Polyphasic Days 11-12

So yesterday (day 11), I was going to post something like this: "I seem to be in a rut. It's not a terrible rut, mind; I feel mostly awake, I'm functioning pretty darned well on a grand total of about 3 hrs of sleep per 24 hr period. But I don't seem to be adapting or improving any further."

In fact, I was starting to write that just now because I'd been thinking it for a while and that was just what made sense. And then I realized that it was 4:30am and I'm really not all that tired. More tired than day? Sure. But I'm not nodding off (which is a change), and I feel cognizant and creative enough to sit here and think about what's going on and blog about it (which is also a change).

So I guess I can't speak for every day (this may be a fluke), but today I feel pretty good. 16 hrs from now will be Tuesday night, which is when I'll miss a nap again, so we'll see what kind of damage that does, but I have high hopes once again, whereas yesterday I was starting to doubt a lot. In fact, yesterday's day was one of the groggiest while tonight has been one of the least groggy. So maybe it's finally equalizing or something. At this point, really, though, who knows, since not much has gone the way I had expected it might.

Thursday during the day will be the 2 week marker, since that's when I attempted my first polyphasic nap, and I said I'd review things and make some kind of decision then. I definitely feel that I need the data from later tonight to make an informed choice, but even then I'm not sure I have enough data. I'll just have to make a decision of some kind regardless.

I know that even as recently as yesterday I was feeling really poorly and just wanted to go back to sleep, but I also know that I'm still curious and still functional, so there's no particular reason I can't keep going.

As a side note, my soft palate is killing me at the moment; I'm pretty sure I'm picking up at least a part of the sickness my daughters have both had. I'm trying to hydrate heavily, and it's possible that either the extra water or the sickness itself has been modifying how I feel today.