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...

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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....

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.

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.

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.