Francesco Georg's Blog

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…)

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…)

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 night. None of this is really organized enough to call a sleep “schedule.” I’d classify my current sleep pattern as “in college.” (more…)

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 core sleep gets split up into two 1.5 hour blocks. It all depends on how I feel. (more…)

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 girlfriend-friendly. Believe it or not, I don’t actually enjoy feeling like crap. (more…)