Here I am, still alive on day 17 of the uberman schedule. But today feels dramamtically different from all the others. The main reason is that I did not oversleep.

I promised myself today that I would not oversleep, and by using extreme measures of keeping awake (4 alarms, all lights on in room, sleep on floor with only a pillow and no blankets in clothes, get friend to call me if not responding on Facebook after 40 mins of naptime). Oh, please note that the only other thing that I haven’t tried in getting me up, apart from the ridiculous ideas involving cold water and caffeine, is drinking lots so as to have to wake up after a while to go to the toilet. While this sounds like a good idea, the chance of lucid dreaming is far too high, and I don’t want to accidentally wet myself =P .

So, in the early morning I actually didn’t find it that hard to stay up. I suspect that is probably due to having as many lights on as possible to counteract the melatonin production in my body, and due to my slow adaptation to the uberman schedule. Waking up from my 5am nap was a bit of a struggle, but I found that it was alright after I did a few push-ups (physical excersice does wonders in keeping people awake).

The rest of the day was alright, although I still felt a bit of a slump nearing my 1 pm nap and at the end of the school day. As I am writing this, I can feel that my body craves sleep. The second night is always worse than the first, as I have found out when I was younger, trying not to sleep (got halfway through day 2 and slept irregularly for days and days after) for as long as humanly possible.

I know I keep putting off the writing of the introduction to polyphasic sleep and how to get started blog posts, and I feel the constant need to apologize for this. Half the time I really just don’t have the mental power to start writing about it, and the other half I am too busy and stressed by work to get around to it. Nevertheless, I will start it sometime soon, and judging by the amount of people talking to me about my sleeping schedule and their interest in it, I’d better get writing soon =)

So, that was pretty much the whole day. My mental power wasn’t quite as good, but my motivation is soaring right now. As long as my willpower manages to overcome my lazy subconscious tomorrow, I should be all in the clear.

Well, time to do some work.

Jimmi

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