Thread: New polyphasic sleep pattern

Still going, but last night was less of a success than usual - some family were over (damn family again) and we had a glass of wine and I tried a little bit of vodka.
I thought it would be fine, because this was right after my 9pm nap ... but nope.
Either alcohol is a big no-no with this schedule, or the schedule always breaks after a few days.

Still carrying on, this time I'll be sure to be more careful

I haven't been able to follow lucidman lately because of the end fo school. I have not been able to get the 1AM-2AM block happening because of parties and drinking alcohol etc. But last night I did do lucidman and I had a dream, it was in my thrid nap of my 9AM-10AM block (I took three naps instead of two because I was not following it properly, and I was not ready to start depriving myself of sleep just after a night of monophasicking). But the dream was clearer than normal dreams so that was good.
Sorry I haven't been following my schedule properly everybody, I am really not truly ready to commit myself. My dad has been in hospital for the last two weeks with bi-polar disease (it was hereditary), and I know poyphasic patterns can induce such illnesses, so I have been heavily de-motivated by the effects this illness has had on my dad. But, I'm going to go lucidman for at least a year and then I might change.

Same. Broke the schedule again. This end of year thing just isn't conducive - I'm just too lazy and quick to do things I shouldn't.
My wife asked me if I'll be polyphasic tonight - I said 'nah, next year'

Are you starting again? This time for longer I hope.

Yup, started already. But this time, I'm giving myself an hour or two lie-in in the morning to make things a bit easier to get used to.
Means it'll take longer to get rid of that though

Well, if anybody has been following this thread (i know a few of you have) you will know that I have had trouble with lucidman espially with sleeping through my alarm. I would sleep through it, turn it off during my sleep, walk across to the other side of the room and turn it off (in my sleep again), or sleep through the noise. I had multiple alarms going off, i turned them all off, i had my phone on vibrate and put in under my body when i went to sleep, still no luck. I tried the old American Indian technique of drinking lots of water before sleep to wake up naturally, all that did was enlarge my bladder, so I yet again built up a resistance. This crap went on until I got so sick of it, that I took the final step, resulting in 100% wake-up from a nap/sleep at any time, and at any time during your circadian rythym (this works for people trying to wake up 20 minutes in).

phew....the solution is a special alarm lock.

The alarm lock took me about ten minutes to build and has been the best thing I have ever used to wake me up. I built it three days ago, which means I have set my alarm 18 times since I built it. So far, I have woken up all 18 times.
Here's how to do it: take an alarm clock. find a shoe box (mine has a lid with a hinge). Cut a hole to fit the power cord through the side. Cut holes in the lid/flap and the side of the shoe box, such that a lock can be fitted through. I use a combination lock because it requires consciousness to open rather than a key (although a key would probably work provided you didn't leave the key at your bedside). My alarm also has an arial that flops out of the side hole (it's a radio alarm clock). So, I set my alarm, then close the lock, leaving the alarm lock shoe box nest to where my head lies. When the alarm goes off (you have to get a loud alarm) you scramble around for the light, then fiddle with the lock. My lock is really dodgy (which is good, so I dont open the lock too easily, thus not waking up fully) so I usually open it on the third attempt.

I suggest the alarm lock for any person in transition stage of any type of alternative sleep schedule. It ensures you don't ever sleep through an alarm again.

With the help of my alarm lock I am back to lucidman, and will hopefully carry through the transition (deja vu? yeah, but this time I have the alarm lock...)

lol, I love the inventiveness of people trying to adapt to polyphasic sleep.
I've heard crazier ideas though, involving powertools and water o.O

I've just had to put my alarm far from me, then I'm okay. So far.

More updates from everyone doing this please.

Bad news ... I'm still failing at it. After about 3 days I just crash.
No idea why, and it doesn't necessarily meant the schedule is completely unworkable, but it's not looking good.

I have to move to another schedule.. I need to settle on something.
It's tricky though because in Feb I'm going on holiday to family, and family are experts at breaking my schedule.
So I don't want to adapt to uberman if I know it'll be broken next month anyway.

I tried discussing it with my wife, and we came to a consensus, but now this morning she tells me that she's not sure it's a good idea after all :/
So it's still in the air

Hi Guys.

Two days ago I officially quit trying to do any type of sleeping schedule after consistently failing to adopt to lucidman schedule and wasting time as I slept in.
I have now decided to devote my sleeping hours to trying to achieve lucidity because that seems like a good endeavour. That is, I am not even going back to bi-phasic, I am mono-phasicking until I achieve good lucid dreaming skills, then I will return to a bi-phasic sleeping schedule.

My decision has been influenced by a number of things such as the effects the schedule was having on me, the general lack of dreams whilst adopting, the temptation of a good dream life with lucid dreams, the effect the schedule could have had on my health, my job, etc.

Lucidman is still an enigma. Does it work? Who knows? Placebo is having difficulty, as am I, and I believe it should be attempted by people who are already in a polyphasic schedule such as uberman.

Lucidman is up for grabs, that is, I don't claim it to be "mine" because basically I doubt whether it works effeciently, and also I have not truly applied myself to it and don't deserve any credit if it is indeed as good as I thought it would be. But, any body can have a go if they wish, but be warned, it is hard, maybe too hard. Don't let my efforts deter you, I really hope it does work, all well....

Maybe another Dymaxion case.
It's funny that I had my only two lucids when I was poliphasic. I also seemed to remember A LOT more of my dreams when I was sleaping for 20 min a time. But, maybe that is the middleground between lucid dreaming and poliphasic sleep. Wolf napping, as I read somewhere, is exactly this. You sleep through most of the night, but never for more than 15-20 minutes a time. I think this will be awesome for lucid dreaming, because you can remember every one of your dreams, or most at least. Also, the dream transition seems more fluent this way, less noticable. I was able to achieve a state of relaxed consiousness whilist trying this, dreaming I am swimming with my grandma Also, think of the many opportunities you get- atleast 20 WILD attempts, or, 20 WBTB attempts. It's a big world out there, explore.