Uberman (Polyphasic Sleep) – Day 23

As I continue my goal of cutting back sleep to just 2 hours per night the results speak for themselves.

As you can see I’ve only managed at most 3 days in a row on Uberman. I’ve been polyphasic the entire 23 days but have been plagued by over-sleeping. I’m averaging 7 hours per night on a 3 day running average. I might as well just go monophasic with these statistics.

As you can see by my state on the

Stanford Sleepiness Scale I’ve not been feeling the brightest. I get a slight boost from sleeping in but not what you’d expect. In fact, I’m starting to get rundown and no matter what I do I tend to feel like shit, for lack of better words.The main problem has been my lack of consistency: not sticking to a routine for long enough. I won’t bore you with all the schedule changes and times and so on. A hexaphasic schedule of 5 x 28 minute naps has not worked. I suspect 28 minutes is too long to take for a nap as it allows me to slide into deeper sleep and is thus too hard to wake up from. I’m back to the original 6 x 23 minute Uberman schedule.

It has to work…. I start uni in 27 days. I’ll be doing 2 subjects. There is no fracking way I will manage on the time I have left after working fulltime and sleeping 8 hours per day. The ONLY solution I have is to successfully convert to the Uberman Sleep Schedule. There’s no bout a doubt it.

This is a last ditch effort for me now. God how I feel like lead is melting in my brain when I awake from my 3 am nap. This morning I went back to sleep, it just was not worth it. It was too horrible. I only slept to 7 am though, which is a positive decrease in my oversleep time, though I did get 8 hours the day before.

Most of my oversleeping is done during the day. I don’t sleep under the covers at all. If I oversleep its in my clothes just as if I was napping. Getting undressed and going to bed is a thing of the past. I use my bed as platform for my light tent. I have time for a photography project.

This used to be my bed. I nap behind the tent laterally across the bed with my knees bent. Look closely and you’ll see the bed underneath. Where does my wife sleep?

Unfortunately my bedroom doubles as the study. My wife sleeps with ear plugs and a screen is used to block out the light. The bookcase was set up to form a better barrier. Its not a perfect setup but it works.

Its time now to edit some photos. Blogging is very time consumming, more than I suspected.