#uberman cycle

[equihexiphasic-blog]

Night 5 - no more gym during adaptation

Aside from the gym setting me back a couple difficult naps this morning, I’ve felt fantastic since then. I was woken by a neighbor during a nap where I was dreaming heavily which tells me that my body is getting REM sleep during my naps. Watch my body change, this time not into an awkward preteen but instead a hyper-efficient adult polyphasic sleeper!

I spent most of today feeling 100% normal. In fact, I forgot I was polyphasic at all until my phone reminded me to get naked and crawl into bed midday. That same app that sent me the reminder (Sleep For Android) also allows me the option to wake by NFC chip. This for me has been a completely necessary tool especially when I am going through a very tired period. Basically my alarm will blare and blare at full volume until I walk across my cold apartment and tap it to the NFC sticker at the back of my closet. Then, since I’m freezing and right by the closet, I will grab clothes and look at that, no use going back to bed now. It’s the closest thing a person living alone can have to a friend waking them up. Highly recommended, and your blank NFC sticker will only put you out $1.

[equihexiphasic-blog]

Day 1

  Polyphasic sleep is splitting one’s sleep period into multiple parts (“poly-phasic” = “multiple-parts”). I will be splitting my days into six equal parts, each consisting of 3 hr 40 min awake, followed by 20 min asleep. This is called an equihexiphasic schedule (“equi-hexi-phasic” = “equal-six-parts”). There is no night time core sleep like a regular monophaser gets. Instead, all of my sleep will be taken in only these six 20-minute naps a day.   This equihexiphasic sleep pattern is said to go back at least a few hundred years, though documentation is poor. Right now, we are creating data for future scientists/experimenters to use! Exciting, right? Although there hasn’t been much formal laboratory testing, this equihexiphasic sleep pattern is common enough to have a slang term: Uberman.   Aside from having plenty of spare time opening up (Uberman sleepers only nap a total of 2 hours per 24!), reports of elevated energy levels, increased productivity, and increased sleep hygiene/efficiency are extremely common after the adaptation period (lasting only the first week or so).   I have been diagnosed medically as a “long-sleeper”, someone whose body needs 9 hours of sleep per night to recharge instead of the usual 8. So for me, Uberman will open up another 7 hours to each of my days. Considering I have only been getting 15 hours of wake time per day, this is almost a 50% increase in available time! Wow!

[onlyonet-blog]

I think this summer I'm going to try polyphasic sleep cycles.

Usually in the summer I stay up all night anyway. I think I'm going to try it and made vlogs every day to document my experience and make actual scientific observations about how my body reacts and stuff. I also kinda want to really focus on my dreams this summer and have a lot more lucid dreams. Supposedly this is the best way to do that since you're immediately entering REM when you nap.

What do you guys think? Would that be something you would like to hear about or should I just do it for myself and not post it on here?