Thread: Everyman schedule with 1.5 hour core sleep.

According to Steve Pavlina, who kept a very detailed blog of his (successful) experiences with the Uberman schedule (found here), he was able to "slide around" the nap times by an hour or two, but not more than that. Of course, he did not have a core nap. I would say that it's worth a try.

At four days into it, you're already farther than a lot of people get. Here's a quote from Day 4 of Steve's Polyphasic Sleep Log: "If there’s a hump, I’m probably past it. The past 24 hours of polyphasic sleep have been my best so far. Last night was the first night where I felt fairly alert and awake without too much drowsiness." By Day 7 he reported that he was starting to feel basically normal again.

One tip I've heard given numerous times to people attempting to make the jump to a polyphasic schedule is to limit yourself to small meals spread fairly evenly throughout the day, and to avoid heavy foods like meat altogether, at least during the adjustment phase.

I've always wanted to try a polyphasic sleep schedule. Good luck getting through the adjustment phase and let us know how it goes!

Good luck Silver1nl

Let us know how it's going. The first couple weeks of a new sleep schedule are always the hardest. After that it gets easier but there's aways the chance of backsliding. I find that a few minutes on the naps can make a big difference. For me 25 minutes seems to be just about right, but too much can be as bad as too little.

Wow I didnt knew that was possible to slide that much. (I read a couple of blogs(amongst which the one from puredoxy) but I got ennoyed with all the people who overslept regularly and then still wondered why it wasnt working...I ll check out steves right away). The fact that sliding around with sleeps is in fact possible with uberman makes it much more interesting for me, since my biggest problem in the schedule I currently have is the core nap. When i wake up from it i feel terrible until my next nap, which is why I added the nap one hour after my core sleep.

About reaching day 4 i must admit that on day 1 I had a 3 hour core nap so maybe that made it a bit easyer. (I quit reduced the 3 hour nap to 1.5 since I could hardly fall asleep at my first nap). The three our core nap did make me feel a lot better then the 1.5 hour corenap(I found out that or me 1 hour and 40 minutes is better since I can then wakeup without the alarm, I still feel quit fucked up when I get out of bed but much less then waking up with the alarm) has done for me now.

I read most people have the biggest problem with waking up. For me it is a problem that I usually wake up after 5 to 15 minutes already instead of 20. Its got a bit better at day 3(i forced myself to keep sleeping, but at first this resulted in me being very drowsy (I hope this word means what I think it means), but it got better now).

I also noticed that the times that give me the most trouble staying awake are the ones I normally used to sleep. Between 5 and 6 am I get really tired and can hardly keep my eyes open(the worst at the third night, got better at 4, very curious how its gonna be now).

Another thing I started doing at day three was counting my harbeats. It started just as a method to fall asleep more easily, but I now see that at first my harbeat dropped at night to somewhat 60 instead of 80 during the day. I just counted it again 3:30 am and I noticed its 75. Maybe this is a way to check whether your body is still on its old ritm or that its adapting to your new rithm...

On day three I really started doubting wether I should continu. The hard part was not really the staying awake for me, but the fact that I didnt feel like doing anything. I was just waiting for my next nap and this gets really very boring if you are awake 20 hours a day.
I am starting to get more confident now again, because I feel slightly less tired(My will to sleep no longer exeeds my will to play WoW, which makes it way easyer).]

Btw it is probably a lot easyer for me to adjust since I have no obligations during the day(easy to stick to a schedule). I m a student and I have to write a report, but I just postponed that. Downside of this is that you get bored more easily. Things that help me stay awake are: Musik, physical activities(I cleaned my room like 3 times already) and socializing with other people and then theres one more that works incredibly well for me but I dont know if I should put that here, but I think you get it.

I thought at first I wouldnt make my post to long but if you are as interested as me, I figured you wouldnt mind^^. Tanx for the support btw

Edit:

Some more notes, when I started followin this schedule I already had a quit abnormal daily sleeping rithm as I slept when I felt tired(for random times varying from 10 minutes to 3 hours) usually resutling me in not being able to sleep at nigth. This however resulted in me feeling tired all day long... I did have a longer sleep, you could say core sleep, at 4-5 am to 12-1 pm.

Another note I would like to make is that I so far only had 2 vivid dreams and I have no clue whether I am actually getting rem sleep during my naps...