I have attempted polyphasic sleep several times before, but never quite succeeded. My diet has had a lot to do with this, I think, as it got easier once I reduced my intake of animal products. The first time, exactly one year ago, I often ate meat, which takes a long time to digest, and therefore increased the chance of oversleeping. After I became a lacto-ovo vegetarian, oversleeping was my least problem, but I still struggled to stay awake. This is interesting, because others have reported oversleeping to be the worst problem, and staying awake the least. I blame my lack of proper planning. I almost succeeded once, but then gave up during a six-hour bus trip. Now that I’ve been eating a raw vegan diet for almost two months, I think it will be easier. I’m not going to take it easy because of that, though.

Today is my first day of polyphasic sleep. It’s actually just a preparation to Powiull sleep, but I’ll call it polyphasic for the time being. I can practically sleep whenever I’m tired – the only two conditions are to have at least an hour and a half between naps, and to only sleep for max. 30 minutes. Last nap lasted fifteen minutes, on the bus, and was almost exactly twelve hours ago.

My goal is to get to the point when my naps start feeling restful, I wake up before the alarm, or a nap seems to last for hours – i.e. I reach the REM stage in the short time I’m asleep. At this point, I will stay awake for at least 66 hours. This is the method used by Nicholas (the “founder” of this sleep pattern, see links), and should enable me to sleep for only 30 – 45 minutes per day.

Rosine is also joining me for the polyphasic part, but I don’t know yet what pattern she’ll use. I’m quite sure it won’t be like mine, though. No matter what she chooses, I think her supporting me will make things easier. :)

I’ll write daily logs as I go on. Wish me luck. :)