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 [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2009
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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1 Month of polyphasic sleep
9:22 pm
Mon 12
Oct
2009
It’s been one month since I made this website and started messing with my sleep. I can’t say I’m really polyphasic anymore, but I would hardly classify my lifestyle as monophasic either. I’ve become addicted to naps, and take them even when I’ve slept a lot. I also more often than not, stay up all [...]
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Uverywhat?
4:11 am
Sun 11
Oct
2009
Last night I slept a full 9 hours for the first time in about a month. The interesting thing is that I wasn’t feeling at all tired when I fell asleep. I woke up feeling a little nauseous, but extremely well rested. So well rested that I was unable to fall asleep during any of [...]
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Uveryman
4:17 am
Thu 8
Oct
2009
After a couple days of experimenting with the nap-when-tired, approach I’ve started following a kind of mixture between the Everyman and Uberman cycles, which I have lovingly coined, “Uveryman.” Every other night or so, I sleep for 1.5 – 3 hours while also sticking to the regular Uberman naps every 4 hours. Sometimes the nightly [...]
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Polyphasic dilemma
8:16 pm
Mon 5
Oct
2009
This morning, I somehow managed to get out of bed, walk across the room, turn off the alarm, and go back to bed, all in my sleep. I don’t remember any of it, but my roommate saw me. My sleep schedule is so messed up, that when I fall asleep absolutely nothing can wake me [...]
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Death to Uberman!
3:20 pm
Sat 3
Oct
2009
After waking up from my 12:30 am nap, I felt like someone had kicked my head and stuffed my eyes with cat hair. I deliberated until 4:30 whether uberman was really worth it and decided against it — at least for now. There are too many conflicts with my academic schedule and uberman isn’t very [...]
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Polyphasic 3.0 Day 2
3:26 am
Fri 2
Oct
2009
Last night, I tried shifting my nighttime naps to be more frequent. I took a nap every 3 hours, which resulted in an extra nap by sleeping at 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 and then my regular 8:30. That seemed to work pretty well. This time around I’m going to depart from a strict uberman schedule and [...]
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