-Sleep

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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That’s it. After this morning’s late wake up I won’t be sleeping for more than twenty minutes at a time for a while. I expect to become extremely tired and fatigued during the adaptation period which should last a maximum of two weeks. I assume the first two to three days won’t be too bad since it’s just like staying up a night or two. Unless… I actually do fall asleep for those twenty minutes in the beginning. It sucks not getting enough sleep; I’d rather just not sleep in those cases.

I’m going to begin the naps tonight after a full day awake. Once I start to feel tired I’ll take the next nap on the schedule and I’ll keep on it from there. Next post should be after my first nap unless something worthy occurs.

… and it begins.

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The construction work seems to be coming to its proper end. The first night I begin will either be Monday or Tuesday night. Due to my schedule, I will not be able to incorporate the naps after a full night’s rest. I don’t know if this will make it any more difficult. I figure that I would just be laying there waiting for twenty minutes anyway. Although, it’s possible that laying down like that actually helps my body start to adapt to the twenty minute naps.

From what I know, the adaptation process is pretty difficult. Fortunately, I will not give in. My friend let me borrow his Wii for at least a week; I think I’ll take some time to connect a bit to my roots of console gaming. I’ll try to play through at least Mario Galaxy. I’m sure the game is not difficult, but it should keep me up and maybe it will give me a deeper insight to how the adaptation process is affecting me.

At this point, I (more…)

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Here it is, ladies and gentlemen.

20×6

Each nap will consist of 20 minutes. My alarm clock has a (more…)

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I’m pretty sure I should be counting into the positive days during this weekend. My schedule should be completely ready and the adventure will begin. The more I think about it the more that it seems that monophasic sleep is a primitive method. Something that was developed to collaborate with the sun. If you’re on the uberman and you don’t feel tired, what’s to tell you that you need more sleep? It seems like your body is getting what it requires to function. Perhaps the human mind/body’s ability to handle polyphasic sleep is a futuristic function. When we venture off this planet we won’t be  tied to mother Earth’s spin cycle. What are the signals to sleep going to be?


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This is a pretty cool, yet incomplete, site. It has a well planned out daily schedule for anyone who is willing to get on the uberman or wants to get an idea of when hygiene/meals would come into play.

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I was considering perhaps testing a different sleeping method, something like 30×4. [Thirty minute naps four times a day]. It seems like that method would be a lot more agile. Although I haven’t looked into that one, it seems like I would be stretching it. What would be stopping someone from doing 120×1? I feel that it wouldn’t work. .0001 x 1,200,000 would be nice, sleeping for a blink every so often. I assume that would be the ultimate sleep schedule. Unfortunately, I am not aiming for that one. Maybe next time.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/15/103358/720
This is the first website that I’ve ever looked at about the Uberman sleep schedule. I don’t even remember what tipped me off to it.

I can’t wait till my schedule clears.

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The aim of this blog is to log my personal experiences in my adventure to convert from a monophasic sleep schedule to a polyphasic one, more specifically the uberman. My sleep schedule will consist of six twenty minute naps throughout the day, nothing more.

I haven’t made any lifestyle changes that may raise my success rate for this project. I don’t think that should make it anymore difficult for me to adjust. At this point, I believe it’s more a ‘power of the mind’ thing to just stay on track and keep with the sleeping schedule. Who knows, maybe I’ll realize that I’m completely wrong when I actually make my attempt.

The plan is to commence conversion as soon as my schedule completely clears, which should be within a few days. The only thing I’m really worried about is keeping completely busy/active during the first days. Hopefully a little boredom won’t put me to sleep. Maybe I should prepare some activities outside of this blog.

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