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      Hello friends;
      i just returned from work, its 22:05 now with 6.5 hours remaining to complete the 24 hours awake. Queen Zukin said "Do or do not. There is no try." if i cannot stay awake for the remaining six and the half hours i will give up without a second thought. i will update you at 04:30 monday.
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      Hello friends;
      i just returned from work, its 22:05 now with 6.5 hours remaining to complete the 24 hours awake. Queen Zukin said "Do or do not. There is no try." if i cannot stay awake for the remaining six and the half hours i will give up without a second thought. i will update you at 04:30 monday.
      thank you friends

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      oh! i failed, what a wasted effort. i feel so sad and bad now, should i realy give up and enjoy my leave by sleeping all through? but i will never get another free fifteen days again till after a year. how i failed? i was awake till 01:15 or 02:15 i cant realy remember exactly because i was struggling with sleep, i was standing on my feet thats why i stayed up that long but the thought to rest a litle by lying down started coming and i failed by giving in to this thought, oh i feel so sad, i feel like i should cry i was almost there. i cant give up. i will continue. the next thing i will do is exaptation, i will nap (for 20min) every two hours for four days. if i over sleep again i will accept defeat and give up. i feel so weak willed and unproductive...

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      i am giving up i cant continue cause i failed again...
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      ^^ Before you give up, Espsika, I suggest that you consider trying it without staying up for a long period of time. From what I know, and from my experience of polyphasic sleep, that initial extended wake period is pretty much unnecessary. Yes, it might give you a boost on your first day of your practice, but it simply will not matter after that, because your body catches up with itself fairly quickly.

      So, you may not have failed at all, but simply failed at a process that you didn't need to do in the first place in order to develop a successful polyphasic sleep pattern... it might not hurt to keep trying the actual process, like going straight to the actual Everyman schedule for a week or two.
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      Hi Espsika - please try again and take Sageous's advise I have a vested interest in seeing you succeed - I would love to give it a try when I get the right moment and confidence together and seeing someone else do it and then try what they did would be inspiring for me
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      Ok Sageous n Patience I will try again by napping every two hours starting from 22:00 till down. I will gigive you an update by 08:25, that is after nap tomorrow. Thanks for encouraging me
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      I still didn't make it. But I will try again

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      ^^ Though you probably already said it, what exactly are you trying to make?

      Polyphasic sleep, at its core, is nothing more than dividing your "night's" sleep across the hours of the day, usually in the form of short naps that (for me, at least) can range from a few minutes (maybe 20) to a couple hours. This can be achieved at first with a little resolve, an alarm clock, and some careful scheduling (with practice, it will come naturally). It might take a while to reach your goal of actually sleeping polyphasically (for me the transition from regular sleep to polyphasic usually takes a week, BTW), but in my opinion it isn't something you can fail at or miss in less than one day.

      And, again, I am saying this because you really do not need to stay up for a long period of time to begin your new sleep pattern, and I again suggest that you avoid holding up your whole process by demanding that of yourself. So, if you are not trying to stay up for a day or two, what is it that you are not making?

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      I over slept

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      I was bored, there was no light (electricity) my laptop battery was down nothing busy n entatained is was difficult to stay awake with the candle stick on

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      Quote Originally Posted by espsika View Post
      I was bored, there was no light (electricity) my laptop battery was down nothing busy n entatained is was difficult to stay awake with the candle stick on
      Then don't.

      Why not go the opposite way? Go to sleep at your (currently) normal time, and set your alarm to wake up in, say, four hours. Then stay up for a few hours, doing normal daytime stuff (which can be odd in the middle of the night, but you'll get used to it)), and go back to bed again, setting your alarm for, say, 3 hours later. Then get up and have a normal day. Next bedtime, you can try shorter stretches of sleep and longer wake, and maybe adding another nap time (you can pick the initial times that work best for you, BTW; this is not an exact science). Eventually, maybe after a week or two, you will have settled on a nice polyphasic pattern that works for you without having to struggle to stay awake for a long time.

      A polyphasic sleep pattern is not about staying awake, but switching the times when you sleep; there really is no need to torture yourself with staying awake, and no need to consider it a failure that you did not manage to stay up for a long time.... okay; I promise that's the last time I'll repeat this particular lecture -- it's just that you seem hung up on staying awake when polyphasic sleep is about, well, sleep.

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      Thank you Sageous. You will not repeat this lecture again cos I got it. Thank you
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      Hello fellow Oneironauts;
      I am back to polyphasic sleep again. Having tried it in the past and failed, This time around I will not quit until I win.
      I woke up today by 7a.m up till now (22:27 hours) am still awake hoping to start napping by 23:00.
      I am trying SPAMAYL. i will be napping at 23:00, 01:00, 03:00, 05:00 and 06:40 then I will go to work.
      My updates will come after every nap, thank you all for being here...

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      Nap 23:00 was a success. I slept on a seat for twenty minutes

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      Hello Friends;
      Nap at 01:00 left me tired n sleepy and I saw myself going to bed and lying down. I woke up at 04:00 and then at 06:27. And I must say that something is wrong with my will-power.

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      I noticed myself falling asleep at 22:40 while seated and listening to the radio. I noticed myself waking up at 00:00. I woke up severally because of Mosquito bites and because I was seating down. And I am finally up at 03:13. I will nap at 05:00 and 07:00. I hallucinated, don't know at what time; I saw myself looking at my door, forcing myself to stay awake by keeping my head straight up and I felt as if some strange Being was going to come out of the door.

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      Naps at 5 and 7 were successful. 5 was light 7 was slightly deep or will I say normal?

      My today SPAMAYL schedule goes thus:
      I will nap for twenty minutes, stand or walk around for forty minutes.
      I will be napping every hour starting from 23:00. Until then, I will be busy working.

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      After taking my dinner at 22:23 I naively laid on my bed. All I could notice was a church beside my yard singing praises to God and I noticed that I was actually lying down, I was angry at myself and all I could do was to reach out to my phone to know what the time was, and to my surprise, I have slept for two hours twenty minutes.
      The effort continues; I will nap at 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00 and then go to work.

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      3:00 nap was ok. I laid on the floor for 4:00 nap, and I had SP twice. At first when I laid down to nap I had hypnogogic sounds, I had my sister celebrating as if she won a jackpot. I said to myself "but I just laid down now" after which I noticed that I cannot move my body. I saw black images moving around me I was afraid at first but I controlled it by telling myself that this is SP, that am in control. I stayed calm and I woke up afterwards. It happened again and I woke from it the second time. I couldn't wake up from 5:00 nap, I was lying around and putting off my alarm cos I left my alarm on 20 minutes snooze. I finally woke up at 6:17.
      I came back from work at 14:49. I took my lunch and laid down for a nap at 15:05. After the nap I felt like I did not nap so I remained there and the next time I noticed my time it was 16:41 and I was sad again that I have slept for one hour thirty five minutes, but I had to wake up.
      My nap continues from 23:00. Thanks for being here

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      Good morning Oneironauts. I just woke up from my last nap which is 7:00. 23:00 And 1:00 was a success. But 2:00, 3:00 and 4:00 was tricky in the sense that each time my alarm goes off, I will not stand up on my feet from where I sat down to nap but I remained there, seated and I will lost track of time. And the next thing I hear is the alarm to nap again. With this it became clear to me that I must be on my feet each time my alarm goes off. Naps at 5:00, 6:00 and 7:00 were OK cos whenever my alarm goes off I will immediately be on my feet and walk around till the next nap. I had non lucid dreams in some of the naps. I will not be going to work today so I will nap at 11:00, 15:00 and 19:00 that is if nothing comes up.
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      Good morning Oneironauts; After 23:00 nap I came here for an update but found out that this site wasn't opening. TThats why I will do the update now. Naps at 11:00 and 15:00 were ok just that when the alarm goes off I will feel that am just trying to fall asleep, that I have not really slept for twenty minutes but five minutes. I skipped nap at 19:00 cos I had to visit a friend. Naps at 23:00, 1:00, 2:00 were OK. I over slept at 3:00. I woke up at 3:48 not having the memory of when I stopped the alarm. Naps at 4:00 and 5:00 were ok. Whenever I lay down to nap I found out that am always sexually aroused and the thoughts keeps coming and I try to control it by auto-suggestions "nap is the only thing important now... " and before I know it my alarm will go off and I will feel as if I had slept for just five minutes.
      I will nap at 6:00 and 7:00 go to work nap at 23:00
      then put up an update. Thank you for being here

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      I FAILED! I napped at 23:30 and woke up at 2:19 I over slept for two hours fifty minutes. I was sad and with sadness I gave up to continue on Wednesday the 5th of April.
      Why I failed: Distraction and Disobedience

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      ^^ I wouldn't say you failed, Espsika, as perhaps that your body chose to sleep a bit longer than your very rigid schedule dictated. In a sense your body, thanks to being overtaxed by trying to adhere to your schedule, simply stole some sleep time. I would suggest letting it do that now and then; it will do no harm.

      I may have said this before, but polyphasic sleep, for me at least, is all about altering your sleep pattern so that you don't "waste" 8 hours in a row on steady sleep you might not need, while simultaneously creating those dreaming-friendly short nap periods. It really isn't all about sticking to a specific structured schedule, or torturing yourself with unhelpfully short or forced nap periods. I may have suggested using an alarm, setting a schedule, and that naps can be as short as 20 minutes, but that didn't mean you must use an alarm, keep your naps short, or adhere to an uncomfortably tight schedule.

      When you restart your effort, I suggest that you consider relaxing a bit. Ease up on the alarms and, yes, the discipline, and just work toward a day that includes a couple of "long" sleep periods of a couple hours, along with a few naps during the day -- you don't even have to specifically schedule those naps; just take them when you're tired, or the time is convenient (taking naps when they feel necessary, BTW, is probably helpful to in "catching" a REM period, in my opinion)... and let the naps last as long as they will; I can't think of anything worse than being in the middle of an excellent lucid experience, only to have it erased by an alarm. There really is no need to adhere to a specific schedule, or to feel like you failed if your body refuses to do so.... I hope what I said earlier didn't lead you to believe so, because that was not intended.

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      Thank you Sageous; I am mainly training my brain to sleep in twenty minutes. Read this (https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/20...ne-year-later/) For more understanding.
      I said I will continue on Wednesday but with your ideas and suggestions I will continue tonight. I will nap every hour from 23:00 to 6:00 or 7:00 every night and during the day when time permits. For the next seven days I will try to make this part of me. Thank you all for being here. I will be napping in the next 4 minutes bye.

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