Signs of successful adaptations
In theory, a successful adaptation is defined as having completed repartition (including alignment), ls-compression, and compression, each of course only when the schedule specifies it, though all schedules require at least alignment.Unfortunately for polyphasic practice, this is relatively hard to find out without an EEG, and not everyone has the same sleep-requirement and architecture. Thus, success is better defined as reaching a stable, functional, and pleasant state.
Stable
The schedule must be stable. This means tiredness levels do not increase each day (which would indicate a future failure [cant-adapt] or still being in stages 1-3), and also generally do not decrease each day (as this indicates one is still in stage4).Stability is relatively hard to judge; one way to do so with good success however is the following set of conditions:
Judging temporal stability
- If you have been on the schedule for less than 2 weeks, it is still unstable.
- If the amount of non-externally-caused oversleeps in the last month is more than one every two weeks on average, it is unstable.
- If the amount of oversleeps in the last month is more than one every week on average, it is unstable.
- If you have been on the schedule for more than 3 months, it is stable.
- If you have had a day where you have been very tired in the last week, it is not stable.
- If you have had several consecutive days where you have been very tired, and this hasn't happened for more than two weeks, it is stable.
Pleasant
The schedule should be quite pleasant to keep up. This means:- Waking up is relatively easy (an alarm may not be needed, and if it is, no fighting oneself is necessary to get up).
- Tiredness levels are low or very low throughout the whole day, except for directly before naps (where tiredness should be high).
- Falling asleep is somewhat or very easy (time to sleep ideally close to a minute for naps and up to 20 minutes for a core - though higher numbers are fine if this is normal for you).