-Sleep

Well, this morning was a sane decision to over sleep. I had some minor back pain due to laying cement etcetera. I wanted to lay down for a bit and just relax, but the thing is that when I’m adjusting to the uberman I can’t do that. I would fall asleep instantly. So I made a decision to just sleep and continue this later. Which should be now.

The decision was completely stupid. Now that I read on webmd.com that I should be exercising my back and trying to use my back instead of waiting for the muscles to weaken. Anyway, after sleeping like 16 hours my back does actually feel better which is a plus.

In other news, my order of the book “Ubersleep” has arrived. So far what I read is pretty good. It’s written in a sort of “trying not to be a book” style. I don’t know what those are called, but many modern insight/instructive books are written in this style. So far I like it. I’ll include a  more in depth review when I’m done with it.

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[2.5]Well, this isn’t really nap 2.5, but it’s after the time of my usual 5th nap.
Anyway, Today I skipped two naps. 12pm and 4pm. I had to do this because I was doing some construction project and then I wanted to play some brawl with some friends. I could feel the tiredness creeping up as time went on, but it wasn’t really that overtaking at this point. Probably because I’m not fully adapted. It may also have to do with a short nap that I took on some stairs during a construction break. I just laid down and passed straight out. Judging by time estimates and what information I’ve heard regarding time throughout the day . My best guess would actually be around 20 minutes. I wonder if failing doesn’t really reset and damage all progress completely. Maybe it is still progressing.

I really don’t know what stopped me from (more…)

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Failure is unacceptable: The new method.
[1.1]For record keeping purposes, I am counting today [7/5/08] day one. Twelve AM was nap 1. Thus [1.1].

I am going to use a new method to prevent oversleeping for any reason whatsoever. The old method wasn’t good enough. My beeping alarm sucks because it only rings for like a minute and then it turns off, WHAT? Also the beeping is all low. Anyway, I’m still going to be using that alarm clock as my first wave of offense against the evil plague that is sleep. But, two minutes after that alarm goes off, I have set Foobar with the foo_scheduler plugin to play an mp3 on my speakers. I have set the volume pretty high to ensure (more…)

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It was pretty embarrassing if I must say so myself. I must have thought I was extremely skillful at staying up or something. This is what happened: I woke up from one of my naps normally. The 4am one. This is pretty funny because it is the nap right after my last post.  Then after a couple of hours of being awake, I was like, “Yeah I’m just going to lay down for a little bit.” Ended up in an epic blunder. I woke up maybe about 4 hours later. Now that I’m thinking about it I don’t even remember dipping into sleep. I think I just knocked out after a while of laying down. It wasn’t gradual it seems like it was instant. Either that or it was gradual but I just didn’t do anything about it and I don’t remember exactly what happened anymore.

Anyway, I’m resuming naps, I’ll just count this 8pm one as nap #2. Day one again? I don’t know. This failure will not occur again. I know what I’m messing with now. I’m not going to take chances like that anymore. I am pretty disappointed, but I guess I was asking for it by doing that. All in all it’s a pretty entertaining setback.

I’m going to have to go all out this time, can’t have any minor setbacks like that anymore, that was extremely unacceptable.

I wonder how much this will actually set me back. Hopefully not too much.

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Surprisingly, it hasn’t been that hard to stay up. Now I’m actually beginning to enjoy the naps. I am looking forward to them, they seem to give me that little bit of rest that is necessary to not become extremely tired. Although it hasn’t been too long into the adaptation phase and I’m sure that the absolute worst is yet to come, I feel rather confident. At this moment, I really don’t feel that tired. I do begin to feel tired right before I’m about to take a nap and right after I wake up. That goes away rather quickly, though. As of this point, I can honestly say that I thought it was going to be a bit more difficult. Maybe I’m speaking too early. It would be pretty entertaining to see myself suffering 50x because of a sudden impact of sleep deprivation.

I will succeed.

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So far so good. On these last two I’ve actually been going to sleep. I was wondering if I was going to fall asleep then all of a sudden my alarm is going off and I’m waking up. The naps really aren’t doing much and if I wasn’t trying to change my sleeping schedule I would rather go without them. They make me want to continue sleeping, this effect dims when I actually get up and start doing something… anything. Appetite seems to be increasing, but this effect is usual whenever I stay up for extended periods of time. Need meat.

I like to lay down sometimes for a little bit before waking up. I make sure to keep myself awake and I haven’t fallen asleep by tempting it like that. Once, (more…)

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Went just as expected. Nothing special other than laying down for twenty minutes doing nothing. Not really starting to feel really tired yet. I wonder when I will reach that point of instant sleep when I hit the bed, or maybe even some sleep to the point that it doesn’t feel that I was laying down for twenty stagnant minutes.

If there’s one thing I’m worried about, it’s my alarm not waking me up when I hit the real sleep. The nap feature works quite well but the only thing is that I can’t set it so that it turns on the radio instead of using the beeping alarm to wake me up. Although it gradually gets louder, it also eventually turns off. What if it fails to wake me up? Even though I’m a pretty light sleeper, the deprivation might get to me or something. Oh well; I will just have to wake up like a champ, anything less would be unacceptable.

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