Day 17 - Updates and how it's been going so far

Update
Haven't had much to update lately, since it's been busy but thankfully I haven't been overly sleepy (at least not more than before I started poly). An overall recap: I started the polyphasic sleep schedule and have been amending it here and there since the 5th of August, and unfortunately I haven't been following it fully. I've had several missed naps, a couple of oversleeps, and found it especially hard to follow schedule on weekends, when I'm out most of the time and not subject to a routine like a weekday workday. I estimate I've been able to follow the schedule 80-85% of the time, though, with allowances for up to 1 hour deviation for naptimes.

The Experiment thus far...
However, so far in my third week, I'm feeling quite fine. I have been playing sports, going to the gym, and more or less been doing exactly what I was doing before I started polyphasic, except that I've been having more time to do those things. I'm starting to think that this may be do-able long-term, though for me this is still officially an experiment. It's nice to have the night to myself when everyone is sleeping, too. I've always liked that.

Etc.
So far I've chosen to skip naps entirely rather than 'make up' for it later by sleeping extra, because I'd rather have a bout of sleepiness rather than accidentally reconfigure my body to sleeping the old way. No adverse effects yet. I have noticed an interesting thing though, apparently I am adapting somewhat. Approximately around my scheduled nap times, I notice myself feeling a little sleepy/tired, not to the extent that I'm falling asleep, but that nagging feeling that I'm supposed to sleep. I guess it's my biological clock adapting to the schedule, and is probably a big reason why I haven't been missing naps lately.

I've also been finding falling asleep quickly for the naps a lot easier. I used to set my timer for 23 minutes, to allow some time to fall asleep, but nowadays I can fall asleep within a minute or so (I guess). Also, I can get back to sleep within ten seconds or so if my nap is interrupted (as it was today) by a phone call or whatever (after answering the phone; just a short call). I've noticed that this falling asleep quickly thing provides for some auxiliary time savings in terms of not having to spend half an hour or so as I used to to get to sleep.

Finally, and I'm really happy about this one, is that after my core sleep of 2-3 hours (I vary it now and then), I no longer feel groggy for as long, or as badly. Previously, I used to be groggy for at least 40 minutes, but now I can be more or less fully alert sooner, and without the headache that used to accompany forcing myself awake prematurely. So altogether, it's going pretty well. I'm wondering if I'll hit some sudden wall come day 30 or something, but it doesn't feel like it so far.