Rock and a hard place

Or maybe the devil and the deep blue sea, not sure which, but I’m certainly stuck somewhere. Couldn’t continue with the full one Uberman schedule. I just simply wasn’t adapting at all, it was just turning me into a Zombie. The 3 – 7am period was a case of the wheel was no longer turning, as the hamster was dead and the 7 – 11 am period was one of the lights were on but nobody was home. The rest of the day varied from very dim witted to full on space cowboy, after doing far to many drugs. So I decided to cave and introduced a core last night, in the 3 – 7 slot, it was actually the 4 – 8 slot as I was late helping the SO with some stuff.
So, how is it going? Answer, not well, but better than it has been. I had a 4 hour period yesterday between 7 and 11 am where I didn’t actually sleep, but the difference between the 2 states was that sleeping involves lying down with your eyes closed and that was sitting up with eyes open, but that was the only difference! Having said that, the reast of the day, after the 11 am nap was good! So, I deduced from this that I probably need to include a core sleep. Last night I did exactly that. How do I feel today, after that? Answer, not brilliant! Woke up at 8 felling shattered, couldn’t wake up properly at all, so after 30 minutes of that, thought sod this and lay back down. I was happy to give up at that point, but despite being knackered, couldn’t sleep.
So, it looks like I can’t polyphasically sleep and can’t get back to monophasic sleeping either! Great, this one’s going really well! I think I have no choice now but to continue with the polyphasic thing for a while, but include a core sleep, as if nothing else, I do seem to be functioning quite well on it. Still nowhere near where I want to be, but then again it’s still less than a week. One real bonus though is that I’m really good at napping now, so in theory, I could go back night sleeping, have a nap at lunchtime and be fully functioning all day. So there will be positive out of this, which ever way it goes.
I’ll plod on with a core sleep and 4 naps a day. The plan being that assuming I adapt to that, I’ll just reduce the core sleep until I get it down to 2 hours and would be a reasonable compromise. The rules remain the same, I have to see clear benefits. I have to be more alert and generally sharper during the day and I have to see health benefits. In truth, one or the other would do. But if I don’t get improvements in either area, I’ll go back to being monophasic.