ADPU – Day 4-5
Days 4 + 5.
You’d think that if I neglected to update for a day, things must be going well. Not really. My 3 hour core nap has been going perfectly, but I’ve been unable to sleep during any of my other naps the past two days. I currently have better mental clarity than I did on the first two days, but I’m only getting the 3 hour core, so I‘m not sure how long I can sustain it without being able to nap if it comes to it.
The problem seems to be that I just can’t relax enough to fall asleep. I’m already tired at the time of the naps, but my mind is running a mile a minute as I lay down. The longer it takes for me to fall asleep, the more my internal voice starts to worry that I’m not going to get to sleep before my alarms go off. The really frustrating part of all of this is that my core nap is so refreshing – better than any sleep I’ve had before. Maybe I just don’t know how to nap.
There are a couple of possible solutions that immediately come to mind. My first option is to continue my schedule without any modification and just try to relax my mind before naps. My second option would be to switch to an uberman schedule for a day to force sleep deprivation. A third option would be to switch my midnight nap with my core, which would actually even out my schedule to a nap roughly every 5 hours. A final option would be to increase the time I spend laying down from 25 minutes to roughly 45 minutes.
I’m not really qualified to make a decision based on the limited data I have on polyphasing, but I like the second option because it will cause sleep one way or another and the fourth because it isn’t a drastic schedule change. Do any of the few that are reading my blog know if switching off of my schedule for a day while adapting is viable? Or will it cause more harm than good?
-DB
