 Advice Sought
Hello all, this is actually a question, posted in the form of a log. For purposes of brevity, I have written as condensed a poly-log as possible.
OK, here's a rough breakdown of my situation...
Trial 2 - Days 0-7 (December 16th-23rd, 2006)
This was my second attempt, and first of real seriousness, which lasted just over seven days. The most curious thing, though, is that all four of my oversleeps during this failed attempt were almost all ~90 minutes each (one full normal sleep schedule). Even after I decided to give up, I woke up 90 minutes later and had to stay awake in bed for a while before I could fall back asleep again and really "monophase" out.
After this and the non-favorable results of 13 days of futility during my first attempt (August 15th-27th, 2006), I decided to employ a zero tolerance policy towards oversleeps. Basically, if I oversleep, it's one and done. I give up right there and save myself the trouble of working with a setback that leads to weird adaptations (like involuntary experiencing one monophasic sleep cycle every 30-40 hours that effectively resulted in a total discontinuance of REM polynaps).
Current Trial - Days 0-4
Everything is going fine, I'm making all my naps, and I even had a REM nap where I woke up without alarm with dream recollection in hand on Day 1!
Then, 58 hours in, I find myself in my bed, the victim of an unscheduled nap. It lasted for only an hour or two and I woke with no recollection of any dreams, though that doesn't preclude the possibility that I had one.
At this point I decided that I was better off trying to continue than abandoning ship and wasting the previous 60 hours. After all, this wasn't even an oversleep, just an error in judgment that allowed the situation to occur.
Aside from the unscheduled oversleep, things are going exceedingly well. I feel perfectly fine most of the time and can even do heavy mental things, like playing six tables of poker simultaneously, without a hitch.
Then, just a little while ago. A deep tiredness set in while I was watching a movie, so I decided to take a nap just two hours after my last one (the first time I've done it all this trial). I awoke from that nap still tired, wrapped myself in a blanket, and sat down in my comp chair. This is something I typically do after most NREM naps as I am real sensitive to cold when trying to adapt. However, even with over 100 polynaps to my name, I've never ended up falling asleep in an upright position...until now. Approximately 20-30 minutes after the nap, I fell back asleep, upright in my chair, for what had to have been only 15-20 minutes and woke without alarm. After a few seconds of thinking about it, I indeed recalled a dream, confirming that this did result in REM sleep...though of a much more polyphasic nature.
So What Would You Do?
First off let me state that my goal is to achieve nothing short of Steve-like results. That means full and monophasic-besting adaptation. No core sleep, all uberman.
With this goal in mind, would you continue this current trial or stop, monophasically reset, and try again later?
Basically does the risk of continuing despite these circumstances outweigh the benefits of being 113 hours into a trial? There's a possibility that I've hadg zero monophasic REM (if the first unscheduled nap did not result in a REM, since I don't recall a dream) and have had at least three confirmed cases of getting REM polyphasically (counting this last one, since it was only 15-20 minutes long, though it's proximity to the nap before it may have been cheating).
If I stop now, I can be sure to be ready for a fourth trial that I plan to start February 15th if I insta-abort this one. If I continue with this I'll probably have to push the fourth trial (assuming I don't succeed) back to March 1st.
So, A) Play it by ear and march on?
Or, B) Cut my losses and recoup for trial four?
Thanks in advance for any advice or insights!
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