Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Exhausted after a calculus test...
Calculus test done today. I am so frickin tired out of it, I might reconsider ever having thought about uberman. I guess it's a temporal side effect of too much math. And yesterday I attempted regular, monophasic sleep, because of the killer test today, but all I could do was lay on bed with my eyes closed all night. Nothing interesting happened. I was bored as hell. Does that mean uberman is going somewhere?
Monday, February 8, 2010
It ain't easy!
Well with college's workload it's getting hard to do regular napping at the very least, so I guess I might have a difficulty this week with achieving Ubermanship. But worry not, from this wednesday and on, I'll be less loaded and I'll be capable of peacefully doing it. On another note, kicking my biological clock out of monophasic sleep isn't as easy as I thought, it keeps insisting on good ol' monophasic. For now, I'll keep aiming at it, but it's supposed to be way easier once I'm out of the exam this wednesday.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
A pause, need to study
Well I have a problem when I do this thing: I'm almost constantly hungry, so I gotta check that out first, and take an exam, then I'll keep it up. Meanwhile, at the very least I'll do some napping to start getting used to it.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Initiating: Uberman sleep schedule experiment
Uberman sleep schedule - a type of polyphasic sleep (note: poly = more than one, phasic = phase) where the subject only takes short 20 min naps every 4 hours, instead of a regular night sleep. This means, the subject is awake 22 out 0f 24 hours. Said to boost energy and grant the user ridiculously large aumonts of free time. It has other rumored side effects, bad and good, tough the intention of this blog is to find out as they happen.
After a night of scarce sleep (2 - 3 hours?) I decided to begin doing the uberman sleep schedule. I scheduled my naps at 2, 6 and 10 AM/PM which is good since it brings no conflict with my classes.
The next night I had no regular sleep but 2 short 20 min naps, of which one accidentally extended to 30 mins. The following day at college, I was kinda tired tough not exhausted. I had a real hard time not falling asleep in the classes (tough the topic of calculus was boring to me and in physics I don't know why I paid no attention at all, instead drawing an anime chick on the chair) other than that, not particularly sleepy.
A really annoying thing was that before that night I napped, the previous day, I didn't get breakfast, had subway pizza for breakfast/lunch and at 6 pm a slice of pizza and some water. After that, at 3 am in the morning when I woke up from my first nap, I was extremely hungry. A bowl of cereal did nothing, neither drinking orange juice from the gallon. But I managed to do it. That morning, at 7 am, I bought an apple and ate half of it. Later between calculus and physics classes, I vomited it. Once out of classes, at 9:30 am, I went to subway and got a footlong. Ate half of it and still felt hungry, but it went away after a while. at 10:40 something, my next nap. The next nap, 2:30 PM, had to be skipped, yet I did not feel particularly sleepy. I ate at Popeye's at nap time, 2:30, and had next nap at 6:30. Then I kept working on a proggraming project until 10, when I ate and then napped. I accidentally set my alarm to 1h, 20min and overslept 10 min, then my friends woke me up. That night, due to hunger and tiredness, I decided to "reset" and start anew. Went to bed from 1 AM to 8:40 AM, and now I write this after my 10 am nap. Yes, even tough I did normal sleep again, I'm sticking to the naps. Eventually I'll do it, but the main reason for the reset was the almost constant hunger issue. Now that I have had breakfast and will have lunch soon, I'll resume the schedule today and avoid skipping meals, since it is really annoying to eat and still be hungry.
Throughout the whole period, I never got sleepy beyond the point where it would affect my performance on anything, tough always slightly tired. The real problem was, I was always extremely hungry and food would hardly help. Today I will proceed with the experiment and see what happens, and with proper eating habits this time.
After a night of scarce sleep (2 - 3 hours?) I decided to begin doing the uberman sleep schedule. I scheduled my naps at 2, 6 and 10 AM/PM which is good since it brings no conflict with my classes.
The next night I had no regular sleep but 2 short 20 min naps, of which one accidentally extended to 30 mins. The following day at college, I was kinda tired tough not exhausted. I had a real hard time not falling asleep in the classes (tough the topic of calculus was boring to me and in physics I don't know why I paid no attention at all, instead drawing an anime chick on the chair) other than that, not particularly sleepy.
A really annoying thing was that before that night I napped, the previous day, I didn't get breakfast, had subway pizza for breakfast/lunch and at 6 pm a slice of pizza and some water. After that, at 3 am in the morning when I woke up from my first nap, I was extremely hungry. A bowl of cereal did nothing, neither drinking orange juice from the gallon. But I managed to do it. That morning, at 7 am, I bought an apple and ate half of it. Later between calculus and physics classes, I vomited it. Once out of classes, at 9:30 am, I went to subway and got a footlong. Ate half of it and still felt hungry, but it went away after a while. at 10:40 something, my next nap. The next nap, 2:30 PM, had to be skipped, yet I did not feel particularly sleepy. I ate at Popeye's at nap time, 2:30, and had next nap at 6:30. Then I kept working on a proggraming project until 10, when I ate and then napped. I accidentally set my alarm to 1h, 20min and overslept 10 min, then my friends woke me up. That night, due to hunger and tiredness, I decided to "reset" and start anew. Went to bed from 1 AM to 8:40 AM, and now I write this after my 10 am nap. Yes, even tough I did normal sleep again, I'm sticking to the naps. Eventually I'll do it, but the main reason for the reset was the almost constant hunger issue. Now that I have had breakfast and will have lunch soon, I'll resume the schedule today and avoid skipping meals, since it is really annoying to eat and still be hungry.
Throughout the whole period, I never got sleepy beyond the point where it would affect my performance on anything, tough always slightly tired. The real problem was, I was always extremely hungry and food would hardly help. Today I will proceed with the experiment and see what happens, and with proper eating habits this time.
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