tiistai 30. marraskuuta 2010

Day Twelve

Core
Sleeptime 2:50-6:05
REM: 5 min
Deep: 75 min

Bizarre core. Again I failed to wake up straight to Zeo's alarm, and it was Immortal's blasts that once again woke me up. I'm glad that my alternative alarm is so effective, but why am I constantly needing it? Almost no REM and while there were plenty of deep, even that was a lower number than lately. I tried to go to sleep 2:30, but I couldn't fall asleep right away so I didn't even get the extended core that I'm curious to see the effects off.

Next two naps should work like a clockwork though. Expecting 30+ minutes of REM.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:05-8:30
REM: 20 min
Deep: 0 min

Don't look so surprised. Nothing to comment about this anymore. Except that my dream was nightmarish again now that I remember it. Really, what's up with that?

I hope that my next nap is as predictable as this.

I wonder when these moments of fatigue go away completely. It's nothing bad that I can't handle and it's relatively close to sleeping time, but still I'd like to get rid of these.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:40-12:05
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

Yeah, it was pretty much as expected. That said I'm currently sleeping so consistently through alarm that I'm going to... wait for it... change the alarm sound! The exciting world of Everyman...

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:20-17:30
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

Another unsurprising nap. I might as well cut this if it doesn't get useful. Still, it's relatively early days so maybe I should just give it more chances. I need to take the last nap a bit early today by the way.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 21:35-21:50
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Another quite useless nap. I'm not exactly sure if the numbers went like that, but it was short nap again with max of 5 mins of REM.

Total sleep 4h 30 min
REM: 45 min
Deep: 75 min

A weaker day in terms of numbers today, but I actually felt quite good except for the morning.

Third successful day in a row after that dip in form.

maanantai 29. marraskuuta 2010

Day Eleven

Core
Sleeptime: 3:10-6:10
REM: 20 min
Deep: 95 min

Amazing amount of deep in such a short space. I overslept through my first two alarms, but the Immortal one finally got me up. I went to bed 2:40 and if I had fallen asleep immediately, that might've been naturally long enough match for fighters. All in all this core left us with big enough numbers to do records today, that deep is already record in itself.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:05-8:30
REM: 25 min
Deep: 0 min

25 min of sleep, all of it REM, beautiful. Great stuff. Only thing that is lacking is routine, but when I've put in couple of weeks of this good streak, I'm sure it's going to get better.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:40-12:00
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0

The usual stuff.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:10-17:30
REM: 5 min
Deep: 5 min

A bit of all types of sleep. I kind of like it.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 22:20-22:30
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

I keep having trouble with this nap. Still, at least I got a bit sleep in it as well again.

Total sleep 4h 15 min
REM: 70 min
Deep 100 min

Numberwise it's another impressive day, but it was still the same old story with occasional tiredness, especially during the night.

sunnuntai 28. marraskuuta 2010

Day Ten

Core
Sleeptime: 3:10-6:00
REM: 45 min
Deep: 75 min

Well my core has certainly changed. It's much more effective in terms of REM. I woke up after 30-minute phase, that said I woke up to my computer's alarm, so I had slept through Zeo and phone. I had no recall about the dream. I guess I should keep the SmartWake on but just give myself a bit more time for the core. I guess 3h 10 mins would be the perfect lenght. Setting the alarm 3h 30 min later and giving 40 minute wake period for Zeo sounds fine as well. Basicly it means that I need to go to bed earlier, around 2:30. But I wouldn't mind that, I usually get tired a little early as well.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:05-8:30
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

This day has started pretty well. My body still objects on getting up, but this time I got up without hitting snooze once. Just one nap in and I've already raked in over an hour of REM. That might be just a side-effect of recent oversleeps, or it could be a sign of cycles really resetting themselves to correspond with my schedule. Only time will tell.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:05-11:30
REM: 20 min
Deep: 0 min

God damn, this is solid stuff! We're already way over my daily REM record under Everyman. I wouldn't mind catching another 10 minutes from evening naps.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:15-17:30
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Why these later naps are alway shorter than the first two? I wonder whether I'd had more REM if I'd slept a little longer. That said, I've got plenty today so I'm not sad that I didn't get it now.

Nap 4
Sleeptime 22:20-22:30
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

This nap is still short and pretty useless. Well it did refresh me a bit, but I still suppose that I should have REM here as well.

Total sleep 4h 5 min
REM: 85 min
Deep: 75 min

Overall great numbers, but I have to say that there was a lot of tired moments during the day, including my current feel. I'll head to bed a bit early tonight to test out the optimal core length.

lauantai 27. marraskuuta 2010

Day Nine

efore I go for the core sleep of Day Nine, which will be shorter than normal (I got already some deep in the oversleep earlier, so I won't hopefully be needing that much of it anymore), I'll write up some thoughts about my naptimes.

Generally, the morning feels pretty good. In the days I've felt good right after waking from Core I've felt I could've done slightly longer first phase, but that's not really important and I'll be glad that it's short when I wake up dead. Second phase is pretty much the same, that said I've never had any trouble with the noon nap so I'm guessing my waking phase is pretty much correct.

The third nap is the ankward one. I'm usually tired a bit before it, but once it comes the time to do it, I'm no longer tired. So I'm postponing it a bit. I'll move it to 17-17:30 spot. It's not perfect but as this is Everyman, I can move it around a bit when I need. I'm not probably fully adapted yet with oversleeps and all, but I'm feeling good enough and I could live like this for the rest of my life. That's a statement of how mild adaptation has felt for me. As I have great dream recall as well I have zero desire to go back monophasic.

On to the evening nap, it's a bit ankward as well, I struggle to fall asleep (except today) and it leaves the last phase a bit long in the end end, I usually am already tired around 1.30-2 am. So I'll shift it a little later as well.

So my new, changed schedule aims for this:
Core: 3 - 5.30-6 as normal
Nap 1: 8-8.30
Nap 2: 11.30-12
Nap 3: 17-17.30
Nap 4: 22-22.30

Yeah... We'll see how that works.

Core: 4:20-7:30

Crapcrapcrap! Another oversleep. I've been set back quite a bit. This is not as bad considering my core was shortened, but what is happening to me? Now my next nap will come pretty much at the phase of very little wake-time.

Where's my discipline is the important question. The worst part here is that now I had all three alarms, yet they failed me. It will take a few days to recover from the damage that this had caused. I really hate myself for conditioning myself to stay in bed after the alarm, that is causing me so much trouble now. I'm degenerating back to the mess I was in the original Everyman attempts. I guess it's not that bad, I guess three oversleeep in nine days is not terrible especially when my totals haven't been changed that much, but still, at this pace I'll be back in the proverbial stone age if I don't get a grip of myself.

So now the plan is tightening up the naps again, so that the only problem there can be is the core. 20 minute naps rarely fail anyone, but longer than that can get you tired.

Now that I've calmed down a bit it doesn't feel as terrible. I overslept 1,5h in the evening and 1,3h for this core, but I was set to shorten my core by 1,5h anyway so in the end I've been sleeping only 1,5h too much. As the times that I've slept are quite close to my normal sleeping times, it won't probably be as bad as it seems. But I still suspect that this causes some extra tiredness and requires some extra effort. But I know now that I can't let my guard down even after plenty of days of success. I guess I need to have 15 succesful days in a row before I drop an alarm.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:15-8:25
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Supershort nap, mostly due to me waking up early. It was refreshing though.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:35-12:00
REM: 10 min
Deep: 0 min

At least I'm not as tired as I was anymore. Still, getting up was pretty fucked up.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:20-17:30
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Well this day has been tough when you watch those REM-numbers throughout the day. At least I got up after only one snooze.

I had this idea of putting my alarms more closely together to force myself awake. Also I could put my phone into another room to really force myself up. I'll wake up to that sound, there's no doubt about that, even if I'm in another room. At the moment I have slightly too much time to get up.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 22:10-22:30
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min
All the naps today were similar. I guess that five minutes helps a bit, but I'm a bit tired now and overall the day was pretty miserable. Morning's oversleep seems ancient history by now and I feel that I'll do a lot better tomorrow. Hopefully I got back to at least getting the first two naps right.

The most important thing is though to get proper data about the core, whether a change in lenght is needed.

torstai 25. marraskuuta 2010

Day Eight

Core
Sleeptime: 3:00-6:00
REM: ???
Deep: ???

My Zeo botched up the data so there is only stuff from the last half an hour. I was totally dead upon waking up as well. I'd say that the dynamics of my core has changed, I've been needing full 3 hours lately. I could've really used the data now.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:05-8:30
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

Nice nap, but I'm really shooting myself in the leg with my constant snoozing. I've set Zeo's snooze to go off every minute, so it's not like I fall asleep while it's on when I'm constantly turning to snooze. That said, I'm conditioning myself NOT to get up as the alarm goes off which is the backwards thing to do.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:45-12:05
REM: 20 min
Deep: 0 min

Perfect nap. I can safely say that some of my cycles have been reprogrammed by my brains. It seems core has changed due to that as well. I guess what I'm going to do next is shorten the core even further. I could go longer as well, but I don't think that's the right way to go. As it stands Smartwake haven't been finding good spots to wake me up lately from the core, because the spot where my deep sleep transitions to more REM oriented sleep is too early. I don't really know, perhaps I should give it a couple of days more. The problem is that the last night's data was skewered by Zeo so I don't know how my cycles went. I guess I'll wait it out for another night before changing anything.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 17:00-17:10
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

A little tough nap again, I shifted it ten minutes later but that didn't help. Luckily, I did catch a little sleep, but it was all light.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 21:40-23:40
REM: 10 min
Deep: 30 min

Well I'm disgusted. Staying in bed after alarms finally caught up with me. I made the mistake of not putting any alternate alarms on. I don't remember whether Zeo went off, but it wasn't enough to get me up. I woke up according to it. I sort of remember it, but not well. Terrible oversleep and a lesson in humility for me. I guess I'll do another core not to fuck up too much my schedule. I'll aim to got to sleep at 4 am. and to get up normally.

I won't bother with the totals, the whole day is messed up.

keskiviikko 24. marraskuuta 2010

Day Seven

Core
Sleeptime: 3:00-6:00
REM: 25 min
Deep: 80 min

Looks very familiar, those numbers. I guess I could've been more tired when I woke up.

Actually, relatively to other days, this phase felt very good. Still not up there with the rest of the day, but fine nonetheless. I can live with this.

Nap 1:
Sleeptime: 8:10-8:30
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

This went as usual. A fine nap, I didn't remember my dream though, which makes me doubt it was a nightmare. I usually remember those.

Nap 2:
Sleeptime: 11:33-11:53
REM: 20 min
Deep: 0 min

This pleases me very much. It was the perfect nap - REM from start to finish and natural awakening 7 minutes before the alarm. Well, except for one thing - another nightmare (it isn't night though, so is it daymare?). This time fighter jet does a kamikaze on me and my sister. Dying feels pretty bad. Having perfect REM on the lunch nap is very encouraging.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 16:35-17:00
REM: 0 min
Deep: 10 min

Not an easy nap to get up from, but this as well as others had more restorative sleep than usually. My combined total for the day is now 150 minutes out of 245 minutes, that's about 60 %. It's not as big of an improvement though that I would've expected, with monophasic the distribution were roughly half and half.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 21:45-22:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Zeo lost immeadiately all data so I don't exactly remember how it was on this one. I didn't get up before 22.30 - laid around in the bed awake or half-awake.

Total sleep 4h 20 min
REM: 65 min
Deep: 90 min

All in all very nice day. Getting up is still a bit iffy, but my overall feel has improved and I would say that I'm adapting very well. I'd say that there's no big improvements left any more.

tiistai 23. marraskuuta 2010

Day Six

Core
Sleeptime 3:05-5:45
REM: 5 min
Deep: 80 min

I would've been happy with slightly bigger numbers, but I guess that's fine. I'm still showing worrying signs of having difficulty getting up. I need to stop that, else that starts just to look like my previous Everyman attempt.

Nap 1
Sleeptime 8:05-8:30
REM: 20 min
Deep: 0 min

Another REM-nap, another nightmare. I mean, this was just about our toilet breaking down, but the dark atmosphere was there. There's something different about this nap overall. I had half-lucid moment during this phase couple of days ago, but I was so scared even when I knew it was a dream that I kept screaming to wake up. I still would hope to mantain lucidity through the short phase of light sleep early and get a WILD here, just to see if my conscious mind could stem the tide.

Nap 2
Sleeptime 11:35-12:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Standard nap for this spot. Still no greater amounts of REM.

Nap 3
Sleeptime 16:45-17:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Same old stuff continues for these later naps. I felt pretty refreshed considering how short it was.

Nap 4
Sleeptime 21:40-22:10
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

I almost forgot the nap again and since I got to bed late, I gave myself ten minutes of extra time. That wasn't really needed, as I fell asleep pretty much straight away. Nothing exciting here overall.

Total sleep 4h 15 min
REM: 40 min
Deep: 80 min

The day was very similar to others around it. I'm not happy about the REM, and I'm feeling a little low on energy at times, but this is still very bearable. Perhaps that's keeping me from adapting further? Then again, sixth day is still relatively early and I had that small oversleep to set me back as well.

maanantai 22. marraskuuta 2010

Day Five

Core
Sleeptime: 2:55-6:05
REM: 25 min
Deep: 85 min

Another Core that got overstreched and I almost needed the third alarm to survive this. For some reason the 2½ hours haven't been enough for getting all the REM I need. I wonder if I should add 20 minutes to my core to sort it out. If this happens tomorrow, I really need to start tweaking this. Plenty of deep sleep at least. I've consistently gotten nearly the same amount of deep than with monophasic. My problem with tonight's core was REM-phase that was uncalled for. I didn't have deep for half an hour because of that.

Considering the tough spot I woke up into, I feel pretty well now. My head has pretty much cleared and I'm glad to see that I didn't write any nonsense.

Nap 1
Sleeptime 8:10-8:30
REM: 15 min
Deep 0 min

Core and the first nap are the only constants so far within this schedule. Every morning I've had REM here, but frankly every morning it's also been nightmare. Today's was the slightest, my cat attacked me relentlessly, but still, it's a nightmare. I wonder what's that all about? I'd say this is set up to be my toughest day so far. I was really tired upon waking up from the core and that repeated for nap one. I snoozed for five minutes (I have Zeo set to alarm again in a minute so I don't even get back to sleep, just ride out the initial urge to stay in bed), until my phone's alarm went off and forced me to get up to shut it down.

Only 5 minutes more of REM and I will already have had more REM than yesterday. Already matching my worst day in terms of REM. My best REM day obviously was day two. I need 35 minutes more in my last three naps to match that. There's a chance for that if I only start having REM in my later naps and get sufficient amount of sleep on them, which I doubt will happen today though.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:35-12:00, 12:30-13:30
REM: 15 min
Deep: ? min, presumably 0 min

First mistake in a while. I'm pretty certain I overslept. I didn't get up until 13.30. I was tired and had the usual problem of enjoying the warmth much. Last point I remember of being awake was 12:30. So perhaps I was a little under hour asleep. I'm split whether I should cut one nap or not. Then again, there's still enough time until the next nap so keeping the schedule will be best probably. I estimated the amount of REM, I didn't have the sensor on for the second nap. In other words, I remembered a dream.

That was completely unnecessary. I'm not as gutted as on Uberman, but still, I need to start getting up right away. I snoozed first for half an hour and then finally apparently fell asleep. But yeah, it isn't as drastic as on Uberman. Only naps that were working anyway so far were core and the first nap, and I don't think this should affect too much of my adaptatin. It might set me back a day or two, but nothing more. I'm not too angry because I have been still very fucntional under this schedule, so oversleep streching the adaptation is not too bad. Once again oversleeping has set me to incoherent babbling mode, so I'll quit now.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 16:40-17:00
REM: 5 min
Oversleep was done and dusted by this time and I got another decent nap.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 21:45-21:55
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Very short nap. I went to sleep a little late considering my mental state, but still managed to calm down relatively quick. Apparently there just wasn't much sleep left for today because I woke up 5 minutes before the alarm. Still, refreshing stuff.

Total sleep 5h 25 min
REM: 65 min
Deep: 85 min

I predicted this would be my toughest day after first nap and I was correct. First oversleep and none of the naps were easy to get up from. The weather just keeps getting colder which is another challenge. Makes just staying in the bed all the more tempting.

Day Four

Core
Sleeptime 3:05-6:10
REM: 10 min
Deep: 90 min

Amazing, I was cat hair away from my deep sleep record, which was done while being on monophasic schedule. In terms of of deep sleep I'm already adjusted therefore, I'd think.

I was really tired for this part of the sleep. All of my alarms went off, actually the Zeo had been on like minutes - the calmer alarm sound is forgiving and it was not enough when I had to be waken from deep sleep. Immortal blasted from my speakers and that's what eventually got me off my bed tp the computer.

This phase actually makes good use of the fears ni this same. Now even if he scores a couple an d ja is great. Too bad comptetition doesn't seem much, seeemed to make radical killing material. They overlift their material on the deep sleep as I really got going. This was one of the top games for Defoe, grea impact from the pecnyt

Flanders is getting to besters shape, joten Cesc's nap is closing down. Next it will be 8:00 play, where I again did nothing much they managed to not do weird shit. I wonder jow clean this text is, makes me wonder about sacrifices the other goalies are much do to OZ. Hell, I actually even managed it without help of the others. I really think this should be done from that angle.

But I really, really was messed up and super-groggy. You won't know it because I heavily edited that passage above after waking up from first nap, but I'm going to share with you the craziest sentences. It's similar to the sleep-writing I did during earlier attempts.

"Smartwake had not had a proper moment to introduce us, despite there being a spot which seems complete break would change anything."
Okay, towards the end of it I completely lost the plot. I have no idea what I'm trying to say:
"This phase actually makes good use of the fears ni this same. Now even if he scores a couple an d ja is great. Too bad comptetition doesn't seem much, seeemed to make radical killing material. They overlift their material on the deep sleep as I really got going. This was one of the top games for Defoe, grea impact from the pecnyt

Flanders is getting to besters shape, joten Cesc's nap is closing down. Next it will be 8:00 play, where I again did nothing much they managed to not do weird shit. I wonder jow clean this text is, makes me wonder about sacrifices the other goalies are much do to OZ. Hell, I actually even managed it without help of the others. I really think this should be done from that angle."

I gotta say that I love "radical killing material", and "Flanders getting to shape". For some reason there's parts about Arsenal - Tottenham from yesterday. I guess "I wonder jow clean this text is" is me trying to ask from myself whether I'm writing well. It's weird cause while I did know that I had trouble writing, I didn't realize that I went complete apeshit in the end. It just seems that my thoughts go all over the place midsentence.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:10-8:30
REM: 20 min
Deep: 0 min

Okay, now I'm sure that this nap is my nightmare nap! Another one of those. I was so terrified, that I actually became lucid because I couldn't take it anymore.

But yeah, I've kept thinking about the first nap. Just now it occured to me that could I have fallen asleep after writing that nonsense above? I don't remember falling asleep, or noticing anything like that, but I remember doing awfully little during that phase. If I can write shit like that without realizing it, I don't have much trust left for my brain. Then again, two hours isn't that long time. It must've taken some time from me to write that much text anyway, especially if I were struggling. Then I played some NHL, but as I simulated most of my matches I don't have exact knowlegde of how long I played. I guess it can't be very significant if I can't remember it.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:40-12:00
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

All light sleep here, which basicly means that it was an useless nap - that said, it was refreshing to some extent.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 16:35-17:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

I went to bed a bit early because I was worried about falling asleep. The extra time helped me to fall asleep, though in the end the nap was even a tad long, meaning I was groggy upon waking up. Not much of useful sleep in here.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 21:35-21:50
REM: 10 min
Deep: 0 min

According to Zeo, I actually woke up during this nap, but I doubt it, so I added just to the REM tally that 5-minute segment. It doesn't make much difference anyway.

Total sleep: 4h 25 min
REM 45 min
Deep 90 min

Solid stuff today. I felt terrible in the morning, but now at night I'm feeling fine. We'll see when the REM numbers start improving, I think they at least should start to at some point. It might take some days though.

sunnuntai 21. marraskuuta 2010

Day Three

Core
Sleeptime 3:10-5:55
REM: 15 min
Deep: 90 min

Daaamn! I feel okay considering it's the first nap and that is of course best amount of deep sleep so far.

I'm definitely tired, but not nearly as much as I expected. If every morning were this easy, I could easily handle it.

Nap 1
Sleeptime 8:05-8:30
REM: 20 min
Deep: 0 min

I'm two for two in shortening the sleeping amounts for today. This nap was still just what's expected of it, nice chunk of REM, just shorter than yesterday. It also seems to be some kind of token nightmare spot for me, I got another one of those, and I really have not had nightmares in years before starting this. Now this was already the third.

Nap 2
Sleeptime 11:45-12:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

I struggled a bit in getting asleep, and was uncharacteristically tired upon waking up. Kind of surprising that this nap got actually worse than in the previous days. The next nap is the one I've struggled most so far, so maybe that gets a bit easier?

Nap 3
Sleeptime 16:55-17:00 & 17:10-17:15
REM: 0 min
Deep: 5 min

I really struggled on this one, so I gave myself a bit of extra time. That didn't help much though.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: Missed nap

Weird. I shorten my sleeps and a result is two bad naps at the end of the day. Granted, I was heavily distracted, but still, it's a bit unexpected result. I hope I won't be totally destroyed tomorrow because of this. That said, I haven't been badly messed up so far during this adaptation.

Makes me wonder about my wake phase lenghts and overall about the whole 4 nap schedule. This was definitely not something I expected at this point. I don't know what's in for me next. I guess I'll just continue as planned. Despite missed nap, I consider this day still succesful, even if not perfect adherence. That nap made the rest of the day tough though, at the moment I'm starting to get slightly tired and there's still three hours to go until core.

Total sleep 3h 35 min
REM: 40 min
Deep: 95 min

Deep is very satisfying and probable reason for struggling to sleep, but still, there's not nearly enough REM here. I guess that's the sleep deprivation that is needed to re-wire my brains as they should be, or I'd hope. I still love how easy this is to handle. I wonder why my original Everyman attempt failed so spectacularly.

perjantai 19. marraskuuta 2010

Everyman Day 2

Or what should I call it? It's based off standard 3 hour + 3x20 min everyman, just motified to correspond more with my natural cycles. In a dreamworld it still would mean that I get a similar amount of sleep.

Core

Sleeptime 3:00 - 6:05
REM: 10 min
Deep: 70 min

We keep the deep sleep and get a little less REM. I didn't get up when the alarm originally went off, I kept sleeping for a while as you can see. I don't really think that as an oversleep though, my cores are supposed to be 2½-3h after all.

Nap 1
Sleeptime 7:50-8:30
REM: 35 min
Deep: 0 min

This seems to be the money nap. I got to bed a tad too early, but I don't mind - If I'm going to have that much REM, why not take it? It's not like I'm productive or anything anyway during that first phase. At least yet. It was another nightmare though, I tried to protect my cats from a beast and ended up surprised by some teens, one of whom got behind me and cut my neck open with a knife. I'm messed up.

Kind of streching things as well. Only one nap into the day and my sleep-tally is already up to 3 h 45 min. Still if I average the supposed 3x20 min from the rest of the naps I haven't even slept five hours. I'd also say it's likely that I'll have only 10-15 minutes nap or naps today.

Nap 2
Sleeptime 11:25-12:00
REM: 25 min
Deep: 0 min

Again a bit longer nap than I originally intended because I went early to bed. Still I wake up straight from the REM so what could be better? I need only 15 minutes of REM in the remaining two naps to equal with yesterday.

Nap 3
Sleeptime 16:55-17:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Struggled to sleep despite being tired and going to bed well ahead of time. Possible cause is the lenghty naps, but I also had distractions. Compared to yesterday though I didn't lose much REM.

Nap 4
Sleeptime 21:40-22:00
REM: 0 min
Deep: 5 min

I woke up from deep sleep, but wasn't that tired despite that.

Total sleep 4h 45 min
REM: 75 min
Deep: 75 min

Similar day to the first. Nothing special going on. I'm still feeling fairly good for the most of the day. When I start to feel good after core and the first nap, that's when I'm starting to adapt, I'd think. But yeah, I really need the tighten things up, aim is to have 4 hours of sleep, not almost five. I think 4½ hours should be the absolute maximum. Those slight oversleeps really add up, but I don't think they matter too much at this point.

Plan for tomorrow:
Core: Get up when the Smartwake kicks in. Almost always after 2.5 hours.
Nap 1: I'm probably zombie in first wake phase, not able to function much, but I still need to wait it out as close to 20 minutes from waking as possible. I really enjoy that long REM, but aborting it probably will help to get more from next nap.
Nap 2: I still will be a little tired, and should have no trouble falling asleep for the nap. I can give myself a bit more time, but still under 30 minutes for the nap.
Nap 3: This is where I've struggled on both days, but restricting sleep during morning and noon should make me a bit tired. Still, I'd give myself a bit more time to fall asleep, of course taking into account how tired I am and the possible distractions.
Nap 4: Final nap is tough as well and I should give myself plenty of time to catch this nap as well. Almost always heavily distracted nap.

Of course in the long run I can't keep giving myself long times to fall asleep, as it would kind of beat the purpose of this whole thing. My hope and expectation is though that once my body adapts and gets used to things, it can fall asleep for the naps fairly easily. But for the first weeks I'll just aim to getting everything right, regardless of how hard I have to attempt to get asleep for those naps.

Everyman Day One

Core
Sleeptime: 3:05-5:45
REM: 35 min
Deep: 70 min

It went pretty much as expecter, mostly deep from this one and very resful nap overall. That said, I feel very tired and especially cold as hell right now.

Nap 1
Sleeptime: 8:00-8:30
REM: 25 min
Deep: 0 min

My first thought upon waking up was that I had a tad too long nap, as I felt somewhat heavy. My second though was a relief that I had gotten out of a fucked up dream. My third thought was reversal of the third as I had hit a great 25-minute REM. In fact it made me thought whether my nap should\ve been longer to accomodate my REM, but we'll see about that after I've adapted or seem to struggle with adaptation. I don't mind sleeping longer if it gives me more REM, I love that. For some reason, during this adaptation sleeping longer has so far caused no problems. Previously I had found PureDoxyk's claim that 20 minutes work better than 30-long naps, but this time I seem to go fine with even longer. I guess it's up to REM lenght.

It's only the first day, but I'm already liking my schedule.

Nap 2
Sleeptime: 11:35-12:05
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

Well had everything gone exactly as planned I would've gotten another REM, but you can't win them all I guess. I was lucky by the way as I forgot to put both Zeo's and my computer's alarm on. I luckily woke up to phone's alarm. I guess all that that nap achieved was made me more tired.

Nap 3
Sleeptime: 16:35-17:00
REM: 5 min
Deep: 0 min

I guess these naps will have more than just a moment of REM upon falling asleep once I adapt better. I'm not that tired though. All in all, the first day with this schedule has been great. I have felt a bit heavy at times, but for the most part very refreshed. Only waking up from the core causes some problems.

I just realized that he big gap doesn't make that much sense between third and fourth nap, so I slimmed it down half an hour. I'm going to sleep 21:30 now. The longest wake phase is the last, as it should be, I guess.

Nap 4
Sleeptime: 21:45-22:00
REM: 15 min
Deep: 0 min

According to Zeo I truly got 15 min of REM which I can be happy with, but it just felt really light, barely sleeping. Still, it refreshed me. I really struggled to fall asleep this time, it's something I should note and take care upon this nap tomorrow.

Day 1 of Everyman totals:
Total sleep 4h 20 min
REM: 85 min
Deep: 70 min

Great first day, numbers look promising and I feel only mildly tired. Only bad moment was waking up from the core, after that it was easy. No time to get arrogant though.

keskiviikko 17. marraskuuta 2010

Day 3 - Uberman Botched Pretty Fast

Day 3.1
Overslept heavily. I set off the alarms and got back to bed, what was I thinking?!! It was just very bad discipline, that's all. Well, there's always another attempt. It's just not my cup of tea to shift during the winter.

So I'll be shifting to Everyman. Uberman was always going to be just one shot. I'll have to figure out what is the best schedule and where the core sets itself, but that we'll see.

I could of course just set it to whatever I need, but I think that following natural urges is better. Around this would probably be good:
Core 4-7
Nap I 11.30
Nap II 16.00
Nap III 22.00

That would be nowhere near perfect, but it would be good enough. But like I said, I'll probably follow natural urges as much as possible. Of course there's the urge of wanting to go back to sleep right away. In short, I'll try to hit the first nap around eleven. With those times that I just wrote, every waking up should be much easier than 2 am. and 6 am. wake-ups with Uberman. BTW I'm planning to use SmartWake on my core naps, as I usually get all my deep during the first 2½ hours. No need to sleep anything extra. Looking my baseline data made me feel like adding a fourth nap would be good, but I don't know, I never seemed to get to sleep for the fourth. Or rather I was late for every nap and in the end they spreaded out more like three naps.

Oh, and by the way I catched nice REM-phase from after oversleep "nap" (rather extension to the oversleep), where I used Zeo. During the oversleep I didn't have it on. Kind of gutted for the whole ordeal, I would've wanted to go on longer. I'm just not ready yet to be an Uberman.

I guess I should have some system to block myself from doing any decisions just after waking up, especially during the night. People have said that keeping yourself in the middle of something is a good way and it probably is, but I still doubt that with my discipline I'd care. I've skipped stuff just to oversleep.

I'll update the rest of the day here later as it goes on.

Nap 1
Naptime: 8:55-9:30
REM: 10 min
Deep 0 min

Okay, I got the schedule all figured out. Today's naps will be all over the place obviously, but tomorrow will be the official first day with this schedule:
Core 3-6 Smartwake
Nap 1 8-8.30
Nap 2 11.30-12
Nap 3 16.30-17
Nap 4 22-22.30

It's kind of paradoxical that four naps is at the same time too much and too little. At least I'd think. Baseline data suggested that I get tons of REM and Deep sleep. Deep isn't a problem as I will get all of it from the core if my polyphasical sleeping corresponds with monophasic, but I want to supplement REM as much as possible. I lose just a bit of adaptability and time, but most likely get easier adaptation and more chances to recall dreams. Now how will I avoid the same problems as last time? Well I realized that I can force issues by just going to sleep way earlier than usual. If I go to bed 11.00 for 11.30 nap, I'm almost bound to get some sleep before clock hits 12. It's all a function of how tired I feel and how much distractions there is around. The fact that I'm sleep-deprived means that I am bound to fall asleep eventually for every nap.

The schedule has the shortest nap-intervals close to wake up. I'm not very functional in mornings anyway and don't need flexibility there. I think I can safely have 5-hour wake-up phases without feeling tired, especially once I adapt.

Nap 2
Naptime: 13:05-13:30
REM: 15 min
Deep 0 min

Nice, solid nap. Like I said, I'm going to be all over the place today and definitely not gonna get four naps. My third will be the last today as I slept too much during the night. I'm getting restful naps, that's great stuff.

Nap 3
Naptime 20:45-20:50
REM: 0 min
Deep: 0 min

Quick nap where I only managed to hit light sleep and even that barely, still strangely refreshing. That said, I wasn't particularly tired before it.

I'm actually tired already at 1 am., but I'm sticking to my schedule and going to just wait it out to 3 o'clock.

Quick totals:
REM 25 minutes
Deeå 0 minutes

tiistai 16. marraskuuta 2010

Day 2 - It's Still Going Smoothly

Day 2.1
Sleeping time: 1:55 - 2:00
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
SNS: 6

Another supershort nap after I again almost forgot my nap. This time I got on time to bed, but not properly prepared, therefore my mind kept racing and it took a while to fall asleep. When I finally did, I got 5 minutes of light sleep and woke up to the slightest sound of Zeo's alarm. Considering how little of sleep I've gotten it's amazing that I feel as good as I do. Still, it's cold and I've got the urge to curl up. I have still fair enough functionality though.

Okay, it's been about a hour since waking up and I'm really starting to feel uncomfortable. Not zombie mode or anything, but tiredness is starting to get me.

Now it's about half an hour to bedtime and I'm really struggling to keep my eyes open for the first time. Actually I'm writing this just to keep awake. So, yeah... I guess that's all for now, expect I can't stop writing, because I don't trust myself to stay awake. That said, if I'd fall asleep now, it wouldn't be bad oversleep, but already oversleeping barely into the second day would suck, so I won't be allowing myself to do that. Okay, I won a couple of minutes there. I can't keep writing forever, can I? God I'd just wish I could go to sleep.

My productivity has been pretty much dead for the last couple of phases. I'm just playing games or listening to music at the moment. Then again, there's lots of worse ways to use your time. I'll try to keep myself awake by humming the songs I listen, I guess that's all for now.

Well, that didn't work, I just opened my eyes. I didn't really drift off, the eyelids just keep feeling so damn heavy. I try to keep moving, rubbing my eyes, face and stuff to keep awake.

I'm only 20 minutes away from a nap, but it feels that eternity's wait is in front of me.

I wrote more, but my self-censorship prevents me from publishing everything. Not that it was anything outrageous, just complete waste of time for any readers. It seems I'm gonna make it, in five minutes I'll get up and go to bed. Alarms are set and ready. Considering that barring any oversleeps I survived this night only by sitting at the computer is pretty good sign. But tomorrow night will be a lot of tougher.

Day 2.2
Sleeping time: 5:40 - 6:00
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes.
SNS: 7

Again, according to my Zeo I had short REM before falling back to light sleep for the rest of the nap. No recollection. Overall it was a light sleep nap. And I still hate the way I feel. Had really strong urge just go back to bed, but I shrugged that off I guess. I've basicly been barely awake for the last half an hour just staring at the screen. The clock is 6:47 now. I should really figure out something to as if I continue like I started this phase, I'm going to fall asleep.

Really struggling at the moment...

Day 2.3
Sleeping time: 9:35 - 10:00
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 (1) 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes.
SNS: 8

This nap totally hit the spot. 10-minute REM was there and I remembered the dream as well. More of this.

I still can't function much, but at least I can sit doing nothing without being afraid of falling asleep. My thought-processes work normally, I just don't feel like doing anything.

However, I'm going to reset the streak. I think I slept extra accidentally at the computer after that 6 am nap. Not much, and it probably won't disturb my adaptation, but I think I need to reset my streak. I'm talking about the time between 6:10-6:47, I don't remember it so I must have passed out for an extra nap.

Day 2.4
Sleeping time: 13:50 - 14:00
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes, no recall.
SNS: 2

Again I went to bed a bit late, but the bigger problem was some noise that my brother caused by playing FEAR. He refused to use headset. That said, I still grabbed ten minutes of sleep and according to Zeo, hit some REM aswell.

Day 2.5
Sleeping time: 17:30 - 18:00
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
SNS: 3

Decent, lengthy nap even though I was a bit worried considering there was everyone else around and lot of distractions. I fell asleep quickly and catched some deep sleep. After waking up I exercised and that energized me to normal energy levels. It almost feels like I haven't been up nearly 60 hours straight with only naps in between!

Day 2.6
Sleeping time: 21:40 - 22:00
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes.
SNS: 4

Actually two-part nap. I woke up in the middle of it, but I still had over fifteen minutes time to sleep, so I got the sleep. Still feeling surprisingly fine and wasn't even groggy when getting up, despite getting a bit of deep sleep in the end of the nap.

Day 2 rough total figures
Sleep 130 min
Deep Sleep 20 min
REM 30 min

I'm getting into the groove of it. I slept more (note the extra 20 minutes caused by passing out though), got more REM and even improved on deep sleep, though so little that it probably doesn't matter at all. Overall nothing significant happening yet. Don't be fooled that I'm adjusting, I suspect it just being some normal variance. That said I can finally say that I'm back in napping-mode well and truly, with no struggles to get to sleep and I even dare to get a little longer naps without fear of groggyness. I've gone as early as x:25 to bed when I've thought that it might take a little longer to get to sleep. So far my evaluations about how much time it will get to fall asleep have been pretty much correct. The frustrating thing is that the more tired you are, more close to the official napping time you have to wait.

Now it's the hard part again, the night.

maanantai 15. marraskuuta 2010

Day 1 - An Easy Start

Day 1.1
Sleeping time: Missed nap
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.

I've missed this... not! I didn't sleep at all, but that's not surprising. It's gonna take a day to get into full swing of things. I'm slightly tired already, so the next nap should get me going.

Day 1.2
Sleeping time: 5:50 - 6:00
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
SNS*: 1

According to Zeo I actually got about ten minutes of light sleep this time. But frankly it was just enough to get me tired, nothing more. I'm feeling the worst enemy of winter adaptations already - the cold. However, getting and staying up is not too hard yet, expect the troubles to start tomorrow night.

*Successful Nap Streak

Day 1.3
Sleeping time: 13:35 - 14:00
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
SNS: 2

Good, refreshing nap. According to Zeo, I got 10 minutes worth of deep sleep, so that probably explains bit of the refreshedness. Still, I feel a bit tired overall. My eyes hurt etc.

Day 1.4
Sleeping time: 13:45 - 13:50
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes, according to Zeo, but I don't know about it.
SNS: 3

I almost forgot this nap, I was so immersed in the stuff I did. I had to set alarms bit later, but in the end it hardly mattered because I didn't sleep much. I passed out for a moment and according to Zeo I had REM, but I doubt it. But overall I think I slept, but like I said, only for moment, like couple of minutes. I'm feeling refreshed.

Day 1.5
Sleeping time: 17:45 - 18:00
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
SNS: 4

Not the most refreshing of naps, but still, at least I fell asleep. I could be much more tired as well, everything is still going fine considering that. First time I didn't wake up with my alarm, it needed my phone to go off to get me up.

Day 1.6
Sleeping time: 21:40 - 22:00
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
SNS: 5

Again a short bit of deep sleep during this one. For the first time the third alarm was called into action after I nearly went back to sleep. Don't remember Zeo's alarm again. It is proving to be too soft after all?

All in all no REM in first day, some short bouts of deep sleep in couple of naps, but that's all. Tomorrow will be important, especially the coming night.

Day 1 rough total figures
Sleep 75 min
Deep Sleep 15 min
REM 5 min

sunnuntai 14. marraskuuta 2010

Diving Into Another Adaptation

So, I've been living monophasically for couple of weeks and although it has totally killed my productivity, I've been enjoying it for the past few days. Mostly because of Zeo. I'm taking part in their polyphasic project, so I got one free.

I'll be starting with an Uberman adaptation, but that's not my main objective. My main objective will be to adapt to Everyman, however, I'll be starting with Uberman because it gets my brain to "napping-mode" faster. I've noticed that once I've been on Uberman about day and a half falling asleep for naps changes somehow and gets much easier. My brain turn off from monophasic falling asleep-mode, where it can take a hour to fall asleep.

With Everyman I struggled constantly to fall asleep for my naps. I hope I avoid that by starting with Uberman. If I push through the adaptation without oversleeping with Uberman, I'll obviously stay on it as it's my holy grail. But I really suspect I can do it. I think that the chance is 1/1000. But I'll seriously go for it.

As for alarms, there's of course Zeo. Then there's my phone again, I'll set it always to 5 minutes later. Then finally there's my computer with Immortal's One by One as wake up track. That should blast my brains away and at least wake up the rest of the house if it doesn't wake me. I finally have three proper alarms that I trust.

Napping times will be similar to earlier. Waking up-times will be on even hours, as it's harder to fuck-up while tired on those. The usual 2:00, 6:00, 10:00, 14:00.. etc. I'll post my usual logging like in previous adaptation efforts. I can't post my Zeo data in graph form, as they haven't made that possible (yet), but I can always read them right away from Zeo and will be telling my findings in written form.

I feel like I'm well equipped this time to fight oversleeps and stuff, but I know that it's going to be tough. Especially with all the coldness and the warmth of the bed... But I feel like I'm under the eye of the others more and feel more pressured to succeed. I feel like I work better under pressure, I hope that holds true with polyphasic sleep as well.

Baseline Data
Zeo of course gave me interesting data about my monophasic sleep. I'm "gifted" sleeper, if you could call it that. I averaged over 2½ hours of REM everynight (record over 3 hours!) and about 1½ hours of deep sleep. No way that I can squeeze that into two hours, but that's not the point anyway. My longest inidividual REM phase was 1 hour and 20 minutes long! I didn't even know that was possible!

As for the deep sleep, I worked like a clockwork. Every night, after 2½ hours of sleep, I had gotten all of my deep sleep. That sounds like perfect for Everyman. Get all my deep from core and then supplement it with REM-naps. Other than that there's not much regularity. I sleep well and rarely wake up. I guess that's all, there wasn't anything other worth noting in that data.

Keeping Myself Occupied
It's important to have stuff to fill those 22 or 20 hours you get during the days with stuff. I like just chilling, but for the first week or so I shouldn't be just sitting around doing nothing, that's like asking for unintended sleep! Luckily I have LAN party on the plans with my friends, so practising and testing the games and all around preparation for those will take chunks of my time. Also I've been watching movies with project-like attitude, trying to fix the fact that there is many classics I haven't seen. That said, movies are not the best stuff to do while on the most intense part of the adaptation, as passively just watching stuff gets you to fall asleep easily. So best save that for about 6-7 days in or during the first couple of days. Same goes for football. I have many matches that I have on my computer that I just haven't had time to watch earlier, just waiting. Also there's my other blogs and football site where to write. To top that off, there's also NaNoWriMo going on, and I'm heavily behind on my schedule, so I'm not going to run out of things to do.

On those heaviest bouts of fatigue the best course of actions is first to play very stimulating games, either first-person shooters like Modern Warfare II, or something intense like TrackMania Nations. I love that game, it gets you really fired up. I played that tired couple of nights ago and then went to sleep - it took me over a hour to fall asleep, so that shit really works. At some point games will fail you though and you just have to get up from your arse. Then the next step up when your body is really seriously trying to force you down and it gets painful to stay awake. Then it's just light exercise and cold showers to keep yourself.

I'm still very worried about night-time. I have been sleeping normally lately, in other words, during the night. Not during the day like prior to previous adaptation. That means that my toughest spot is going to be the night, not morning like in that adaptation. I can't really move around much during the night. I guess walks in the dark are an alternative but it can be really scary, even when you know there's nothing there. I guess the adrenaline from being scared could help staying awake, but it makes coaxing yourself to go for night walks harder. Especially when you're tired. But I have to keep that in my arsenal as an extreme measure. During the day everything is easier of course.

But these are just the things that I've been through many times already, so I'll just end this before I start repeating myself more. In short, looking forward for this adaptation, especially with the help of Zeo and it's data. I really love Zeo's alarm sound, it wakes me up but is so soft that other people stay easily asleep. Another worry is if it is too soft when you're super-tired, but we'll see and there's of course the back-ups as well.