Consistency and Polyphasic Sleep

Consistency and discipline with Polyphasic Sleep are highly important. In order to adapt, you must teach your body the exact times it can expect you to sleep. Once sleep deprivation accumulates sufficiently, your body begins repartitioning. If this completes successfully, you will adapt.

• When adapting to a schedule, make sure to stick precisely to ALL sleep times in your schedule until you are adapted.
• Go to bed at the same time every day without exception. Skipping naps shouldn't happen more than once every two weeks in order to adapt.
• Even if you don't fall asleep quickly at first, keep sticking with your scheduled sleep times. With consistency, you will fall asleep with increasing speed. In the meantime, the peaceful break provides a portion of the rest sleeping would have.
• Avoid oversleeping at all costs during adaptation. Small mess-ups likely won't prevent an eventual adaptation, but moderate to large or repeated oversleeps can reset your progress or even cause Oversleeping Syndrome (OSS).

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