1. Food clock
You know what circadian rhythm means. It's roughly 24 hour cycle which goes like this. Well, there is also a "food clock". I will skip the science stuff and enlighten you with the fact that if you do a fasting for 16 hours your food clock will reset. Which means you will start waking at the time when you had your breakfast.if you want to start waking up at 2:00 am, you should start fasting between 10:00 am or 2:00 pm the previous day, and don't break your fast until you wake up at 2:00 am. Make sure you eat a nice healthy meal to jumpstart your system.
So, if you are having trouble staying awake in the morning or night. Just change your clock. Works good for jetlag too.
2. Sleeping on a chair
Oversleeping is the worst nightmare of every polyphasic sleeper at the adaptation period. Nobody wants to leave a comfy bed and face with the real life out there. This is why most polyphasic sleepers sleep on chairs or on the floor. If you have just started your polyphasic quest it will be difficul to fall asleep on a chair. But if you are at the zombie-mode you will fall asleep while you are standing up anyway so just find a chair and sleep there. Who needs beds when you are polyphasic right?3. Classical conditioning
Your subconcious mind is your enemy. To beat your enemy you must practice. When you get up from your 20 minute nap, going all "I'm very self-disciplined! I will use my will and make my mind conscious instantly" won't really help you. Hitting that snooze button and sleeping for "5 more minutes" is what most of us do. Practice getting up from your naps. Go take a nap. You don't have to sleep just think you are asleep for 20 minutes and just daydream. Believe it or not, doing that at the preparation period will help you a lot. If you are thinking I'm crazy, Behold. Using isochronic tones will help your chances with avoiding oversleeping. The idea is, you start listening to certain "tone" that will make you sleepy for 20 minutes. You nap while listening to that. After 20 minutes you switch to another tone which will make you alert. What is a isochronic tone? I guess you can call that a "brainwave entrainment" you can mess with your brain using isochronic tones. You can find a huge list here
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