After doing Uberman for one day (the naps after the first two were actually quite successful) I got up at 2:30 and remembered how much willpower executing uberman demands. I didn’t feel like it so I returned to sleep, turned off my alarm when it went off, and was half an hour late to class (not a big deal as it was my hippie sound synthesis class and they were just listening to music) (more…)
Uberman For a Few Days
7:15 am
Mon 25
Jan
2010
It’s been a while since I updated.
I’m still pretty successfully a more organized person, but lately I’v slipped up. My room is actually kind of messy right now. But nothing as out of hand as it was last quarter. And more importantly, I know where everything is, and I can find stuff quickly. I’m keeping a calendar. It’s all going pretty successfully. (more…)
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Becoming an Organized Person
3:17 am
Thu 17
Dec
2009
How do you eat an elephant? As the moto goes, one bite at a time, but today I discovered that perhaps the more appropriate answer is “swallow the whole frick’n thing” (more…)
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Ode to Customer Service
6:37 pm
Wed 16
Dec
2009
So here’s a new story… My site exploded, I called customer service, and… it worked! …well after the second try…
So the overall process was really frustrating, but I’ve never heard anything positive about customer service and they actually gave me a straight-forward fix. The solution to my problem was so simple that I just have to post it here in case anyone searches it. (more…)
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Winter Break!
11:00 pm
Fri 11
Dec
2009
Another quarter over with and I’m going back home. It’s been awhile so I want to keep my blog alive. I’m back to a primarily monophasic sleep schedule, however the amount of sleep I get in a day varies drastically from 3-15 hours. Just wanted to wish any readers happy holidays and all that. I plan to revamp my website over break a bit to get some of the CS stuff I’ve been working on during the quarter up.
I’m also going to start a new project (more…)
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Being Nocturnal
4:57 pm
Sun 8
Nov
2009
Lately I’ve become monophasic only to realize that I’m unable to go to bed before 5:00 am. The result is that I’m almost entirely nocturnal. Yesterday I woke up at 5:00pm after having gone to bed at 7 am and the sun had already set. It was a little disorienting but fun. Unfortunately my classes tomorrow morning are in fact during the day so I’m going to have to switch to a more feasible schedule (more…)
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A Night of Dreams in 1.5 hours
1:30 am
Tue 27
Oct
2009
Over the last couple days I’ve switched to a schedule that is more similar to Everyman. I take either 4.5-6 hours a night or sleep two 1.5-3 hour blocks — one at night, one during the day. I still take 20 minute naps whenever I’m tired.
Last night, I slept very little so I decided to take a 3 hour nap after lunch. Soon images began to spin through my head. I had a very, very long dream that seemed to stretch for days. It felt longer than a typical dream during monophasic sleep. Then, All of a sudden, my eyes flashed open and I was awake. (more…)
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Ode to Night Curtain
8:19 am
Tue 20
Oct
2009
It’s really really sweet to be able to work with the light on. I had no trouble staying awake all night even though I had pulled an all-nighter yesterday as well. And now that the sun’s coming up and would normally make my 8:30 nap difficult, I can switch off the light in my half and the curtain blocks out all of the sunlight from the window so that I can take a nice deep nap. (more…)
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Night Curtain
7:29 am
Sun 18
Oct
2009
Yesterday, my roommate and I installed a curtain that divides the room in half so that I can have my light on while he sleeps and his half of the room stays completely dark. I’m really excited about it. I’ll be able to concentrate better with the light on, and during the day, I can block out light from the window to take naps. (more…)
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Nap delusions
1:28 am
Wed 14
Oct
2009
I’ve been following an uberman schedule for the past 40 hours. Today at 5:30pm, I was especially tired and decided to take a 1.5 hour nap. I turned the alarm off in my sleep and at 7:30, my girlfriend came to wake me up. I had been sleeping so soundly that I confused the dream world and the real world. For the first 15 minutes after I was up, I was pretty sure that Transformers or some similar intelligent machines had taken over the world. (more…)
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