Sunday, July 1, 2007

Day 61 - 22 again

Last night was a bit better. I slept only from 5.20am to 7.20am, and used Counter Strike Source to prevent me from falling asleep. My 2 hours of sleep felt just like one short nap, but I was way more exhausted than after a standard nap.

With this 5.20am nap I tried to reduce my nap length back to 20 minutes, but it seems as if that was a hasty decision. But still, 25 minutes feel a bit too long.

With my 3.20pm nap I tried it again, but this time I chose 22 minutes instead of 20. So far I am really glad that I did this. My naps feel good once again and the wake up procedure is a lot less painful than before. The next night will be child's play...



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Saturday, June 30, 2007

Day 60 - Another stupid Friday

And again....
Last night I slept from 11pm to 3.20am. I I hadn't set up my alarm to remind me of the next nap at 11pm, I don't know how long I would have been asleep.
Well after that, I was completely awake. After the 7.20am nap I was a little bit tired again, but not too much to delay my cleaning jobs.

Talking was so-so, better than usual, but not really good. On the way home I felt completely awake and that feeling didn't disappeared until late in the night.



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Friday, June 29, 2007

Day 59 - Three day, one crash

Whooho, I screwed up. Yep, I slept from 3.20am to 7.50am last night. Two days success, one day crash. This is annoying. It seems that I have to think or more ways to make my 3am sleep really uncomfortable.

The rest of the day was not that good either. At 2pm I felt unusually tired, I rarely experienced that before. I'm still sticking to my 25 minutes, maybe I should change that in the next days.



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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Day 58 - Stay awake

No oversleep again. My down-phase seems to be finally over and done with. Now it's time to concentrate on staying awake again. I was successful for 2 days now, so the next night will be critical, as it is the end of the usual 3 day rhythm I tend to have.

So far the night went great. I was a little bit tired right before my 11.20pm nap, but after it I had no problems at all. With Mario Strikers Charged Football and Counter Strike I encountered no fatigue so far. Now it's time for my 3.20am nap. I am a little bit afraid. This will be crucial. My critical nap. Good luck for me.

See you soon!



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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Day 57 - A new nap

Hehe, finally. Last night was great, I was completely awake all the time and neither oversleep nor fatigue didn't stand a chance against me. I watched some episodes of Dexter and even at 4am (my critical time) I could lay on my bed watching it.

I will now start/continue to add an extra nap at 5.20am, in the middle between my 3.20 and my 7.20 naps. I hope it will not only helps me to stay awake at my critical time, but also to to prevent general fatigue by adding another 15 minutes of REM sleep to my day.

Well, I still have to report a bit of extra sleep. I overslept after my 32.0pm nap today. It was only one hour, but that is still too much for me. Since it happened in broad daylight I think I didn't set up my alarm properly.



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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Week 8

What can I say? Shit. This week was utter shit. I stopped my core sleep a week ago, but somehow I still had about 4-5 hours of sleep almost every night. Seems as if the recovery from my bad eye isn't over yet.

One thing that bother me even more than all this sleep is the quality of my naps. After I went on and on last week about my beloved naps, I have to report now that they are not good at all at the moment. I rarely dream, and it takes me about 5-6 minutes to even fall asleep. Thus I decided to extend my nap length to 25 minutes, just like in the beginning of my experiment. This is really annoying and I hope I will be able to get rid of this with a bit sleep dep next week.



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Day 56 - Reading is bad

This can't be happening. Last night I was so awake, I just felt great. Then, at 2.30am I decided that I was awake enough to read. For half an hour I had no problems at all, no fatigue, nothing. Then I fell asleep for 10 minutes. After I woke up I was stupid enough not to stop reading.


Guess what? Oversleep. Until 7am. Shit.

The rest of the day I had my usual bad naps. Too much sleep just kills my naps. We'll, I have big plans for tonight (watch Dexter Season 1) and I won't let any oversleep disturb this thing. I'll beat myself in the face if I let this happen...



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Monday, June 25, 2007

Day 55 - He, my name is Adork

Well, what can I say. It's pathetic. After my oversleep yesterday from 11:20pm to 03:20am I thought it would be over. But no, after my 7.20am nap I once again decided to lay down a bit more. Of course with open eyes, so that I can fall asleep again. What bullshit. I slept another 90 minutes.

The rest of the day went normal though, except a short nap delay at 7.20, nothing important. So, can this happen again? I certainly hope not. I'm so awake, it would be a shame to fall asleep in sometimes in the next days. Do I still think it's possible? Oh yes, because I'm a dork as it seems.



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Sunday, June 24, 2007

Day 54 - Too much sleep

My day started with 4 hours of sleep from 3.20am to 7.20am. After that I felt really good for the rest of the day. I finally used my alarm again to REMEMBER my naptimes and so I got all of them without delay. For the first time after my break I didn't felt all weary, hence I'm almost happy that I slept 3 and a half hours more than wanted.

It didn't seem like 4 hours was enough. In the evening I overslept again. The same thing happened, but this time from 11.20pm-3.20am. The only difference is that I was at least able to set up my alarm for the next nap before falling asleep at 11.20. I don't think that I would have woken up without my alarm, but that doesn't matter anymore, because now I'm up and running.



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Saturday, June 23, 2007

Day 53 - Polyphasic Strike

Last night was quite good, but not perfect. I played Counterstrike for the first time in years and this really helped me to stay awake. As long as I played I felt no fatigue at all, that was great. I played until my 3.20am nap and had no problems to stand up after it. I decided that I would take an extra nap at 5.20 from now on, but somehow I fell asleep before it and woke up at 6am. Then I thought that I would still take my extra nap (although I just had slept) and then a sleeping Odyssey began. I practically slept until 7:50 but not in one chunk. Instead I decided to take another nap immediately after waking up from the previous one. I was barely awake for about 30 seconds between the naps, but that is still worth mentioning I guess.

Daytime nap were no problem again, but I felt unusual tired all the day. Then at 10.20pm I started a 40 minutes IQ test. After approximately 30-35 minutes for this test I fell asleep again :D
This time only for 30-40 minutes, but it still bothered me. After I woke up I took my regular nap. Then I was completely exhausted. Yes, I was exhausted of sleeping. I couldn't explain it, but just like in the night before I felt more and more tired with every minute I slept. So for the rest of the night I chose to take my naps every 2 hours instead of every 4. I desperately hope that this will help...

Wow, now that was a weird day. Somehow I wasn't able to fight my fatigue, not even by sleeping more. My wild nap session at 6am felt out of control. I hope that I can forget this day very fast and move on.



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Friday, June 22, 2007

Day 52 -Just 90 minutes

The night was almost perfect. I was vary alert all the time, I even managed to play about 30-40 minutes of Phoenix Wright, which is the same as reading. That was at1.30am. Too bad that I fell asleep after these 40 minutes.

Before and after this 90 minutes oversleep I was completely awake and had no problem to do anything I want. The transition to day was seamless and I had no problems with any of the following naps. I guess reading is still a problem I shouldn't underestimate.



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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Day 51 - Gimme five

Today I got less than 5 hours of sleep and now I feel like shit. I didn't experienced this kind of tiredness for a long time, I think I should call it monophasic fatigue. The polyphasic fatigue is much more comfortable than the monophasic one, I just didn't realized it until now. The feeling I got now, the strong wish to got back to bed is worse than anything I suffered from during my polyphasic time. Damn, this was my last "monophasic" night for a while. I'm happy that my eye is OK again.

My 11.20am nap was even worse than the night. I couldn't really catch any sleep and I think I never felt worse after a nap. The next nap adjusted this, and I felt rather good again, just like after the following naps. I doubt that I will have any problems to stay awake in the upcoming night due to my countless hours of sleep in the last days :P



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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Day 50 - Great Teacher Onizuka!!

Wow, day 50. Too bad that there is no way for me to celebrate it with my bad eye and my recent core naps^^

Last night I stayd up until roughly 3am and then went to bed. My newly beloved 5 hours sleep gave me a good rest and my eye felt much better after that. I took the rest of the naps in time, watched the end of Great Teacher Onizuka and went to the cinema to see Hot Fuzz, which I found to be great. Cinema with my eye was not as bad as yesterday, but I still had to close it 2-3 times. Don't think that I have to be afraid of this.

And finally Battlestar Galactica Season 2.1 arrived. It will be our new TV show for our pizza-wednesday. Tomorrow we'll watch the first episode, whooho



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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Week 7

A lot happened in this last week. At first it seemed rather successful, but on Saturday I got a big problem with my eye, which resulted in me going to the hospital at 12am for some eye drops. I should have made a photo of my eye being all red, looked almost funny^^
Because of that I decided sleep monophasic for several days, but I didn't stopped taking my naps because of that. So with other words it was more like taking a big core sleep in the night, about 5 hours.

But I'm still surprised of how well the first half went. I was tired sometimes, but I was able to cope with that. That makes me feel a lot better about my experiment, maybe I CAN be a fully adapted Uberman someday.

The monophasic sleep the last days felt good at the beginning, but short after it already sucked. Waking up tired from a nap is much better than waking up tired after a monophasic sleep phase. That made me realize how much I like my naps...
Well, my naps ARE really great. They feel much longer than 20 minutes, much much longer, about t4-5 hours, or sometimes even longer. The main reason for that is that I dream just as much and as long as in a normal monophasic sleep. This sounds weird, but it's true. As I reported, I sometimes wake up after the first half of my nap. When that happens, I sometimes even have two different dreams, which makes the nap even longer for me.
You know what? A lot of people said to me: "I wouldn't do Uberman, because I really like to sleep". I love sleeping too, so Uberman is perfect for me. I can sleep 6 times a day and have dreams and stuff 6 times a day. It's great, I always happy if it's time for my nap, because I'm curious of what will happen^^
Sleep is great



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Day 49 - Coresleep II

Last night I slept five hours again, with other word, I woke up at 6am. I decided to take the dog out for a walk, although riding the bike could make my eye worse. It didn't and I'm glad about it.

I can really feel my eye getting better if I sleep so I won't stop to have my pretty long core naps at night. With these there is of course no oversleep and no problem with my naps at all. So, there isn't much to report besides my core length...

Anyway I went to the cinema for the first time in a while to watch Ocean's Thirteen. It hurt my right eye sometimes, so I had to close it. No mayor problem and I was still able to enjoy the movie.



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Monday, June 18, 2007

Day 48 - Coresleep I

I woke up at 5.45am, which means I got about 5 hours of sleep or with other words 1 normal nap (20 minutes) + 3 normal sleep cycles (90 minutes). I made some food and was up until 7:20am. I took my nap and after that I stayed in bed a little bit longer, I think about 2 or 3 hours. After that I continued only with my naps until 9.30pm. I fell asleep until midnight. I was awake for one more hour and then went to bed completely.

This destroys my schedule, but there's nothing I can do about it, my eye seems more important to me. I don't think that this will last longer than one week, and then I will definitely be on my schedule again.



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Sunday, June 17, 2007

Day 47 - Red Alert!

Today hell broke loose.
Since five or six days I noticed that my right eye turned red all of a sudden. It almost disappeared on Tuesday/Wednesday and then on Friday it was all red again. I only noticed it because of a very light pain when looking in specific directions. Today this got worse. I couldn't look into bright areas without pain and focusing very close things was almost the same. In the evening almost everything was too bright too look at and this was not acceptable. After my 11.20pm nap I was driven to the hospital by my dad and I got some eye drops to cure this.

Of course this had an impact on my polyphasic sleep schedule. Starting the next night, I will get some hours of sleep to cure this illness. I will continue to take my naps at daytime, but I think nocturnal sleep will be inevitable. So I got to bed at 1am, let's see how long I will be able to sleep....



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Saturday, June 16, 2007

Day 46 - It works^^

A-no-ther-night! Well, there was oversleep, if you want to call it that way. After my 4.20am nap I took another nap, because I somehow got the feeling that my previous one wasn't really successful. After that my naps were delivered as planned and I had no problems to stick to them.

I did waste some time after my 7.20am nap, so I shifted my cleaning jobs to 12am instead of 8am. No problems to get my 3.20pm nap after that in time, so everything went fine. I didn't felt that tired, the old lady talk was OK.

Everything seems to run better and better. Maybe I can still succeed in this whole thing.



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Friday, June 15, 2007

Day 45 - Socializing

No problems tonight, I hope this continues for some time. The day went over without any incidents and in the evening I was with a couple of friends. No problems there either, I was able to wrap all activities around my naps, both the 7.20pm and the 11.30pm one.



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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Day 44 - Fatigue!

Fatigue is the topic of the day!
I felt unusually tired between my 3.20am and my 7.20am nap, so I tried to stay awake doing various things. But finally I fell asleep in front of my computer from 4.20am to 5.50am. After that I continued as if nothing had happened, the fatigue was mostly gone. This didn't bother me that much, but still, I'd like to have a couple of day in a row without oversleep.



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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Day 43 - Guess what?

This day was so boring...




Everything went well XD
I had no oversleep and only one nap delay of 15 minutes. Te night was mine, and that's the way it's meant to be^^



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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Day 42 - No Internet

Weird day.
The last night was wonderful, my 3.20am nap just passed by and the 7.20 was even better. I woke up after exactly 20 minutes, only seconds before my alarm, which feels much better than waking up by an alarm. 15-20 minutes after waking up you won't feel much of a difference , but getting up is a lot more comfortable.

My day did not get any better than this. After my 15.20 nap I was a too lazy to stand up, and this resulted in a 1 hours oversleep. Oversleep at daytime, this is bad, but on the other hand, it didn't hurt much :D

The next big event was after at my 23.30 nap. I woke up at 01:48 without any memory of what happened and even worse without a working internet connection. I'm eagerly waiting for the next day to arrive.



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Week 6

This week was rather good. I had some oversleep, but My oversleep seems to limit itself on 5 hours not, as if more sleep was not possible. On the other hand I had really good nights I could use for everything I wanted.

I tried something new this week. First, I decided to get up, if I wake up before my nap is officially over. IF I wake up at all, then it's after 10-12 minutes, the exact half of one of my naps. This turned out to be a mistake, soon after the first tries I was too tired to get up and so I already stopped this. I don't think I will try that again, but I wonder why my body awakens sometimes after exactly 12 minutes.

The second change this week was the reduction of my nap length from 25 to 20 minutes. I can't say that I felt any difference yet, so I think that I will stay with this. I noticed that I am now able to fall asleep in 1-2 minutes, so I think this times suits me now. Maybe the next week will bring clearer results.



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Monday, June 11, 2007

Day 41 - Two nights in a row

Oh no :(
Two nights in a row. Oversleep caught me again, and it was even the same length: 5 hours. The only difference is the nap it occured on. Today it came after my 7.20am nap, which is pretty late for an oversleep. I think I drove myself to sleep by reading and playing Pheonix Wright just before my nap. I was so tired, that I even started my nap 10 minutes earlier than usual.

Daytime has never been a problem and this didn't change today. Although I took 2 of my naps 20 minutes too late there was no further problem. And I know one thing for sure: There will be no oversleep in the next night!



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Sunday, June 10, 2007

Day 40 - Lucid Dreaming

Last night I went for my 3.20 nap and... failed. My plan was to spend the night watching Mushishi, but instead I slept for 5 hours. I don't know why this happened, maybe because of my meal at that time. At 2.30am I had a (too) big portion of Chinese veggies with some tofu and rice, I think that knocked me out.

Later, on my 3.20pm nap, I experienced something new. I had my very first lucid dream. I wrote, that I had one at the beginning of my experiment, but now I think that I was wrong. This one was much more intense.
A fly bothered me while taking my nap and so I could not really fall asleep. Time after time I had to scare it off which made it impossible for me to fall asleep completely. I was half asleep most of the time, but at the end of my nap, the fly suddenly stopped bothering me. I fell asleep in an instant and after this long time of changing between different stages of sleep I knew, that I was sleeping. Then I was able to control my steps, and by concentrating really hard on what I saw, I was able to maintain this dream. Had I just rushed through this dream, I think it would have been over before I even recognized it. I walked and turned around very slowly, and then I tried a few things. A little bit hovering was possible, but no flying. Then I created a too-big-for-life HDTV, I think it must have had about 200" or something like that. After that I was able to create a fireball in my right palm. Right after this success, the damn fly woke me up again.
On my next nap it happened again, but this time it was only about 10 seconds, then it was over, and I didn't dream anymore on this nap.

Well, I hope this happens again sometimes.

I had another oversleep at my 23.30pm nap, but this wasn't as spectacular as my previous one. I didn't set up my alarm correctly so I slept 45 extra minutes until my pal woke me up. I hope that's enough oversleep for the next days.



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Saturday, June 9, 2007

Day 39 - Byebye 12 minutes sleep

I successfully mastered the last night, but one thing changed already. When I had my 3.20am nap this morning, I did wake up after 12 minutes again. But this time I was so tired, that I had to get back to sleep again. But I think if this occurs again when I'm not tired, I might be getting up again after 12 minutes naps.

The rest of the day felt great. I felt no fatigue at all when talking to the old lady (as every Friday) and today there was a lot of talking and less cleaning.



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Friday, June 8, 2007

Day 38 - Blackout

What the... I have no clue what happened last night. I know that I made some food at 4am and then I somehow, somewhen went to bed. I woke up at 9.45am, so I guess I slept for approximately 5 hours. I don't remember any fatigue or anything, I think I just laid down for a moment, a moment that turned out to be very long.


After my 11.20am nap some things changed. I decided not to go to sleep again, if I wake up after my usual 12 minutes. And just on my next nap I had the chance to try this out. I slowly woke up, only to find out that I indeed slept for 12 minutes. I took off my blindfold and my headphones(for waking me via an mp3) and stood up. I felt really good. I felt great. So I think that I will do it again.

At the same time I decided to finally shorten my nap length to 20 minutes. Since I need less time to fall asleep I think I can handle that. My 19.20pm nap was my first 20 minutes nap and I didn't feel any difference to my previous naps. I'll see how well this works out in the next days and maybe I'll try some other lengths.

Looks like there will be a lot of experimenting in the next time.



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Thursday, June 7, 2007

Day 37 - Nothing to do

Today I stretched my walk with the dog up to 3 hours. That was quite exhausting and I was glad that I was at any rate not late for my 11.20am nap. I had the rest of my naps in time, except for my 11.20pm nap. I was a bit sluggish and so I laid down again after waking up, which resulted in about 10-15 minutes of extra sleep.

When I started I had no problem to stand up immediately after I awoke. Now it gets harder and harder, manly because there is nothing that big to do most of the time.



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Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Day 36 - This doesn't get me down

Today's oversleep was so small, it isn't even worth mentioning. I slept for 45 more minutes after my 7.20am nap. I was still in time for my walkout with the dog, so I don't feel like I miss something.

That's what bothers me even more than the drawback on my adaption. I hate it, when my oversleep is destroying wonderful plans I made for that night. After all I'm still very busy doing everything I'd like to do, so an oversleep that lasts several hours is always a loss for me.



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Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Week 5

I would really call this week a success. There were more nights without major oversleep than in the last weeks, and since my monophasic sleep on Saturday I feel better than in a long time. But there are still a few things on my mind that bother me.

One of my first thoughts about polyphasic sleep was, that I would have significantly more time and with that, finally some time to spend on my piano. But since I started my Ubermansleep 5 weeks ago, I hardly even touched my piano. I just can't find the right time, since there is so much to do between two naps. Changing this would be a huge success for me, and I hope that I will be able to, before I quit my polyphasic sleep schedule.

I have to admit, that my nap quality changed a lot since the beginning. I can now sleep in about 1-2 minutes, I just have to concentrate on my nap before I actually take it. After my naps I feel like I was asleep for 8 hours or something like that and really have to start the day over again. My dreams are so long that I just can't believe that I slept only for 25 minutes.
The odd thing is, that I still wake up sometimes after 10-12 minutes, just like in my first week. I wake up in a state of full alertness and I already feel, as if I had slept several hours. Thus I ALWAYS think, that I overslept, until I look on my alarm. When I realize, that only 10 minutes passed, I lay down again for another chunk of sleep. I wonder what that means. I think I could try to shorten my nap length to 20 minutes since I now fall asleep so fast.

Some new experiment some new problems. I'll keep you posted of the results



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Day 35 - Uberman on the Moon

Hmm, already? didn't see this coming. I had some minor oversleep from 12am to 4am. I was still on my schedule to watch "Man on the Moon" at 4.15am, and then I screwed up again. Not really screwed up, I just mixed up my sleeping times and so I had a nap at 6.20am instead of 7.20am. After all I felt no real consequences from this, but it was still unnecessary.

This night I was in company again until 3am and so far I don't feel like oversleeping. Company IS a great way to stay awake and I am always happy to have it.



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Monday, June 4, 2007

Day 34- Sunday, Cake

I would have been truly disappointed if oversleep had occurred on the first night after my re-start. I didn't happen and was in a perfect shape all through the night. Both of my grandmothers were here for a visit, so there was more than enough food, more that I could eat. With all the cookies and pies and candies I think I will have more than enough energy to make it through the night.

Well, at least I hope it's about energy. There was fat involved, but that was a long time before my nocturnal naps. I don't think the influence will be big...



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Sunday, June 3, 2007

Day 33 - Recover from Oversleep

Yesterday after my 11:20pm nap I was so tired, that I decided to get one night of full monophasic sleep. And my body didn't object. I slept from about 12am to 9am and woke up extremely refreshed. My polyphasic sleep experience didn't stop my body to sleep in one big chunk, so I'm either flexible in this, or not adapted yet.

I think this will definitely help me with my Ubermansleep. Until yesterday I felt that my body was just too sleepy all in all, like running on low fuel. Even if my Ubermansleep was enough to maintain my status, my status was crap and so I reset it. Now I'm recharged and I hope that I will be able to maintain my status. In a week I will know more.

Well, this long monophasic sleep wasn't all. Right after my decision to be strong again, to start anew I... well, I didn't set my alarm up properly, so it didn't rung after my 11.20am nap, which resulted in another 2 hours oversleep XD
Good Omen!



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Saturday, June 2, 2007

Day 32 - 2 Days is a row!

Wow, two times in a row,
Yep, I was up all night again. I skipped the dog today, because a friend was staying over night. Nonetheless I went out to do my weekly cleaning and this time my drowsiness went away after my ride with the bike to the first apartment. The rest of the day was no problem, although I was badly interrupted at my 3.20pm nap.

Now I wonder why I was able to do it two days in a row. Today was very similar to yesterday, in many ways. I had the same pizza and the same candies, and again I had a companion for the night. Maybe it's the food, maybe it's the good company, I have enough time to find out, what it is.



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Friday, June 1, 2007

Day 31 - Yatta!

I did it. The night was mine, mine alone. I spent the whole night playing my new Oblivion Char and I was able to do so without any minute of oversleep. I took my 3.20 nap at my friends home and soon after it I went home. The 3.20am nap was always the biggest problem, but today I just rushed through it without any problem at all. Weird enough after all the pizza and candies.

Today my new bed arrived, well it's the same as before, but the old one just wore off so fast, that we had it exchanged. That combined with me new mp3 is just perfect so far. I cut the white noise out off my mp3, because I think that this constant input prevented me from dreaming. All the time I was using my first mp3 In never had any dreams at all. But after only two naps with my new one, I already had one. Too bad, since the white noise cut me off from the rest of the world and especially from my loud and noisy neighbours, who made me close my window every time I have a nap, until I used the white noise. I have to do this again now and I hate to sleep with all windows closed, but there's nothing I could do about it.

My meals last evening made me rethink my diet. The last time I was able to stay up all night was Sunday. And just like yesterday I had two warm meals, combined with a lot of unnecessary candies. So maybe part of my oversleep problem was that I did not eat enough. Maybe I just didn't have the energy to stay up at night. I will try to eat some more allover the day and especially some sugar at night. Let's see what this will bring.



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Month 1

Finally, my first monthly report.

A lot of things happened and most of them were to my disadvantage. My Uberman sleep experiment started better than anything I had ever expected. The first week was so great, that I almost believed I could skip the adaption and go on being an happy Uberman right from the beginning. There was only minor fatigue at night and no problem at all to get up from my naps. Surprisingly this was the best week of all, and I still can't believe that, because everything I read points into the opposite direction. Maybe this week hyped me up so much, that I thought I could be more lazy about the whole experiment. Maybe I would be better off without a first week like that.

My second week was almost like week one, only worse. Not much, but it was not as much of a success as the first one, and I think I should have seen this back then. Maybe I could have prevented the following two weeks.

I still hope that the third week was responsible for what happened on week 4. I was out a lot, buying equipment for me new PC and I was very lazy to keep my sleeping times. 30-60 minutes was almost the standard and I thought it wouldn't have any impact on me.

In the last week, I slept almost as much as in my previous monophasic phase. Every night was a trial and most of the time I failed.

All of this happened so fast, yet I can't believe that only one month passed. If I think back I can really feel the time I had while sleeping in a proper Uberman way. In the first weeks I was with my friends almost 4-5 days a week and I still had lots of time for everything I wanted to do.


I was planning to do this at least for 2 months, and I hope that I will be able to stay with this course. If not, this will be a big failure, even more than the first month was. But after all I didn't lose the hope to adapt to Uberman, so I will go on.



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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Day 30 - New Routine?

I will get through this...

Of course... I slept more than 50 minutes the last night. About 5 hours seems to normal now... but not acceptable. I still woke up alone and without alarm at 7.40am so that there was no problem with my daily schedule. After taking out the dog it was time to clean some staircases and so I was busy until 11am, right before my next nap.

The rest of my naps went fine and I was able to take all of them at the right time, so no delay today. In the evening it was time for my pizza and I couldn't avoid all these candies while spending the whole evening modding Oblivion with a fried of mine. The night is still to come, but I am expecting the worst...



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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Day 29 - No Hope

Hope...

it's gone already. I overslept again, and again I knew that it would happen. I was fine until my 11.20pm nap, hyped about the night before. Then I overslept for about an hour, followed by major fatigue. But I began to slowly recover from this and at 3am I was almost awake. To bad that I didn't wake up until 7.20am.

Yes right, I overslept exactly until my next nap time. When I realized this, I turned my alarm to 7.45am so that I would have my usual nap for that time, right after this 4 hours oversleep.

The rest of the day was moderate at least. I still felt pretty tired after my nap and I doubt that I will be able to stay awake the next night. We'll see



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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Week 4

This week was terrible. There wouldn't be much of a difference if I had slept monophasic. To be exact, there was only one day where I was able to be up the whole night. I tried and tried every night, and every night I failed, most of the time oversleeping after my 3.20am nap.

The mix between my disability to prevent my oversleep and my laziness after waking up was too much to handle. I hope, that I will be able to stop this by using my mp3 from now on. If not, I wonder if I will be able to adapt to Uberman at all. Yes, these thought already flickered through my head. I'm not giving up yet, but I feel pretty down.



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Day 28 - SUCCESS!

The titles says it all! The last night was just GREAT. I had almost no fatigue, not even after the critical 3.20 nap! If I think about it, it might even be the best night I had so far on my Ubermansleep. I used the time to watch some anime with English subtitles, and even the reading couldn't bring me down.

Finally I changed my usual sleeping
place. Well, you could say
it's still the same, but to me it's real difference. I use my bed as a sofa when sitting in front of my PC, but I never thought about keeping it that way for my naps. Since I figured that I was sleeping much better on the sofa in the living I asked myself, hmm, maybe your sofa/bed can do the same to your sleep. Well. maybe this made the difference and gave me this wonderful night. I will try this out some more, but at the moment I'm fully assured that with the two major changes in the last day I Will get back my success.

I have hope now. I still have to adapt, but now I think I can do it, and I think that I WILL do it.



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Monday, May 28, 2007

Day 27 - my very own MP3

So for this day is rather good. I was able to take all my naps exactly on time, although one my friends was here for about 10 hours. At 11.20pm I had no place to sleep, because there was someone in almost every room, so I used an old bench in the kitchen. Surprisingly I fell asleep very fast and was able to recover quite a bit.

Today I had to modify my mp3 again, because I found out that the white noise was actually even longer than 25 minutes. If you want to try it out, you can download the finished version here. It contains "Blue Orchid" by The White stripes and Identity by Shiina Ringo

I had two warm meals this day on the second one was full of fat cheese, not the best premises for the upcoming night, but I'll do my best!



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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Day 26 - The floor is not that hard

No good message I could share with you. I was able to finish my day with my 3.20am nap and wake up after it, but I laid down once more and thus slept until 8am. And once more I could have prevented this by willpower, which bothers me more than an oversleep like yesterday.

I was able to wake up at least and I think that was because I actually implemented the changes I spoke about. The floor is quite comfortable when you all tired and even if you feel otherwise, you won't have much time to complain about it before falling asleep.

My mp3 worked fine so far. It 25.5 minutes of white noise, followed immediately by loud rock songs and annoying alarms. I used 0.5 minutes more than needed to be able to lay down properly after turning on the file. There not much about it, but it definitely helps, because with earphones this alarm is a lot louder that my old alarm ever was. And with earphones it is possible for me to hear it that loud without disturbing my parents in the room next door.

Another day, another failure, but I won't give up yet.



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Saturday, May 26, 2007

Day 25 - Changes

Something has to change. When I finished the day by taking my 3.20am sleep, I knew that I was going to oversleep. Is was a bit more sleepy than usual, and that all day long. but I had no real problem to stay awake, not even while talking to the old lady like before. But at 3am I suddenly felt so exhausted, I knew that my alarm wouldn't be enough to wake me up. So I still went to bed and yes, I overslept exactly one circle and woke up at 7.50am.

I knew it was coming, but unable to do something. Well, was I? I think I could do some more to prevent such a breakdown.

1. Sleeping on the floor. I tried this once, but I wasn't even able to sleep, so there was no point in improving my awakening if there was no sleep. But I think in an extreme situation like that I would be able to sleep, and maybe it would help me to wake up. I hope so.

2. Finally creating my own sleep mp3. I will use the usual white noise you can hear in Placebo's file, but speed up the awakening phase a lot. I will start with a very loud song and if this doesn't wake me up in about 15 seconds I will use annoying alarms.

I really hope that I will be able to adapt and I hope it's getting better soon. So far it's gotten worse every week. Something has to change.



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Friday, May 25, 2007

Day 24 - Strictness

Good god, thanks. Almost no oversleep. Almost? yeah right, I managed to get some extra sleep again, but I think with this happening at 4pm on day 25 this is a story for the next blogpost. At least I got my naps on time again, I finally stopped this chaos that occured last week.

I really hope that I can maintain this status now, oversleep sucks and I felt bad almost every day of the last week. Adaption stopped, and I can't say that I like it where I am stuck now. I have one speculation going on here: Sugar consumption. I ate just too much of this stuff in the last days. Monday and Wednesday I was playing "The guild" with one of my friends and sugar was a steady companion. Then yesterday I ate all those cookies. I had to get off of sugar and I think and hope, that I succeeded in this today.

Damn, I seriously have to be more strict about all this.



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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Day 23 - 500 gram

This is getting worse and worse. I overslept once again, but this time I went to bed at 11.20pm and woke up at about 6.15am. Yeah, right, this is long. And today I am the only one to blame for this.

Remember the 500g pizza I had yesterday? I ate another one today. And as if this wasn't enough I filled the rest of my stomach with cookies. That was very stupid, I should have known that. As if this wasn't enough, my alarm was turned off when I went to sleep. I had turned it off before and forgot to turn in on again, a thing I never expected for me to happen. So in conclusion this day was a disaster.



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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Day 22 - Happy New Week!

So today my fourth week on uberman begins, and I celebrated this with a very stupid act. After my 3.20am nap I decided to fight my fatigue by just lying in my bed and shut my eyes a bit. Yes, this is the single most stupid idea I ever had. Of course I fell asleep again. I can be lucky that my mom woke me up at 7.50am, so I was still able to keep my schedule with the dog.

I wanted to be more strict and now this. OK, FROM NOW ON! No oversleep, no lying in bed, I have to rise without a thought.

Nut without doubt, this small oversleep gave me a boost. I had no more problems, and even the 500g pizza I eat every Wednesday couldn't bring me down. In fact, this was the first time since the start of my Uberman Schedule that I actually eat the complete pizza at once. So far I ate 2/3 and the last third one nap later, so that my digestion doesn't make me sleepy. But today I was able to play "The Guild" until 5.30am. So, maybe this WAS a new start after all. Week 4, I'm coming!



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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Week 3

I wouldn't call this week successful, there was still way too many oversleep for my taste. There is still no end to the adaption and I think I will have to wait a while for that, IF it ever occurs. So far my Uberman experience is different from everything I have read before, so there is no chance for me to pre-estimate how this will end.

This week was full of napdelays. Almost every day I managed to miss one of my naps so that I got off the schedule for 15-30minutes, one time I even delayed my nap for more than 2 hours. This doesn't help me with my adaption, and so this is the first thing that will change with the upcoming week. I won't allow such a mess again, I'm sure of that. If there are noticeable consequences I might take one night off to regain the alertness I need for this experiment. That will be definitely better than struggling because I'm still tired of one messed up week.
golem out...



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Day 21 - Monday

Latest oversleepreport: 2 hours after my 3.20 nap. I didn't set up the alarm correctly, I forgot that the weekend was over (My alarm differs between two alarm times to setup: monday-friday and weekend.)

My 7.20 was unexpected great. I woke up without my alarm at the exact right time and I was awake in an instant. I was a bit sleepy after my 11.20pm nap, but that's it for today. Nothing special...



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Monday, May 21, 2007

Day 20 - 2 hours too late

Last night there was some kind of... incident. I was modding Oblivion to death, and while trying and comparing I totally forgot the time. I forgot not only time, but also my naps and so I took my 3.20am nap at 5.40am. On the one hand I hate myself, because this resulted in a heavy oversleep (of course). But on the other hand I am surprised that I did not get sleepy, I mean what the hell, I was 2 hours to late at my critical nap and I didn't notice it.

After that I learned my lesson (At least for today) and I took the rest of my naps without delay.



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Sunday, May 20, 2007

Day 19 - More delay

I'm pretty tired. The last night was exhausting, I hate to setup a new PC. It was a lot of work to find the right configuration for my HDTV and my graphic card to cooperate.

I slept for about three hours from 6am to 9.15am, but was able to take the rest of my naps without oversleep. I delayed two naps again, one for 15, one for 25 minutes. I don't like it, but I couldn't help it at that time. Although I'm not tired yet, I'm sure that the night will be hard.

Today I had to catch up my cleaning. The old lady didn't mind that I was coming one day later, she was glad that I cam eat all. As I said I was tired and talking to the old lady for a while after the cleaning was done, didn't wake me up either. I hard a hard time listening to her and not closing my eyes. I wonder if she noticed it, I must have looked weird.



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Saturday, May 19, 2007

Day 18 - RAM!

Confusion everywhere. I moved my cleaning jobs to 4pm, right after my 3.20pm nap, to be able to accept the delivery (My RAM). Well, usually the postman shows up at 10-11am. I waited and waited and no one showed up. Then finally at 2.50pm, I got my RAM. I decided to delay on of the two cleaning jobs until tomorrow, the other was done very fast, because I had to install Windows until evening. The guild 2 screamed for some multiplayer action.

Concerning my naps: I was able to make it through the night, although I got sleepy at 6am again. I was able to take my naps, but the on at 7.20pm had to wait because of stupid installing circumstances. We played until 3am and then I went home for my last nap of the day.



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Friday, May 18, 2007

Day 17 - One last step is yet to come

Ok, last night was definitely better, although I had that big fat pizza. I made it through the night without problems and since today is public holiday, I didn't even have to take care about the dog

I hate public holidays. They occur every time when I am waiting for something to arrive by mail. This time it's my RAM for the new PC. I have all the components here except the RAM, so I am eagerly waiting for this to arrive. I guess it will be tomorrow and that will be problem, because the postman is most likely to come at the time I am doing my weekly cleaning jobs. Maybe I'll delay them to wait for the package...



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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Day 16 - More Pizza!

Day 16, a Wednesday. Something is wrong today. I usually meet up with a friend Wednesday evening, but that has to drop out today. I still eat my traditional pizza though. I struggle every Wednesday with this and I'm grateful that this big mountain of fat didn't blew up my naps. I had some salad with it so at least it seemed to be more healthful.

Last night after my 3.20am nap I had a pretty hard time. I struggled to stay awake, sitting on my couch and surfing in the Internet. I felt worst between 6 and 7am, after that my alertness went up again.

I was quite tired all day, but not had no problems to take all my naps without oversleep.



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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Day 15 - What time is it?

And yet again, I forgot to take my nap. At 3.20pm I was happily surfing in the Internet, not knowing that I should be sleeping. I realise it about half an hour too late, and when I finally went to my bed, I was almost 50 minutes behind my schedule. I can't say that I suffered form any drawbacks caused by this, I just went to my next nap on time and everything went fine.

The evening went fine as well, Diablo 2 was no problem again. We stuck to my schedule and played until 3am. However at the end I started to suffer from some fatigue and was very relieved that it was already time for my nap.

I decided that from now on my 3.20 will be the end of my day, so the rest of the night will laid down in my next post.



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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Week 2

So I finally reached the mystical mark. Two weeeks on uberman. Akkording to my original plan, I should be adapted by now, and able to do anything I want at every time of the day. Well my original plan, did not anticipate constant oversleep, so screw my original plan.

The last week was worse than my first week. I had more and more oversleep and I don't even know why. I originally thought, that my sleep would improve day by day after the first week, but I didn't work that way. Almost the opposite was the case, and so far there is no stop this.

My diet runs great, I ate now meat so far and it suprisingly doesn't bother me. I'm gathring a lot of recipes and maybe I will stay with this for a while even if I stop this experiment. It's interesting to try out what you can do with just some veggies.

I'm looking forward to my next week and I'm almost sure that I will be able to improve my naps.



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Day 14 - The day after..

Day 14, the end of week two. Nice to start this with the big fat oversleep from last night.
I tooke my other naps without problems, but I didn' really managed to get them in time. I screwed two of them up by taking these naps 30-50 minutes too late. I just forgot it



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Monday, May 14, 2007

Day 13 - Got Sleep?

Again!?! this morning I slept from 7.20am until 10.20am. That was not really, what I intended to do. And surprisingly this was the first time that I overslept in the living room. So far this has been my secret little chamber of hope, a oversleep proof room. Is this going to affect my adaption? I think so, and I curse every single of oversleep I get. And I think this is quite unfair, because there is nothing I can do about it. If it was major fatigue through the day, something like this, I could fight it, but if I don't even reach consciousness, what can I do about it?
Damn

Well, of course this wasn't enough for me. I went to bed at 11.20pm. And I woke up? Yesss, 8am! Shit, this was really unexpected. Thanks to my mom I was at least able to take out the dog, although I was a little bit too late. But still... this is bad.



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Sunday, May 13, 2007

Day 12 - Machina Ex Deus

Nothing big happened. I was able to take all my nap without problems and even had a good time at night. Diablo 2 was no problem tonight, we played until my 3.20am nap without thinking about it.
I ordered all components for my new PC, so it's once again time to wait for the mail to arrive. Next week will be constant waiting. I hope I won't be asleep when the postman rings^^



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Saturday, May 12, 2007

Day 11 - Alarm!

Another big O.
Today i overslept at 7.20p, just like Tuesday, and just like Tuesday I was woken up by the same friend, who arrived at the same time. I hate it. And I don't remember anything. My alarm wasn't even in my reach so the only possibility is that the sound just didn't wake me up. And that would really be a problem, If I can't even control oversleep by force, then there is no point in trying to adapt to this sleep cycle. But I don't give up yet. Maybe I'm wrong with this assumption and even if not... maybe I CAN do something about it...



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Friday, May 11, 2007

Day 10 - Just Forget

The slight fatigue at night really starts to bother me. I spent most of the night sitting on my couch and surfing the internet, which was really hard to maintain with the actual amount of sleepiness. But I was really to lazy to get up and do something else so I had to cope with this. I don't think that I slep any longer than maybe 30 seconds at once so I don't consider this to be oversleep, but it was a state of almost zero alertness.

Today was the second time that just forgot to take my nap. it was 3.20pm and then it was 3.30pm and then, well it was 3.50pm before I realized that I had to take my nap. I wonder why my body didn't seem to demand any sleep at that time. I take this as a sign, that I'm not nearly adapted



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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Day 9 - No Ubersleep

Today was OK, I guess. I had some mayor fatigue at the end when playing Diablo 2 with my usual companion, but this started at about 2pm. After all I am glad that I didn't overslept.

Oversleep. I was just wondering about this word. Our beloved term Ubermansleep comes from Nietzsche's "Uebermensch". Now the direct translation of Ueber is "Over". With other word the thing we Ubermans hate most is Ubersleep. You can't follow me? Doesn't matter if you don't get the point^^



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Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Day 8 - The Fantastic Five

So, today I finally gave it a try: 20 minutes instead of 25.
I thought about it the whole day, because this has been my goal once. I am very satisfied with the 25 minutes and I don't think that these 30 minutes every hurt me. But still, I wanted to do some experiments, after all this has been an experiment from the beginning.

I started at 7.20pm. Critical time, I know but that was the first nap after my decision, so it couldn't be helped. I had invited a friend of mine and he wanted to arrive around 11pm. This was big luck for me, because he was able to wake me up. Yes oversleep No. 2, approximately 3 hours.
That was reason enough for me to go back to my long long 25 minutes nap :)



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Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Week 1

The first week is over and now it's time for some random thoughts.
In the last three months I read so much about polyphasic sleep, that I felt prepared to face it all. I already saw myself in zombie mode, aimlessly wandering through the streets. I prepared myself to fight and struggle, to sleep on the floor for an easier awakening. I gathered all the information I found in one article (Not yet online in English) and looked forward to following my own suggested steps to success.
But most of it changed.

After 4 days on Uberman I was still awake without a problem and highly alert, the only restriction I found was to read a book at 5am. I had a crash at the end of day 4, but after that, I could return to my usual schedule as if nothing happened. This first week was so easy, I just can't believe it, and I think I have to thank my 3 months of daily napping for that.

As for my general perception of time, I can not report any major changes. I have no problems to divide time into days at all. Maybe this is caused by my daily duties concerning the dog. This is my new reset point, I take my shower and my breakfast after it, so there still is a daily routine. And the odd thing is, that I still divide time in waking and sleeping time. In other words, the time between about 3am and 8 am really feels like extra time. In that period I kept thinking, 'hell yeah, thank god that I don't have to sleep'. It is as if Uberman only matters in this short time span, as if the rest of the day would be completely left out by it. I still use the day as usual, but instead of going to sleep, I just stay awake.
I don't feel this continuous consciousness Steve Pavlina was talking about, it's more like a switch between the good old day mode and the new ubermanenhanced night mode.

Although there is some routine in my daily life, I can't get used to brush my teeth. Taking a shower is no problem, most days I do it right after my walk, but the teeth are a problem. Even before I started Uberman, I often forgot to brush my teeth on weekend-mornings. To brush them before going to bed is an easy habit, but I'm just too lazy in the morning if there is no routine for the day.
Now that I have no end of the day, I even forget to brush my teeth in the evening. I will have to come up with some fixed times for that.

So far I've successfully changed to a vegetarian lifestyle. My family supports me with this and my mom even said she would try it along with me. So far, I don't miss the meat.

Well, that was my first week on Uberman... I wonder what I will write next week!



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Day 7 - 15 minutes of fame

Monday morning, time for the dog. The whole day fitted completely in my Ubermanroutine, no oversleep and some faint fatigue at 04:00am. But there was one interesting development. Yesterday I still thought that this could be a coincidence, but now I am not that sure anymore.

If I sum it up, I think it happened about 6 times in the last two days. I woke up almost exactly 15 minutes after I started my nap. I was a bit confused, and most of the time I thought I overslept, until I looked on my alarm. After that I laid down again and fell immediately to sleep again. I already heard of people who were satisfied with only 15 minutes naps, but never thought I could reach that goal. This would be too awesome, but at the moment I won't try this. I'll stick with my 25 minutes and maybe later, if this occurs again and again, I could try it one day.

I'm already thinking about changing to 20 minutes, but I'm not sure about that. I don't want to mess with my adaption, but who knows, maybe it will be even better than 25 minutes.

I spent the evening playing video games with a friend again, and I ended up as sleepy as usual. Well, maybe a little bit better, but I wouldn't bet on it...



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Monday, May 7, 2007

Day 6 - Daylight sucks

No, I didn't die of sleep deprivation, I just didn't have the time to update this blog. I hope I can still catch up, because a lot of things happened as one might think.
It' Sunday, so I didn't need to care about the dog. This was rather nice, but I could have helped to fight my fatigue this morning. I spent the night playing Heroes V again, so I was still tired from just sitting there in front of the screen. On the other hand I'm still wondering about the "adaption". Playing a turn based strategy game with a second player on day 5-6. I mean half of the time I had nothing to do but sit there and watch, still I didn't fell asleep. It's hard, but it works.
blindfold
Today was the first time for me to try a nap without my blindfold. It was everything but successful. I took me way too long to get asleep and even the bit I got was not satisfying. So there is no way for me to abandon my blindfold. Surprisingly I found it to be very helpful especially at my nocturnal naps. Sleeping in complete darkness would almost certainly result in oversleeping, so I try to avoid that. Instead I use a diffuse faint lamp to enlighten my room and in addition to that my blindfold. That way I am not in the dark when stripping it off and can get used to the light again.

Soon I will be one week on Uberman. I hope there will be no more oversleep until then...



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Day 5 - A New Hope

I woke up at 6.15am today, after my 11 wonderful hours of sleep. I don't have to add that this made my day.
My naps for this day were completely messed up. My 7.20am and 11.20am nap were fine, but at after my 3.20 nap I was barely able to wake up. My father had to drag me out of bed and I was so confused, I didn't even know that I was sleeping until then. The next nap went into the opposite direction: I was only able to sleep for about 5 minutes.

I tried Placebo's sleep track in all these naps, but after all, I switched back to my alarm. The sleep track didn't really wake me up. When I was finally conscious it was already one or two minutes over my estimated 25 minutes. That's way too slow for me, I'm happier if I'm promptly awake, not to forget that I trained my body to wake up with my actual alarm. So, I'll stick with my alarm for a while.

I hope this incident last night doesn't slow my adaption down significantly. Even if it would set me back to day one it couldn't bother me, because the first 4 days were much better than I could ever hope. I think I would even maintain this sleep schedule if there was not further adaption. I'm not tired on daytime, so I could choose between tired at night + active, or just sleep the whole night. I think I would go for tired + activity



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Friday, May 4, 2007

Day 4 - So it happened

Yeah, right it happened.
No.1 Ubermanproblem,
O V E R S L E E P.
But I wasn't satisfied with some hours, nooo... I like it Super Size. 11 HOURS!
I went to bed for my 7.20pm nap and awoke on day 5 6.15am. And I don't even know why. Right before my nap I made my first tofu meal with my father and I was curious of how it would taste. I was in a rush to complete my nap. And then it happened.
My father tried to wake me up after an hours, but just by yelling at me, not by real force which was pretty useless. So he decided to let me sleep...

The rest of the day wasn't much different than the day before: I was sleepy between 12.30am and 1.45 am, then recovered pretty fast and started the day by taking out the dog for a walk. After that I had my 7.20am nap, satisfying at least, and went out to clean some staircases for the old ladies. I was back right in time for my 11.20am nap and had no problems waking up at all.

I was not tired at all, I didn't even yawn one time the whole day after my 7:20am nap. I found Eledees (Elebits in the US) for Wii in my mailbox and played for 1 or 2 hours. Then suddenly I couldn't keep my eyes open and screwed up the level I actually played. As soon as I turned off the Wii to surf in the Internet my fatigue was gone.

My 3:20pm nap came and once again just like every time before, I woke up, turned out the alarm and stood up. No problem. You see, I really don't have any hint of why I overslept. I checked my alarm, the timing was right, he should have rung. Well, maybe he didn't, I can't say that. The last time I ate something was at 12am so I shouldn't have any impact on my second nap after that.

Soo... Solutions:

  • I think I will try to sleep on my bed without a blanket and fully dressed. I didn't do that before, because I was more worried to fall asleep than to wake up properly. I should have done that earlier since I was sometimes (day 2-3 I guess) very confused when waking up. I will sleep on the magical dream couch as much as I can and say goodbye to my bed
  • I will stop using my alarm and instead try Placebos sleep track. The white noise shouldn't bother my parents although they sleep in the room beside me. I will disconnect my keyboard from my PC (I'm already using a USB extension cable, so I won't have to crawl behind my PC) to not be able to use the pause button. Of course I will be able to shut down the noise by turning off my surround system, but it will be hard to find the off button when I'm sleepy. I will try to get used to reconnecting my keyboard, so that I don't even think about turning off my sound system.
Well, maybe I should try to sleep without my blindfold. I used it from the very beginning and don't know if I am able to sleep without it.

After all that happened, I won't lose my confidence. I felt good most of the time (About 9/10) and was only sleepy at night. My first 4 days went better than I ever thought they would and I was able to do about everything I want, except reading. This is a drawback, but since I felt so good the first days, I think this doesn't bother me that much. I have months to get used to this after all!



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Day 3 - waiting

Day 3 started just great: This time not only my 03:20am, but also my 07:20am naps were filled with dreams. Weird dreams about my friends speaking Japanese or my room being damaged by water. So, am I really getting REM sleep already? It would be nice to know that 3 moonths of preparations didn't go to waste, but it's still hard to believe. And I don't think it was a coincidence that I dreamt only on 03:20.am two days in a row. Well, today the first nap wasn't as restorative as my first 03:20am nap, but after 07:20 it was all back to normal.

Now there was one change after all. Just like on my first 03:20am nap, I slept on the couch instead of the bed. And so far all the three times that I slept on that couch, I had dreams, but not one time when I was in bed. Maybe it's some kind of magical dream couch...

I found the hardest time of the day to be between 12am and 3 am. Depending on what I'm doing, it's kinda hard to keep my eyes open. It's not the whole time, just everyday on this time frame one hour occurs that really strikes me.

Overall I still felt like I was on my first day. No fatigue (except the time between 12am and 3am) and not even a bad feeling disturbed me. It was like... waiting for some sleep dep. I really wonder when this will start and how I will fell then.

At the moment I am really amazed of how easy it is to live vegetarian. I thought I would miss my meat on every meal, but it doesn't seem that way. And just today my mother decided to go vegetarian as well. She isn't a heavy meat eater at all, so she won't have any problem I guess.
And tomorrow will be my first Tofu meal... I'm curious.



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Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Day 2 - Just another day

After my 3.20 nap I felt a lot better. The fatigue was gone and I was able to make some food and write the previous post. The rest of day 2 was like a copy of the first day. I had no problems with my naps at all, until it came to midnight. The fatique started again and I was really looking forward to my 3:20 nap (already on day 3). And surprisingly, I had another dream at 3.20am. I did not awake before the alarm this time, but the intensity of the dream was even. The only difference is that I'm still very tired after this 3.20 nap.


I noticed that I was quite confused after some of my naps today. At first glance I didn't know why the alarm was ringing, and what I was supposed to do. One time I even expected that the alarm would turn me off. On the other hand I felt great all the day. Ok, in the moring I still was not able to read , but later I could even bathe in the sun with my eyes closed without feeling the urge to start sleeping right away.


I wonder if the 3:20 nap will always contain dreams form now on. I would be nice to have at least one REM nap right from the start. For now I just hope, that my sleep dep will not get any heavier, but I don't have high hopes for that. I think I will soon begin to play more videogames and the piano to stay awake.



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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Day 1 - What the heck?

Ok, this day was crazy. Just as this post will be.

In the Prologue I said, that I had no duties and no work until October. This changed a bit. As I wrote, I worked the last 9 months in the local protestant church. One of my duties was to clean the homes of three old ladies on a weekly basis. Until August there will be no one to replace me, so I agreed to continue this until the next "Zivi" arrives. One of my better assignments was to take the dog of my boss out for a walk 2 times in my 8 hour working day. Since I started my polyphasic sleep experiment just now, I decided to continue with this as well, but now it's only one time a day at 8am. I hope this will be able to wake me up in the morning, at least on workdays.

So, my first day as a polyphasic sleep began at 03.50am. I made some changes to my website, listened to some music and waited for my first nap. I was not able to sleep (what a surprise!) and when my alarm went off after 30 minutes I felt a little bit dizzy. Just as I expected.
The next naps were not successful either. I was sort of asleep, but then I woke up in the middle of my naps, just to spent some more minutes completely awake. I decided to shorten the 30 minutes naps immediately on day 2.

At 9pm I went to a friend of mine to play some Heroes of Might and Magic V while watching M.D. House and Monk. Even before my 11.20 nap I became very sleepy, but after this 30 minutes I was really down. It was hard not to fall asleep in front of the monitor. I actually thought about stopping the experiment. No joke. On day 1. As if my body was speaking to me, I asked myself: "What's the point in all this? Is it worth the effort?". I'm still wondering that this tiny bit of tiredness made my thoughts go into that direction. I felt exhausted.

Now it's already day 2, but I can't just skip what happened on my first nap (3.20am). This was the first nap with 25 minutes instead of 30, so I expected to feel even more tired than before. But.. BUT! I woke up about 10 seconds before the alarm went off. I woke up from a real vivid dream. A DREAM! And I still remember what happened. I thought my first dream would occur on the end of the first week, or some days later. And I wasn't sure if I EVER would be able to wake up without an alarm. Now it happened both on day 2 on the critical 3am nap.

I think my 3 months of daily napping (exactly 25 minutes - every time) are really paying off now. I already wrote that I woke up in the middle of my 30 minute naps, but when I think about it again, I bet that I woke up after 25 minutes every time.

Now? Now I feel great. This last nap really changed everything. I'm really curious how long my adaption will take with a success like this in the beginning.



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Monday, April 30, 2007

Day 0 - Prologue

Tomorrow is the big day: I'm going to start my Uberman Sleep Schedule. I will reduce total sleep time to 2-2.5 hours by splitting my nocturnal sleep into several naps all over the day. For everyone who still doesn't know what Uberman and polyphasic sleep is all about, click on "Polyphasic Sleep?" for all the info.

Some facts about me:
I'm a 20 year old German, currently living somewhere around Cologne. Some might think that this is too young to try out Uberman, but I think I'm ready. Plus I don't think that I will have the time again for this in the next years. I just finished my Zivildienst, a popular alternative to the military service every male German has to do. It's 9 months of work in a social institution, in my case it was the nearest protestant church. Now I almost have no work, no duties, nothing at all until October.

I have been healthy all my life. I don't even remember the last time I had a flu or something like that. I have no allergies, no chronic illnesses. For Uberman I will completely change my diet to almost vegan. I think I will still eat some milk and eggs in bread and pasta, but I will avoid anything else. I'm not a heavy coffee or alcohol drinker, so that won't be a problem.

I first read of Uberman in early February and I was amazed in an instant. I was searching for a method to sleep less, and after I found some websites about weird meditation training that would take years to learn, I found the "Uberman Sleep Schedule" and read Steve Pavlina's Blog. From that moment I prepared myself for my own Uberman sleep. Since then I slept kind of biphasic with a 6 hour core sleep and a 25 minutes nap in the middle of the day. Yes, a 6 hours core sleep is far from short, but until then I slept about 7-8 hours a night. I used my 25 minutes nap to get used to daytime napping and to train myself to fall into sleep as fast as I can. I think I had about 1 or 2 REM naps in this 3 months, but I'm not really sure of that. At the same time I learned to stand up immediately after the alarm. This didn't take more than a week. After all, I think I'm really prepared to face this.


My sleep schedule will be a classic Uberman, 20-25 minutes of sleep every 4 hours. But instead of the standart 4-8-12 schedule I chose 3:20 - 7:20 and 11:20. Today I will go to bed at 12.50 am set my alarm to 03.50, since I'm planning to start with 30 minute naps in the first two days. And yes, I will use an alarm(this wonderful thing on the right), not a timer. There is no am and pm in Germany, so I won't be able to mix this up when setting the alarm.

So why am I doing all this? It's the same reason that drives everyone into this: More time. There are too much books I want to read, too much games I want to play. I want to spend more time with my piano and maybe learn how to play a guitar. And besides I want to hang out with my friends. One could argue that I DO have enough time (until October), but that's not enough for me if I can push it. In addition I'm really curious if it works for me, and if and how the perception of time and this world changes.
I'm looking forward to the results!



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