My idea: during pre-adjustment, don't bother with time between naps. Normally this is a bad thing because it throws you out of rhythm with your naps. Except... during pre-adjustment we're already out of rhythm right? So why not take advantage of this?

So, step by step from completely monophasic to a SPAMAYLer:
1)Begin to take naps throughout the day. Fit them in whenever you can really. They can be any duration, just as long as you are napping.
2)Get an alarm that is easy to keep reseting for 20 mins such as a kitchen timer ***
3)Set the alarm and go to sleep, as soon as it goes off, get up, reset it, go back to sleep. Do this all night.
4) Start staying awake for a minute, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes between naps. Make the increments as small as you feel is necessary (stay awake longer between some naps if you feel it is easy)
5) When you get to 20 minutes between naps you should notice that it is rather easy to stay awake for the next few hours, do this. Congratulations, you're polyphasic

*** I use this alarm because it's so simple: http://download.cnet.com/Cool-Timer/300 … 62255.html sleeping with headphones on is easier then it sounds

So far I am around stage 3 - 4. Even after a few hours of these 20 minute naps my body has already started to pre-emptively wake up. This is showing massive promise in my eyes, which is why I've posted this here.

I would like to invite anyone who wants to try this with me to join in! Especially people who haven't been adjusted to a schedule in the last few weeks. Input is also always encouraged! This is nothing that can't be tweaked

Oh, and for those everymaners out there, try doing this for your cores. Doing this I generally feel pretty good no matter when I have to get up.

last night I experienced something really weird. From about 2a.m. to 7a.m. I totally blanked. I don't remember anything I have done. I (guess) haven't overslept, or at least not the whole time, since I keep a sleeping log about my naps where I have noted down some naps. It was like at half past 7, my consciousness came back, and I looked back, and in retrospect I couldn't find out anything about the night. It was totally "blank"

Anyone had the same experience?

This whole polyphasic sleeping seems exciting, I am planning to try SPAMAYL Freeman soon. However I have one concern and this is creativity. The lack of it to be exact. Some of the articles says that polyphasic sleeping lower the creativity level. Did you experience this loss of creativity? If you did experience it, was it only for the adjusting/adaptation or for the entire polyphasic phase in your life (or if you are still sleeping polyphasically, do you still experience it)?

Edit:
Also, how easy is it to move the core sleep around?

And then all of a sudden I slept for 9 hours straight. From what I can tell, I turned off my alarms subconsciously and went back to bed. I feel like a truck sat on me for 9 hours...

I'm mad because it's been 3 weeks and it feels like I was almost adapted... in fact, it's almost time for my noon nap, and I'm starting to feel tired... How should I take this? Should I give up for a while, or keep going?

EDIT: I took my noon nap, slept and dreamt, and woke up naturally 2 minutes before the alarm. Maybe I should keep going?

The name's John. I've wanted to trypolyphasic (pun intended) sleeping ever since a friend of mine went Uberman last year, and I now finally have the opportunity. I'll be doing strict Dymaxion (30min x 4), pretty much cold turkey. I like a challenge.

I've always hated sleeping so long, and tried to get the most out of my sleep... at one point I was big into lucid dreaming, but I lost a lot of sleep because of it (doing WBTB), so I stopped. This seems like the natural next step for me.

I started a blog at bigjohnexpress.com/blog, if anybody's interested in tracking my progress or preventing me from screwing up. I'm trying to provide useful info to anyone else getting started, whilst not scaring anyone away with my horrible terrible awful humor. I suspect I'll be less successful at that than at polysleeping 

Also it is possible to start a blog here( i ll have to send Nicky an e-mail), it could help to keep me motivated.

So what do you guys do while the rest of the world sleeps? And what activities help to keep you awake when you hit the wall?

My goal was to find out exactly when the border between sleep cycles was. I set an alarm for 2h45m after I went to sleep. My core is normally three hours, so I knew I'd feel terrible for a little bit. When the alarm went off, I jumped up, and started pacing around the house waiting for the sleep inertia to go away. As soon as it started to wear off, I made a note of the time -- 3h05m after I went to sleep.

Every day since, I've been setting the alarm for 3h04m, and waking up just fine with no longer than 15 seconds of unpleasantness. Even when I start the day off with something boring like checking my email, or having starting contests with my grass, it's not hard to stay awake.

It seems so obvious in retrospect, but it took me a while to figure out. Hope this helps someone.

Anything to watch out for with SPAMAYL?

1. How many days should I be Monophasic before my 2nd attempt?
2. Will it be easier the 2nd time around?
3. Does it take as long to experience REM during naps?
4. Since I won't be as sleep deprived, will it be easier to get over unscheduled sleep? (my biggest problem)
5. Any general ideas or tips that can help me out so I don't have to go through this a 3rd time?