Less Sleep More Doing

Core Sleep: 5hrs 30mins 12:15am-5:45am

I fell asleep very fast as I was tired by then.  Iuse the Sleep Cycle app and it woke me up as I was rolling over and vaguely awake so it felt natural and not too jarring to get up.

Nap: Attempted 6:40am - 7am

But completely failed.  I was trying to nap in my car but I just couldn't fall asleep or even a vague semblance of sleep.

Nap: Work got in the way

Usually I have a decent lunch break and plenty of time for a quick nap, but today I had a meeting right before lunch and another right after and the girls in the first meeting just would not shut up.  Thanks to the babbling I didn't have time to do more than quickly grab a bite to eat and run to the next meeting.

Nap: 45mins 6:45pm - 7:30pm

I was actually trying to nap from about 6pm but I kept playing games on my phone instead.  I need more discipline!  When I finally did fall asleep it was fairly satisfying although it took me a while to get going again when I woke up.

Total Sleep: 6hrs 15mins

Firstly Day 0 I forced myself to have a nap from 7-8pm in preparation for staying up late.  I was already tired so I did sleep a little.

Core Sleep: 6hrs 45mins from 12am to 6:45am

I usually go to bed at 10pm and wake up at 6am so this wasn't that much shorter than my usual sleep.  I felt a bit tired but not significantly more than a normal day recently.

Nap: 55mins 12:10pm to 1:05am

I didn't have to go to work because of a public holiday so I was able to be flexible with my nap time.  I woke naturally at the end of this nap.

Nap: 40mins 6:30pm to 7:10pm

I had a lot of trouble getting to sleep because I'd been doing things right before this and my head was full of thoughts.  When I finally fell asleep I woke up in the middle of my nap needing a bathroom break and I was woken by my alarm rather than waking naturally which left me feeling rather bleh.

Total Sleep: 8hrs 20mins

I'm hoping to ease myself into a variation of the Everyman sleeping pattern.  That is, one core sleep of 3.5 hours and 3 twenty minutes naps.

My first step is to just start splitting my sleep up.  I'm not going to reduce my total amount of sleep.  In fact, I might even increase it in the short term to catch up on sleep so there's no confusion about whether my future tiredness is coming from Polyphasic sleep or just general exhaustion from life.

I've been thinking about trying Polyphasic Sleep.  It seems very difficult to find any trustworthy sources on the web and most people currently writing about it all seem to be in their first week of trying it... so maybe I'll just be another one of those.

I get the idea that sleep patterns are very individualised and so what might work for one person, might not work for others.  Perhaps a few people can live successfully on Polyphasic Sleep?  I don't know, but I do know that if I can gain a few extra productive hours a day it would be a dream come true.