Polywood

It’s been 2 weeks and I am very satisfied with how everything has been going.

I will be switching back to Everyman starting at 12 am tonight and will be sticking with it till I am held at gun point to quit. I was thinking about how when I switch to Everyman and fully adapt how there really won’t be anything for me to talk about anymore… like nothing at all. Maybe that won’t be the case, but I’m just trying to figure what else I’d need to say regarding polyphasic as it will have been as normal as brushing my teeth… and I’m sure you don’t want to know a play by play of that since I do it everyday with no excitement or second thought.

If you have not yet considered doing polyphasic sleeping I STRONGLY suggest you give it a shot. Having what seems to be an extra 2 waking days EVERY WEEK is absolutely incredible. If you’re monophasic it’s almost like having a week that lasts for almost 10 days (if you do the math for 8 hours sleeping every approximate 24 hours that is extra for a polphaser). So much can get done in that amount of time, and I can’t imagine wanting to do monophasic again. Yes I am still a little tired as I have not fully adapted and my botched uberman weekend didn’t help with all my responsibilities, but this sort of tiredness is a mere gnat to the HUGE bug of time that I now have. And that makes no sense.

So I am giving up polyphasic sleeping…

YEAH RIIIIIIGHT! I am going to have to switch though back to and permanently stay with Everyman. It’s amazing what taking 4 rest periods as opposed to 6 can do for freeing up your day. Basically I got caught up being busy finalizing a contract deal I had been waiting to go through since FOREVER, and it finally came to fruition. It cost me 2 rest periods today and needless to say I am tired. For what it’s worth maybe it’s a “sign” if those things exist. If I had stayed on everyman I wouldn’t be missing those rest periods as I would have had more flexibility to do what I needed to do today. A little bummed, but only because I can’t show off with the title uberman. Everyman is just as valid, especially if I decide to do 1.5 hour core instead of 2 hour core.

I’m going to finish out this weekend on uberman and then if my opinion hasn’t changed I’ll move back to Everyman permanently, or at least for a long enough while until my occupation allows me some elbow room. It’s almost as if I would have had an more strict 9-5 kind of job I could fit uberman in. But my responsibilities are all over the board.

This morning was very very tough as I had expected. The walks to sunset and back helped as did the curious stares I received from the late night check-out lady who repeatedly saw me stumble in to buy a single bottle of water like 100 times.

Well not really the end of my day, I technically have one more rest period at 10:35 and around 11pm I would write, but whatever.

I’m hitting my sleep times on the dot. I’m falling asleep and waking up refreshed (dazed at first, but refreshed).  And things are going well

BUT

The weekend is coming up and I know from previous experience that idleness is the perfect catalyst for oversleeping. For the record I’m by no means an idle person, I work constantly on my projects among other things, but I typically don’t see other people during the weekends when I am hard at work. So that energy I get from being around people will be absent and thus another obstacle to overcome.

As one of my goals this weekend is to hit every rest on time and have no oversleeping I have come prepared to do battle!

There is a Ralphs (grocery store) on sunset blvd is open 24 hours and is a short 3 minute walk for me from my apartment. Even though I will be completely delirious when I wake up as long as I plan to do something in advance I’ll end up doing it regardless of my conscious state. So as you have gathered I’ll walk to ralphs after every rest period, get a cold beverage and walk back. By the time I have done that the winter air will have fully roused me, I hope. It is by no means cold here in Hollywood during the winter, but it is very brisk so should work fine.

I can’t believe it has been 12 days, 1 or 2 oversleeps of no more than 30 minutes at most and my adaptation is going fine. The weekend will be a struggle I can already tell, but I have no intention of failing my goal of a PERFECT UBERMAN WEEKEND!

Technically the first full day on Uberman; a rather difficult morning, very comparable to Day 7, but I made it.

I have been hitting my rest periods with great precision and I currently feel very much rested and alert. I don’t feel 100% by any means though, my eyes ache a bit and show a tint of red. My co-workers, who now know of my sleep schedule, have noticed no change or even observed that I was a bit more tired than usual or any sort of deficiency in my performance. This objective viewpoint is good and I can’t wait for the 100% feeling again.

Even if it NEVER comes I would rather be at this 85%-90% feeling for the rest of my life if it means gaining an extra 6 hours a day! For all intent and purposes I perform at full go… I just feel odd at times.

If I had to break it down here is how my wake to rest periods go:

I awake from super VIVID, realistic dreams leaving me utterly confused for the first 2 minutes of being back awake. Like seriously, I’ve had some cool dreams before but this is something else. For instance at my 10:35pm  over 2  hours ago I was in Dodgers stadium eating a chili hot dog. When I woke up to my alarm screaming at me from the other side of the room I jumped out of bed, and carefully held my palms skywards so that I would not spill the chili from my hot dog all over the floor… yeah, you read that right. Once I reached my alarm clock I took my other hand and picked up the imaginary hot dog and placed it on the counter so that I could turn of the clock (it takes two hands to do this)… it was then I realized the magnitude of what I was doing to thin air.

I’m then very alert for about 30 minutes

I then feel a little off for about 10-20 minutes. Kind of dazed, and feeling  a little tired.

Once that’s done I’m alert, alert all the way up till about an hour from my next rest period. I start to feel a little tiredness coming on, reminiscent of the time around 8pm on a normal day monophasically.

About 15-10 minutes from my next rest period I could seriously crash hard. During this time I’m usually driving trying to look for a spot to park where I’d be left alone.

5 minutes before schedule rest time I’m closing my eyes and preparing to knock out.