Firstly, I must apologize for not posting yesterday. I’m sure it would have been a big disapointment to you all =). The main reason for this, apart from sheer laziness and oversleeping, is due to the fact that I was considering quitting the Uberman sleeping schedule. Before you cry out with a “Please don’t” and a “I wont love you anymore”, don’t worry, I’ll still go on with it, but there are various factors that do want to make me quit.
The awesome thing about polyphasic sleep is that you have so much time. So much! With a potential 40+ hours per week, there is so much more that you can get done, and makes the unhappy hard worker into the highly successful socialite (well, probably not, but you get the idea). This sleeping, when perfected of course, makes you fully alert all the time, getting more REM sleep than on monophasic sleep.
The disadvantages are the worst part of polyphasic sleeping, and the worst being that adaptation. If you can stay awake for 3 days and still feel fully awake and alert, you probably wont have much trouble with it. If you are a normal human being, it will hit you like a ton of bricks. In my opinion, it is actually worse than not sleeping, because once you do go to sleep, your body wants to keep sleeping, and consequently getting yourself up is more than a challenge. Apart from that, there is no known health issues associated with polyphasic sleeping, so you could be killing yourself unknowingly. That extra time awake might not be extra time at all. Finally, it doesn’t always fit in with your schedule, and you may become the intravert you have always feared because you can’t go anywhere without having to sleep.
So, the oversleeping and crashing is the main reason for me wanting to quit. For the past two days I have overslept, with my worst one today, sleeping from 2:30 till 12, waking up wrecked and feeling like death. It still just feels like I am staying awake nights on end, which does not feel healthy nor make me happy. In addition to this, I have exams coming up, and I want to do well. If I am completely sleep deprived, I doubt I will do well. Strangely, I feel better if I don’t sleep long. I wonder if this is me adjusting, or something else strange.
However, I will not be quitting or swapping to the Everyman schedule, which does seem rather tempting. Instead, I will suffer, determined not to be one of the so many polyphasic bloggers who have failed. Besides, I said I would do this for 31 days, and I plan on sticking to it.
So, for day 13 and 14, apart from oversleeping in the early hours of the morning, they were very similar to all my other days. I still feel rather rested from my naps, but start to become tired again after 1 or 2 hours of being awake, which is rather a problem. Additionally, I’ve been quite bored and miserable. The boredom I am pretty sure is due to me not having enough of a variety of things to do, with homework and suchlike seeming even more disinteresting due to the sleep deprivation and difficulty to concentrate. The unhappiness is due to the boredom, but I’ve got a feeling it is also due to wasted time (yeah, I know that is silly) and not seeing enough of my girlfriend (I hope that I find things to do, because I don’t get to see her this week).
So, I am soldiering on with the Uberman. Hopefully I can muster up the energy to not oversleep for 2 days, finally getting over the hump. Hopefully the weekend will provide the motivation. And yes, I will be doing my information and guide on polypahsic sleeping and the Uberman schedule. Be patient. I might even get around to doing it in my spare time, who knows?
Jimmi
Ps. I might be getting my own domain, thanks to a friend. If this happens, I’ll host this blog there. I plan on it being www.raapid.com. Any suggestions would be welcome!
). So, I tend to be holed away from the world at night, in my dark room (which is killing my adaption, I just know it) watching movies, doing work and playing computer games. I want to go out and get some exercise, but I know that I would get a serious talking to if I tried :[