2010

I’ve been a bit quiet over the last couple of days. This is mostly because I didn’t have anything especially interesting to report, and I felt like writing “feeling moderately awake” every day wouldn’t make for very interesting updates.

Well, today I have a more… uh… interesting update.

I overslept this morning. For about 5 hours.

While this seems like a major setback (and I did feel like crap about it for a few moments), it’s actually been a blessing in disguise. It’s forced me to take a good hard look at myself relating to this experiment. I also went and read through other successful polysleepers experiences (mostly Steve Pavlina‘s), in order to find some tips that might help me succeed in the adaptation. And I’m really glad I did that, because I learned some really important stuff! (Why didn’t I read through his sleep log before I started the switchover myself?)

(Well, now that I think about it, I wanted to start the experiment by myself, as a clean slate. I didn’t want to follow exactly in somebody else’s footsteps, because that would take away the joy of discovery and being an expedition leader. You can think of it as playing an adventure computer game. It’s much more fun to try to figure out things yourself and only occasionally look up advice when you’re completely stumped, than follow a step-by-step guide throughout.)

So today, I will share a couple of the things I’ve learned so far, as well as my plans for the future. [click to continue…]

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I overslept one of my naps.

For the second day in a row.

Specifically, both times I got really tired during the 7-11 sub-day, decided to throw in an extra nap and overslept. The first time, I slept for about 50 minutes. Today, I slept for over an hour.

Now, luckily it’s nowhere near as bad as some other people I’ve heard of who tried switching to Uberman sleep schedule, where they ended up oversleeping… and sleeping for some 8 hours! That would have set my progress back several days. But it still sucks.

Plus, I thought I was doing really well this time! Every other sub-day I’ve had moderate-to-high energy levels (as long as I took the night-time sub-days easy).

But I can’t ignore this oversleeping. It’s happened twice already. And if it keeps happening, it will slowly eat apart my whole experiment. So… bring it, tiredness! I am ready for battle… [click to continue…]

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First of all, for all of you asking why I didn’t post an update yesterday – I felt like I didn’t have enough interesting stuff to share. My policy here on Fun Life Development is that I post when I have something interesting to share, not to keep up an arbitrary schedule.

(Plus, okay, I was feeling tired and lazy :p .)

Of course I won’t leave you hanging – here’s what happened on Day 4! [click to continue…]

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I wrote up my report for Day 2 around 2:00 last night.

Less than two hours later, I experienced the most mind-boggling incident of the whole experiment so far.

The 3:00-7:00 interval of Day 2

I’ve thought about how to write this up for you, and I decided to simply copy down what I wrote in my diary (where I keep track of what I’m doing in each interval during this experiment). Here it is, word-for-word. [With added comments in square brackets, like this one.] [click to continue…]

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For all of you worried that I didn’t post an update because I fell asleep and slept through the whole day – don’t worry

The reason is much simpler – I didn’t post an update because I was honestly so busy doing fun and awesome stuff all day that I simply couldn’t find the time to write up the update and include all the details I wanted.

Well, it’s roughly 2:00 on Day 2 now, and I finally got around to writing up my experiences. (As you might remember, my days end at 7:00 and the next day starts at 7:20).

So enjoy this update, covering most of Day 1, and Day 2 [click to continue…]

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