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sleep-deprived from a previous attempt!
36 Assuming you're doing it properly, which is the idea after all.
37 This one looks innocuous, but don't underestimate it...it can be really disturbing to realize that you can't figure out how to put your shoes on at the moment.
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make it miserable to continue, and for a short time, it will succeed! You'll need to have decided firmly,
before beginning the experiment, to keep going in spite of any amount of misery38. It helps to keep
reminders on hand of why you don't want to quit--sticky-notes, recorded messages, whatever you think will
work. Remind yourself that if you stick to your schedule, this part will be over soon!
Designating a Kill Switch
In order to tell yourself to "keep going no matter what", you need to put aside the worry that it
really might be time to quit, that you might be getting sick, etc. The best way I know to do
this is to designate someone else to be your "Kill Switch", whose job it is to keep an eye on
you and call a halt to the experiment if it gets out of hand. That person will have to be able to
watch you be miserable and look like crap for a while without freaking out. (Hint: Generally
speaking, your parents are a bad bet.) Educate the person about what you're doing, what
symptoms are normal, and what your goals are. Make sure they know that you may try to talk
them into letting you quit, and set up some concrete instances of things that should make
them worry, so they have some benchmarks that are objective of what you tell them. Make
sure they know that it's normal for acute symptoms to continue for a week (Uberman) or two
(Everyman). Then, let them worry about quitting, and don't you even consider stopping
unless your Kill Switch says to!
What's the Purpose of Sleep Deprivation Here?
Sleep deprivation, while no fun, is an important part of adjusting to any polyphasic schedule. The
sleep-dep is your brain "talking to you", telling you that it's no longer getting its sleep; and you're
"answering" it by taking regular naps39. Your mind/body is very much a machine in some ways, and the
way it works here is predictable: Sleep-dep is the normal, first-line response. When increasingly acute
sleep-deprivation doesn't make you change, your brain will go to the second response: It will adjust to
the circumstances it's stuck with, and switch to getting its sleep by adapting to your new schedule. When
this works, you'll stop having symptoms. It's the sleep-dep  having it and beating it  that makes
polyphasic sleep work, in a sense.40
This, to say it again, is why consistent adherence to your new polyphasic schedule
is so important: If you respond to sleep deprivation by sleeping extra, then
you're telling your brain that it doesn't have to adapt; that applying the right
pressure will make you change back to the comfortable old habit of sleeping for
long periods of time. If you give in (even once), your brain takes it as a sign
that it should keep up--even increase!--the sleep-deprivation symptoms, since
they're working. It's imperative that they not work; that no matter what the
symptoms, you sleep on your new schedule exactly. This will get your brain to
give up on sleep dep as quickly as possible--usually within a few days--and
resort instead to changing your sleeping patterns so that your naps give you the
rest you need. The more "mistakes", the more sleep-dep.
38 Tell yourself (loudly, constantly, in writing -- whatever it takes) that no matter how much it sucks, you're going to do it perfectly for one whole week. If you
do, and after a week you don't feel 95-100% better, then there's something very wrong with the schedule you're adapting to, or how. If you do feel better,
then remind yourself that it takes at least 30 days to become fully adapted, so don't start slacking off now!
39 Regular naps in a pattern known to provide the rest you need, once you adapt. As we discussed previously, just any old naps won't do it.
40 Some people claim that a more gradual adaptation can work while minimizing sleep deprivation symptoms. There's an Appendix that describes this more
fully.
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Physical Symptoms of the Adaptation Period
The process of adopting a new sleep schedule puts your system under a pretty good load of stress.
Obviously if anything extreme happens, or if you think something's wrong, see your doctor-figure. But you
may notice physical symptoms like these for a week or two, which are, to my knowledge, normal:
Ï% Increased or decreased appetite
Ï% Tendency to feel cold; goosebumps
Ï% Dry eyes; periods of blurred or doubled vision
Ï% Muscle aches or headaches (dull ones, not splitting ones)
Ï% Tinnitus (ringing in the ears)
Ï% Weak immune system, especially if you're prone to such weakness
Handling Narcoleptic Symptoms
For most people, out of all the sleep-dep symptoms, the narcolepsy is the really tough thing to
handle. Most people are lucky enough not to have experienced prolonged narcolepsy, though it can be a
disease all on its own for some unfortunate individuals41. During the course of normal sleeplessness,
people will usually get sleep-deprived enough to experience narcolepsy as a symptom, and then they either
fall asleep, or are kept going by some emergency or other heightened situation which overrides or blunts
the narcolepsy. Unfortunately, you're unlikely to have, or be able to manufacture, enough emergency-like
situations to get you through all the narcolepsy of your polyphasic adaptation. Almost everyone has to
 tough it out at least once.
So, narcolepsy is the fancy term for what's commonly, sometimes jokingly called "falling asleep
standing up". But that's no joke -- you really can fall asleep standing up. Or in the bath, or driving, or
while stuff is on the stove...needless to say, when you're experiencing this symptom (which typically comes
in hour-or-less-long spurts), it's imperative to observe safety rules, like you would if you were taking heavy
painkillers.
Ï% DO NOT operate a vehicle or other heavy or dangerous machinery. If you are in the middle of
doing something dangerous, like driving, and you start to notice narcoleptic symptoms, STOP
immediately, take some of the steps listed here to alleviate the symptom, and don't continue
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