Well, just as is typical during adaptation my schedule is thrown off once again. Poor napping conditions are hindering my ability to feel like anything I could call "adapted", but at least I'm not failing.
Naps on time, or 10 minutes late/early to try to deal with social changes. Core overslept a few times, but not more than one rem. Sticking to it is the plan.
Oh, and how about this. A beautiful model that has been doing uberman for almost 5 months. And like most people who discover polyphasic sleeping is a bit of a geek.
;hunter
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Mehlert
Been going pretty normal as far as oversleeping and dozing off goes, but also normal in that I get more time without being more tired. I was hoping this would be a better adaptation after having done it a few times, but I was given an anti-allergen that I didn't know would make me sleepy, so after naps it would take several hours to shake off sleep. It was horrible and I'm sure I dozed off for a few minutes in between naps, but I stuck with it and that's gone away.
I normally nap at 11pm and core from 4-7am, but I slept 3 hours at my 11pm nap, so what I usually do is just start a nap 20 minutes before core ends and continue as usual. I've done this twice before both during and after adaptation and it doesn't seem to mess anything up. Anyway, it's bad that I overslept but good that I only slept 3 hours without an alarm, so it shows I'm on track.
Sticking with it, since there's no reason to quit.
;hunter
I normally nap at 11pm and core from 4-7am, but I slept 3 hours at my 11pm nap, so what I usually do is just start a nap 20 minutes before core ends and continue as usual. I've done this twice before both during and after adaptation and it doesn't seem to mess anything up. Anyway, it's bad that I overslept but good that I only slept 3 hours without an alarm, so it shows I'm on track.
Sticking with it, since there's no reason to quit.
;hunter
Thursday, October 15, 2009
This just in...
Update and report on naps.
Evening nap (18:00) yesterday went well. I slept a short period, though not as deeply or quickly as the morning nap.
The night nap (23:00) I didn't sleep at all because I made the mistake of lying on a bed so my body thought it was time to ruminate over the days proceedings and take 30 minutes to go to sleep.
Core started 20 minutes late because someone on IRC asked a very interesting CS question and I just had to answer, so I put my core end alarm 20 minutes later too.
Feeling a bit sleepy, but nothing like I would feel if I slept only 3 hours monophasically.
I think I'm going to have to adapt to 4 meals a day again. It's just too hard to make it through the night without getting hungry.
;hunter
Evening nap (18:00) yesterday went well. I slept a short period, though not as deeply or quickly as the morning nap.
The night nap (23:00) I didn't sleep at all because I made the mistake of lying on a bed so my body thought it was time to ruminate over the days proceedings and take 30 minutes to go to sleep.
Core started 20 minutes late because someone on IRC asked a very interesting CS question and I just had to answer, so I put my core end alarm 20 minutes later too.
Feeling a bit sleepy, but nothing like I would feel if I slept only 3 hours monophasically.
I think I'm going to have to adapt to 4 meals a day again. It's just too hard to make it through the night without getting hungry.
;hunter
We're back.
I'm in India for a few months, and I decided on a whim to try polyphasic sleep again while I was here. Everyman3, with sleep scheduled at 4-7, 12, 18, and 23. I wrote a quick schedule here with how long I'll be awake each time so I can see how balanced it is, and an alternate schedule for a friend that works better for him, plus allows me to check up on him.
I got 6 hours of sleep last night in preparation. I was planning on 8 hours but I was kept awake by miliaria (heat rash), and due to my grogginess I think I woke up a bit early during N3 sleep in the morning.
First nap was great. I laid down and almost immediately felt the familiar twinge of losing consciousness. I still have it! I slept from approximately 12:08 to 12:15 (guessing, since I didn't take my eyemask off). I stayed there until the alarm went, and now I don't have the grogginess of this morning.
I'm not as sure about being committed to this attempt as the previous ones because I don't have pressing matters, so we'll see if I'm still enjoying it as much in 3 days. :P
Thu Oct 15 12:53:15 IST 2009
;hunter
I got 6 hours of sleep last night in preparation. I was planning on 8 hours but I was kept awake by miliaria (heat rash), and due to my grogginess I think I woke up a bit early during N3 sleep in the morning.
First nap was great. I laid down and almost immediately felt the familiar twinge of losing consciousness. I still have it! I slept from approximately 12:08 to 12:15 (guessing, since I didn't take my eyemask off). I stayed there until the alarm went, and now I don't have the grogginess of this morning.
I'm not as sure about being committed to this attempt as the previous ones because I don't have pressing matters, so we'll see if I'm still enjoying it as much in 3 days. :P
Thu Oct 15 12:53:15 IST 2009
;hunter
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Wheeee
Okay, that was about 10 weeks of mostly-successful everyman. I'm getting my motorcycle permit, and as much as I hate to admit it I'm not *always* fully rested and aware of my surroundings on this last polyphasic sleep, so I'm taking a break for a few weeks to get comfortable on the motorcycle. I pulled out a few days ago and have been sleeping 6 to 8 hours a night with no problems at all. I would say I was not lacking in sleep, and this shows that it doesn't build a sleep-debt.
Be back in a few weeks. Sorry Jorel, I guess I'm only "long term" in the sense that I'm not dying when I try it, and that only comes with practice.
;hunter
Be back in a few weeks. Sorry Jorel, I guess I'm only "long term" in the sense that I'm not dying when I try it, and that only comes with practice.
;hunter
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
"I'm still alive"
(If you don't recognize the title then you MUST go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI )
Sorry, I was trying to update once a month to stay on Jorel314's list but forgot with midterms and everything.
I'm still going everyman, and it's great. In the average week I sleep normal naps at 9:40, 16:00, and 21:40, and try to do a 3-hour core starting at 3:00. I end up doing 4.5hr core two days/week and maybe a 6hr core one day/week, but gain about 15 to 25 hours (out of a max of 28) per week so I count that acceptable (I tend to sleep in if I don't have pressing matters). I think my "long sleep" is more like 80 or 85 minutes instead of 90, so I've been dialing it back a little to try and eliminate the super-groggy mornings. Maybe I'm one of the people who needs 6 REMs...
Back in a month, or see you on #polyphasers.
;hunter
Sorry, I was trying to update once a month to stay on Jorel314's list but forgot with midterms and everything.
I'm still going everyman, and it's great. In the average week I sleep normal naps at 9:40, 16:00, and 21:40, and try to do a 3-hour core starting at 3:00. I end up doing 4.5hr core two days/week and maybe a 6hr core one day/week, but gain about 15 to 25 hours (out of a max of 28) per week so I count that acceptable (I tend to sleep in if I don't have pressing matters). I think my "long sleep" is more like 80 or 85 minutes instead of 90, so I've been dialing it back a little to try and eliminate the super-groggy mornings. Maybe I'm one of the people who needs 6 REMs...
Back in a month, or see you on #polyphasers.
;hunter
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Oops update
Relating to my last post, I did uberman from Dec 20th to 29th, and everyman from Dec 30th to Feb 4th, for a total of ~45 days. I stopped because of a poor weekend, poor napping conditions, and missed naps due to midterms. I started again on Mar 16th (as soon as I felt safe with finals) and it has been going acceptably well. I feel like I all of a sudden need less sleep, for no reasonable explination, even polyphasic.
I've found that keeping track of my sleep schedule and recording my actual sleep works much better in Google Calendar than blogging it. I sort of blog it in a way since I try to add a short note to every entry. You can see it at hunnur.com (it's the red blocks) and if you click the records you'll most likely get whatever I spewed right after the nap, or if I didn't record until later anything I could remember. I'll be updating there instead of here, but I'll still try to make posts here for jorel314's blog.
Polyphasic or bust!
;hunter
I've found that keeping track of my sleep schedule and recording my actual sleep works much better in Google Calendar than blogging it. I sort of blog it in a way since I try to add a short note to every entry. You can see it at hunnur.com (it's the red blocks) and if you click the records you'll most likely get whatever I spewed right after the nap, or if I didn't record until later anything I could remember. I'll be updating there instead of here, but I'll still try to make posts here for jorel314's blog.
Polyphasic or bust!
;hunter
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Pushpop
Short update, because there's not much to say. Everyman is going great, but I think my core cycles are more like 75-80 minutes long than 90 so I'll shorten my core a bit.
Lots more people in irc://irc.freenode.net/#polyphasers than last time, which is nice.
;hunter
Lots more people in irc://irc.freenode.net/#polyphasers than last time, which is nice.
;hunter
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Prepare to make the jump
Okay, time for an update. I did uberman from the 20th to the 29th, then began the transition to everyman on midnight of the 30th. My core is 2am to 5am, and three 20 minute naps at 10am, 3pm, and 10pm.
This uberman adaptation went so well that I can really see how messed up my original attempt was. I had the totally wrong mentality about getting my naps mostly on time vs. exactly on time, and where I was sleeping played a big role in it. This time I have gotten them all in bed and on time, and I feel much better. By the time I switched to everyman I was sleeping deeply for all of my naps, feeling rested most all of the time, and not oversleeping.
Everyman so far seems much more convenient than uberman because there is no 6pm nap, there is greater spacing between naps, and moving naps is much more flexible. I haven't moved them yet, but I can tell that uberman allows none of that, and people report everyman is more lenient.
I have had trouble getting up and staying up from my core (I start dozing off in my chair) but I have made it these three days with no major oversleeps and it's only getting easier. Switching from uberman meant that I start out being able to get sleep during the naps, but I think the core overdosed me on REMs and caused some vibrations for the rest of the sleep schedule, but they are receeding.
This next quarter I may have a problem with my physics class which runs TTH from 14:00 to 16:50, so I'll have to see how taking a 20 minute nap in the middle of class works. (I didn't have problems with it before in physics ;) )
I am only posting a little information here because most of the details get spewed into #polyphasers on irc.freenode.org. There are a lot (10 or more) people on there who are also doing polyphasic sleeping. It's been really nice to have people to talk to in real time who are also figuring this out.
;hunter
This uberman adaptation went so well that I can really see how messed up my original attempt was. I had the totally wrong mentality about getting my naps mostly on time vs. exactly on time, and where I was sleeping played a big role in it. This time I have gotten them all in bed and on time, and I feel much better. By the time I switched to everyman I was sleeping deeply for all of my naps, feeling rested most all of the time, and not oversleeping.
Everyman so far seems much more convenient than uberman because there is no 6pm nap, there is greater spacing between naps, and moving naps is much more flexible. I haven't moved them yet, but I can tell that uberman allows none of that, and people report everyman is more lenient.
I have had trouble getting up and staying up from my core (I start dozing off in my chair) but I have made it these three days with no major oversleeps and it's only getting easier. Switching from uberman meant that I start out being able to get sleep during the naps, but I think the core overdosed me on REMs and caused some vibrations for the rest of the sleep schedule, but they are receeding.
This next quarter I may have a problem with my physics class which runs TTH from 14:00 to 16:50, so I'll have to see how taking a 20 minute nap in the middle of class works. (I didn't have problems with it before in physics ;) )
I am only posting a little information here because most of the details get spewed into #polyphasers on irc.freenode.org. There are a lot (10 or more) people on there who are also doing polyphasic sleeping. It's been really nice to have people to talk to in real time who are also figuring this out.
;hunter
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