So When is a Day?

I've decided that 3:00am is day send and start for me. That will be the first set sleep time that I have as a must do. All of the others at this time I am going to wing it, as I've said, for every 90 minutes depending on how I feel.

At about 11:30pm I decided that I needed to sleep. It wasn't as if I'd had a long day already; I'd only been awake since 2:30pm or so. I just felt tired. And that is the plan. It wasn't even midnight yet. At 10:30pm my wife and I were at Denny's sharing a shake and talking, so I couldn't get one in then. Notice I've already ignored my 90 minute rule and didn't wait until 12:00am. That's because those are only suggested times. If I feel tired, I sleep. That is what I've done in the past without ever knowing about polyphasic sleep, and I figure if I am not brutal with the rules I won't experience all the horrible sleep depravation I've seen others have written about. I don't like pain.

This last sleep, the first one on this journey, I set a countdown timer program on my PPC phone to go off at 25 minutes. This is what many others have written seems to give enough time for a REM session to complete without going into overtime.

I dreamed a little bit. Does that count as REM? I found myself dozing off after about 3 or so minutes while I was trying to focus on that strange other world that shows up when I sleep. My focus was in it, and then it sort of took off on it's own, and I started dreaming, I think. That was nice and easy. But I only slept for about 3 minutes. I lazily and carelessly refocussed and managed to let go again to the dream controller or whatever. I managed to do this about 4 times, and then felt somewhat refreshed, but not completely. Then the alarm rang.

(Note to self: set a different alarm tone that isn't just a ding of a bell. If I'm really tired that may not work at all.)

Right now I feel OK, but I know that I will need sleep again. I don't know why I feel the need for sleep already. Maybe because it's night time, but my sleep schedule has been nocturnal all week. Maybe it is my slow time, as if it was 3:00pm or so, time for a nap. For whatever reason one sleep didn't feel enough, so I'll be down again soon, maybe at 1:30pm, but for sure by 3:00, which is mandatory lights out, then end of the day for me.