My Polyphasic Sleep Experiment

I've recently started the polyphasic sleep experiment again. What polyphasic sleep is, is dividing sleep into multiple parts of the day. In reading about it, most people use a core sleep (one longer sleep) and a series of shorter naps to obtain the full sleep they need. In reading about it, it seems that most people require less sleep under such a regime. I suffer from idiopathic CNS hypersomnalence, a sleep disorder whereby once can sleep at any time and is usually drowsy, often needing at least 9, and sometimes as much as 12 hours of sleep per day.

My goal in doing this is to be able to sleep less than 8 hours per day. Since the ideal for most people is about 7-1/2 hours of sleep, I would be happy with that! Of course it would be nice if I could get dow to six. Some people manage as little as 4 or even 3. Supposedly Leonardo daVinci slept for only 1.5 hours per day, evenly spaced in 15 minute naps throughout the day.

I'm planning on trying to gradually ease into the regime. My reasoning is that it takes babies a year (on average) to adapt to monophasic sleep from their natural polyphasic sleep. So I will start (started, actually) with one core sleep of 6 hours and will take naps as I need them. Once I'm comfortable with that I will lessen the core sleep and try for 4-1/2 hours, and again nap as needed. My ideal would be to be as daVinci was, but am not sure if I can ever adapt to that schedule. We shall see!

Last night was my first 6 hour sleep (actually it was slightly less, since I woke up before my alarm). I'll be posting here every day or so, until I either succeed or give up. :)