It has been nine days since I began my polyphasic sleep experiment. Spent several days where the most sleep I got was an hour. I crashed twice, once ten hours and once five. But I’ve discovered a fatal flaw in the plan. I don’t fall asleep in half an hour. I’ve decided on the Plan B version of the experiment.
The soft approach. I’m going to start by introducing naps in the middle of my day. Whenever I feel tired, I’m going to lay down for a while. Give my self permission to fall asleep. I’ve got to learn how to nap before I can try “strict” polyphasic. The second thing I’m going to do is when I wake up in the middle of the night, I’m going to get up for a little while, try to divide my night up a little too.
I’ve already started this and right now I’m in biphasic sleep. Night “core” sleep and a siesta nap. If I can introduce another nap during the day and break up my night sleep I should be most of the way to a polyphasic sleep cycle.
Edward E. Wilson 
i thought i was just fuckedup, now after reading your article i realise that i have been a polyphasic sleeper all my life. now i can tell everyone i’m not a lazy bastard, just a polyphasic sleeper. most excellent, many thanks
By: audiocraft on June 24, 2006
at 3:06 am
in all seriousness, i’ve found that if you do keep to a polyphasic sleep cycle (can we call it a p.s.c?) that if i do occasionaly have to wake up at a set time my body does not rebel,wheras if i slept a regular cycle anything out of the norm is very hard work. dont feel guilty bruv, enjoy the freedom.
By: audiocraft on June 24, 2006
at 3:12 am
I’m looking forward to the freedom.
Switching to this schedule is much harder than I had anticipated. Today has been good though, the cat that just moved in with me won’t let me sleep much longer than a nap.
By: fenris23 on June 24, 2006
at 10:12 pm