[jjenkov]

Hi,

I have read about the same things about Claudio Stampi and the division of

I've been trying to adapt to the uberman for about 14 days now.
Need I say I didn't make it? I constantly overslept in the beginning.
Especially during the night. I did get to something though, like a medium length
polyphasic sleep schedule (not long napping, nor short napping, nor core sleep),
as I'll explain in this post.

After about 8 days I changed the strategy a bit. I started to log all sleep and wake
periods in a spreadsheet, so I could see if I was making any progress. I also put
more effort into making sure that I never got any longer coherent periods of sleep
than about 30 minutes. Then I just took more of them, 10-12 a day. Of course I
still overslept some of them for up to 1-2 hours. At first I felt disappointed
about the oversleeping, because the total hours of sleep apprached 5-7 a day.
Not very impressive.

But then I noticed something in the spreadsheet. I was writing down too how
the naps were going, and I noticed that on several naps I never made it to
sleep. In other words, I wasn't really getting 10 x 30 minutes a day, because 2-3-4
of the naps a day I never quite fell asleep. This lack of sleep was probably
what led me to oversleeping some of the naps.

On day 13 I noticed something else. After waking up from a 1-2 hour overssleep
period I awake and fresh for up to 6-8 hours afterwards. At first I thought
that it was just because I was getting so close to normal sleep amounts
(only 1-3 hours below). But then I thought about something else:

Perhaps I *needed* to fall asleep at all naps for them to be any good.
And since it is apparently hard for me to fall asleep on 30 minutes,
I changed the naps to 1 hour. Now I fall asleep, and I wake up pretty easily
afterwards. Today is day 15, and I seem to be able to adapt to a

3 x 60 min sleep schedule - 60 min every 8 hours = 3 hours a day.

This is different from the either long or short sleep schedules David Hausladen
mentions in his posts. It isn't really neither. Not 20-30 minutes, nor
90 minutes.

In my opinion this is actually superior to uberman. Yes, I sleep 1 hour
longer a day than uberman, but theres a major resulting difference: I have about 7 hours
between my naps. I believe I can push the schedule around a bit, meaning I can
muster about 8-9 hours together between two naps, and shorten the period between
the others. And that means I am able to ... yes... go to work for a full normal
work day (8 hours). Something you cannot really do on an uberman schedule,
because you need to nap sometime during the work time.

In addition, granted I get my 1 hour sleep after work, I am able to stay out
the whole evening until around 00.00 without having to nap. This means
that my sleep schedule interferes less with my social life too. This is
something the uberman practioneers seem to complain about too, that they
have to nap while being with friends and family. In my circle of friends we
do normally go home on weekdays (mon - thu) before 00.00 before people have
to get to work the day after.

It is still early on in the experiment, but adaptation seems to be kicking in.
I fall asleep faster, and when I wake up, I wake faster. When I wake up it feels
like I have been sleeping for hours! I also feel more awake between the naps
than on the earlier uberman attempt.

If anyone wants to hear how this progresses in the time ahead, you can
find me and some contact details on jenkov.com. I'll try to write a blog
post on the results later, when the experiment has lasted a little longer.
Hopefully I'll get to normal work days soon, so I can see how my sleep
schedule does in that situation.