Must use discipline and not be lazy.

Also, some of the times to stay awake are more difficult than others. It’s a lot harder to stay up from 12am - 8am.  The narcoleptic micro-sleeps hit more aggressively, they are kind of difficult to get rid of. Just have to stay consistent and on top if it. I dare say it’s not bad at all, until these times hit.

“*NOTE: The change from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time will occur on:
Sunday, November, 2nd at 2:00 a.m. (local time).
Clocks should be set BACK 1 hour.”

-Time.gov

This has a shifting effect, I have to shift my sleeping schedule over an hour. So now I sleep at 3:00, 7:00, 11:00. Both AM and PM.

I want to try and expand on this website, add some more pages and information for anyone to look at. If there’s anything you feel is unclear or unanswered let me know. Maybe I’ll post a page about it.

Here’s an interesting article that has to do with optimum sleep levels. Here’s an excerpt: “Tests prove that there’s no physiological difference in the muscles or organs of the body when you’re asleep as opposed to when you’re simply lying still and fully awake.”

Day one.

This is day one. It will be uneventful as usual.

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.

I really don’t know what stopped me from passing out for a longer period of time until someone woke me up. Even though I slept for a short period of time, I really don’t think that I would be able to sleep without an alarm clock. Maybe it was just the fact that I was sleeping on stairs.

Oh yeah, if anyone is wanting to try this I don’t suggest watching anything to try and stay awake. Movies anime/shows anything. I was really tired while watching them and trying to pass the time using this as a weapon. One x-files episode is almost an hour. Anyway, what started happening is that I was micro-napping. It would feel good to close my eyes, then all of a sudden it’s like I went to sleep for a while. I didn’t completely pass out, but it just felt like I closed my eyes to rest for a little bit, realized I was falling asleep, opened them and more time than what it felt like has passed. It was pretty cool, maybe I’ll use this training for the… ULTIMATE sleeping method. Aka neversleep method - sleeping for a fraction of a second every time you blink.

I’m pretty tired, looking forward to the 20 minutes soon. Yum.

So far, no cravings for certain foods. My appetite is pretty huge, though. I just eat at anytime, even though I’m thinking that the best thing to do would probably be to eat a small meal during every waking block, most likely at the beginning. Speaking about food, I’ve discovered that if you have absolutely nothing to do, eating will keep you awake. I was just eating some watermelon slowly while watching Code Geass/X-files and it worked like a charm. I need to go Mulder with some sunflower seeds.

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 that I get up. I expect it to go on quite well.

If anyone wants to try to get on the uberman. Don’t underestimate sleep. Do what you need to do to wake up and stay up. Even if that requires someone slapping your face or pouring water on you, it all comes down to dedication.

I was also wondering if skipping a nap or two would speed the process up.  Would it make you more tired and force your body to adapt to the new sleep schedule faster?  Or would it be extremely detrimental to the process which is supposed to be paced how it is. I don’t think it would really matter if you skipped a nap at day one.

Also, if anyone has any ideas on activities or anything entertaining to keep me up for hours on end. Let me know, whether it’s through comments or email - awake [at] gmail [dot] com - doesn’t matter. Anything at all would be nice. Even like a recipe or a book, anything.