Greetings, everyone!  Sorry about the period of silence - "Second Winter" in Boston brought me a pretty nasty cold, and as you may know, since I don't get sick often, I can be a real wimp when I am.  Specifically this lingering cough has me cursing and whining something fierce.  *sigh*  I just haven't been taking fantastic care of myself lately ( Read more... )

Maybe the reason I've been forced to struggle with jobs and mental health and unrealistic, unhealthy expectations from my culture my whole life is SO that I would break out of the defaults and experiment with things like alternative sleep schdedules.

(Determinism is comforting sometimes, innit?  I don't buy it for a second, but man does it make ( Read more... )

OK, just a few days into fixing my schedule.  It goes well!  I won't bore you with the details because now I have a Slack group to assault with that sort of thing.  :)  Having the group is great, too - I'm really enjoying having a big ol' chat channel to hash over sleep (and related, and unrelated) talk with interested people in.

I'm sure ( Read more... )

Thanks to the coolness of the Internet, no-one has to send me their email address to request an invite to the Ubersleep Chat ever again.  You can now go to https://ubersleepchat.herokuapp.com/ and request one yourself!

Thank all the gods for that one; whew.  I was not ( Read more... )

I get this question SO OFTEN:

(Paraphrasing) "I set my alarm and fell asleep I think, but then I woke up and just a few minutes had gone by.  Do I get up, or lay there?"

Here's my latest, and I think, most concise answer:

"If you’re adapting, then stay in bed until your alarm goes off.  Just lay there and relax.  Meditate if you ( Read more... )

Guys. This week, THINGS CHANGE. More on how later.

But for now, one thing has happened that you'll want to be aware of (I'll send an email about this too, eventually): I started a Slack channel.  For us, and for anybody who wants to talk and collaborate with us.  I've been missing the contact with polyphasic-as-a-community that I used to ( Read more... )

Here's a lovely poem that I had never heard before today:

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through -

And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum -
Kept beating - beating - till I thought
My mind was going numb -

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I love the few great ideas I've heard expressed equally well in a Western and an Eastern context; it gives me hope that any method of understanding has the potential to reveal truth, if applied correctly.

Here's one:  In Western Christian spiritual efforts, you "don't let the Devil know" what you're doing - mythically, because "he" will, ( Read more... )

I was reminded recently of this post from years ago.  It's the biggest, baddest attempt I've made at defining what I got to calling "3D thinking", and did a bunch of blathering about (clearly) while I tried to iron out what I'd discovered.

I didn't need the post to remind me that I still think 3D thinking is the most important discovery of ( Read more... )

Bunch of stuff going on right now, and I’ve got to play my public cards close for a little bit; but I couldn’t resist taking at least a preliminary step on this: I’ve been getting more polyphasic-questions emails than I can answer for a little while, and wouldn’t you know it I’m pretty good at running video-meetings. If I did a group meeting ( Read more... )