...I've realized that there are a few nice things about monophasic sleep.

1. One doesn't have to find tasks enough to fill 21+ hours of the day.
2. Most of one's friends that live in the same physical and temporal location tend to be awake when you are.
3. One can enjoy their sleepy philosophical ponderings while lying in bed-- 15 minutes of ( Read more... )

I really miss polyphasic sleep, and I found myself telling my mother today that save for my school schedule, I would still be on it. I slipped out of my biphasic plan and back to monophasic a while ago, mostly at the urging of my father. I hope to try polyphasic again next year in college, when I have a more adaptable schedule.

Yet despite all this ( Read more... )

Good-bye, hexaphasic. I'll miss thee, but I promise to visit ( Read more... )

I'm makin' bread as I type!

Well not, exactly as I type, because the keyboard would get terribly gooey and covered in flour and stuff. It's downstairs rising. Man, I love cooking late at night. Here's a tip, if you're going polyphasic: the half-hour after you wake from a nap, no matter whether you slept poorly or well, drags like hell. If you have ( Read more... )

Polyphasic sleep leads to some great late-night cookin'. I spent about an hour and a half last night rolling out noodle dough to fractions of an inch thick, and damned if they aren't the best noodles I've ever made. Ah, the wonders of wheat flour. I will gladly share my recipe of awesomenesss.

In other news, I have some
weird freaking dreams.

I ( Read more... )

Polyphasic sleep is messing with my perception of time. Seriously. This feels like maybe day 8 or 9, and though it's scarcely 11:30, it feels like it should be around 16:00. Perhaps it's the weather-- the sort of overcast where early morning feels the same as midafternoon-- perhaps it's because my ability to guess the time craps out if I lose my ( Read more... )

Wow, it's day 10? How the heck did that happen ( Read more... )

I'm writing this primarily to help others attempting this experiment. I know that a lot of the time my ramblings are verbose and damn-near impossible to follow (ah, sleep deprivation!), so I figured I'd write a summary of my one week on the Uberman schedule so far.

The Goal:
-Adopt the Uberman's sleep schedule by sleeping for 25 minutes every four ( Read more... )

Guh. My will-power is weak. After deciding with typical near-intoxicated sleep-deprived logic that a few hours of sleep wouldn't hurt, I proceeded to sleep from 4:00 to around 14:00. Bloody. Freaking. Hellfire. All my progress down the toilet, says me ( Read more... )

Despite my major screw-up just at the begining of the day (my days, for the purpose of counting, start at 6:30-- it was the time I woke up on day 1, so it's the official changeover), today went quite well. I'm still sleeping on the floor with a pillow-- the bed is far too appealing-- but my energy levels are remaining more constant. 22:00-2:00 was ( Read more... )