Posts Tagged ‘ sleep ’
I hate my brain. I have been looking over my notes, and the 9am nap and the waking period following it have been giving me trouble for a while now. This cycle has shown the most trouble waking up from naps, the most incidents of unintended sleep, and the most severe fatigue and sleepiness. [ READ MORE ]
Today brought some extremes, leaving me feeling good during three consecutive cycles, and very bad during the next. [ READ MORE ]
I dreamt again during my 1pm nap today! I did not remember the dream immediately though, it took some 5 minutes of being awake before pieces came back to me. This amplifies my concerns that my naps might be too long; maybe I cycle out of REM back into SWS, making me wake up groggy [ READ MORE ]
Day 9 was rather uneventful. How I feel varies strongly from one waking cycle to another. I had some trouble falling asleep for the 5pm and 9pm naps, but I felt relatively rested during the 9pm-1am cycle. I did not feel particularly tired or narcoleptic during my 1am-5am waking cycle, so not taking the extra 3am [ READ MORE ]
Today my sister and I visited my mother for a late Christmas dinner, which also meant I was napping over there. [ READ MORE ]
I was getting a bit fed up with napping on my bed, so I tried something else; I napped in one of my comfortable chairs (which is also where I had my successful Ubernap yesternight). I couldn’t wear my headphones comfortably, so I put them around my neck and turned the volume way up so [ READ MORE ]
The lack of sleep was really starting to get to me, and the lack of real progress was demotivating. I was wondering if I was doing something wrong, because I had completed six full days of perfect schedule adherence (except the 4-minute oversleeping incident yesterday) without a significant result. Judging from what I’ve read, I [ READ MORE ]
Diana is a close friend of mine who has been most interested in and supportive of my polyphasic sleep experiment. She briefly considered joining me in adapting to Uberman, but ultimately decided against it. [ READ MORE ]
The next nap, at 5pm, was fairly normal; I woke up feeling groggy, but I started feeling better fairly soon. At about 5.45pm my sister Nicole arrived. We chatted for an hour or two, mostly about sleep and Uberman, and then went out for some groceries. We got chips for her dinner, and I ended up [ READ MORE ]
Today is day 5, Tuesday. I woke up from my 1pm nap about an hour ago. The last 24 hours have been… Interesting. [ READ MORE ]
Today is day 4, Monday. I’ve had my 1pm and 5pm naps now, and the 1pm nap was rather interesting. I didn’t wake up feeling like a zombie from this nap, but not particularly refreshed either. I did feel a bit weird and disoriented. [ READ MORE ]
Today was tough. The feeling of zombiehood after naps got worse, and I had a few bouts of significant narcolepsy. Diana kept me company for most of today, which proved really valuable. With her help, I was able to break the 96-hour barrier But it was not easy. [ READ MORE ]
It’s now more than 72 hours ago since my last night of normal sleep. One thing that stands out is that I’m sleeping differently. I seem to fall asleep a bit faster, and I no longer wake up by myself before naptime is over; I have to be woken by the mp3 and the wake-up light [ READ MORE ]
To help with my polyphasic sleeping experiment, I have taped cardboard over my bedroom window, so I can sleep in complete darkness. I hope that helps me fall asleep. But complete darkness makes it harder to wake up, and waking up is already plenty hard when you’re adapting to Uberman. So I thought that a light [ READ MORE ]
Friday was more interesting than Thursday. [ READ MORE ]
Wednesday night, I had my last “normal” night of sleep. I say “normal” because I could barely sleep; I just couldn’t get my mind to shut down, so I slept no more than 3 hours. Well, that’s one way to get a head start on the sleep deprivation Thursday I felt a bit crappy [ READ MORE ]
So, I’m going to adapt to Uberman, or fall asleep trying. Last night was my last night of normal sleep for a while. It’s Thursday the 17th now, which I’ll call day 0. Thursday night will be night 0, Friday will be day 1, etc. Saturday is the start of the Christmas break, two weeks of no [ READ MORE ]
Several months ago, I read about polyphasic sleep on Steve Pavlina’s blog. Polyphasic sleep means sleeping for multiple short periods during the day rather than one long period at night. The particular sleep schedule Steve was writing about was called the Uberman schedule, which involves sleeping only for 20-minute naps every four hours, for a [ READ MORE ]