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 [...]
Category Archives: Polyphasic
Polyphasic 3.0 Day 1
11:14 pm
Wed 30
Sep
2009
I fell asleep from 4:30 am until 7:30 am. Off to a great start… I’ve really gotten used to my nap times now. I get really tired a few minutes before and I pretty much always fall asleep. It makes for a very relaxing study break to completely reboot.
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Polyphasic 3.0
1:23 pm
Tue 29
Sep
2009
After several days of somewhat disorganized but refreshing sleep, I’m ready to get back on the schedule. On top of sleeping at night, I’ve also been taking naps during the day. Most of them have been successful, but the 8:30 pm nap is really difficult to take, because there is a general high level of [...]
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Last Monophasic Day
12:44 pm
Sat 26
Sep
2009
I’m going to make today my last monophasic day. I slept about 7-8 hours last night. I just took a 10 minute nap and I feel fantastic. I’m going to switch back to Uberman soon but I can’t decide whether to start immediately or have one more full night’s sleep. Regardless, I’m going to take [...]
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Monophasic Day 2
9:58 am
Fri 25
Sep
2009
Ughhhh… Mornings stink.
Last night I stayed up with friends to watch a movie. We started watching at 12:00 and I was pretty tired. When 12:30 hit (my nap time) I got seriously tired. I toughed it out and tried to stay awake, and after about 20 minutes I felt fine, like I hit a second [...]
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Uber-restart
2:21 pm
Thu 24
Sep
2009
Last night I woke up to find that I had passed out for two hours on my chair without even knowing how I had gotten there. As long as I’m conscious, I have the willpower to force myself awake, but I’m starting to pass out and not even notice how it happened… There’s not a [...]
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Uberman Day 13
7:31 pm
Wed 23
Sep
2009
Well, as expected, it didn’t last. Last night I turned the alarm off in my sleep and slept 2 hours. Ever since, I’ve been feeling sub-par. I really had trouble staying awake in class today. I can’t connect the ups and downs to anything that I’m doing… it’s completely unpredictable. My body doesn’t seem to [...]
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Uberman Day 12
7:09 pm
Tue 22
Sep
2009
I find it fascinating that as soon as I relaxed and told myself that it was ok to sleep in by accident, I stopped accidentally sleeping in. Ever since I had essentially given up, Uberman has suddenly been working. Last night, I automatically woke up before the alarm went off on each of my naps. [...]
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Uberman Day 11
6:02 am
Tue 22
Sep
2009
So it turns out College isn’t as structured as I thought. While certainly better than vacation, there are random meetings and things that pop up, and people tend to assume that you are free at 12:00 or 4:00 pm. It’s usually too weird to explain polyphasic sleep to anyone who asks, so I often dodge [...]
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Uberman Day 10
7:53 am
Mon 21
Sep
2009
Yesterday was spent packing, moving, and unpacking to school. At this point Uberman has completely fallen apart. None of my afternoon naps were productive because I was traveling or with friends, and there’s stuff going on all the time. I woke up from my 12:30 am nap at 6:00… d’oh! I tried setting my alarm [...]
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