It's been awhile since my last post, over a month in fact. I've been sleeping pretty normally meanwhile, polyphasing can be quite exhaustive, especially with the training amounts I've been having. But now it's time to stop resting on my laurels and get going again. I don't know how healthy this constant polyphasing is, but I haven't pretty much even gotten sick or felt bad bar the occasional sleep deprivation induced headache during past 16 months.
I decided to scrap the site, because frankly I don't think I know enough of polyphasing. Yeah, I do have plenty of experience, but it's all from failing - which is all good, as if I've just succeeded on the first try, I wouldn't have needed to grow as a person nor could I teach it to anyone as I would obviously be a natural. When I finally succeed - could be years from now - I would have made every mistake in the book and would have had to find a solution to everyone of them. But at the moment, I simply don't have any credibility to give advice to anyone.
All of my Zeo's censors though have gone past their three (or was it four, I don't remember) month period where they work and already I'm seeing that the readings have started to throw off. Besides, for some reason I have started to twist and turn in the bed so I can't even keep the band on for the most of the nights. Most likely I don't be using Zeo to track data this time for those reasons. I've yet to decide. As for when I start, it will be soon, probably in the next few days. Here's my rough plan of the schedule:
Core: 6.30-10.00
Nap 1: 13:30-14:00
Nap 2: 17:00-17:30
Nap 3: 0:00-0:30
Obviously it's only tentative at the moment, I will see where my natural tired moments fall and then shift it accordingly. The core can't be much earlier though - as much as I enjoy getting up early, my need of heavy duty alarms (I'm even more liable to sleep through alarms at the moment than I was ever before) forces me to get up in a time that doesn't interfere with anyone else's sleep. I can shift it a bit earlier if needed, but we'll see. The core is 3½ hours as it was before, it just works better for me than the usual three hour version.
The first nap is spaced the same way it has been in my most recent adaptations. The second nap is so close due to schedule constraints. If I shift it later, it will go beyond 21, but I think that I'm more likely to shift the rest of the schedule earlier. As for the last nap, I hope it's on the darkest time - I've not made much of the nightly walks this summer, which has been sad as I really enjoy it. Now I would be able to do that.
Why Everyman again? I could try triphasic, but Uberman is just no-go at the moment. The numerous attempts have really forced me the face the fact that I'm indisciplined. You need to get the Bachelor's degree before you can get to Master's. That's the way I view Everyman and Uberman - Of course you could do Uberman straight away, but only very few people can handle the intense adaptation of Uberman. I think I have to grow a lot as a person before I'm able to do Uberman, whereas Everyman, while very challenging too, is something I view very possible. I did go 20-something days using Everyman with minimal errors, after all!
Whether I'm physically even able to do either is a different matter all together - I believe I haven't gone nearly long enough on any adaptation to say that I simply don't adapt. Uberman is also so hard that I need to clean up my diet & just all around fix my life to tip the odds to my favor. My diet is pretty good, but not perfect. I've probably babbled long enough, so stay tuned for more soon. As that site project got scrapped, I might post a couple of posts I had written for the coming sites, if I still like them. Overall most of this blog so far has been just me spouting shit while sleep-deprived, I'd like to have more worthwhile content. See ya soon.
Näytetään tekstit, joissa on tunniste uberman. Näytä kaikki tekstit
Näytetään tekstit, joissa on tunniste uberman. Näytä kaikki tekstit
torstai 14. heinäkuuta 2011
keskiviikko 1. kesäkuuta 2011
Next Plans
So I've been living monophasically, with my typical schedule; sleeping days, staying up nights. I'm procrastinating on something else so I decided to give some sort of update on my plans.
Thing is that I don't really see Uberman as a viable long-term option, even though it fits better to me than probably for anyone else. Figure that out. Still, I would like to adapt to it. I think long-term Everyman is the best for me, but I still want every now and then to go into "work-mode" and then use Uberman. Wish it'd be that easy though. Here I am talking about living the live switching between Everyman and Uberman, while I haven't even successfully converted to either! Maybe it's the 4½-1½ style that fits me better.
But yeah, while I might not see Uberman as a long-term option, if I managed to adapt I could keep going for as long as I feel like. Besides, I really want to adapt to it, it's like the holy grail of polyphasic sleep and I'm somewhat becoming obsessed with it. I guess my friends think I'm a nutcase. Well, I am.
But yeah, next adaptation was supposed to be SPAMAYL, and it will be, sort of. I will be doing Uberman Steve Pavlina-style, with extra naps at night when I feel like it. Which is kind of SPAMAYL, right? It's hard to decide when to start though. This soccer-playing is really taking my juices out and I think that I need plenty of time to recover. In terms of responsibilities I could start in a week, but I just don't know if it is the right time to start.
I am consistently feeling like I need WAY more time though. Maybe I should just compromise my training, taking it a little easier and just start the adaptation. Still, there are the matches, those really fuck me up. Even if I train easy, I can't avoid exhausting myself in the matches. I could take it easy in matches too, but that won't really help much in reality.
Taking naps so regularly is kind of rigid, but given that they're only 20 minutes it's not as big of a deal as you would think. The same flow keeps on going, so I just view that as a healthy break from whatever you're doing to regain concentration.
Speaking of naps, I'm a bit tired at the moment, I guess I'll take one. I have a long night ahead of me and a ton of stuff to do.
I must do some thinking these next few days, and decide what I'm going to do with my sleep. I'll be back.
Oh, about the site... It's still coming, but I just have a lot on my plate at the moment and unfortunately it is the one to be postponed. I'm kind of frustrated about that, I'll make the site soon enough. It will combine my limited knowledge of polyphasic sleep, lucid dreaming and personal development.
Thing is that I don't really see Uberman as a viable long-term option, even though it fits better to me than probably for anyone else. Figure that out. Still, I would like to adapt to it. I think long-term Everyman is the best for me, but I still want every now and then to go into "work-mode" and then use Uberman. Wish it'd be that easy though. Here I am talking about living the live switching between Everyman and Uberman, while I haven't even successfully converted to either! Maybe it's the 4½-1½ style that fits me better.
But yeah, while I might not see Uberman as a long-term option, if I managed to adapt I could keep going for as long as I feel like. Besides, I really want to adapt to it, it's like the holy grail of polyphasic sleep and I'm somewhat becoming obsessed with it. I guess my friends think I'm a nutcase. Well, I am.
But yeah, next adaptation was supposed to be SPAMAYL, and it will be, sort of. I will be doing Uberman Steve Pavlina-style, with extra naps at night when I feel like it. Which is kind of SPAMAYL, right? It's hard to decide when to start though. This soccer-playing is really taking my juices out and I think that I need plenty of time to recover. In terms of responsibilities I could start in a week, but I just don't know if it is the right time to start.
I am consistently feeling like I need WAY more time though. Maybe I should just compromise my training, taking it a little easier and just start the adaptation. Still, there are the matches, those really fuck me up. Even if I train easy, I can't avoid exhausting myself in the matches. I could take it easy in matches too, but that won't really help much in reality.
Taking naps so regularly is kind of rigid, but given that they're only 20 minutes it's not as big of a deal as you would think. The same flow keeps on going, so I just view that as a healthy break from whatever you're doing to regain concentration.
Speaking of naps, I'm a bit tired at the moment, I guess I'll take one. I have a long night ahead of me and a ton of stuff to do.
I must do some thinking these next few days, and decide what I'm going to do with my sleep. I'll be back.
Oh, about the site... It's still coming, but I just have a lot on my plate at the moment and unfortunately it is the one to be postponed. I'm kind of frustrated about that, I'll make the site soon enough. It will combine my limited knowledge of polyphasic sleep, lucid dreaming and personal development.
perjantai 20. toukokuuta 2011
Attempt Comes to an Abrupt End
The third strike and I'm out - at least it was what I would call an oversleep. 11 hours 20 minutes straight without waking up. I think it could have been avoidable though. I don't remember whether I have my cellphone alarm on, at least when you reset it, the time is the time I was supposed to wake up, so I guess it was set.
However my surefire Immortal alarm, as in my computer, was not set, or it was, but I was watching hockey in the middle of the night so I had headphones on, therefore rendering the alarm too silent when I fell asleep.
Also the nap was slightly too long. I fell asleep accidentally around 5.25 instead of after 5.30.
All in all this wasn't a very good attempt from a seasoned polyphasic adjustment veteran that I am supposed to be. Three oversleeps in just five days, that's just poor. Stupid mistakes, mistakes I've made too many times in the past. I will be re-attempting in early June - that attempt will shift to SPAMAYL if needed. Or it could be just SPAMAYLish uberman just like Steve Pavlina did - as in, putting extra naps every now and then.
I hope to be better prepared as well then, with myself properly trained to get up to alarm and a lots of stuff to do the fill the time - that wasn't the problem this time either, I had stuff to do all the time.
Shame about this, but now that I failed so badly I think it's best to call it quits. The timing is ankward also, in early June I'll be completely free in terms of schedule.
Now what... Well, I'm feeling sleepy, I guess I'll try to sleep even more and clear the debts before continuing my monophasic hell. Then again, I could try some weird biphasic program with naps every now and then - the kind that I won't go in the sleep debt but would still gain some time and be polyphasic. Kind of that's easy to come in an out of. Steve Pavlina is doing 4,5/1,5 biphasic at the moment. I did also that last summer for a few weeks, perhaps I should do that again. Anyway, it wouldn't be full on biphasic as I need to sleep a couple of full nights soon.
However my surefire Immortal alarm, as in my computer, was not set, or it was, but I was watching hockey in the middle of the night so I had headphones on, therefore rendering the alarm too silent when I fell asleep.
Also the nap was slightly too long. I fell asleep accidentally around 5.25 instead of after 5.30.
All in all this wasn't a very good attempt from a seasoned polyphasic adjustment veteran that I am supposed to be. Three oversleeps in just five days, that's just poor. Stupid mistakes, mistakes I've made too many times in the past. I will be re-attempting in early June - that attempt will shift to SPAMAYL if needed. Or it could be just SPAMAYLish uberman just like Steve Pavlina did - as in, putting extra naps every now and then.
I hope to be better prepared as well then, with myself properly trained to get up to alarm and a lots of stuff to do the fill the time - that wasn't the problem this time either, I had stuff to do all the time.
Shame about this, but now that I failed so badly I think it's best to call it quits. The timing is ankward also, in early June I'll be completely free in terms of schedule.
Now what... Well, I'm feeling sleepy, I guess I'll try to sleep even more and clear the debts before continuing my monophasic hell. Then again, I could try some weird biphasic program with naps every now and then - the kind that I won't go in the sleep debt but would still gain some time and be polyphasic. Kind of that's easy to come in an out of. Steve Pavlina is doing 4,5/1,5 biphasic at the moment. I did also that last summer for a few weeks, perhaps I should do that again. Anyway, it wouldn't be full on biphasic as I need to sleep a couple of full nights soon.
Day Five
Amazing that we are already at the fifth day. Just shame about the oversleeps and missed naps, I could be on the brink of adaptation but as it is, I'm still long way to go.
After missing the last nap of yesterday I didn't get that midnight peak moment in alertness, instead now after the first nap of the new day I feel very tired. It was a solid nap with a fine 16 minutes of deep sleep in it. I just transitioned instantly to the deep sleep from awake, the graph looks pretty crazy in Zeo.
Still, I'm tired now. It's nothing a little of the old "keep yourself busy"-metntality wouldn't fix. Once again I'm playing it safe by shifting the alarm around the clock. If I happen to fall asleep, fine. I've got reaction already planned. In fact, it's better for me not to write anymore, or I'm going just end up with that weird shit. My head is a bit messed up at the moment. I'll be back in some hours.
Then the attempt ended, but more that on the new post
After missing the last nap of yesterday I didn't get that midnight peak moment in alertness, instead now after the first nap of the new day I feel very tired. It was a solid nap with a fine 16 minutes of deep sleep in it. I just transitioned instantly to the deep sleep from awake, the graph looks pretty crazy in Zeo.
Still, I'm tired now. It's nothing a little of the old "keep yourself busy"-metntality wouldn't fix. Once again I'm playing it safe by shifting the alarm around the clock. If I happen to fall asleep, fine. I've got reaction already planned. In fact, it's better for me not to write anymore, or I'm going just end up with that weird shit. My head is a bit messed up at the moment. I'll be back in some hours.
Then the attempt ended, but more that on the new post
keskiviikko 18. toukokuuta 2011
Day 3
It starts going a little tough. The night was once again relatively easy, but once I woke up from my second nap of the day, I was sure as tired as yesterday. I even hit the same symptom of not doing anything for some time which is always dangerous. Luckily I snapped out of it this time early enough, so I guess I'm learning something.
I went out and practiced soccer. I was really sluggish and lacked any desire to do that, but anything to weather through the rough patches. Remembering last year it has not yet even gotten tough. Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow and the day after that will be the toughest, if I get through to them without oversleeps. My naps have been decent, not really that refreshing, but numbers look promising, once again nearly half-REM each of them, I mean those that actually last about 20 minutes. I still have some naps where I just about get to sleep before alarm goes off.
I've not yet at least needed any of the back-up alarms, I've always just gotten up to the normal alarm. I'm still suffering from coldness, but the temperature should be rising outside these days, so hopefully my symptoms of feeling cold go away. I've not eaten much since the start of this effort, no wonder I always lose so much of weight while on polyphasic schedules. I've eaten mostly healthy food, fruits, vegetables and such. Little meat, in fact I'm not sure if at all during these past three days, but I know I've eaten some eggs. I don't know what role the diet plays in adaptation, Steve Pavlina suggested that a lot, and maybe that's true, but I wouldn't know. All I'm trying to do is to eat my usual way - stay away from clearly unhealthy food and try to rack up a decent amount of calories. But overall I wouldn't call my diet healthy, even if a bit healthier than average.
Well, there it came - strike two. I don't have any clue how it happened - or I do, but I don't remember it. I remember waking up well from the two o'clock nap, but I have no recall how I fell asleep. I probably just failed to get up and passed out quickly. Another reiteration of an old lesson, you better move fast once you wake up. Not barely shut down the alarms and doze off again. Luckily I only slep an hour extra, but hey, that's enough as it is to ruin my progress so far.
I can still afford one mistake before I call it quits. Change from now on will be the fact that I'll get up quicker on the alarms and will go out right away upon waking up.
Day overall
Succesful naps: 4
Oversleeps: 1
Total time slept 2:52
Total REM 0:19 (at least, no data on oversleep)
Total deep sleep 0:28 (Same here)
Streak: 1
State during the day: 3-2-3-5-4-5, average 3.67
Everything after the oversleep was really easy. I'm having my peak mental state consistently right after midnight up until into the nap - that's why I've been struggling with getting enough sleep with the first naps.
I went out and practiced soccer. I was really sluggish and lacked any desire to do that, but anything to weather through the rough patches. Remembering last year it has not yet even gotten tough. Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow and the day after that will be the toughest, if I get through to them without oversleeps. My naps have been decent, not really that refreshing, but numbers look promising, once again nearly half-REM each of them, I mean those that actually last about 20 minutes. I still have some naps where I just about get to sleep before alarm goes off.
I've not yet at least needed any of the back-up alarms, I've always just gotten up to the normal alarm. I'm still suffering from coldness, but the temperature should be rising outside these days, so hopefully my symptoms of feeling cold go away. I've not eaten much since the start of this effort, no wonder I always lose so much of weight while on polyphasic schedules. I've eaten mostly healthy food, fruits, vegetables and such. Little meat, in fact I'm not sure if at all during these past three days, but I know I've eaten some eggs. I don't know what role the diet plays in adaptation, Steve Pavlina suggested that a lot, and maybe that's true, but I wouldn't know. All I'm trying to do is to eat my usual way - stay away from clearly unhealthy food and try to rack up a decent amount of calories. But overall I wouldn't call my diet healthy, even if a bit healthier than average.
Well, there it came - strike two. I don't have any clue how it happened - or I do, but I don't remember it. I remember waking up well from the two o'clock nap, but I have no recall how I fell asleep. I probably just failed to get up and passed out quickly. Another reiteration of an old lesson, you better move fast once you wake up. Not barely shut down the alarms and doze off again. Luckily I only slep an hour extra, but hey, that's enough as it is to ruin my progress so far.
I can still afford one mistake before I call it quits. Change from now on will be the fact that I'll get up quicker on the alarms and will go out right away upon waking up.
Day overall
Succesful naps: 4
Oversleeps: 1
Total time slept 2:52
Total REM 0:19 (at least, no data on oversleep)
Total deep sleep 0:28 (Same here)
Streak: 1
State during the day: 3-2-3-5-4-5, average 3.67
Everything after the oversleep was really easy. I'm having my peak mental state consistently right after midnight up until into the nap - that's why I've been struggling with getting enough sleep with the first naps.
tiistai 17. toukokuuta 2011
Rest of Day 2
Let's ditch that damn typing test. It just too much to occupy my head, especially when I'm totally messed up. I still do it whenever I feel like it.
As for the rest of the day, there's really not much to say. I felt pretty damn good the whole day and there was some restful naps along the way with decent REM-numbers. However, I take them with a grain of salt, the oversleep of course helps and also before the naps are over 75 % of REM I won't call them real REM-naps.
But god damn I'm cold. I guess the weather is a little chill, but I still suspect some kind of slowdown in my metabolism or something, because I never felt this cold in winter etc!
Day overall
Succesful naps: 4
Oversleeps: 1
Total time slept 5:02
Total REM 0:49 (at least, no data on oversleep)
Total deep sleep 0:06 (Same here, probably over an hour)
Streak: 3
State during the day: 3-2-3-4-5-4, average 3.5
As for the rest of the day, there's really not much to say. I felt pretty damn good the whole day and there was some restful naps along the way with decent REM-numbers. However, I take them with a grain of salt, the oversleep of course helps and also before the naps are over 75 % of REM I won't call them real REM-naps.
But god damn I'm cold. I guess the weather is a little chill, but I still suspect some kind of slowdown in my metabolism or something, because I never felt this cold in winter etc!
Day overall
Succesful naps: 4
Oversleeps: 1
Total time slept 5:02
Total REM 0:49 (at least, no data on oversleep)
Total deep sleep 0:06 (Same here, probably over an hour)
Streak: 3
State during the day: 3-2-3-4-5-4, average 3.5
The Oversleep - What Happened & Self-Loathing
I remember being awake in 6:40 and just being zoning out. I can't believe I did nothing. My mind was all messed up when I awoke, all this stuff about ice hockey came in from my dreams and I was trying to make sense of it in context of real life. Of course once the mind fog cleared I realized that I had just been disoriented. Still, despite all these messed up mental images I managed to keep concentration and tried to have the ten o'clock nap. I didn't get any sleep on it after the oversleep.
I'm not home free if I survive past the night. I so often survive through it only to mess up in the morning. That isn't acceptable any more. After my 6 o'clock nap I am to go play soccer right away every morning to wake myself up properly. After that some fast-paced action game on the computer and closely monitoring my mental state. I guess the biggest challenge is to keep tabs on yourself without losing conciousness.
But yeah, I don't want to see any oversleeps like this any more. If I sleep through the alarms, I can accept that, but no more falling asleep out of schedule.
I'm not home free if I survive past the night. I so often survive through it only to mess up in the morning. That isn't acceptable any more. After my 6 o'clock nap I am to go play soccer right away every morning to wake myself up properly. After that some fast-paced action game on the computer and closely monitoring my mental state. I guess the biggest challenge is to keep tabs on yourself without losing conciousness.
But yeah, I don't want to see any oversleeps like this any more. If I sleep through the alarms, I can accept that, but no more falling asleep out of schedule.
Day 2
Nap 1
Finnish - words - 355
Finnish - sentences - 346
English - words - 294
English - sentences - 303
Phase rating: 3
Well, Finnish was a little slower than usual, but English actually faster than normally. Weird as I'm very tired.
Nap 2
Finnish - words
Finnish - sentences
English - words
English - sentences
Phase rating: 2
Didn't do any as I presumably passed out.
Nap 3
Finnish - words
Finnish - sentences
English - words
English - sentences
Phase rating:
Day overall
Succesful naps: 2
Oversleeps: 1
Total time slept 4:30
Total REM ?
Total deep sleep ?
Streak: -
I was a little worried about the night, but the tough nights don't start just yet. I was able to watch some stuff on the computer without getting super drowsy. You might remember me complaining on many instances about how watching something passively makes you tired. So I'm not yet that tired. After spending two hours just watching stuff I headed out for my first nightly walk. I meant to make only short walk as I had only 1½ hours until the nap, but I felt like running so I ended up going around the village in an hour, partly walking, partly running.
The reason I felt the need the run was partly because it was cold and I just never put any more clothes on than what I have because I'm lazy, so I was under-clothed. But also my joints and muscles just craved for some more free movement. For some reason towards the end of the walk I got very sentimental. Sleep-deprivation might have some part in it, but also the situation of taking a walk for first time in many months got me going.
I didn't feel at all tired when I got back. It was a crazy feeling, just lie there on you bed with not the slightest of urge to sleep despite only having an hour in last 40 hours. Or something around that range.
However once I woke up from the second nap, I never really got going and I'm pretty sure I overslept for couple of hours. I have no idea what happened in that spot and my keylogger has obviously failed me. Frustrating, but easily avoidable mistake. That said, it's shouldn't be too serious. It made me miss the third nap though. I'm very dissapointed in myself. I can't conjure up a coherent thought at the moment as you can see.
That was the strike one - remember, three strikes and you're out. I won't allow any more mistakes like that, I let that happen too easily.
In fact, I'll stop writing this one no, do a little debriefing and then continue from clear table.
Finnish - words - 355
Finnish - sentences - 346
English - words - 294
English - sentences - 303
Phase rating: 3
Well, Finnish was a little slower than usual, but English actually faster than normally. Weird as I'm very tired.
Nap 2
Finnish - words
Finnish - sentences
English - words
English - sentences
Phase rating: 2
Didn't do any as I presumably passed out.
Nap 3
Finnish - words
Finnish - sentences
English - words
English - sentences
Phase rating:
Day overall
Succesful naps: 2
Oversleeps: 1
Total time slept 4:30
Total REM ?
Total deep sleep ?
Streak: -
I was a little worried about the night, but the tough nights don't start just yet. I was able to watch some stuff on the computer without getting super drowsy. You might remember me complaining on many instances about how watching something passively makes you tired. So I'm not yet that tired. After spending two hours just watching stuff I headed out for my first nightly walk. I meant to make only short walk as I had only 1½ hours until the nap, but I felt like running so I ended up going around the village in an hour, partly walking, partly running.
The reason I felt the need the run was partly because it was cold and I just never put any more clothes on than what I have because I'm lazy, so I was under-clothed. But also my joints and muscles just craved for some more free movement. For some reason towards the end of the walk I got very sentimental. Sleep-deprivation might have some part in it, but also the situation of taking a walk for first time in many months got me going.
I didn't feel at all tired when I got back. It was a crazy feeling, just lie there on you bed with not the slightest of urge to sleep despite only having an hour in last 40 hours. Or something around that range.
However once I woke up from the second nap, I never really got going and I'm pretty sure I overslept for couple of hours. I have no idea what happened in that spot and my keylogger has obviously failed me. Frustrating, but easily avoidable mistake. That said, it's shouldn't be too serious. It made me miss the third nap though. I'm very dissapointed in myself. I can't conjure up a coherent thought at the moment as you can see.
That was the strike one - remember, three strikes and you're out. I won't allow any more mistakes like that, I let that happen too easily.
In fact, I'll stop writing this one no, do a little debriefing and then continue from clear table.
maanantai 16. toukokuuta 2011
Day 1 - Uberman 2011
Time to start cranking out those typera.tk tests. I already got my first nap - no sleep, as expected. I got tired though. Kind of sad.
Nap 1
Finnish - words - 372
Finnish - sentences - 379
English - words - 273
English - sentences - 258
Phase rating: 3
Typing Finnish was at normal level, English a little slow.
Nap 2
Finnish - words - 377
Finnish - sentences - 353
English - words - 286
English - sentences - 300
Phase rating: 5
Nothing significant going on with these, except that my English is starting to pick up the pace.
Nap 3
Finnish - words - 320
Finnish - sentences - 367
English - words - 256
English - sentences - 273
Phase rating: 3
I guess the slight drop in my alertness and overall state can be read from the results.
Nap 4
Finnish - words - 374
Finnish - sentences
English - words
English - sentences
Phase rating: 4
I couldn't do other tests as my internet connection failed, but anyway, that was normal.
Nap 5
Finnish - words - 363
Finnish - sentences - 349
English - words - 267
English - sentences - 267
Phase rating: 3
Pace took a slight hit, but that's to be expected, I'm tired. In fact, I would have expected worse chunk off the pace.
Nap 6
Finnish - words
Finnish - sentences
English - words
English - sentences
Phase rating: 4
Didn't have time to do this. Wrote a lot though, and pace was normal.
Day overall
Succesful naps: 4
Oversleeps: 0
Total time slept 0:53
Total REM 0:04
Total deep sleep 0:17
Streak: 4
Alright, day one is finally over and I feel... Pretty good at the end of the night. But it hasn't been all sunshine for the day, I've struggled with slight tiredness during the day, but nothing really challenging has yet come up.
Obviously I missed the first couple of naps as you might have expected, but surprisingly I've gottten at least some minutes of sleep on every four that followed. Still the overall sleep numbers are really low and I didn't even get any REM. My first nap dipped straight into deep sleep, which is kind of weird, but kind of good, at least got some sleep that actually has some effect.
I kept myself wide awake in the morning by light soccer practice and some sprints. I'm not planning to do any heavy training during this adaptation, another advantage I have over last year's attempts.
I don't remember anything particular worth mentioning from the other naps. I didn't have much appetite today, but then again I rarely have. I was more tired than in the evening that I was at any other point, but like I said, that last nap cleared that up quite well.
Nap 1
Finnish - words - 372
Finnish - sentences - 379
English - words - 273
English - sentences - 258
Phase rating: 3
Typing Finnish was at normal level, English a little slow.
Nap 2
Finnish - words - 377
Finnish - sentences - 353
English - words - 286
English - sentences - 300
Phase rating: 5
Nothing significant going on with these, except that my English is starting to pick up the pace.
Nap 3
Finnish - words - 320
Finnish - sentences - 367
English - words - 256
English - sentences - 273
Phase rating: 3
I guess the slight drop in my alertness and overall state can be read from the results.
Nap 4
Finnish - words - 374
Finnish - sentences
English - words
English - sentences
Phase rating: 4
I couldn't do other tests as my internet connection failed, but anyway, that was normal.
Nap 5
Finnish - words - 363
Finnish - sentences - 349
English - words - 267
English - sentences - 267
Phase rating: 3
Pace took a slight hit, but that's to be expected, I'm tired. In fact, I would have expected worse chunk off the pace.
Nap 6
Finnish - words
Finnish - sentences
English - words
English - sentences
Phase rating: 4
Didn't have time to do this. Wrote a lot though, and pace was normal.
Day overall
Succesful naps: 4
Oversleeps: 0
Total time slept 0:53
Total REM 0:04
Total deep sleep 0:17
Streak: 4
Alright, day one is finally over and I feel... Pretty good at the end of the night. But it hasn't been all sunshine for the day, I've struggled with slight tiredness during the day, but nothing really challenging has yet come up.
Obviously I missed the first couple of naps as you might have expected, but surprisingly I've gottten at least some minutes of sleep on every four that followed. Still the overall sleep numbers are really low and I didn't even get any REM. My first nap dipped straight into deep sleep, which is kind of weird, but kind of good, at least got some sleep that actually has some effect.
I kept myself wide awake in the morning by light soccer practice and some sprints. I'm not planning to do any heavy training during this adaptation, another advantage I have over last year's attempts.
I don't remember anything particular worth mentioning from the other naps. I didn't have much appetite today, but then again I rarely have. I was more tired than in the evening that I was at any other point, but like I said, that last nap cleared that up quite well.
Go!
Hi guys, I'm 30 minutes away from my first nap, just thought I'd post a little report on how I feel.
I didn't wake up exactly 10 am in the morning or whatever I said I would, I could have, but I didn't see it very important really so I kept sleeping. So it is likely that I won't be able to sleep for the first nap. But I guess that holds true for most of my first couple of days of naps.
I'll be revisiting the old classics, PureDoxyk's Ubersleep and Steve Pavlina's blog during the early hours of the night and all along the first days of the effort.
The way I do my daily reporting has changed, I'll be using the old 1-5 rating scale for my feel in every phase. Here's the definitions for it, in case you don't remember. I've posted it couple of times in this blog, but I'm too pressed to find it right now.
That was designed for Everyman purposes, but in the end I rarely had to use 1 rating for any phase. I can get even more extreme than that, but I'll report it in writing if there's anything worth mentioning.
I've gotten a keylogger for my new computer so if I happen to pass out amidst of using my computer, I know exactly how much I fucked up. Hopefully that won't be needed, but it is there just in case.
Also I'll be doing typera.tk writing test, both Finnish & English and both word & sentence tests in every phase. It isn't really a viable test to do for alertness and such, I mean I guess it can tell something, but I mainly just do it because I want to improve my writing speed. Just an excuse to do it.
So you'll get
- Rating of the phase
- Writing speeds
- Possibly REM/Deep sleep numbers. I think I'll just do whole days totals and go through individual naps in writing more or less. If there's some data worth mentioning I obviously point it out.
That's all for now, see you in about 20 hours for first post. Oh god, I hope I don't mess up in the first day. That would be embarrasing.
I didn't wake up exactly 10 am in the morning or whatever I said I would, I could have, but I didn't see it very important really so I kept sleeping. So it is likely that I won't be able to sleep for the first nap. But I guess that holds true for most of my first couple of days of naps.
I'll be revisiting the old classics, PureDoxyk's Ubersleep and Steve Pavlina's blog during the early hours of the night and all along the first days of the effort.
The way I do my daily reporting has changed, I'll be using the old 1-5 rating scale for my feel in every phase. Here's the definitions for it, in case you don't remember. I've posted it couple of times in this blog, but I'm too pressed to find it right now.
| 5 = I feel normal and there was no tiredness during this phase. |
| 4 = I don't feel outright tired, but I'm not at my freshest either. |
| 3 = There was some moments of slight tiredness. |
| 2 = Multiple moments of fatigue and very little productivity. |
| 1 = I felt extremely tired and started nodding or the whole phase was slight struggle with tiredness. |
That was designed for Everyman purposes, but in the end I rarely had to use 1 rating for any phase. I can get even more extreme than that, but I'll report it in writing if there's anything worth mentioning.
I've gotten a keylogger for my new computer so if I happen to pass out amidst of using my computer, I know exactly how much I fucked up. Hopefully that won't be needed, but it is there just in case.
Also I'll be doing typera.tk writing test, both Finnish & English and both word & sentence tests in every phase. It isn't really a viable test to do for alertness and such, I mean I guess it can tell something, but I mainly just do it because I want to improve my writing speed. Just an excuse to do it.
So you'll get
- Rating of the phase
- Writing speeds
- Possibly REM/Deep sleep numbers. I think I'll just do whole days totals and go through individual naps in writing more or less. If there's some data worth mentioning I obviously point it out.
That's all for now, see you in about 20 hours for first post. Oh god, I hope I don't mess up in the first day. That would be embarrasing.
sunnuntai 15. toukokuuta 2011
Going Uberman in... 18 hours
I will be heading off to sleep very soon for what will be (hopefully) my last sleep of many hours in a while. I'll get up 10 am tomorrow, have my last full day of monophasic life and then at 1:40 am. next night I'll have my first nap of 20 minutes. Here's my full schedule
1:40-2:00
5:40-6:00
9:40-10:00
13:40-14:00
17:40-18:00
21:40-22:00
What has changed since my last attempt and how does it affect my chances? Well, I'm now a bit better equipped in the alarm sector, but still, I'd love to have at least one alarm more. I guess I'll make do with these though and at least oversleeping should be less likely than before. Having said that, I did, sleep through my sisters attempts of shaking me awake last summer, so I don't know... I am hopefully more determined to succeed than last year, I have a lot more experience and ways to deal with tired moments, but I didn't have any really tough moments while being on Everyman and anything remotely difficult just made me oversleep, which kind of worries me.
I also have Zeo to really determine exactly how much I slept and if it was REM/some other phase of sleep. Having said that I think that Zeo often has the first 5-10 minutes as a REM, so it can't always be trusted on that sector.
I'm determined to succeed (I guess I've said that every time) and at least I'll do my record. I don't remember how long that was, but I have some vague recall that I did 18 perfect naps in a row last August.
I guess I'll allow one or two oversleeps before I call quits and then move on to quickly attempt SPAMAYL. I have not yet decided what to do after that, if anything. Playing soccer everyday, as I do in summer is a bit demanding for your body when you're only sleeping around two hours a day. I have already started to lose weight. I lost 6 kg:s last summer and thin as it is, so... tricky situation. Then again, even if I lose the weight and more importantly some muscle, the losses aren't that big.
But yeah, let's wrap this post up. See you in around 18 hours when I'll post the starting post and then again in around 40 hours when I post the first daily report.
About the site... I'll probably start working on it hard while on Uberman - it's good to keep thought focused on the task and what better way than to make a polyphasic site while being polyphasic! I've written very little content so far, I'm still very much at the planning stage still, which I'm a bit unhappy of, but it is what it is and I can only blame my own procrastination for it. It will be a site focused on polyphasic sleep and lucid dreaming with a personal development side in it.
1:40-2:00
5:40-6:00
9:40-10:00
13:40-14:00
17:40-18:00
21:40-22:00
What has changed since my last attempt and how does it affect my chances? Well, I'm now a bit better equipped in the alarm sector, but still, I'd love to have at least one alarm more. I guess I'll make do with these though and at least oversleeping should be less likely than before. Having said that, I did, sleep through my sisters attempts of shaking me awake last summer, so I don't know... I am hopefully more determined to succeed than last year, I have a lot more experience and ways to deal with tired moments, but I didn't have any really tough moments while being on Everyman and anything remotely difficult just made me oversleep, which kind of worries me.
I also have Zeo to really determine exactly how much I slept and if it was REM/some other phase of sleep. Having said that I think that Zeo often has the first 5-10 minutes as a REM, so it can't always be trusted on that sector.
I'm determined to succeed (I guess I've said that every time) and at least I'll do my record. I don't remember how long that was, but I have some vague recall that I did 18 perfect naps in a row last August.
I guess I'll allow one or two oversleeps before I call quits and then move on to quickly attempt SPAMAYL. I have not yet decided what to do after that, if anything. Playing soccer everyday, as I do in summer is a bit demanding for your body when you're only sleeping around two hours a day. I have already started to lose weight. I lost 6 kg:s last summer and thin as it is, so... tricky situation. Then again, even if I lose the weight and more importantly some muscle, the losses aren't that big.
But yeah, let's wrap this post up. See you in around 18 hours when I'll post the starting post and then again in around 40 hours when I post the first daily report.
About the site... I'll probably start working on it hard while on Uberman - it's good to keep thought focused on the task and what better way than to make a polyphasic site while being polyphasic! I've written very little content so far, I'm still very much at the planning stage still, which I'm a bit unhappy of, but it is what it is and I can only blame my own procrastination for it. It will be a site focused on polyphasic sleep and lucid dreaming with a personal development side in it.
keskiviikko 22. joulukuuta 2010
Day 2 of... Experimenting
Another quick update. During the small hours of the night it occured to me that I might make my schedule match more my Everyman. So I ended up adding one extra nap and changing naptimes just a bit. My new schedule reads:
2:00-2:20
5:40-6:00 - Waking up at 6:00, like I would with core.
8:10-8:30 - Same naptime as for my first nap with Everyman.
11:40-12:00 - Same naptime as for my second nap with Everyman.
15:00-15:20
18:40-19:00
22:20-22:40
We'll see how it works. I'm not really treating this as Uberman attempt anymore, it's more of just experimenting.
Well it went well for some time, but my 18.40 nap saw four hour oversleep. It's still better than sleeping all night, but that oversleep actually did frustrate me a bit. I guess I need to kick the alarms up - I haven't used my computer's alarm yet pretty much at all, trusting that I wake up to lesser alarms while only napping.
2:00-2:20
5:40-6:00 - Waking up at 6:00, like I would with core.
8:10-8:30 - Same naptime as for my first nap with Everyman.
11:40-12:00 - Same naptime as for my second nap with Everyman.
15:00-15:20
18:40-19:00
22:20-22:40
We'll see how it works. I'm not really treating this as Uberman attempt anymore, it's more of just experimenting.
Well it went well for some time, but my 18.40 nap saw four hour oversleep. It's still better than sleeping all night, but that oversleep actually did frustrate me a bit. I guess I need to kick the alarms up - I haven't used my computer's alarm yet pretty much at all, trusting that I wake up to lesser alarms while only napping.
tiistai 21. joulukuuta 2010
Day 1 of Another Uberman
Well just a quick update, I'll edit this to summarize the whole of day one later. But just approaching my third nap and I'm struggling to stay awake. So I decided to use one method I developed while on Everyman - picking up glass full of liquid. It worked like a treat, my lap is now all nice and wet with milk. At least I didn't fall asleep.
Alright here's the first day's update - most of naps went as planned, I missed one and overslept on one. I'm not too concerned about it yet as I'm just easing myself into this. I've felt excellent the whole day except prior the oversleep, which by the way lasted four hours. Tomorrow I'll crank the discipline a bit up and hopefully start stringing succesful naps together.
That said, now that I did oversleep after all, I feel a little bad that I poured milk over myself. That kind of got wasted now that I let myself go anyway. But I'll improve it tomorrow.
Alright here's the first day's update - most of naps went as planned, I missed one and overslept on one. I'm not too concerned about it yet as I'm just easing myself into this. I've felt excellent the whole day except prior the oversleep, which by the way lasted four hours. Tomorrow I'll crank the discipline a bit up and hopefully start stringing succesful naps together.
That said, now that I did oversleep after all, I feel a little bad that I poured milk over myself. That kind of got wasted now that I let myself go anyway. But I'll improve it tomorrow.
maanantai 20. joulukuuta 2010
ZQ Record
Well it didn't go as planned. I slept through all of my alarms with such a ridiculous ease that I in fact made my record ZQ. Over 9 hours of sleep with over 4 hours (!!!) of REM - ZQ was a nice and solid 106.
I thought at first that I'll have a few days break going monophasic but looking at those stats, that indicate a lower light-sleep percentage than a month ago, made me realize that it might get worse and I won't be wanting that. However, it is clear that I'm simply not waking up to my alarms. Not at least on my core sleep. Then it came to me, an easy conclusion - get rid of the core! I've woken up to my alarms so far on my naps every time, so I'll just return to Uberman and get myself retrained to getting up instantly. Here's my new nap schedule:
6:00-6:20
10:00-10:20
14:00-14:20
18:00-18:20
22:00-22:20
2:00-2:20
I'd hope to string at least 12 naps together (obviously adapting to Uberman would be awesome, but I'm not really expecting it - just using it as a tool to get going again) and get back to my napping groove. I might give myself more chances than just one oversleep, but we'll see. Once I decide to go back to Everyman I'll probably figure out some more hardcore ways to get up as well, because I don't expect the core to being troublefree anyway.
I thought at first that I'll have a few days break going monophasic but looking at those stats, that indicate a lower light-sleep percentage than a month ago, made me realize that it might get worse and I won't be wanting that. However, it is clear that I'm simply not waking up to my alarms. Not at least on my core sleep. Then it came to me, an easy conclusion - get rid of the core! I've woken up to my alarms so far on my naps every time, so I'll just return to Uberman and get myself retrained to getting up instantly. Here's my new nap schedule:
6:00-6:20
10:00-10:20
14:00-14:20
18:00-18:20
22:00-22:20
2:00-2:20
I'd hope to string at least 12 naps together (obviously adapting to Uberman would be awesome, but I'm not really expecting it - just using it as a tool to get going again) and get back to my napping groove. I might give myself more chances than just one oversleep, but we'll see. Once I decide to go back to Everyman I'll probably figure out some more hardcore ways to get up as well, because I don't expect the core to being troublefree anyway.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
torstai 30. syyskuuta 2010
Day 11 - Messing up More
Day 11.1
Naptime: 1:35-1:55, 20 min
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last oversleep: 38 h
Successful naps in a row: 5
Alright we're starting to close the second morning. I got through the first one mainly because the oversleep was still so close. I know I'll have a lot tougher time this time around. I'm planning to go jogging when I wake up from my second nap. I've not exercised anywhere near enough since starting this - or overall during this month.
Oversleep: 6-10
These mornings are so hard.
I'm not feeling like posting rest of the day with normal format. I'll post some recapping of the effort so far next.
Naptime: 1:35-1:55, 20 min
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last oversleep: 38 h
Successful naps in a row: 5
Alright we're starting to close the second morning. I got through the first one mainly because the oversleep was still so close. I know I'll have a lot tougher time this time around. I'm planning to go jogging when I wake up from my second nap. I've not exercised anywhere near enough since starting this - or overall during this month.
Oversleep: 6-10
These mornings are so hard.
I'm not feeling like posting rest of the day with normal format. I'll post some recapping of the effort so far next.
keskiviikko 29. syyskuuta 2010
Day 10 - It's Starting to Roll Again
Day 10.1
Naptime: Missed nap
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last oversleep: 14 h
Successful naps in a row: 0
That 6 hour sleep really messed my cycles. I hope it didn't ruin the whole effort I've had so far. I don't feel any worse than usual really.
Day 10.2
Naptime: Missed nap
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last oversleep: 18 h
Successful naps in a row: 0
I forgot to do the typing test, so I'll do it now. Before that though, what is wrong with me? That 6 hour sleep messed me up bad, I guess. It's like I'm starting all over again. I'm missing nap after nap but not really even getting tired. Well, maybe this pushes me through that morning.
Fin typing test: 351
Eng typing test: 278
Okay, I'm beginning to question the relevance of this test. Sure, I overslept, but shouldn't that be a bad thing? Apparently 6 hours a night is enough and you'll be well off with it. I didn't do records but improved from yesterday clearly and those are pretty good results anyway.
Day 10.3
Naptime: 9:40-9:55, 15 min
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last oversleep: 22 h
Successful naps in a row: 1
Finally I managed to grab at least the minimum of sleep.
Alright, I managed to weather through the sleep deprivation as well! Now I just have to hope that the next nap doesn't bring an oversleep.
Day 10.4
Naptime: 13:35-13:50, 15 min
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes
Time since last oversleep: 26 h
Successful naps in a row: 2
Wow, successful nap, REM and tiredness easing off. Amazing!
Day 10.5
Naptime: 17:35-17:55, 20 min
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last oversleep: 30 h
Successful naps in a row: 3
Slowly but surely everything is starting to take it's place.
Day 10.6
Naptime: 21:35-21:55, 20 min
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last oversleep: 34 h
Successful naps in a row: 4
Nothing special. I feel fine. See ya in next post
Naptime: Missed nap
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last oversleep: 14 h
Successful naps in a row: 0
That 6 hour sleep really messed my cycles. I hope it didn't ruin the whole effort I've had so far. I don't feel any worse than usual really.
Day 10.2
Naptime: Missed nap
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last oversleep: 18 h
Successful naps in a row: 0
I forgot to do the typing test, so I'll do it now. Before that though, what is wrong with me? That 6 hour sleep messed me up bad, I guess. It's like I'm starting all over again. I'm missing nap after nap but not really even getting tired. Well, maybe this pushes me through that morning.
Fin typing test: 351
Eng typing test: 278
Okay, I'm beginning to question the relevance of this test. Sure, I overslept, but shouldn't that be a bad thing? Apparently 6 hours a night is enough and you'll be well off with it. I didn't do records but improved from yesterday clearly and those are pretty good results anyway.
Day 10.3
Naptime: 9:40-9:55, 15 min
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last oversleep: 22 h
Successful naps in a row: 1
Finally I managed to grab at least the minimum of sleep.
Alright, I managed to weather through the sleep deprivation as well! Now I just have to hope that the next nap doesn't bring an oversleep.
Day 10.4
Naptime: 13:35-13:50, 15 min
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes
Time since last oversleep: 26 h
Successful naps in a row: 2
Wow, successful nap, REM and tiredness easing off. Amazing!
Day 10.5
Naptime: 17:35-17:55, 20 min
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last oversleep: 30 h
Successful naps in a row: 3
Slowly but surely everything is starting to take it's place.
Day 10.6
Naptime: 21:35-21:55, 20 min
Mental 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last oversleep: 34 h
Successful naps in a row: 4
Nothing special. I feel fine. See ya in next post
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