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Polyphasic Sleep Log - Uberman Day 11

I managed to correctly keep my napping schedule last night, even though I was pretty damn tired. During most of the naps I had help from Chris Evans making sure I didn’t oversleep, but the 6am nap and wake up was all me. I even had dreams during most of these nap sessions, although they didn’t seem to bring me and respite from the sleep deprivation haze. This makes me think I must not be making it all the way through REM during my naps. I usually have trouble falling asleep quickly during the naps, so I think I’m wasting too much time falling asleep instead of getting rest. I’m going to beef up my nap duration from 30 min to 40 or 45 minutes and see what happens. Maybe I can actually make it out of this!

That being said, I’m getting awfully annoyed with being tired all the time. Yes, it’s fun to stay up all night, but it certainly isn’t worth staying this way all the time. Jess has been expressing her dislike for the schedule more and more, which adds more incentive for stopping. On the other hand, I hate the idea of being a quitter, or, worse yet, failing. Still, the ‘no quitting’ feeling is quickly losing ground to feeling like shit all the time.

At this moment I’m going to carry on with the schedule, beefing my nap times up as mentioned above to see if that helps. I don’t have a set ‘Feel Better By This Date’ threshold, but I’m at day 11, so in my opinion it is already out of hand. It’s probable that I ruined the whole conversion with my long long sleep (and many small oversleeps), which is both frustrating and discouraging. I hate to think I’ve been going through this discomfort for nothing.