Hey taylor best of luck to you. I havn't been doing polyphasic for long now (only the past 70 hours) but the best advice I can give you is to not oversleep, and like u allready noticed, keep busy. If you follow the nap schedules on time, your brain realizes it needs to kick into REM sleep much earlier than it normally does. Oversleeping just makes your brain lazier, and makes it harder to adjust to polyphasic sleep.
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I have no interest in trying weird combinations of core sleep and uberman, which will only prolong sleep deprivation, leading most likely to burnout and failure. People want sleep right now, so they rationalize all kinds of sleeping patterns that actually bring them more tiredness.
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You make an excellent point over here. One the main problems with these other wierd sleep schedules I keep seeing on this thread (the ones with prolonged hours of core sleep), is that it completely misses the point of polyphasic sleep. Polyphasic sleep takes advantage of the fact that one's brain does not remain in one sleep cycle for too long (and definetly nothing close to three hours). This way, polyphasic sleepers can 'get away' with taking only 20 minute naps and be perfectly ok, since they only go through the REM stage. With these longer core sleeps, the brain cycles through more than just the REM stage, but other sleep stages as well. So basically, they're defeating the entire purpose of polyphasic sleep, and almost going back to normal sleep schedule, except that normal sleep is more economical since it's done in one chunk. Now I have not tried these wierd schedules out, and have no intention to, but using this simple logic, one can easily understand how there is so little success with it.