I have now tried the polyphasic schedule for twelve days. I would have hoped I’d be better adjusted by now, but I’m really not. Yesterday I had the worst oversleep so far. It was only about two hours, but what made it so bad is that it was completely not my fault. I did everything right and still I overslept. All of the other times I had made some poor judgment before the nap and set myself up for the failure. I can’t say that it means much unless it keeps happening.
Suby is not going to be around for the next several days so now I really am on my own. For the last few nights he’s been hanging out with me and helping me wake. When he’s around I can afford to sleep with earplugs in. On the plus side, a very close friend of mine – who knows more about sleep physiology than I do – showed me several flaws in that disheartening article I linked to before. It doesn’t refute the argument, but it does discredit the author a bit. I would very much like to see another source with science in it. Over at the Polyphasic Sleep Group on Google there’s a post with several informative links, including the one above, but the other links are testimonial style: the original post on everything2, as well as several other first-hand accounts. Some are positive. Some are negative. All are untrustworthy. I will continue to search for scientific perspective on this.
