[vuurstorm]

Welcome TheHulaQueen.
The sleep schedule you're considering is called the Dymaxion schedule. If you read the beginning of the "Post you polyphasic sleep logs here" posts you may find some more info as David Hausladen attempted it but failed. That schedule seems to be very difficult I would suggest rather going on a polyphasic schedule for 10 or so days to get used to the short sleep sessions and then adjust you schedule to Dymaxion by removing a session and reshuffling your times once a week.Note that is is only my opinion as I am only on day 13 and are still adjusting myself.

There is a lot of discussion around whether to sleep in a dark or lit room. In the beginning I would think that a dark room is best as it will make the falling asleep easier and then by day 4 when you are starting to adjust switch to a lit room to help coping in that nightmare early morning hours where our internal clocks keep saying we must sleep. My wife is a mono sleeper thus I don't have the luxury of experiment in sleeping with the lights on.

You can also change your sleeping times to 30 minutes in the beginning if you are having trouble to fall asleep and change that to 25 minutes after day 4 where you should start falling asleep almost instantly.

As you can see I keep using day 4 as a benchmark. Day 4 seems to be when your body starts recovering from sleep depression, saying that you should keep in mind that the worst seems to be between days 7 to 9, so don't let your guards down at day 4 thinking you are past the worst.

I will attempt on writing a poly sleeping guide, so please post any experience that you have that is different than ours. The more people that attempt this the clearer all the patterns seem to become.

And lastly - sorry for the long update - Good Luck.