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3rd Polyphasic Attempt: Day 14, 15 and 16

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Sorry in advance about not updating my blog on a daily basis. It will get back to that stage, be patient. So, what happened the last 3 days? Nothing good, that’s for sure.

Recently I have been struggling with my polyphasic sleep, oversleeping two nights in a row. Additionally, the oversleeps are so long it’s practically 2 monophasic days with naps in them, as the 2 am to 6:30 am awake time was being completely taken over by sleep. As you can imagine, it has not been pleasant.

Still, I’m learning things from this. The reasons as to why I have been oversleeping are my parents and family. I know that my dad is catching on to the fact that I don’t sleep properly, but I don’t want him to find out I’m polyphasic again (hence bad consequences). Because of this, on day 14 I decided to sleep with the lights off and in my bed. Bad idea. Awoke at about 6:15 am, feeling terrible. Holding off falling back to sleep for 15 minutes nearly killed me.

The next night I didn’t sleep in my bed, but I still ended up oversleeping badly. This time it was because we visited my grandma, who is in hospital right now. Unfortunately, by the time I got home it was 11:30 pm. At night I am highly dependent on getting a large amount of rest from my core naps. So, sadly enough I slept through my alarms… or should I say became semi-conscious and turned them all off? I don’t know. But I do know that I felt terrible afterwards.

The human brain is a cruel thing. When you try to make (dramatic) changes to your sleeping pattern, the brain doesn’t know what to do, and subsequently doesn’t get enough rest. When this happens, you get tired, as the sleep deprivation is a technique that the brain is using to get you to go back to sleep. With polyphasic sleep you can fight off sleep deprivation, but if you do make mistakes in your schedule and oversleep, you will become even more sleep deprived. This is because the brain thinks “Well, obviously this whole let’s-get-you-tired method of getting enough rest is working, so I better do it to a higher intensity.” Due to this, you may hear many polyphasers (including me) saying that they feel worse when they have had a full nights rest. This is because the brain is trying to make you readjust to your old sleeping habits, and makes the sleep dep symptoms worse when it realizes that it’s working.

Anyway, there is some good news to report. It’s 3:02 am, meaning that I managed to awake after my 11 pm nap. Hopefully I will be able to continue the schedule with no problems (but I doubt it. I have many events coming up soon), but that might be wishful thinking. Still, the fact that I can still get up at 2 am is something to be marveled at. :)

Anyways, better put this awake time to good use. Assignments and revision, here I come.

Raap!d

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3rd Polyphasic Attempt: Day 13

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

You’ve got to be kidding. I awoke at 4:40. Goddamnit! *insert various foul language here*

Seriously, I have been going fantastically for 3 days straight, and then brought right back down. This is my no. 1 problem with polyphasic sleep: For the adaption, it’s relentless. You screw up once, it brings you back 2+ days of adaption, which is really hurts my motivation, making me cold, bitter, and just generally angry at the world. I suppose the issue is that it’s down to you failing, rather than anyone else, making it harder to bear. Still, early days yet. I don’t want to be in limbo much more, and I know it’s going to effect me detrimentally sometime in school, so I better adapt fast.

The main issue is my parents. They are 100% against the idea of polyphasic sleep, and think that it is unscientific/illogical/stupid. Subsequently, they try and keep me away from it (which I just can’t seem to do. Seriously, I can picture myself on my 15th or so polyphasic attempt before getting it right :P ). 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 :[

Anyways, once again I have no idea what happened when I was sleeping. I just woke up at 4:40, with my alarm program turned off and my phone alarms disabled. Why does this keep happening? I really need to get a new method of waking up. I’m thinking the water pistol wake up alarm sounds pretty awesome, but as far as I know, no-one has made it apart from the person in the HowTo video. Bleh, I’m sure I’ll think of something.

Anyways, I haven’t given up yet, that’s for sure. I just hope I can get back on track before I jump off the polyphasic wagon altogether.

Raap!d

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3rd Polyphasic Attempt: Day 12

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

And I’m still alive. Alive and kicking actually. It was a real challenge getting up from my core nap, which was no surprise. I was happy though, as I got up and after about 30 minutes of awake time, I was feeling alive again. I feel like I am making good progress on Everyman right now, as I have not overslept for 3 nights in a row now. It may be wishful thinking to hope that I make it to the end of the week, but it feels more possible than ever before.

I had some serious sleep deprivation today, the most which I have had over this entire attempt. It started in probably the early morning, and progressively got worse. I managed to put off my nap until the appropriate time, but it was a challenge. I suppose I really haven’t been tested by Everyman until now, where I spent most of the morning trying to watch movies or play computer games while poking myself with a pin. I find that a pin works rather well to jolt you back into the land of the living, but you eventually get used to it. To counteract this, I suppose I could poke myself harder, but I don’t really like the idea of that. :)

I was practically narcoleptic in the morning, and I was trying to do anything I could to stay awake. I ran and jumped around, had a cold shower, had some tea (and burnt myself, which in turn probably helped a lot) and forced myself to eat breakfast standing up. That’s the thing about sleep deprivation, it really can’t get you until you are sitting down. Lying down is just asking for it. I started waking up mentally about an hour after my nap, just in time for my first day back at school. Now, being sleep deprived at school is less than fun. People tease you when you micro-sleep, teachers find you annoying, you don’t retain any information, and I thought that this was exactly how today was going to be… but it wasn’t.

Well, it was like that for a bit. We had an assembly in the morning, with many students and teachers welcoming everyone back and speaking motivationally. I’m sure it was very interesting, but I really don’t remember much of it. Luckily I was sitting behind many people, so my micro-sleeps where only detected by one of my friends, who hit me whenever I started to drift off. It’s surprisingly effective.

Apart from the assembly in the morning, I think that I did very well. On Uberman at school, half the time was spent in complete agony trying to stay conscious. Here, it was just a little nagging thing in the back of my mind. So, school went on, and I hid myself away from everyone else at lunchtime to have my nap. I naturally assumed it was going to be poor quality sleep, but it wasn’t. Also, nobody disturbed me. Today was full of surprises :]

So, here I am, updating my blog before doing some more work.. and then it’s off to dreamland for 3 hours. I am desperately wanting to get through this adaptation period, and I know that if I can just resist oversleeping for another 4 more days, then I will have no problem… it’s just a matter of willpower now :]

God, I really don’t want to screw up now…

Raap!d

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3rd Polyphasic Attempt: Day 8

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Well, I’ve passed the one week benchmark, and I am officially on Day 8. Today I made an interesting discovery in terms of my own polyphasic sleeping patterns and habits: Sheer willpower works.

Well, of course this is the case. “After all, isn’t adapting polyphasic sleep just a test of mental strength?” you say. Well, yes, it is. What I didn’t realize was how easily I am able to control my sleep deprivation, and not let it take hold of me. For those who know me personally, you would know that I am a pessimist. For me, every cloud is ominous, with no trace of a silver lining… well, I’m not that bad. I guess I just tend to look on the bad side of things. When I was on Uberman, it was always short lived joy as I knew that with every successful day, chances I will have an unsuccessful day the next.

With Everyman, however, I feel as if I am adapting successfully. Once again, I don’t have a great track record. Out of now 8 days, I have overslept for 3 of them. Still, this is already blowing away my terrible Uberman results. I feel far less tired than I would be on Uberman, and I seem to be waking up from my naps. Because of this, I have become somewhat optimistic. Despite the chance of me failing and becoming severely sleep deprived for a few weeks, I can say quite happily that I am becoming a Polyphaser.

Last night a stayed at my girlfriend’s house. My girlfriend knew about my polyphasic schedule, so that was no problem. However, I couldn’t wake up her mum, who is a light sleeper. Despite her mum being very nice, I don’t like people getting annoyed at me. We looked at possible options:

  1. I could use my phone/laptop alarm as per usual.
  2. I could use my girlfriend’s phone on vibrate to wake me up.
  3. I could use my headphones to play the alarm and wake me up.
  4. I could go sleep outside, far away from waking anyone up.
  5. I could go sleep monophasically.

Well, obviously 1, 4 and 5 were out, as I couldn’t wake others up, it’s becoming winter and terribly cold, and I was not going to give up my polyphasic schedule anytime soon, if I could help it. Her phone was not charged, so the only option was to use headphones. So, I put my headphones on, hooded jumper over the top to make sure it doesn’t fall out. We decided that I would wake her up after I got up, so I sat propped up against the foot of the bed, and went to sleep. I told myself over and over that I must wake up at 2 am, otherwise my girlfriend would hate me…

And what do you know? I woke up :D

I suppose an incentive to wake up is good. Before the core nap I felt terrible, but I still managed to rouse. The room was pitch black, and my alarm wasn’t that loud, so not really my idea circumstances. Shows what motivation does to your willpower. We then watched more movies, and went for an early morning walk. After all of this, I still feel great. I mean, I don’t feel particularly tired, despite sleeping awkwardly and being sleep deprived. It’s surprising what a little motivation can do to your sleeping habits. I was sure I was going to oversleep.

Turns out that I do have a bit of willpower. Hopefully I will be able to make it through tonight, breaking through the adaptation period into the sweet sugary goodness of real polyphasic sleep. :)

Wish me luck,

Raap!d

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2nd Polyphasic Attempt: Day 12 and 13

Friday, January 8th, 2010

It’s a shame that I need to constantly keep apologising for delaying my posts, but this time there was a good reason. The past few days have been far more eventful socially than I had previously expected. On day 12 I had  a small gathering of friends meeting up at my local national park, which was nice. What was not nice however was the fact that I barely managed to get 5 minutes of sleep. Due to the hot weather, friends waking me, distracting me and deserting me, I really couldn’t sleep. I was really tired, but sadly none of them realized that I desperately need the sleep. That was at 5 pm. After our little gathering was over, some of us decided to stay at a friend’s house, and we ended up attempting a walk to a nearby beach. A beach about 8 km away, but due to one friend’s relationship issues we ended up walking to his girlfriend’s house… he said it would take like 15 minutes. It was more like another 5 km. As soon as we arrived, his mum came and picked him up, telling him that he couldn’t hang around. So, this pointless journey took us late into the night, took way too long, but more importantly: I missed my nap. This has been the first nap which I have missed (when being awake that is), which I regret, despite the fact it was rather unavoidable.

So, on day 12 I got about 95 minutes of sleep, which is obviously not healthy for my particular schedule. I fell asleep at about 6:00 am on day 13, and managed to get up 4 hours later. This was caused by the lack of sleep, and partially due to the inappropriate large volume of certain beverages consumed. Woke up with a bit of the fog of brain, but overall pretty good. It is now the end of day 13, and all my other naps have been on schedule and restful.

There are a few things that I have learnt from these past 2 days:

  • Missing naps, while bad for you, is not the end of the world. You can still bounce back if you are adjusted enough.
  • Prolonged exercise has minimal effect on napping.
  • Be careful drinking when polyphasic. It causes you to struggle with nap times, makes it very difficult to get up, and causes oversleeping.

Well, there really isn’t much else to say. Moral of this story: Don’t miss naps. It hurts.

Until tomorrow, Raap!d out.

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2nd Polyphasic Attempt: Day 11

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Today was not a good day, due to me oversleeping for about 4 hours. However, it is real eye opener to another foolish mistake that I make regularly, and has only aided my resolve in not oversleeping. So, today all naps were on time and rather restorative, as per usual, except for an additional nap at 6:30 am. I put my head down on my pillow. Very foolish.

The reason for this crash was because I gave into having an extra nap. I’ve read that some people can add in extra naps when they are tired,  but I find that they only lead to me oversleeping. Also, when I do give in to sleep deprivation and have my extra nap, I almost always oversleep, but tend to wake up if I go to sleep at the nap times. Not only is this a sign of me adjusting, but it shows that I am not used to having any more naps, and that they just pull me back into a monophasic routine, which I obviously don’t want.

So, I plan on not giving in to sleep deprivation. No more extra naps. This way I will cut down on my oversleeping, and even if I do oversleep, at least it is at the correct sleeping times, making the damage to my schedule minimal. Unfortunately, half of the reason for these extra naps is boredom. Now, I love having extra time, but when you are sleep deprived I can barely concentrate, and find that I get bored easily. So, I need to find more things to do each night, which is why I really need some people to talk to, either in real life or online, to keep me from slipping back into sleep.

Anyway, that’s about it for day 11. I feel alright, but slightly headachy, starting from my oversleep. However, I’m pretty sure it’s caused by not enough liquids. Time to get some water =)

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2nd Polyphasic Attempt: Day 10 + Summary

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Here I am, 10 days into the Uberman schedule, which is already half the time of my previous one. And guess what? I’m starting to love it again. Ok, sure, I’m really not a big fan of being exhausted all the time, but it feels like its starting to wear away, and the benefits are showing themselves more and more. My mood has probably increased somewhat, and my difficulties in getting to sleep have completely gone away.

Today I was back at a friend’s house again, although this time we were sleeping in bright rooms. Oh, and by ‘we’ I mean ‘I’, as he decided not to go to sleep for the whole night. With my friend staying up the whole night too, I obviously didn’t oversleep, and was rather entertained playing computer RPG’s. This obviously lead me to the conclusion that more people need to be polyphasic, as we can help out each other while having fun etc etc,  but the downside is that nobody can be bothered. So, hopefully when I adjust people become more interested and give it a try. Until then, I’ll just have to hope my friends will stay up all night with me.

I did oversleep today, which was disappointing, as I was doing so well, making a perfect day turn into an unsuccessful day. I overslept for 2 hours at my 1 pm nap, which is unfortunate as that is when my friend also fell asleep. My alarms either failed to wake me, or failed to work, but I awoke feeling much worse than before, and I have been struggling the rest of the day. Still, I have very high hopes in keeping awake tonight.

Summary:

Well, I said on Day 10 that I would give you some actual data, and graph it so that you can get a better idea on how I am actually going right now. So, here is my latest graph, and my first one for this attempt. Note that the orange line is the target line at three hours alseep. For it to be counted as a successful day, the hours slept line must be under it.

As you can see, after a bit of a bumpy start, my time asleep has been getting smaller and smaller, which is excellent. Unfortunately I can’t seem to find any good free graphing software, so I wont be able to do lines of best fit or anything at the moment. I will try to find one for the 20 day summary though.

I also found it interesting to compare my first Uberman attempt with this one:

As you can see, I am doing far better in this attempt, which is reassuring. Also, it feels like I am adapting quicker than the time before, which just reinforces the notion that the more strict you are with the schedule, the quicker you adapt. This could just be a fluke though, or it could be because I had attempted the sleeping pattern before. Regardless of the reasons of the better results, I am glad to see that I am on the right track. Despite me not being able to adapt as quickly as others, at least I know that I am getting there. Well, that’s about it for today. With some extra luck, hopefully I will be adjusted in the next 10 days. Who knows?

Data

Day Total Hours Slept Target
Mood Tiredness Fog of Brain
Day 1 2.67 3 7 5 4
Day 2 7.5 3 6 8 8
Day 3 9.08 3 4 10 10
Day 4 4.58 3 6 7 6
Day 5 3.42 3 7 6 5
Day 6 4.92 3 6 9 8
Day 7 2 3 8 6 4
Day 8 6 3 7 7 6
Day 9 2.3 3 7 7 5
Day 10 3.83 3 8 8 6

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Polyphasic Sleep: Day 17

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Here I am, still alive on day 17 of the uberman schedule. But today feels dramamtically different from all the others. The main reason is that I did not oversleep.

I promised myself today that I would not oversleep, and by using extreme measures of keeping awake (4 alarms, all lights on in room, sleep on floor with only a pillow and no blankets in clothes, get friend to call me if not responding on Facebook after 40 mins of naptime). Oh, please note that the only other thing that I haven’t tried in getting me up, apart from the ridiculous ideas involving cold water and caffeine, is drinking lots so as to have to wake up after a while to go to the toilet. While this sounds like a good idea, the chance of lucid dreaming is far too high, and I don’t want to accidentally wet myself =P .

So, in the early morning I actually didn’t find it that hard to stay up. I suspect that is probably due to having as many lights on as possible to counteract the melatonin production in my body, and due to my slow adaptation to the uberman schedule. Waking up from my 5am nap was a bit of a struggle, but I found that it was alright after I did a few push-ups (physical excersice does wonders in keeping people awake).

The rest of the day was alright, although I still felt a bit of a slump nearing my 1 pm nap and at the end of the school day. As I am writing this, I can feel that my body craves sleep. The second night is always worse than the first, as I have found out when I was younger, trying not to sleep (got halfway through day 2 and slept irregularly for days and days after) for as long as humanly possible.

I know I keep putting off the writing of the introduction to polyphasic sleep and how to get started blog posts, and I feel the constant need to apologize for this. Half the time I really just don’t have the mental power to start writing about it, and the other half I am too busy and stressed by work to get around to it. Nevertheless, I will start it sometime soon, and judging by the amount of people talking to me about my sleeping schedule and their interest in it, I’d better get writing soon =)

So, that was pretty much the whole day. My mental power wasn’t quite as good, but my motivation is soaring right now. As long as my willpower manages to overcome my lazy subconscious tomorrow, I should be all in the clear.

Well, time to do some work.

Jimmi

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Polyphasic Sleep: Day 16

Monday, November 16th, 2009

I will apologise in advance for this post, as it will be rather short, mainly due to the fact that I can’t be bothered writing the same thing again and again.

It’s rather funny, me and my oversleeping. I really haven’t grasped the concept of actually keeping awake and to schedule, with my motivation sagging when I am tired. The early hours of the morning seems to go far too slowly, and I cannot seem to function well enough to do much work, which is a huge disadvantage. Every morning now that I oversleep, I seem to reach the conclusion that this isn’t working out, I am killing myself (well, I feel like it anyway) and that I should either give up or swap to an Everyman schedule, despite the fact that it would take longer to adapt to. Later on in the day however, when I don’t feel like someone is constantly jabbing me in the head, I feel like everything is working out ok, and that I am all good to continue. I suppose they even themselves out, but I just wish I was more motivated in staying awake in the mornings.

One of my biggest crimes, as I have stated earlier is my habit of taking extra naps, in the hope that it will aid me in functioning properly and reduce the chance of crashing. Unfortunately, it turns out that it does the exact opposite, for every time I wake up, all I can think about is sleeping again, making me either reset my alarms for an extra 25 mins (which are usually set wrong, pm instead of am for example, but this could just be my subconscious being tricky =D) or simply to just lie back down and fall to sleep.

Another bad one is the setting of just one alarm instead of multiple ones. Because my wilpower is so low, the chances of me sleeping through an alarm is astoundingly high, and to counteract this I set as many alarms as possible. Unfortunately, I only have my mobile phone (which can have up to three, one that repeats if not told to shut up) and my computer (which I can set as many as I like, but I dare not set it to loudly as to wake up other household members) to wake me up. An interesting idea that I just had would be to put the lappy on the ground next to me. Then I will definately hear it =)

So, for tonight (and tomorrow morning) I have written a basic list of things that I can do. Unfortunately, they are almost all computer games as my head never seems to like revision or homework at the early hours of the morning if it isn’t essentual, and other activities (mixing, piano, swordfighting, taming cougars etc.) tend to make far too much noise. What I can hope for is that eventually many other friends may join in a similar quest (or just stay up more) to fight against sleep, providing entertainment throughout the night. Until then I will just have to look at Messenger and Facebook sadly, with 0 friends online.

Moving on, today my 1 am sleep was ok, but I felt slightly tired after waking, getting exponentially tired after about 30 mins. At 3 am I took a nap, which ended up as two naps, falling into my trap. Amazingly, I was able to get up and survive for another hour until 5 am, where I had 4 naps in a row, the last one turning into core sleep until about 7:15 when I was awoken. The morning was probably one of the worst that I have ever experienced. I got up utterly exhausted with a huge amount of convincing from my mother, and promptly sat on the couch, staring upwards realising how screwed I am for todays chemistry (redox) and maths (calculus) tests. I managed somehow to find the time to have a nap for about 10 or 15 mins on the couch before going to school (probably around 7:45, although the actual time excapes me), and this nap dramatically helped in keeping me awake, alert and functioning. Sure, I definately wasn’t 100% (more like 50%), but I was up and running. As I got to school, I progressively awoke from my haze, and did my tests. Funnily enough, I am almost certain that I got A’s in both of them, and I bet that if I didn’t get my nap at 7:45 I would have probably gotten a C or worse.

This brings up an interesting conclusion, that being that I am halfway adapted to Uberman, and half Monophasic. I can’t seem to survive without oversleeping, and yet the only sleeping that actually feels restorative is the REM sleep naps. The long ‘core’ naps, that go for over an hour make me feel horrible and groggy on awaking, but the naps make me feel great (even if I start to feel tired an hour later). This is both motivating and worrying. Any evidence that I am actually progressing with my sleeping schedule is fantastic, but will this damage my normal sleeping? Well, I have never heard of anyone yet that can’t readjust back to monophasic sleep, so I think it will be ok. I’m just fearing that the transition between the two schedules back to monophasic could be a bit of a challenge in itself. Then again, I will have melatonin on my side rather than against me, so I think that would be fine.

So yeah, the only other event was that I set my alarm wrong at 5:25 pm (was talking to mum about the DPRK, got carried away) and slept until 7:00, awoken by my nextdoor neighbour (thank you!). It seems strange that I can now oversleep in the afternoon… It never used to happen. Oh well…

Just at this very moment I found out that Uberman polyphasic sleepers take 2 – 4 weeks on average to adjust. Wow, so I am not all that unusual after all. That is rather relieving, as I really need motivation to keep me going with this.

I said this was going to be a short post.. Heh, I guess I lied. See you tomorrow.

Jimmi.

PS. Wow, turns out I have nothing to complain about in comparison to these insane people: http://www.puredoxyk.com/index.php/2009/07/24/uberman-too-wussy-for-you-try-tesla/ – I am so trying that if I can ever get polyphasic sleep to work for me!

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Polyphasic Sleep: Day 13 and 14

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

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!

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