Learning to Hate Sleep Again
My recent bout of halfassed, overworked monophasism has taught me many things. A short (i.e. rushed) list below:
- Sleeping for longer than 3-4 hours has cumulative negative consequences for my back & neck problems
- If I don't get at least one daytime nap, I run out of "nerves"; as in, somebody's getting on my last one by about 5pm
- Both the feeling of being tired, and the feeling of being groggy after waking from a 7+-hour sleep, are my least favorite feelings ever gods how I hate them
- Writing in the cracks of your worklife does not work when your work also happens on computers, and you don't have time to put hour-or-more breaks between the activities
- When almost all your time is in use doing "the basics" (work, sleep, errands), all the things you do for "play" (i.e. random learning/exploring/reading) go away…and life feels horribly adult and two-dimensional without them
- Summertime is WAY too short without the nights
…There, wasn't that enlightening? Now, to round off your day, here's a picture I took of a Bad Movie DVD Cover where it says "Thou Shalt Not" while a guy shoots himself in the foot.
I thought it was pretty good advice, myself.
;)
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I just now read your response to Wozniak talking about sleep going against creativity and polyphasic sleep being impossible, I dunno if this was years ago or what but i just wanted to let your know about an inventor named Dr. Nakamats, he is very famous in japan and has 3 to 4 thousand patents on different inventions, more then anyone else by a long shot. When reading some interviews about him I noticed that he has a sleeping schedule close to everyman that he made himself years ago, it is a 4 hour core sleep with 2 twenty minute naps, and he goes on to say that sleeping more then 6 hours a day will bring down your creativity and thinking power. He is quite famous in japan, just thought that might be some nice info for you, btw i just started doing the everyman schedule 5 days ago and so far it has proven to be MUCH easier then the uberman schedule. I personally stopped ubermen thinking that deep sleep is probably quite good for health in general, and thats why im doing everyman now (due to the fact that you get roughly 90% of your deep sleep in your first 3 hours)
Woah, fascinating! I’ve never heard of Dr. Nakamats (somehow), but talk about a fascinating read. I will definitely have to learn more — for one thing, I can’t find anything on his sleep schedule (language probably being part of the barrier there) — but I see he’s written a book called “How to be a Superman lying down” — I wonder if that’s about sleep? But of course I can’t seem to find an English edition. *sigh*
Still, what a great find and thank you for the awesome comment!
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/livinginspace/03jun_naps.html
NASA might be interested in naps.
Been awhile. Good to see you going back to polyphasic.
Will have to start again. It is really annoying sleeping for six hours+ every darned night. Will also check the book out.
It was so much fun when I could survive with 3hrs+3naps.
Not sure how it happened and currently experimenting with not eating so much.
Training regime is erratic. Sometimes, I can get up and work out twice a day, but for the most part once a day only.
It's been suggested that I should keep a food diary. I do have a penchant for having my dinner at 2300hours, due to having had a protein shake (30gm protein) at 2130hours.
How's your food intake at the moment?
im not sure if you check back to see comments on old posts but here goes, I just read your response from my last post, so i Google searched for it and came up with this interview
http://www.whatagreatidea.com/nakamatsu.htm
it has a nice overview of him and mentions his sleeping patterns near the beginning, hes interesting to be sure! I actually tried visiting him at his place in tokyo to talk to him about his water powered motor but it turned out that at the time he was in norway or finland one of those scandinavian countries, oh well.
I was wondering what your track record is on the everyman, its been years now right? From you sounds of it you have gone in and out of it. Are you currently monophasic or on everyman? It would be nice to know to support its possibility when talking to sceptics. im on day 32 or so of everyman and I was wondering if you can help me out a bit. I have been napping 4 times a day rather then 3 because i read it was possible, do you think that is beneficial or not? I ask because i went into ubermensch thinking 30 minutes would be much better then 20 and overslept often as a result! The first month I only overslept a couple of times but around day 28-32 I overslept multiple times and have been feeling quite tired in the mornings. Also I have been working 11-7 work days. So some of my naps have been moved around a few hours on a daily basis, what is your experience on this? How much do you think you can separate naps from there usual times without getting super tired. I would be O.K. with being drowsy at night and early mornings but i do 4 hours of qigong/meditation training at this time and drowsiness has been disrupting it a lot! when you were at the peak of your everyman did you feel tired normally at night times or were you completely awake at all times? I think i am either not fully adapted due to some oversleeping OR maybe its because I have been moving around nap times too much (up to 2 hours sometimes multiple times a day) I was also curious if you generally wake up before your alarm goes off, and if so how long does it take to get to the stage where you naturally wake up without an alarm. thanks for the inspiration!
P.S.
sorry for the long post, hopefully you will reply though, it would help out a ton!
Hi, nemogbr — It’s a bit random, like everything else, but I’ve learned to keep Clif Bars close at hand for when I’m hungry and might otherwise resort to junk food…200 or so high-fiber, high-protein calories is just enough to keep me going through a workday. I eat from restaurants more than I ever did before — once a day, on average — but I make good choices, and what I’m missing in martial arts (because I haven’t found a new school yet), I’m getting in tons of extra walking. Aside from the hating-sleep part and not being able to hook myself up a polyphasic arrangement yet, I’m feeling pretty good!
In my case, erratic work schedule at the moment as well. Taking over a new shop and transporting all our gear from the old to the new.
As a creature of habit, my sleeping patterns have gone haywire and also looking for new accommodations closer to the new shop.
The extra expenses means imposing upon my cousin's place for a couple of months and that will throw my sleeping schedule again. Will have to see.
Best of luck on the personal evolution.
Ciao,
Obi