Polyphasic Sleep, Day 8
What a strange day... This morning, my log says I ran into "significant sleepiness" around 2am, lasting until 2:15am or later. There's nothing abnormal about that, and it's never given me trouble before. However, sometime soon after that log entry, I fell asleep in my bed and slept until 6:15am. This wasn't oversleeping, but rather an unplanned, unintentional nap. I don't remember lying down--in fact, I have no memory of anything after a certain point in time when I was working on my computer. I keep asking myself when, how, and why I got in bed, but I've got practically no clues. The only evidence I've got is that one of my alarms which should have been set to 7:30am was instead set to 6:30am, indicating that I wasn't thinking clearly when I set it.
I'm going to bank on the probability that I was at least partly conscious when I decided to go to bed, and that my lack of memory of it is simply an indication of my tiredness at the time. In this case, the solution is simply to be more vigilant in the future. I can't think of any other tactics that would help. Overall, though, I remain optimistic. I doubt I'm more than a week away from complete adaptation, at which point sleeping accidents (oversleeping and unintentional naps) will become a much more minor problem. As is, two sleeping accidents in the first eight days of polyphasic sleep is pretty good.
Nothing else special or new happened today; after the morning's long sleep, it was pretty much a standard Difficulty 3 day, with the periods of slight and moderate tiredness spread over all but the last cycle (as usual, during the last cycle of the day I'm pretty much never tired).
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