Comments on: Use your Feet to help your Sleep

By: Raap!d

Raap!d — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:02:33 +0000

Wow, thanks for this PD! I always put on clothes when getting up from my nap, but never shoes. Can't wait to test this one out! =D
Raap!d

By: ThermionicScott

ThermionicScott — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:07:46 +0000

I'm finding myself increasingly shoeless, too. I'm fortunate that my work lets me wear sandals. (I get weird looks if I try to walk around in my socks.) The other day, I went to "Avatar" and not long after sitting down, I just took my shoes off out of habit! :^)
Nevertheless, that trick of taking my sandals seems to help tell my body that it's time to calm down and go to sleep. That ought to be in the next revision of the book for sure!

By: caff

caff — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:19:58 +0000

Shoelessness seems as if it would be a quality common to the polyphasing type. I've become quite interested in the "barefoot debate" of late and I wonder how many polyphasers run barefoot.

Recent Runner's World article for the shodden: http://www.runnersworld.com/article/1,7124,s6-240-319–6728-0,00.html

By: puredoxyk

puredoxyk — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:26:07 +0000

Hi, Nico! I admire your shoelessness; I did that for a while and really enjoyed it, myself!

If your interview is Tuesday, and you get the job, you’ll probably start in a week or two, right? Which means you’ll have enough time to juusssst about get adapted to Everyman, and then you’ll have to quit! That would suck, to not even get to the really good part. …Then again, you will have had the experience of adapting, and you’ll know what being on Everyman is like (for the most part), so if what you’re looking for is just an experience of it, rather than the lifestyle, it could still be worth it. And of course, if you *don’t* get the job, at least you have the upside of the extra time until you do get one!

Hope that helps some!
PD

By: puredoxyk

puredoxyk — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:22:35 +0000

No problem! The server error actually doesn’t prevent your post from going through; that was just you being in moderation because you’re a new poster. It won’t happen again, now. ;)

Thank you for the compliment! I discuss the first Uberman experiment in various places on this site (looking through the “polyphasic sleep” category is probably the best way to find them); but yes, there’s a lot in the book about it, too!

The unfortunate thing is, I didn’t realize until much later that I *was* one of the first people to seriously do Uberman long-term. Maybe I would have kept better records if I had…or then again, maybe it would have intimidated me too much, if I’d known!

Thanks for the comment(s)! -PD

By: marzzbar

marzzbar — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:11:13 +0000

Hello! I've been reading over your blogs, particularly the ones following your attempt at Uberman and the subsequent adoption of Everyman. You write beautifully! It's so entertaining to read ur stufs :). I'd love to do Uberman myself, but the schedule is definitely not ideal at this point in time. Also, I think I'd need much more self-discipline than what I currently have :P.

Do you have any more information online on your first 6 month Uberman experience? Or is it all in your book? I'd imagine it'd be real interesting to read about, 'specially since no-one had ever done it before (referring to the 20 minute nap every 4 hours). Kinda like being the first person to skydive.

Thanks again! Keep up the awesome writing :D.
PS sorry if this double or triple posts, but your server appears to be shitting itself every time I post something…

By: Nico

Nico — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:51:32 +0000

Sounds like a good plan unless you are like me, and try to wear shoes as little as possible.
But I do but on my sleep shorts even when I take a nap.
I just started everyman today, and the naps are giving me a boost, but I've got a job interview on Tuesday, and I am debating dropping this attempt if I get the job, since I won't have much control or my nap schedule on a week to week basis.
Any advice is apreciated.