Adjusting to polyphasic sleep is fun. By fun, I mean it's like being repeatedly poked in the eye with a knitting needle.
It's pretty obvious that the best way to start a polyphasic schedule is to block off two weeks, minimum. This would allow time to properly adjust, fine tune your schedule and avoid any consequences if you oversleep.
Take, for example, the events of Wednesday. On the verge of sleep, a housemate slammed a door, interrupting my 11AM snooze. Unable to fall asleep, I was a complete zombie at work. Rather than risk falling asleep at my desk, I decided to drink a strong cup of coffee. Then another. Then another.
This is a fairly effective method of staying awake after a missed nap. It's also a great way to make sure you can't sleep for the next 8 hours. I crashed so hard that I fell asleep sitting in a lounge chair at around 3AM, awaking to my phone ringing at 9:15AM - Apparently I was 15 minutes late for a meeting.
Not everything's been so dark and gloomy. This week I've had several semi-lucid dreams. I'm also starting to notice some time dilation during my naps, particularly the 11AM.
The biggest issue at the moment is falling asleep during the 5PM snooze. At best I drift off into a semi-sleep trance. I'm hoping that taking a small dose of melatonin before this nap will help my body adjust to sleeping at this time.
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