DAY 6- 2pm: feeling better directly after getting up than before
- 6pm: A little tired after getting up, but nothing seriouse. Went away after 1 minute.
- 10pm: Felt refreshed after getting up, around midnight felt the onset of fatigue. But since I'm not yet evenly adapted throughout each of the daily and nightly cycles, no wonders here.
That'll be some sort of calibration process my body still has to go through until the difference between the night cycles
and the day cycles will almost be not worth mentioning anymore. - 2am: As I was getting more and more tired by the minute, I was happy to finally get this nap.
After waking up from that I felt veeeery tired again. Barely could keep my eyes open.
So I quickly put on my shoes and went outside for a walk.
But it wouldn't get better, I was in Zombie-mode again... drowsy, eyelid-fluttering and still 3 hours to go! *sigh*
So what did I do? Well believe it or not, I started to make push-ups on an abandoned parking lot.
And I felt immediately better, the rush of blood did the trick. But that only lasted for about 2 minutes, then the eyelids fluttered again.
Oh my, it was like hell again, I couldn't believe it. I just didn't know how to get past 3 hours in this state!
You see, The last time I succeeded and got to my 6am nap, but failed to wake up after that.
So this time I thought it might be best to take an an additional nap earlier inbetween, around 4am maybe.
Steve did it as well, so I thought it might be a good idea. Splitting it up a little bit might help the body to adjust to the night times better.
And as soon as that would happen, I could try to remove that extra nap from my schedule.
Alright, I walked back again, almost falling into some bushes a couple of times because I had micro-sleeps WHILE WALKING! Can you believe it!?
--intermission start--
How do the successful polyphasers get through SUCH tiredness!? I just can't seem to find anything to keep me awake during Zombie-mode at all.
Not even exercise seems to help. *sigh*
--intermission stop--
Well, I finally got back home and took the nap at 4am.
And then *BAM*... woke up at 10:20am, effectively oversleeping 6h 20min.....
I just wanted to cry, it was unbelievable, how in the hell can I get through this !&%$#ing lump of hellish Zombie-time?
Can any successful polyphaser out there give me some advice or tell me their "trick"?
I watched vlogs from 2 other successful uberman polyphasers, but they just seemed to pull through that phase "somehow".
You see, my problem is not my determination or willpower. I
can stay awake, no problem. I just seem to oversleep after that, no matter what...
...Hmmm ...Well while writing this I guess I answered my own question.
All the time I didn't have any problem either falling asleep or waking up from naps, so I didn't thought about these two as problems and therefore they vanished from my brain.
I thought my problem was the Zombie-phase, because I perceived that as really, REALLY hard to get through.
But since I got through that phase 2 times already and still failed because I overslept after these phases it SHOULD've been obvious to me immediately that
my lack of preperation to wake up after THESE naps was my problem.
Since I already thought I didn't have any problems there earlier I only concentrated my thoughts on making the Zombie-phase more comfortable and more easy to get by.
I see now that getting by that seems to be the lesser of two problems (even though it's still torturous as hell...).
Ok then, I still don't want to give up,
I WANT this to work,
I WANT the extra time, and
I WANT to be refreshed,
awake and
alert after EVERY nap in the future, not just the daytime ones!
I think - judging from my last oversleeping experience - that I won't have any problems the next nighttime since I got some bloody "core sleep"... *hmph*
But the
next night (DAY 7, i.e. tuesday) will probably be first Zombie-mode, followed by oversleeping.
So I have to prepare for that. I HAVE to wake myself up after that nap
somehow.
But I have to admit that I'm a little bit afraid. I mean, let's assume I somehow manage to get up after the 6am nap.
Will I still feel like a Zombie? Will my eyelids still flutter, while I walk like a drowsy drunk?
To sum it up, it will probably go like this:- After the 2am nap on DAY 7 -> have to get through zombie phase ONE (torture)
- get awake somehow from the following nap at 6am (not controllable through willpower alone, but external factors like water-shock)
- and THEN I'll probably have to get through a SECOND Zombie-phase! (Do I?)
Oh my, that really doesn't sound like fun at all. And my problem is that motivation is getting more and more scarce, since I have no idea if it will fade during the day.
How long can it prolong? Any insights, tipps, advice would be greatly appreciated by anyone who successfully got through this phase!
Thanks in advance!
Greetings,
Edward