Nice clean successes do in fact happen
Just because it’s nice to report on a success story once in a while, check out this awesome missive sent to me by happy new polyphaser Greg:
Hey PD,
Just wanted to say that I’ve now been on the everyman for over a month and it has settled in. I’m never tired, i get tired for naps, and I feel awesome. I’m hoping life lets me keep it up, but even if it does[n't] i will get back on this asap.Best thing I’ve ever done. 20 hours a day is awesome!
I oversleep here and there but for the majority 4 hours has been what i’ve hit.
Thanks for all your support :)
Woohoo! Nice job, Greg! (And thanks for your permission to repost your comments!)
(If you have a success story, or even a failure or concern, that you want to share with the Highly Intelligent Masses ’round here, you may certainly email it to me and let me know that you’re okay with “being shared”. Er…rawr. ;)
old sleep, new sleep, happy sleep, just not too much!
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Day 36 Sunday
Decided upon a 1.5 hour Core Nap instead of the usual 3hours.
Went to sleep at 0330 hours fell aslepp, but did not realise that my watch had an alarm set for 0400hours.
Had trouble going back to sleep afterwards.
I did wake up with the alarm 0500 hours. Total 1.5 hour core.
Back to Zombie mode. Walked around and sat back on the chair.
I was half awake Zombie for 5 hours. Properly awake 1000 hours. Late for Taichi.
Will do the same tonight. Change alarm to 0500 hours on all clocks and watches.
PM NAP = 1200 hours
Day 37 Monday 1.5 hour core
Core nap 0230 to 0400 hours.
Went back to sleep and it was A DISASTER. 0500 Secondary alarm went off and I did not budge. Finally woke up at 0700hours
AM Nap = 1000
PM Nap = 1400
FINAL DECISION.
I have no problems falling asleep on my naps. although I should start another Dream Journal.
Will start on the darned Uberman and be done with it. Will see what happens.
Yes, I can attest to “falling back asleep” being a bad idea almost 100% of the time. Once you’re woken, it almost always makes sense to get up, stay up a few hours and then try again. On the rare occasion that my core gets interrupted, I usually just get up and move my core to the morning instead. Otherwise, yeah, zombie mode. >,<
Thanks!
Day 40 Thursday Uberman
1 AM NAP = 0200
2 AM NAP = 0400 Thought to take a 20 minute nap and see what happens.
Woke up at 0630 hours
I seem to go more towards Everyman 1.5 instead of Uberman.
I will continue working towards Uberman.
Still unsure about the naps since I want to have a nap before I go to the
Gym 0600 and then afterwards a nap after the gym 0800. This allows me two naps before work, whilst my current plan only allow naps at 0400 and another at 1000.
What do you think? Perhaps add two more naps to my schedule?
Total naps would mean 2 hours 30 minutes, whilst transitioning.
I might remove the nap at 1000 hours after I adapt.
Ciao,
Obi
It’s a lot easier to add naps after adjustment than remove them, FYI. You have to stay ON THE SAME SCHEDULE for a period of time or you’ll never adjust, so don’t figure on “adjusting then tweaking” in short order — you need at least a few months of stability in there.
Also, yeah, you totally pooched yourself with that nap just an hour after your last one. Those are always doomed; you haven’t even been awake long enough to have a full cycle yet, and you’ll fall right back into the sleep you just left.
I think your problem is that you don’t stay on the same schedule. At this point, you’d be better off writing any schedule at all and sticking to it, than continuing to make so many changes. Write schedule first, adapt second, then–after 30 days MINIMUM — make changes third. Yes? Yes!
Luck!
I had thought that a month on Everyman would make transition faster, apparently not. It does train one, to nap, more easily. Transition is not so much torture.
Will have to maintain the correct schedule and learn to be more patient.
Ciao,
Obi
Oo, yeah, sorry…Some people do find that “learning to nap first” via Everyman or even just a regular Siesta makes learning to fall asleep for the Uberman naps easier…but unfortunately it doesn’t do crap for how hard it is to learn to get UP from Uberman naps! That’s a whole ‘nother ball o’ zombies. ;)
Well aware and well annoyed by that.
Overslept again by 1.5 hours. Seems I am naturally on the 1.5 Everyman with five naps of 20minutes. The sixth one is the problem with no sleep.
I could not take any of the (10:00 hours + 1400 hours) naps during due to work.
Not sure, if I can achieve Uberman, but will be happy with Everyman 1.5.
I’ll give it another week….lol
Will keep chronicling my progress.