I think I may have stumbled-upon my long-lost love for writing again. I’m a boring ole’ genetics major and I forgot how much I enjoy writing, whether fictional means or for essays etc.

I feel like on the side of my journal detailing my sleep schedule, I will probably continue to write upon a story I started about three hours ago and see what happens. Keeping busy is the best way to fight through this, so I need as many ideas as possible. I’m sure I’ll pick up some hobby to do. My roommate may not take kindly to my new schedule and it will be tough having to keep quiet for a few hours a night.

Anyway, gentlemen, I am just simply rambling now. I do appreciate your replies and the sort-of networking we’ve begun will be helpful to me. As long as this is okay with both of you; I’d like to keep in touch during this experiment and ask you questions, share thoughts etc whenever they may come up through these comments or whichever means.

One quick thing, Marc, you mentioned that you were posting something to the site about a modified everyman. Will it be published on this particular website or your other one (I remember reading about another site you used)?

Thanks guys, now off to my story I started: I fear I won’t get much sleep, I’ve got too many ideas to write down, heh.

Dymaxion and Uberman are the hard core Polyphasic Sleep schedules. Everyman is perhaps “easier” but not really. It just depends on your perspective. Yes, to me, the classic, “standard” everyman is a piece of cake. However, I am coming from an Uberman background and over 4 hours of sleep a day is just over sleeping, but it sure does sound nice right now. lol… Anyway, there are schedules for just about all times from 2 hrs of sleep on. Everyman has a lot of “standard” variations, like Everyman 2 or 3 or 4 or 5. Each have a central theme with core amount of sleep and then other naps from 20 min to 30 minutes depending on which you follow. Most of people that succeed at Polyphasic sleep are following some sort of Everyman schedule and usually sleeping from 4 hrs to 6 hrs a day. Which is a great achievement in itself, don’t let my crazy sleep times think you need to get that low to be successful.

I started by just jumping in and seeing if my mind would adapt and it did. However, and this is a huge however and something I don’t think I have gone into. About 5 or so years ago, I was doing a project that required a lot of my time, so I tried Polyphasic and it really helped. The project ended after about 3 weeks or so and I went back to a “normal” sleep schedule. However, my mind changed during that time. Before that time I would lay awake in bed for hours and hours not falling asleep however after Polyphasic, I could fall asleep in less than a minute. This ability has stayed with me ever since. So, something will change in your mind so be aware of this. However, getting back to my point, fast forward to the present day and I when I started this Polyphasic project my mind was already conditioned and I took to it like a fish to water. So my success currently probably has a lot to do with I didn’t have to really go through the adjustment phase as so many others do. They eventually give up and never return and I bet many of those that tried it again may actually succeed especially if they were doing an Everyman type.

Well, lol, I think I post longer replies here than I actually post at my own blog.

Best of Luck,

JD

I feel like I may be doing the uberman/everyman for the wrong reasons, but I still would like to try. I am a very late-night person, I always have been. No matter when I have to get up, I always sleep at the same time, leaving with me too little sleep some days and too much sleep other days (Tuesdays and Thursdays, respectively).

While I do want more hours in the day my reasons don’t seem as valid as both of yours’. I am a 19 year-old student, and I figure I could use a lot of the time on class work, but again some work can be very boring or mundane and could contribute to straying from the schedule I set; such as reading lectures, etc.

Some questions I wanted to run by: one of which is how to keep the motivation to stay up even though you feel terrible those first couple days (or two weeks)? Also, what would be a good activity to fill time that is eventful enough to keep me up? Lastly, I read somewhere that there is 4-nap series where it’s 30 minutes every 6 hours. Would you recommend this over the 6-nap series? I’m also a bit under-read on the everyman, and have been focusing a bit too much on the uberman itself, some information on the everyman would be appreciated.

I would really like to at least make it to the point where my body accepts my sleep schedule, then decide if it’s for me or not. I don’t want to give up part-way through.

I’ll be starting next Thursday night, the beginning of my spring break. Would it be best to tire myself out or start on my naps right away? Ie, I have a car ride that night, I could get my first nap in.

I appreciate the help and speediness of your replies (both of you), and I apologize about the long read, I got a bit rambly at the end there.

I read your day-34 post and comments and will return when I have a bit more time. You are an interesting character, for sure, and we seem to have the same interest (obsession?) about productivity (don’t all polyphasers?). In your shoes, if I could stick to a 4-hour per day Everyman and be happy with that, that’s what I would do, the extra 1 hour seems hardly worth the effort, what you are doing is already a triumph…

As you are probably aware, however, your experience is very unusual under even “normal” circumstances.. let alone drinking coffee and beer ;). You probably know that Puredoxyk took about 15 people through an Uberman trial sometime after her and her friend’s successful experiment, and none of them succeeded. I think there have only been a handful of people in the world who have successfully adapted to Uberman, and none of them stayed for more than a year, as far as I know.

In any case this post of mine is really quite old, more of a philosoophical piece than an actual polyphasic article, it’s interesting that it’s starting to get attention two years after the fact, I need to give this entire blog a look-through. In my case it’s really more about quality of life and personal effectiveness than the number of hours of sleep.

Keep on rocking..

Since the information is so similar, it either meant it was the absolute truth or no one had really tried it for themselves. You can find a lot of people who have tried Uberman, but rarely does anyone stick with it. Hopefully I can break that 3 hour goal in March, because if I was doing this as a life choice, I would drop down to the Everyman and get around 4 hours a day. Uberman, after-a-while is very taxing with it get up, sleep, get up routine. Talked about that here: http://jdsportsonline.com/projects/polyphasic/polyphasic-sleep-day-34.html

lol.. sorry just thinking of my free time. I actually wrote about that too, in Day 34, but I have already gone link happy in this reply. I ended up developing a daily routine which was something like 20 hours long, so I never really got the free time benefit or even felt like I was gaining time. I am still stuck in that mode of ooh more time, means I can work more… lol..

The consciousness-altering effects are all over my blog posts in the beginning. They have either gone away or I am so used to dreaming while awake I just don’t really think of it as special anymore. However, yes, in the beginning to control dreams, was really cool.

Have a great day and Sleep Well…