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I have decided to adopt another convention to make posting reports easier. Since my convention for what is night and what is day says that day starts at 4am, I will call my 4:30am to 10am waking period day n.1, 10:30am to 4pm day n.2 and so on. Technically then my last report was misnamed and was actually day 2.4.

I just awoke at about 11:10 before the alarm sounded which was good. I’m also feeling about an 8/10 for alertness. The downside is I’m not certain what time I went to sleep. I know I went to bed at 10am exactly and I remember making a big effort not to nap early as I thought that would cause more tiredness later, so I was walking around, spraying myself in the face with water etc. to stay awake until 10.

I normally set the second loud alarm for 50 minutes or so, and the main (countdown timer) alarm for 42 minutes. I do remember being unable to sleep (after all that effort to stay awake, wierd huh)  and deciding to give myself a bit of extra time to fall asleep.

When I woke up spontaneously at 11:10am the alarm was set for 11:20, and the countdown timer read 00:00 which means I either decided not to set it (probably thinking I’d sleep through it since it’s not very loud) or I slept right through it.

Let’s assume the worst case that I set the loud alarm for an hour, which is the most I’d ever set it for, and that I fell asleep immediately after doing that, which I doubt, then the longest I could have slept for is 50 minutes. Probably more like 40 to 45, and I spontaneously awoke. This is a very promising sign. This happened during my uberman adaptation too - I’m not there yet with this one by any means, but it’s really cool to be able to go to sleep and just spontaneously awaken minutes later feeling refreshed.

In fact, one of the wierdest things that happened to me last time I was polyphasic was when I was having a dream in which I was trying to fix something that needed close examination (I can’t remember what), it was dark and dingy in the dream room and I remember asking someone to turn the light on. As I heard the light switch click on my eyes opened and I sat upright in my bed. It was a bit of a shock.

On the downside I seem to be catching a cold, I have been sneezing a lot and my throat is sore and a bit swollen. I’m going to take some vitamins, drink a lot of water and juice and continue with dymaxion since I feel I am far enough along with the adaptation now that taking a block of monophasic sleep would not necessarily be any more restorative or healthy than continuing with the naps.