effort to adjust. Besides, I don't know what's my record of most successful days in a row, but it can't be even a week if you count every minor fuck-up. So that's something definitely need to break - the barrier of seven days of adherence. During the fist attempt even two days was too much for me, so I like that I suddenly got better, but I still need to improve a lot for it to really count.

My napping times are near-perfect for me, so I won't be changing them. I could make them more evened out, but I start making those tweakings only is everyhing is going perfect yet me being tired. I'm falling asleep on every nap so in a certain sense my body is in the zone for napping.

Also this is the most drastic fuck-up for my daily schedule since the beginning as it's pretty much the only spot where I had some kind of routine going on was the first phase.

I didn't really desing my rating system and such for days like these, so I won't do that today. I have a little over an hour before my next nap, so I'll try to do some stuff I was supposed to between 6-9.

Naps

I'll just cover all of the naps in this - basicly they went without problems despite the oversleep. However I was more tired than usual in the evening. But yeah, nothing special going on. I'll start off from the scratch trying to form a new streak of successful days. This time I won't be settling on seven days, I'll never oversleep again unintentionally! That's putting the bar high, but I've noticed that when the bar is high I fare the best, even if I never make it that far.

Day 23

Core
Phase rating: 3

I had easy time getting up, well relatively to other core's at least. There was strong urge to just sleep a little more, but some alarm continuously killed this need off quickly. After some time awake the tiredness crept in as usual, but I used the old ace, Trackmania Nations to repel it.

Nap 1
Phase rating: 4

You won't get much closer to genuine oversleep than this. I decided to stay in bed for few minutes after waking up, reading magazine and trusting that my computers alarm will wake me again in a few minutes if I happen to fall asleep. Well, I had not put the audio cord back in, meaning that the alarm was silent. I did fall asleep as well, but luckily I woke up in five minutes. This time I had the censor on the whole time and it confirms the data. I really need to get more disciplined, that was a close call. I wonder how those extra 5 minutes and such affect the adaptation... I guess adversely, but only slightly. The original nap was all REM, the extension was light sleep. I'm now exactly in the pace to get 4h 20 min of sleep today and REM and deep numbers look fine as well.

I felt surprisingly good for pretty much the whole phase - yesterday's high numbers getting rewarded?

Nap 2
Phase rating: 4

Solid, about 20-minute nap with some REM and also a bit deep sleep as well.

Nap 3
Phase rating: 5

Playing hockey shrugged the little tiredness that was left off. The nap was basic stuff.

Nap 4
Phase rating: 3

I sort of dozed off for some time briefly after waking up. That wasn't long time, maybe 5-10 minutes at my computer, but still, I don't know what to think. I guess it's such a short mistake that perhaps I just shouldn't care, but still, I it's these small mistakes that are stifling me at the moment.

Okay, I checked it (I was watching a video when I dozed off, so judging by the timeline I could deduce how long I was asleep) and it turned out that I was about 15 minutes asleep. Adding this to my nap it combines to half an hour of sleep, which is not that bad, but I don't know. I consider this a failure.

From now on, I want completely mistake free days. I can bear these mistakes, but I don't want to be stuck in this half-adaptation forever. I want to be extremely disciplined from now on.

Total sleep 4h 30 min
REM 1h 5 min
Deep 1h 15 min
Day rating: 3.6

The oversleep in the end meant that I slept again a bit more that what is the plan. I don't mind too much, and the numbers are decent again. I felt okay too and I hope that I can beat my record in the feel rating tomorrow.

Day 22

Core
Phase rating: 1

So again I needed all of the alarms to get up, despite falling asleep as early as 2:45. Basicly that tells me that I should aim exatly for the 3 hours. Today is slept 3h 20 mins as it streched from the other end as well. I didn't wake up until my computer's alarm went off. My initial feeling was about average, but now, a little over 30 minutes later, I'm already dead.

I don't know about that core lenght. It seems really hard to hit that sweet spot. This time I woke up after long phase of REM. 3 hours would've been just at the start of this phase, so waking up in time would have set me up for full-REM nap 1. Whether it would've felt better is a different alltogether.

Luckily my state got a bit better after I started playing TrackMania Nations. That game is sleep-deprivation god.

Nap 1
Phase rating: 3

All light sleep once again. That said, it could have been worse, considering I don't feel all that bad.

Nap 2
Phase rating: 4

For some reason Zeo didn't record anything. However, I had vivid dreams - not nightmares really, but still disturbing stuff again, so I think I got plenty of REM. I guesstimated that I had 20 minutes of REM in same-lenght nap. I felt okay, just mostly unproductive during this phase.

Nap 3
Phase rating: 3

I slept for fifteen minutes and it was an usual nap, except for the five minutes of deep sleep I got in th end of it. That made it a bit tough to get up, but I obviously managed it.

The phase was okay, but towards the end I started getting really tired., so that drops the rating. Sucks that I now have so much problems after the start that seemed so promising.

Nap 4
Phase rating: 4

Last nap was as standard as it gets - 15 minutes all light. Still, it was refreshing and I felt great for the whole time. Well, nearly the whole time, I started to get tired towards the end.

Total sleep 4h 40 min
REM 1h 05 min
Deep 1h 35 min
Day rating: 3.2

Okay so I really slept long today. 20 minutes over what the schedule is supposed to say. I don't mind too much, but I can't help but to wonder how it's going to affect my adaptation. I'll be trying to keep my naps closer to 20 minutes and especially the core, I try to avoid it streching too much. 2:45 should be the absolute earliest I head to bed and even that when I'm not feeling tired and think I need some time to fall asleep.

With those numbers though I'd expect to feel a little better tomorrow. We'll see.

Day 21

Core
Phase rating: 1

I got into the action right after waking up, but I'm feeling really, really tired. Compared to the other cores this was somewhat average, but with a slightly below average amount of deep sleep, only an hour. But yeah, had I not kept myself doing stuff I might as well fallen asleep in this spot. Or hell, I was doing stuff yet nearly struggled to fall asleep. Luckily this is a short phase.


Nap 1
Phase rating: 3

I had surprising trouble getting asleep considering how dead I was. My total sleep here was cut to 15 minutes and I didn't even get 10 minutes of REM, gotta be a little dissapointed. My head hurted a bit after waking up, but it was short-lived. As the phase went on I got more refreshed. It's borderline though between 2 and 3. So overall shorter than usual nap still managed to refresh me a bit.

Nap 2
Phase rating:

I dont know about this one. I got up an hour after the first moment of sleep. I guess the questioning by the authorities was sliced up to multiple parts for both of us. I know that I at .least had a dream about it. But yeah, I don't know what I should think about it. I guess it still counts as a success, at least my bed and waketimes seem close enough. The phase itself felt as usual - great, with pretty much no trace of sleepyness.

Nap 3
Phase rating: 5

Ordinary, 15 minutes of light sleep nap for the evening. I noticed that my body creates a lot of heat during this nap. Again, no trouble staying awake for the whole time.

Nap 4
Phase rating: 4

Another 10 minutes without REM. But still the most important thing mantains true that I am getting the sleep here. I'm nailing the evening, just need to make the mornings work. Only slight moments of fatigue at times, solid stuff.

Total sleep 4h 15 min
REM 40 min
Deep 1h
Day rating: 3.6

To be honest I can't be perfectly happy about this day with the low numbers and a lot of tiredness compared to relatively big total sleep. I'm still a long way from adapting.

Day Twenty

Core
Sleeptime: 2:50-6:00
REM: 35 min
Deep: 55 min

Well I almost equalled yesterdays REM with simply the core today. Expecting more REM from the naps as well. Yesterday we got crazy amounts of deep from the core, today we're having to settle for a little less.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:05-8:30
REM: 20 min
Deep: 0 min

A solid nap. I woke up in the middle of it though, but only very briefly.

Okay now it's the end of this wake-phase and I'm really dead. Lucky that it's so close to sleeping time.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:40-12:00
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

A tough nap both before and after due to tiredness but at least nothing special happened in the end.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:05-17:25
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

It started with a short bit of REM, then proceeded back to light sleep. Pretty standard stuff.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 22:30-22:45
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

I was a bit late, but I hope that won't affect too much. I simply again lost the concept of time a bit, luckily I noticed it early enough. Nap in itself was pretty standard, but I struggled a bit to get up from it.

Total sleep 4h 30 min
REM: 75 min
Deep: 55 min

A slightly long core and no naps that fell short meant that my total sleep was in it's highest since day 12, if you don't count the oversleeping days. In terms of REM and deep sleep it was nothing special. Decentish. I felt still very tired at times today.

From this moment on I feel like I need to start quantifying a bit my progress with the adaptation. I don't introduce the old system with Mental & Tiredness number, instead I'll rate every phase with a simple 1-5 feel number.
5 = I feel normal and there was no tiredness during this phase.
4 = I don't feel outright tired, but I'm not at my freshest either.
3 = There was some moments of slight tiredness.
2 = Multiple moments of fatigue and very little productivity.
1 = I felt extremely tired and started nodding or the whole phase was slight struggle with tiredness.

With these, I aim to do average daily feeling number and average for each phase to give me some useful data to more easily compare and contrast the different days. It should start to get easier every day, but it's a slow and very subtle process, that these numbers hopefully help me to assess.

I'll also move to using spreadsheet for my data, so I don't really know how I'm going to distribute the data in the blog from now on. I guess I'll post the key stats and key feelings during the day, but it's gonna be much more condensed as I don't feel like typing all the data twice. Up until now I've just directly recorded data in this written form.

I guess it's gonna seem like this:
Example Nap
Phase rating: 4

I slept as usual and felt fine blahblahblah...

Example Nap 2
Phase Rating: 1

This nap sucked, I only slept 5 minutes and it was blah. Then I felt like death blah.

Well I guess that's not much more condensed at all. I wish my average descriptions were as vivid as in examples. I'll still keep track of the waking times, total sleeps and such and will be posting daily totals as usual, but I just don't think anyone cares about them and I'm aiming to concentrate more on verbal descriptions. I mean if I'm going to say anyway, that "I was a bit late for the nap", then why bother with the exact times? Usually I explain my mistakes anyway in the text so if something out of ordinary happens, it is going to show up there anyway.

Day Nineteen

Core
Sleeptime 2:55-6:10
REM: 20 min
Deep: 110 min

Superb amount of deep! More than I get from monophasic! Nice. Lenghty core as well, but still it saw me stay asleep 10 minutes into my alarm. Great base numbers could mean a record for useful sleep for today. That said, I feel slightly tired. It's nothing really compared to what I've been feeling lately, but there's still the certain tiredness.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:05-8:30
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

A solid nap in numbers and also in terms of getting instantly up. Nothing really to say, I just hope that this keeps up. That said, I have still gotten tired towards the end of the phase.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:35-12:00
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

Keeping up the good work.

Nap 3
Sleeptime 17:15-17:20
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Well this was weird. I go to sleep and am set for sleeping until 17:30, but I wake up after only five minutes, as refreshed as ever.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 22:10-22:30
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

All-light sleep nap to end the day. I struggled to get up as I stayed in the bed until about 22:45. I didn't sleep though, but it did make me feel kind of bad. I was definitely risking it (there was alarm though yet to go off, so I would've slept few minutes max).

Total sleep 4h 10 min
REM: 40 min
Deep: 110 min

Another pretty good day and third successful day in a row. I don't really have anything to add to that.

Day Eighteen

Core
Sleeptime 3:10-6:05
REM: 25 min
Deep: 80 min

Umm, it was pretty normal I guess. A bit groggy upon waking up but that's all. The alarm rang for a couple of minutes maybe before I got up.

Nap 1
Sleeptime 8:10-8:30
REM: 20 min
Deep: 0 min

Thank lord for the full-REM nap. Frankly it didn't help much, as I really didn't want to get up the bed after waking up and now, over a hour later I'm really, really tired. This has been a tough morning.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:35-12:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

That ought to ease it. For once I woke up a bit before the alarm as well. I stayed in the bed though until the alarm, because I still am damn tired when I wake up. This is still pretty hard - well, I guess it would've been too easy if I'd just have adapted like that. Hopefully I'll feel better in two weeks. Lately the tiredness has concentrated on these earlier phases, so if things continue as they were in last couple of days, I should feel better by evening.

Nap 3
Sleeptime 17:15-17:40
REM: 10 min
Deep: 0 min

Wow, REM again? If my memory serves me right, and I won't bother to look into it, this would be the first time of REM in every nap if I get REM in the fourth nap. I'm still a bit tired, but it has gotten better as expected. Getting up from this nap was very hard though - my alarm was nicely randomly set to 17.33 so I slept 7 minutes while alarm was on.

Nap 4
Sleeptime 22:05-22:15
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Again a bit of REM. My nap was cut short to waking up and just not falling back asleep. I didn't even try after rolling around for 4 minutes and being completely refreshed. Kind of nice.

Total sleep 4h 15min
REM: 65 min
Deep: 80 min

Very solid numbers. I hope my tiredness lessens for tomorrow due to this.

Day Seventeen

Core
Sleeptime: 3:00-6:00
REM: 15 min
Deep: 85 min

I slept just the time I was supposed to, yet I feel like I failed. I woke up a couple of times during the core - the second time I woke up around 5.30 but didn't get up. Or I don't know, something like that. By 6:00 I was up however so it doesn't really matter, for some reason though I feel a little dirty. The numbers are fine. I'm feeling reasonable, not great but I'll manage. For the first time in a while I feel like failing is possible again though. Maybe once I get a couple of successful days in a row I'll start feeling more confident...

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:15-8:30
REM: 10 min
Deep: 0 min

Consistency of earlier days is completely gone. A bit of REM here and I though I slept more, but whatever. I'm much more tired than few days ago as well. That oversleep yesterday taking it's toll or rather normal adaptation?

Waking up from the core there was this certain disorientation that I felt during Uberman as well. So I don't know, maybe for me the toughest spot is here right now? Also I haven't put that many days in a row without oversleeps, so my guess it's there's still overall slight sleep deficit accumulating. Those last two naps have no REM nor deep sleep after all usually. I should just concentrate on keeping a consistent schedule at this point.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:40-12:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

I'm tired again. I'd just wish for more REM. This might be a tough day.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:20-17:40
REM: 5 min
Deep: 5 min

Well at least there was something. What I'm happy with is that there was maximum amount of distractions for falling asleep, yet I managed it fairly quickly. I was a bit late, had just come from playing hockey, there was tv on, I was sweaty, etc. etc. I nap solidly, that's all. This phase has felt pretty good also.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 22:35-22:40
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

At least I fell asleep - not a great nap. It was a bit late as well. That said, I tried to expand on it by giving myself another 10 minutes, but couldn't fell asleep again, so it did refresh me. Overall I feel a lot better than during the day. Perhaps it was just the occasional fatigue that will still happen, especially since I've had a few oversleeps.

Total sleep 4h
REM: 35 min
Deep: 90 min

Solid deep, but REM sucks. I wonder why I am not getting the regular REM in the noon naps anymore?

Day Sixteen

Core

Sleeptime: 3:00-5:30, 5:50-7:30

Yeah, I won't bother with the numbers because of the oversleep. I was supertired as usual waking up from my core so I wasn't thinking straight. I tried to stay up, but my thoughts got the better of me and for some reason, I didn't even have any alarms on. Luckily I don't sleep for long anymore. Timewise I couldn'¨t care less about this, but it's frustrating to have your streak ruined and possibly take a small setback.

Perhaps it's still too early to go proclaiming yourself success... I need to figure out a plan for those supertired waking ups. That said, it's one thing to have a plan and a whole other thing to actually implement it while being braindead.

I'm going to stay up for the 7:30-8:00 break and then go to my first nap as usual. I guess it's lucky that I didn't oversleep so much that I'd lose the first nap. I have to keep mantaining the usual schedule. However, I guess I'll be trying a WILD really hard, so hard that it could stifle my attempt to fall asleep. It shouldn't matter with the oversleep.

Finally it should be mentioned that my core was shorter than usual because SmartWake woke me up early. Timewise I've only slept maximum of 1½ hours of extra. I don't know how accurate that estimation I have of the time I went back to sleep is, probably optimistic in a sense that I didn't really stay up that long. Still this ought to set me back a bit. It just goes to prove that Everyman adaptation is a long process.

I have an event coming up soon and I'd really need to be as adapted as possible before that. Because of that, I absolutely can't allow any more oversleep for the next two weeks. I have to work that into my brain.

I guess one way could be leaving MW2 just on and instantly after alarm goes off no thoughts, just instantly up and at your computer and throw yourself into the match. Just have this routine that you automatically do this to ease up the first half an hour or so. Once you're up it's easy to stay up, especially since getting your ass handed to you in MW should stimulate your brains.

I'd end up playing a lot of MW2 but I need the practice in that anyway! So it's a win-win situation...

Nap 1
Sleeptime 8:30-8:40
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

I ended up having a bit longer break than I wrote earlier, but it didn't change the fact that I hardly got to sleep. Which is fine considering the earlier oversleep.

Nap 2
No data

I slept for 25 minutes at the normal time. Zeo didn't record the data for some reason - or it just dissapeared from the screen as I put the headband docked on it.

Nap 3
Sleeptime 17:05-17:20
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Relatively refreshing nap here. A bit on the shorter side though.

I've been thinking about the SmartWake lately and I have to say that it really isn't as useful as I hoped for. Today morning was one of the rare instances it woke me and I definitely wasn't ready for waking then. That said, I'm not completely giving up on it. I'm just shortening the timescale it can wake me up so it wakes me up max 20 minutes early. I'll be heading to sleep 2:30-2:45 as well, as I usually take some time to fall asleep for my core. But there's still the fourth nap of today to take care of first.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 22:10-22:25
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Zeo again cut some data off as I woke up just before the alarm and quickly set it ready for the core - therefore shifting the time display. So that I slept for 15 minutes is just guessing. I was a long time in a different state of mind, but awake. It's cool as the room was full of distractions, yet I managed to drift off.

No total data for the day as there was too much unrecorded data.

Day Fifteen

Core
Sleeptime: 3:10-6:00
REM: 35 min
Deep: 85 min

An okay core - I was a bit groggy upon waking up, but for the most of the phase I felt fine.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:00-8:30
REM: 10 min
Deep: 0 min

I forgot the Smartwake for this nap so it decided to wake me up after 10 minutes, but it was a very quick wake up. Not very restful either as it left me very tired. Luckily this is one of the shorter phases awake.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:35-12:00
REM: 25 min
Deep: 0 min

Okay, nice to have a "perfect" nap for a change, but I'm still tired as hell and the urge to go straight back to bed is quite big. I guess I'll have these for a while, PureDoxyk talked about 60-day period with Everyman and considering I've done couple of oversleeps it'll be closer to 70 days.

I'm not expecting a very producitve day - so far it's been pretty average in that department.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 16:55-17:20
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Guess I'll have to be happy with that. Much-needed nap - I was really tired in the end of previous phase!

Nap 4
Sleeptime 22:15-22:30
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Again a bit of REM, I guess that's good.

Total sleep 4h 25min
REM: 80 min
Deep: 85 min

After two worse days, this day improved upon the numbers and I'd expect not to be as tired tomorrow. I guess those two weaker days caused the tiredness.

I wonder how long I should keep this blog with this format. Sixth day in a row without oversleeps. I guess when I hit 15 I'm done and then I'll keep wider distance between updates. Nobody does that much with this data anymore.

Day Fourteen

Core
Sleeptime: 3:25-6:00
REM: 0 min
Deep: 95 min

Well, those are bizarre numbers. It was a little short core though, so maybe it's not so surprising. I struggled a bit in falling asleep for some reason.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:10-8:30
REM: 10 min
Deep: 0 min

Nothing special here. A bit short and I normally get more REM with this, but whatever.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:35-12:45 & 11:50-12:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

I woke up midnap, that probably disrupted getting REM here.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:05-17:20
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

I shortened this nap as you can see, as I planned. No REM either, despite the first two naps sort of sucking. I guess I just aren't going to have REM here.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 22:10-22:25
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Total sleep 3h 45 min
REM: 20 min
Deep: 95 min

Second day in a row with quite low amounts of sleep and I've felt very tired today, especially towards the afternoon. That said even the noon wasn't the freshest. Good core tonight and solid first two naps tomorrow morning should clear me up nicely. In terms of not oversleeping the streak is now streched to five days.

Day Thirteen

Day Thirteen
Sleeptime: 3:05-6:00
REM: 25 min
Deep: 90 min

Damn I got much deep sleep again. For once I got to bed early, 2:20, but just coulnd't fall asleep until that 3 o'clock. At least this time I woke up somewhat naturally without needing Immortal's blasting drums to shake me up.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 7:20-7:25
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

Well that's surprising. I fell asleep for a moment and then was simply so refreshed for some reason that I couldn't fall asleep again for the last minutes of naptime. First time in a while that this nap "fails" I suspect that some other nap will take it's place and I'll still rack up 2 naps worth of REM.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 12:10-12:25
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

I've waken up naturally from both of my naps now. How 'naturally' is debatable though, as in both times I've zapped awake after getting some kind of awareness of the fact that I had already woked up once and therewore were oversleeping, when that wasn't the case. Weird day so far overall, but I'm happy that I don't have problems waking up.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:15-17:30
REM: 0 min
Deep: 5 min

Nap 4
Sleeptime: Missed nap
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

I experienced a switch of state, but didn't fall asleep, not at least according to Zeo. As I still felt rested after it, I consider this still a success. Even if it were a failure, missing a nap is lot milder offence than oversleeping.

I just figured out something. If those two later naps are so ineffective anyway, why waste so much time on them? I should just reserve 20 minutes time on each. I know I'm supposed to reserve that much time for every nap, but in reality I need a bit time to fall asleep. If I'm not going to fall asleep anyway in those naps or only catch five minutes of REM, I can do it in 20 minutes as well. I need to test this shit out. After all, I have four naps instead of the usual three, so it just might work. At the moment I'm pretty much taking 3h 20 min + 30 min + 30 min + 35 min + 35 min of time for my naps which equals to about 5h 10 mins. I could trim it down plenty by being more timely. Something like 3h 10 min + 25 min + 25 min + 20 min + 20 min = 4h 40 min. Well it's not that big of a victory, but even half an hour a day is 3½ hours in a week.

I'm not fully adapted yet, but at this moment there's no significant chance of failure anymore. I would call this a success already. Now it's only about optimization.

Total sleep 3h 30 min
REM: 40 min
Deep: 95 min

Decent numbers. Decent feel as well. I could've probably done with more REM, but I can deal with that.

Day Twelve

Core
Sleeptime 2:50-6:05
REM: 5 min
Deep: 75 min

Bizarre core. Again I failed to wake up straight to Zeo's alarm, and it was Immortal's blasts that once again woke me up. I'm glad that my alternative alarm is so effective, but why am I constantly needing it? Almost no REM and while there were plenty of deep, even that was a lower number than lately. I tried to go to sleep 2:30, but I couldn't fall asleep right away so I didn't even get the extended core that I'm curious to see the effects off.

Next two naps should work like a clockwork though. Expecting 30+ minutes of REM.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:05-8:30
REM: 20 min
Deep: 0 min

Don't look so surprised. Nothing to comment about this anymore. Except that my dream was nightmarish again now that I remember it. Really, what's up with that?

I hope that my next nap is as predictable as this.

I wonder when these moments of fatigue go away completely. It's nothing bad that I can't handle and it's relatively close to sleeping time, but still I'd like to get rid of these.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:40-12:05
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

Yeah, it was pretty much as expected. That said I'm currently sleeping so consistently through alarm that I'm going to... wait for it... change the alarm sound! The exciting world of Everyman...

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:20-17:30
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

Another unsurprising nap. I might as well cut this if it doesn't get useful. Still, it's relatively early days so maybe I should just give it more chances. I need to take the last nap a bit early today by the way.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 21:35-21:50
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Another quite useless nap. I'm not exactly sure if the numbers went like that, but it was short nap again with max of 5 mins of REM.

Total sleep 4h 30 min
REM: 45 min
Deep: 75 min

A weaker day in terms of numbers today, but I actually felt quite good except for the morning.

Third successful day in a row after that dip in form.

Day Eleven

Core
Sleeptime: 3:10-6:10
REM: 20 min
Deep: 95 min

Amazing amount of deep in such a short space. I overslept through my first two alarms, but the Immortal one finally got me up. I went to bed 2:40 and if I had fallen asleep immediately, that might've been naturally long enough match for fighters. All in all this core left us with big enough numbers to do records today, that deep is already record in itself.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:05-8:30
REM: 25 min
Deep: 0 min

25 min of sleep, all of it REM, beautiful. Great stuff. Only thing that is lacking is routine, but when I've put in couple of weeks of this good streak, I'm sure it's going to get better.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:40-12:00
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0

The usual stuff.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:10-17:30
REM: 5 min
Deep: 5 min

A bit of all types of sleep. I kind of like it.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 22:20-22:30
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

I keep having trouble with this nap. Still, at least I got a bit sleep in it as well again.

Total sleep 4h 15 min
REM: 70 min
Deep 100 min

Numberwise it's another impressive day, but it was still the same old story with occasional tiredness, especially during the night.

Day Ten

Core
Sleeptime: 3:10-6:00
REM: 45 min
Deep: 75 min

Well my core has certainly changed. It's much more effective in terms of REM. I woke up after 30-minute phase, that said I woke up to my computer's alarm, so I had slept through Zeo and phone. I had no recall about the dream. I guess I should keep the SmartWake on but just give myself a bit more time for the core. I guess 3h 10 mins would be the perfect lenght. Setting the alarm 3h 30 min later and giving 40 minute wake period for Zeo sounds fine as well. Basicly it means that I need to go to bed earlier, around 2:30. But I wouldn't mind that, I usually get tired a little early as well.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:05-8:30
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

This day has started pretty well. My body still objects on getting up, but this time I got up without hitting snooze once. Just one nap in and I've already raked in over an hour of REM. That might be just a side-effect of recent oversleeps, or it could be a sign of cycles really resetting themselves to correspond with my schedule. Only time will tell.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:05-11:30
REM: 20 min
Deep: 0 min

God damn, this is solid stuff! We're already way over my daily REM record under Everyman. I wouldn't mind catching another 10 minutes from evening naps.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:15-17:30
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Why these later naps are alway shorter than the first two? I wonder whether I'd had more REM if I'd slept a little longer. That said, I've got plenty today so I'm not sad that I didn't get it now.

Nap 4
Sleeptime 22:20-22:30
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

This nap is still short and pretty useless. Well it did refresh me a bit, but I still suppose that I should have REM here as well.

Total sleep 4h 5 min
REM: 85 min
Deep: 75 min

Overall great numbers, but I have to say that there was a lot of tired moments during the day, including my current feel. I'll head to bed a bit early tonight to test out the optimal core length.

Day Nine

efore I go for the core sleep of Day Nine, which will be shorter than normal (I got already some deep in the oversleep earlier, so I won't hopefully be needing that much of it anymore), I'll write up some thoughts about my naptimes.

Generally, the morning feels pretty good. In the days I've felt good right after waking from Core I've felt I could've done slightly longer first phase, but that's not really important and I'll be glad that it's short when I wake up dead. Second phase is pretty much the same, that said I've never had any trouble with the noon nap so I'm guessing my waking phase is pretty much correct.

The third nap is the ankward one. I'm usually tired a bit before it, but once it comes the time to do it, I'm no longer tired. So I'm postponing it a bit. I'll move it to 17-17:30 spot. It's not perfect but as this is Everyman, I can move it around a bit when I need. I'm not probably fully adapted yet with oversleeps and all, but I'm feeling good enough and I could live like this for the rest of my life. That's a statement of how mild adaptation has felt for me. As I have great dream recall as well I have zero desire to go back monophasic.

On to the evening nap, it's a bit ankward as well, I struggle to fall asleep (except today) and it leaves the last phase a bit long in the end end, I usually am already tired around 1.30-2 am. So I'll shift it a little later as well.

So my new, changed schedule aims for this:
Core: 3 - 5.30-6 as normal
Nap 1: 8-8.30
Nap 2: 11.30-12
Nap 3: 17-17.30
Nap 4: 22-22.30

Yeah... We'll see how that works.

Core: 4:20-7:30

Crapcrapcrap! Another oversleep. I've been set back quite a bit. This is not as bad considering my core was shortened, but what is happening to me? Now my next nap will come pretty much at the phase of very little wake-time.

Where's my discipline is the important question. The worst part here is that now I had all three alarms, yet they failed me. It will take a few days to recover from the damage that this had caused. I really hate myself for conditioning myself to stay in bed after the alarm, that is causing me so much trouble now. I'm degenerating back to the mess I was in the original Everyman attempts. I guess it's not that bad, I guess three oversleeep in nine days is not terrible especially when my totals haven't been changed that much, but still, at this pace I'll be back in the proverbial stone age if I don't get a grip of myself.

So now the plan is tightening up the naps again, so that the only problem there can be is the core. 20 minute naps rarely fail anyone, but longer than that can get you tired.

Now that I've calmed down a bit it doesn't feel as terrible. I overslept 1,5h in the evening and 1,3h for this core, but I was set to shorten my core by 1,5h anyway so in the end I've been sleeping only 1,5h too much. As the times that I've slept are quite close to my normal sleeping times, it won't probably be as bad as it seems. But I still suspect that this causes some extra tiredness and requires some extra effort. But I know now that I can't let my guard down even after plenty of days of success. I guess I need to have 15 succesful days in a row before I drop an alarm.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:15-8:25
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Supershort nap, mostly due to me waking up early. It was refreshing though.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:35-12:00
REM: 10 min
Deep: 0 min

At least I'm not as tired as I was anymore. Still, getting up was pretty fucked up.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:20-17:30
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Well this day has been tough when you watch those REM-numbers throughout the day. At least I got up after only one snooze.

I had this idea of putting my alarms more closely together to force myself awake. Also I could put my phone into another room to really force myself up. I'll wake up to that sound, there's no doubt about that, even if I'm in another room. At the moment I have slightly too much time to get up.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 22:10-22:30
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min
All the naps today were similar. I guess that five minutes helps a bit, but I'm a bit tired now and overall the day was pretty miserable. Morning's oversleep seems ancient history by now and I feel that I'll do a lot better tomorrow. Hopefully I got back to at least getting the first two naps right.

The most important thing is though to get proper data about the core, whether a change in lenght is needed.

Day Eight

Core
Sleeptime: 3:00-6:00
REM: ???
Deep: ???

My Zeo botched up the data so there is only stuff from the last half an hour. I was totally dead upon waking up as well. I'd say that the dynamics of my core has changed, I've been needing full 3 hours lately. I could've really used the data now.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:05-8:30
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

Nice nap, but I'm really shooting myself in the leg with my constant snoozing. I've set Zeo's snooze to go off every minute, so it's not like I fall asleep while it's on when I'm constantly turning to snooze. That said, I'm conditioning myself NOT to get up as the alarm goes off which is the backwards thing to do.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:45-12:05
REM: 20 min
Deep: 0 min

Perfect nap. I can safely say that some of my cycles have been reprogrammed by my brains. It seems core has changed due to that as well. I guess what I'm going to do next is shorten the core even further. I could go longer as well, but I don't think that's the right way to go. As it stands Smartwake haven't been finding good spots to wake me up lately from the core, because the spot where my deep sleep transitions to more REM oriented sleep is too early. I don't really know, perhaps I should give it a couple of days more. The problem is that the last night's data was skewered by Zeo so I don't know how my cycles went. I guess I'll wait it out for another night before changing anything.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:00-17:10
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

A little tough nap again, I shifted it ten minutes later but that didn't help. Luckily, I did catch a little sleep, but it was all light.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 21:40-23:40
REM: 10 min
Deep: 30 min

Well I'm disgusted. Staying in bed after alarms finally caught up with me. I made the mistake of not putting any alternate alarms on. I don't remember whether Zeo went off, but it wasn't enough to get me up. I woke up according to it. I sort of remember it, but not well. Terrible oversleep and a lesson in humility for me. I guess I'll do another core not to fuck up too much my schedule. I'll aim to got to sleep at 4 am. and to get up normally.

I won't bother with the totals, the whole day is messed up.

Day Seven

Core
Sleeptime: 3:00-6:00
REM: 25 min
Deep: 80 min

Looks very familiar, those numbers. I guess I could've been more tired when I woke up.

Actually, relatively to other days, this phase felt very good. Still not up there with the rest of the day, but fine nonetheless. I can live with this.

Nap 1:
Sleeptime: 8:10-8:30
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

This went as usual. A fine nap, I didn't remember my dream though, which makes me doubt it was a nightmare. I usually remember those.

Nap 2:
Sleeptime: 11:33-11:53
REM: 20 min
Deep: 0 min

This pleases me very much. It was the perfect nap - REM from start to finish and natural awakening 7 minutes before the alarm. Well, except for one thing - another nightmare (it isn't night though, so is it daymare?). This time fighter jet does a kamikaze on me and my sister. Dying feels pretty bad. Having perfect REM on the lunch nap is very encouraging.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 16:35-17:00
REM: 0 min
Deep: 10 min

Not an easy nap to get up from, but this as well as others had more restorative sleep than usually. My combined total for the day is now 150 minutes out of 245 minutes, that's about 60 %. It's not as big of an improvement though that I would've expected, with monophasic the distribution were roughly half and half.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 21:45-22:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Zeo lost immeadiately all data so I don't exactly remember how it was on this one. I didn't get up before 22.30 - laid around in the bed awake or half-awake.

Total sleep 4h 20 min
REM: 65 min
Deep: 90 min

All in all very nice day. Getting up is still a bit iffy, but my overall feel has improved and I would say that I'm adapting very well. I'd say that there's no big improvements left any more.

Day Six

Core
Sleeptime 3:05-5:45
REM: 5 min
Deep: 80 min

I would've been happy with slightly bigger numbers, but I guess that's fine. I'm still showing worrying signs of having difficulty getting up. I need to stop that, else that starts just to look like my previous Everyman attempt.

Nap 1
Sleeptime 8:05-8:30
REM: 20 min
Deep: 0 min

Another REM-nap, another nightmare. I mean, this was just about our toilet breaking down, but the dark atmosphere was there. There's something different about this nap overall. I had half-lucid moment during this phase couple of days ago, but I was so scared even when I knew it was a dream that I kept screaming to wake up. I still would hope to mantain lucidity through the short phase of light sleep early and get a WILD here, just to see if my conscious mind could stem the tide.

Nap 2
Sleeptime 11:35-12:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Standard nap for this spot. Still no greater amounts of REM.

Nap 3
Sleeptime 16:45-17:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Same old stuff continues for these later naps. I felt pretty refreshed considering how short it was.

Nap 4
Sleeptime 21:40-22:10
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

I almost forgot the nap again and since I got to bed late, I gave myself ten minutes of extra time. That wasn't really needed, as I fell asleep pretty much straight away. Nothing exciting here overall.

Total sleep 4h 15 min
REM: 40 min
Deep: 80 min

The day was very similar to others around it. I'm not happy about the REM, and I'm feeling a little low on energy at times, but this is still very bearable. Perhaps that's keeping me from adapting further? Then again, sixth day is still relatively early and I had that small oversleep to set me back as well.

Day Five

Core
Sleeptime: 2:55-6:05
REM: 25 min
Deep: 85 min

Another Core that got overstreched and I almost needed the third alarm to survive this. For some reason the 2½ hours haven't been enough for getting all the REM I need. I wonder if I should add 20 minutes to my core to sort it out. If this happens tomorrow, I really need to start tweaking this. Plenty of deep sleep at least. I've consistently gotten nearly the same amount of deep than with monophasic. My problem with tonight's core was REM-phase that was uncalled for. I didn't have deep for half an hour because of that.

Considering the tough spot I woke up into, I feel pretty well now. My head has pretty much cleared and I'm glad to see that I didn't write any nonsense.

Nap 1
Sleeptime 8:10-8:30
REM: 15 min
Deep 0 min

Core and the first nap are the only constants so far within this schedule. Every morning I've had REM here, but frankly every morning it's also been nightmare. Today's was the slightest, my cat attacked me relentlessly, but still, it's a nightmare. I wonder what's that all about? I'd say this is set up to be my toughest day so far. I was really tired upon waking up from the core and that repeated for nap one. I snoozed for five minutes (I have Zeo set to alarm again in a minute so I don't even get back to sleep, just ride out the initial urge to stay in bed), until my phone's alarm went off and forced me to get up to shut it down.

Only 5 minutes more of REM and I will already have had more REM than yesterday. Already matching my worst day in terms of REM. My best REM day obviously was day two. I need 35 minutes more in my last three naps to match that. There's a chance for that if I only start having REM in my later naps and get sufficient amount of sleep on them, which I doubt will happen today though.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:35-12:00, 12:30-13:30
REM: 15 min
Deep: ? min, presumably 0 min

First mistake in a while. I'm pretty certain I overslept. I didn't get up until 13.30. I was tired and had the usual problem of enjoying the warmth much. Last point I remember of being awake was 12:30. So perhaps I was a little under hour asleep. I'm split whether I should cut one nap or not. Then again, there's still enough time until the next nap so keeping the schedule will be best probably. I estimated the amount of REM, I didn't have the sensor on for the second nap. In other words, I remembered a dream.

That was completely unnecessary. I'm not as gutted as on Uberman, but still, I need to start getting up right away. I snoozed first for half an hour and then finally apparently fell asleep. But yeah, it isn't as drastic as on Uberman. Only naps that were working anyway so far were core and the first nap, and I don't think this should affect too much of my adaptatin. It might set me back a day or two, but nothing more. I'm not too angry because I have been still very fucntional under this schedule, so oversleep streching the adaptation is not too bad. Once again oversleeping has set me to incoherent babbling mode, so I'll quit now.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 16:40-17:00
REM: 5 min
Oversleep was done and dusted by this time and I got another decent nap.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 21:45-21:55
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Very short nap. I went to sleep a little late considering my mental state, but still managed to calm down relatively quick. Apparently there just wasn't much sleep left for today because I woke up 5 minutes before the alarm. Still, refreshing stuff.

Total sleep 5h 25 min
REM: 65 min
Deep: 85 min

I predicted this would be my toughest day after first nap and I was correct. First oversleep and none of the naps were easy to get up from. The weather just keeps getting colder which is another challenge. Makes just staying in the bed all the more tempting.

Day Four

Core
Sleeptime 3:05-6:10
REM: 10 min
Deep: 90 min

Amazing, I was cat hair away from my deep sleep record, which was done while being on monophasic schedule. In terms of of deep sleep I'm already adjusted therefore, I'd think.

I was really tired for this part of the sleep. All of my alarms went off, actually the Zeo had been on like minutes - the calmer alarm sound is forgiving and it was not enough when I had to be waken from deep sleep. Immortal blasted from my speakers and that's what eventually got me off my bed tp the computer.

This phase actually makes good use of the fears ni this same. Now even if he scores a couple an d ja is great. Too bad comptetition doesn't seem much, seeemed to make radical killing material. They overlift their material on the deep sleep as I really got going. This was one of the top games for Defoe, grea impact from the pecnyt

Flanders is getting to besters shape, joten Cesc's nap is closing down. Next it will be 8:00 play, where I again did nothing much they managed to not do weird shit. I wonder jow clean this text is, makes me wonder about sacrifices the other goalies are much do to OZ. Hell, I actually even managed it without help of the others. I really think this should be done from that angle.

But I really, really was messed up and super-groggy. You won't know it because I heavily edited that passage above after waking up from first nap, but I'm going to share with you the craziest sentences. It's similar to the sleep-writing I did during earlier attempts.

"Smartwake had not had a proper moment to introduce us, despite there being a spot which seems complete break would change anything."
Okay, towards the end of it I completely lost the plot. I have no idea what I'm trying to say:
"This phase actually makes good use of the fears ni this same. Now even if he scores a couple an d ja is great. Too bad comptetition doesn't seem much, seeemed to make radical killing material. They overlift their material on the deep sleep as I really got going. This was one of the top games for Defoe, grea impact from the pecnyt

Flanders is getting to besters shape, joten Cesc's nap is closing down. Next it will be 8:00 play, where I again did nothing much they managed to not do weird shit. I wonder jow clean this text is, makes me wonder about sacrifices the other goalies are much do to OZ. Hell, I actually even managed it without help of the others. I really think this should be done from that angle."

I gotta say that I love "radical killing material", and "Flanders getting to shape". For some reason there's parts about Arsenal - Tottenham from yesterday. I guess "I wonder jow clean this text is" is me trying to ask from myself whether I'm writing well. It's weird cause while I did know that I had trouble writing, I didn't realize that I went complete apeshit in the end. It just seems that my thoughts go all over the place midsentence.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:10-8:30
REM: 20 min
Deep: 0 min

Okay, now I'm sure that this nap is my nightmare nap! Another one of those. I was so terrified, that I actually became lucid because I couldn't take it anymore.

But yeah, I've kept thinking about the first nap. Just now it occured to me that could I have fallen asleep after writing that nonsense above? I don't remember falling asleep, or noticing anything like that, but I remember doing awfully little during that phase. If I can write shit like that without realizing it, I don't have much trust left for my brain. Then again, two hours isn't that long time. It must've taken some time from me to write that much text anyway, especially if I were struggling. Then I played some NHL, but as I simulated most of my matches I don't have exact knowlegde of how long I played. I guess it can't be very significant if I can't remember it.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:40-12:00
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

All light sleep here, which basicly means that it was an useless nap - that said, it was refreshing to some extent.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 16:35-17:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

I went to bed a bit early because I was worried about falling asleep. The extra time helped me to fall asleep, though in the end the nap was even a tad long, meaning I was groggy upon waking up. Not much of useful sleep in here.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 21:35-21:50
REM: 10 min
Deep: 0 min

According to Zeo, I actually woke up during this nap, but I doubt it, so I added just to the REM tally that 5-minute segment. It doesn't make much difference anyway.

Total sleep: 4h 25 min
REM 45 min
Deep 90 min

Solid stuff today. I felt terrible in the morning, but now at night I'm feeling fine. We'll see when the REM numbers start improving, I think they at least should start to at some point. It might take some days though.

Day Three

Core

Sleeptime 3:10-5:55

REM: 15 min

Deep: 90 min

Daaamn! I feel okay considering it's the first nap and that is of course best amount of deep sleep so far.

I'm definitely tired, but not nearly as much as I expected. If every morning were this easy, I could easily handle it.

Nap 1

Sleeptime 8:05-8:30

REM: 20 min

Deep: 0 min

I'm two for two in shortening the sleeping amounts for today. This nap was still just what's expected of it, nice chunk of REM, just shorter than yesterday. It also seems to be some kind of token nightmare spot for me, I got another one of those, and I really have not had nightmares in years before starting this. Now this was already the third.

Nap 2

Sleeptime 11:45-12:00

REM: 5 min

Deep: 0 min

I struggled a bit in getting asleep, and was uncharacteristically tired upon waking up. Kind of surprising that this nap got actually worse than in the previous days. The next nap is the one I've struggled most so far, so maybe that gets a bit easier?

Nap 3

Sleeptime 16:55-17:00 & 17:10-17:15

REM: 0 min

Deep: 5 min

I really struggled on this one, so I gave myself a bit of extra time. That didn't help much though.

Nap 4

Sleeptime: Missed nap

Weird. I shorten my sleeps and a result is two bad naps at the end of the day. Granted, I was heavily distracted, but still, it's a bit unexpected result. I hope I won't be totally destroyed tomorrow because of this. That said, I haven't been badly messed up so far during this adaptation.

Makes me wonder about my wake phase lenghts and overall about the whole 4 nap schedule. This was definitely not something I expected at this point. I don't know what's in for me next. I guess I'll just continue as planned. Despite missed nap, I consider this day still succesful, even if not perfect adherence. That nap made the rest of the day tough though, at the moment I'm starting to get slightly tired and there's still three hours to go until core.

Total sleep 3h 35 min

REM: 40 min

Deep: 95 min

Deep is very satisfying and probable reason for struggling to sleep, but still, there's not nearly enough REM here. I guess that's the sleep deprivation that is needed to re-wire my brains as they should be, or I'd hope. I still love how easy this is to handle. I wonder why my original Everyman attempt failed so spectacularly.

Everyman Day 2

Or what should I call it? It's based off standard 3 hour + 3x20 min everyman, just motified to correspond more with my natural cycles. In a dreamworld it still would mean that I get a similar amount of sleep.

Core
Sleeptime 3:00 - 6:05
REM: 10 min
Deep: 70 min

We keep the deep sleep and get a little less REM. I didn't get up when the alarm originally went off, I kept sleeping for a while as you can see. I don't really think that as an oversleep though, my cores are supposed to be 2½-3h after all.

Nap 1
Sleeptime 7:50-8:30
REM: 35 min
Deep: 0 min

This seems to be the money nap. I got to bed a tad too early, but I don't mind - If I'm going to have that much REM, why not take it? It's not like I'm productive or anything anyway during that first phase. At least yet. It was another nightmare though, I tried to protect my cats from a beast and ended up surprised by some teens, one of whom got behind me and cut my neck open with a knife. I'm messed up.

Kind of streching things as well. Only one nap into the day and my sleep-tally is already up to 3 h 45 min. Still if I average the supposed 3x20 min from the rest of the naps I haven't even slept five hours. I'd also say it's likely that I'll have only 10-15 minutes nap or naps today.

Nap 2
Sleeptime 11:25-12:00
REM: 25 min
Deep: 0 min

Again a bit longer nap than I originally intended because I went early to bed. Still I wake up straight from the REM so what could be better? I need only 15 minutes of REM in the remaining two naps to equal with yesterday.

Nap 3
Sleeptime 16:55-17:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Struggled to sleep despite being tired and going to bed well ahead of time. Possible cause is the lenghty naps, but I also had distractions. Compared to yesterday though I didn't lose much REM.

Nap 4
Sleeptime 21:40-22:00
REM: 0 min
Deep: 5 min

I woke up from deep sleep, but wasn't that tired despite that.

Total sleep 4h 45 min
REM: 75 min
Deep: 75 min

Similar day to the first. Nothing special going on. I'm still feeling fairly good for the most of the day. When I start to feel good after core and the first nap, that's when I'm starting to adapt, I'd think. But yeah, I really need the tighten things up, aim is to have 4 hours of sleep, not almost five. I think 4½ hours should be the absolute maximum. Those slight oversleeps really add up, but I don't think they matter too much at this point.

Plan for tomorrow:
Core: Get up when the Smartwake kicks in. Almost always after 2.5 hours.
Nap 1: I'm probably zombie in first wake phase, not able to function much, but I still need to wait it out as close to 20 minutes from waking as possible. I really enjoy that long REM, but aborting it probably will help to get more from next nap.
Nap 2: I still will be a little tired, and should have no trouble falling asleep for the nap. I can give myself a bit more time, but still under 30 minutes for the nap.
Nap 3: This is where I've struggled on both days, but restricting sleep during morning and noon should make me a bit tired. Still, I'd give myself a bit more time to fall asleep, of course taking into account how tired I am and the possible distractions.
Nap 4: Final nap is tough as well and I should give myself plenty of time to catch this nap as well. Almost always heavily distracted nap.

Of course in the long run I can't keep giving myself long times to fall asleep, as it would kind of beat the purpose of this whole thing. My hope and expectation is though that once my body adapts and gets used to things, it can fall asleep for the naps fairly easily. But for the first weeks I'll just aim to getting everything right, regardless of how hard I have to attempt to get asleep for those naps.

Everyman Day One

Core
Sleeptime: 3:05-5:45
REM: 35 min
Deep: 70 min

It went pretty much as expecter, mostly deep from this one and very resful nap overall. That said, I feel very tired and especially cold as hell right now.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:00-8:30
REM: 25 min
Deep: 0 min

My first thought upon waking up was that I had a tad too long nap, as I felt somewhat heavy. My second though was a relief that I had gotten out of a fucked up dream. My third thought was reversal of the third as I had hit a great 25-minute REM. In fact it made me thought whether my nap should\ve been longer to accomodate my REM, but we'll see about that after I've adapted or seem to struggle with adaptation. I don't mind sleeping longer if it gives me more REM, I love that. For some reason, during this adaptation sleeping longer has so far caused no problems. Previously I had found PureDoxyk's claim that 20 minutes work better than 30-long naps, but this time I seem to go fine with even longer. I guess it's up to REM lenght.

It's only the first day, but I'm already liking my schedule.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:35-12:05
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Well had everything gone exactly as planned I would've gotten another REM, but you can't win them all I guess. I was lucky by the way as I forgot to put both Zeo's and my computer's alarm on. I luckily woke up to phone's alarm. I guess all that that nap achieved was made me more tired.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 16:35-17:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

I guess these naps will have more than just a moment of REM upon falling asleep once I adapt better. I'm not that tired though. All in all, the first day with this schedule has been great. I have felt a bit heavy at times, but for the most part very refreshed. Only waking up from the core causes some problems.

I just realized that he big gap doesn't make that much sense between third and fourth nap, so I slimmed it down half an hour. I'm going to sleep 21:30 now. The longest wake phase is the last, as it should be, I guess.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 21:45-22:00
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

According to Zeo I truly got 15 min of REM which I can be happy with, but it just felt really light, barely sleeping. Still, it refreshed me. I really struggled to fall asleep this time, it's something I should note and take care upon this nap tomorrow.

Day 1 of Everyman totals:
Total sleep 4h 20 min
REM: 85 min
Deep: 70 min

Great first day, numbers look promising and I feel only mildly tired. Only bad moment was waking up from the core, after that it was easy. No time to get arrogant though.

Day 3 - Uberman Botched Pretty Fast

Day 3.1
Overslept heavily. I set off the alarms and got back to bed, what was I thinking?!! It was just very bad discipline, that's all. Well, there's always another attempt. It's just not my cup of tea to shift during the winter.

So I'll be shifting to Everyman. Uberman was always going to be just one shot. I'll have to figure out what is the best schedule and where the core sets itself, but that we'll see.

I could of course just set it to whatever I need, but I think that following natural urges is better. Around this would probably be good:
Core 4-7
Nap I 11.30
Nap II 16.00
Nap III 22.00

That would be nowhere near perfect, but it would be good enough. But like I said, I'll probably follow natural urges as much as possible. Of course there's the urge of wanting to go back to sleep right away. In short, I'll try to hit the first nap around eleven. With those times that I just wrote, every waking up should be much easier than 2 am. and 6 am. wake-ups with Uberman. BTW I'm planning to use SmartWake on my core naps, as I usually get all my deep during the first 2½ hours. No need to sleep anything extra. Looking my baseline data made me feel like adding a fourth nap would be good, but I don't know, I never seemed to get to sleep for the fourth. Or rather I was late for every nap and in the end they spreaded out more like three naps.

Oh, and by the way I catched nice REM-phase from after oversleep "nap" (rather extension to the oversleep), where I used Zeo. During the oversleep I didn't have it on. Kind of gutted for the whole ordeal, I would've wanted to go on longer. I'm just not ready yet to be an Uberman.

I guess I should have some system to block myself from doing any decisions just after waking up, especially during the night. People have said that keeping yourself in the middle of something is a good way and it probably is, but I still doubt that with my discipline I'd care. I've skipped stuff just to oversleep.

I'll update the rest of the day here later as it goes on.

Nap 1
Naptime: 8:55-9:30
REM: 10 min
Deep 0 min

Okay, I got the schedule all figured out. Today's naps will be all over the place obviously, but tomorrow will be the official first day with this schedule:
Core 3-6 Smartwake
Nap 1 8-8.30
Nap 2 11.30-12
Nap 3 16.30-17
Nap 4 22-22.30

It's kind of paradoxical that four naps is at the same time too much and too little. At least I'd think. Baseline data suggested that I get tons of REM and Deep sleep. Deep isn't a problem as I will get all of it from the core if my polyphasical sleeping corresponds with monophasic, but I want to supplement REM as much as possible. I lose just a bit of adaptability and time, but most likely get easier adaptation and more chances to recall dreams. Now how will I avoid the same problems as last time? Well I realized that I can force issues by just going to sleep way earlier than usual. If I go to bed 11.00 for 11.30 nap, I'm almost bound to get some sleep before clock hits 12. It's all a function of how tired I feel and how much distractions there is around. The fact that I'm sleep-deprived means that I am bound to fall asleep eventually for every nap.

The schedule has the shortest nap-intervals close to wake up. I'm not very functional in mornings anyway and don't need flexibility there. I think I can safely have 5-hour wake-up phases without feeling tired, especially once I adapt.

Nap 2
Naptime: 13:05-13:30
REM: 15 min
Deep 0 min

Nice, solid nap. Like I said, I'm going to be all over the place today and definitely not gonna get four naps. My third will be the last today as I slept too much during the night. I'm getting restful naps, that's great stuff.

Nap 3
Naptime 20:45-20:50
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

Quick nap where I only managed to hit light sleep and even that barely, still strangely refreshing. That said, I wasn't particularly tired before it.

I'm actually tired already at 1 am., but I'm sticking to my schedule and going to just wait it out to 3 o'clock.

Quick totals:
REM 25 minutes
Deeå 0 minutes

Day 2 - It's Still Going Smoothly

Day 2.1
Sleeping time: 1:55 - 2:00
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
SNS: 6

Another supershort nap after I again almost forgot my nap. This time I got on time to bed, but not properly prepared, therefore my mind kept racing and it took a while to fall asleep. When I finally did, I got 5 minutes of light sleep and woke up to the slightest sound of Zeo's alarm. Considering how little of sleep I've gotten it's amazing that I feel as good as I do. Still, it's cold and I've got the urge to curl up. I have still fair enough functionality though.

Okay, it's been about a hour since waking up and I'm really starting to feel uncomfortable. Not zombie mode or anything, but tiredness is starting to get me.

Now it's about half an hour to bedtime and I'm really struggling to keep my eyes open for the first time. Actually I'm writing this just to keep awake. So, yeah... I guess that's all for now, expect I can't stop writing, because I don't trust myself to stay awake. That said, if I'd fall asleep now, it wouldn't be bad oversleep, but already oversleeping barely into the second day would suck, so I won't be allowing myself to do that. Okay, I won a couple of minutes there. I can't keep writing forever, can I? God I'd just wish I could go to sleep.

My productivity has been pretty much dead for the last couple of phases. I'm just playing games or listening to music at the moment. Then again, there's lots of worse ways to use your time. I'll try to keep myself awake by humming the songs I listen, I guess that's all for now.

Well, that didn't work, I just opened my eyes. I didn't really drift off, the eyelids just keep feeling so damn heavy. I try to keep moving, rubbing my eyes, face and stuff to keep awake.

I'm only 20 minutes away from a nap, but it feels that eternity's wait is in front of me.

I wrote more, but my self-censorship prevents me from publishing everything. Not that it was anything outrageous, just complete waste of time for any readers. It seems I'm gonna make it, in five minutes I'll get up and go to bed. Alarms are set and ready. Considering that barring any oversleeps I survived this night only by sitting at the computer is pretty good sign. But tomorrow night will be a lot of tougher.

Day 2.2
Sleeping time: 5:40 - 6:00
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes.
SNS: 7

Again, according to my Zeo I had short REM before falling back to light sleep for the rest of the nap. No recollection. Overall it was a light sleep nap. And I still hate the way I feel. Had really strong urge just go back to bed, but I shrugged that off I guess. I've basicly been barely awake for the last half an hour just staring at the screen. The clock is 6:47 now. I should really figure out something to as if I continue like I started this phase, I'm going to fall asleep.

Really struggling at the moment...

Day 2.3
Sleeping time: 9:35 - 10:00
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 (1) 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes.
SNS: 8

This nap totally hit the spot. 10-minute REM was there and I remembered the dream as well. More of this.

I still can't function much, but at least I can sit doing nothing without being afraid of falling asleep. My thought-processes work normally, I just don't feel like doing anything.

However, I'm going to reset the streak. I think I slept extra accidentally at the computer after that 6 am nap. Not much, and it probably won't disturb my adaptation, but I think I need to reset my streak. I'm talking about the time between 6:10-6:47, I don't remember it so I must have passed out for an extra nap.

Day 2.4
Sleeping time: 13:50 - 14:00
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes, no recall.
SNS: 2

Again I went to bed a bit late, but the bigger problem was some noise that my brother caused by playing FEAR. He refused to use headset. That said, I still grabbed ten minutes of sleep and according to Zeo, hit some REM aswell.

Day 2.5
Sleeping time: 17:30 - 18:00
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
SNS: 3

Decent, lengthy nap even though I was a bit worried considering there was everyone else around and lot of distractions. I fell asleep quickly and catched some deep sleep. After waking up I exercised and that energized me to normal energy levels. It almost feels like I haven't been up nearly 60 hours straight with only naps in between!

Day 2.6
Sleeping time: 21:40 - 22:00
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes.
SNS: 4

Actually two-part nap. I woke up in the middle of it, but I still had over fifteen minutes time to sleep, so I got the sleep. Still feeling surprisingly fine and wasn't even groggy when getting up, despite getting a bit of deep sleep in the end of the nap.

Day 2 rough total figures
Sleep 130 min
Deep Sleep 20 min
REM 30 min

I'm getting into the groove of it. I slept more (note the extra 20 minutes caused by passing out though), got more REM and even improved on deep sleep, though so little that it probably doesn't matter at all. Overall nothing significant happening yet. Don't be fooled that I'm adjusting, I suspect it just being some normal variance. That said I can finally say that I'm back in napping-mode well and truly, with no struggles to get to sleep and I even dare to get a little longer naps without fear of groggyness. I've gone as early as x:25 to bed when I've thought that it might take a little longer to get to sleep. So far my evaluations about how much time it will get to fall asleep have been pretty much correct. The frustrating thing is that the more tired you are, more close to the official napping time you have to wait.

Now it's the hard part again, the night.