Coreless-AMAYL
Coreless-AMAYL (Coreless-As-Much-As-You-Like) is one of the ultimate schedules, that is, it provides near-infinite flexibility when adapted. It is also fully timezone independent and contains no cores. This make it an incredibly desirable schedule for anyone who likes naps or dislikes spending a lot of time sleeping. It can sort of be regarded as CL0-Lite. However, similar to CL0, it is also an impossible schedule for almost all people.
| TST | 1-4h |
|---|---|
| Cores | 0 |
| Naps | AMAYL |
| Difficulty | 5 / 5 |
| RSR Difficulty | 3-5 / 5 |
| Flex-potential | Natural |
Impossibility
Unfortunately, despite its great appeal, CLAMAYL is not compatible with the sleep-requirement of the average human, and as such, adaptations are incredibly rare and usually only seen in people with, significant RSR. Usually, this means doubled RSR (4.5h Monophasic baseline), though single RSR (6h) has a chance too.CLAM is slightly closer to reaching the necessary vitals for an average person than Uberman based on TST alone, but its high flexibility is likely to take at least some toll on sleep quality and thus negate the effect somewhat.
A few (<20) successful adaptations are known, including a highly impressive one where each day contained only a maximum of 4 naps from a sleeper with extremely low sleep requirements.
Mechanism
CLAM's adaptation follows a similar mechanism to other nap-only schedules, where the body gets so desperate for vitals that all naps get SO-Vitals. For this reason, no alignment is necessary, since what is learned is not the new sleep time, but instead that any sleep should give SO-Vitals. This does not work for schedules with cores because the pressure does not get intense enough to bring consistent SO-Vitals. It needs to be kept in mind though that even for CLAM's maximum TST (which is highly impractical), naps would have to consist of 70%+ vitals, with the correct REM/SWS split (highly unlikely due to peaks), for the average person to gain enough vitals to adapt.Naps in CLAMAYL are defined as 1h or less. This is due to the extreme sleep pressure being able to turn what would normally be an interrupted shortcore into a nap (meaning it will only have one vital sleep stage). Even sleeps slightly longer than 1h can still turn from shortcores into naps, but should not be scheduled this way to avoid causing trouble if they do end up being cores (multiple vital stages, meaning lack of SO-Vitals is promoted).