Polyphasic Sleep - Days 3 & 4

I'm starting to develop a love / hate relationship with sleep.

Day three was utterly depressing. After having a few drinks with some friends visiting from out of town the night before, it was both difficult to fall asleep and excruciating to wake up. Between 7 and 9 AM I was unable to focus on anything for more than about 30 second. After this my vision started to slide out of focus and started seeing double. By 9:30 I actually started falling asleep while standing. Oddly enough, each of these half-second "micro sleeps" gave me about 30 seconds of mental clarity, before drifting off again. By this point it was pretty obvious that going to pass out and / or crack my skull open on the floor, so I called it a night (figuratively speaking) and slept from 9:45 to 11:45.

Day 4 was a dramatic improvement. While I did oversleep from 5:00 - 8:30 AM, this was because my sleep starved mind had decided that I had somehow set my alarm clock incorrectly and the only solution was to turn it off and have a quick snooze (only for five minutes, of course). Besides this hiccup, day 4 was far more enjoyable. Each nap produced vague dreamish images, indicating that I was finally starting to achieve REM sleep during naps.

I think I've finally devised a foolproof alarm system, which should put a stop to these extended naps. More details to come...