Hey all,
just wanted to update my status since my faux pas from yesterday (DAY 4).
DAY 5
Since I almost wanted to give up yesterday at one of my worst zombie moments and after that even overslept, everything seemed fine this night.
In fact this was the first night ever without as much as a mild tiredness.
At first, when I woke up at 2am I was insanely tired again and wanted to end it right there again, can you believe it?
I told myself that it just wouldn't make any sense to keeo this going if every night would be torturing and I don't seem to make any progress.
So I sat at the edge of my bed hating the situation and pondering if I really should quit or not (while feeling like ♥♥♥♥♥).
But then something changed inside of me, I became angered and defiant.
So I gritted my teeth and stood up to stay awake and fight the drowsiness as best I could, even though it'd be a torture.
And now the most wonderous thing happened:
As soon as I stood up and walked about 3 steps... my zombie-tiredness completely vanished !?
And, as I mentioned already at the beginning of this post, the result of this 2am-6am cycle was that I was completely and without any effort... awake!
I just couldn't believe it, I was so happy that I went outside talking a refreshing walk and watching the sun come out.
Since I'm always trying not to draw conclusions too quickly (especially if they are too good to be true) I thought about why this was and I came up with 2 explanations. A positive one and a pessimistic one.
The first obvious one would be:
Adaptation just began to kick in!
That would be the best thing if that's really what's going on and it would give me a TREMENDOUS motivational push.
The second (pessimistic) explanation:
As I overslept for 5-6 hours on DAY 4 this could've just given me enough energy to "make through the night" more effortlessly.
So it could very well be that the next night won't be as pleasant as today.
But this time I allow myself to have some hope.
One argument I came up with to support the adaptation-is-kicking-in explanation would be that even though I overslept it didn't happen during the cycle from 2am-6am, but during 6am-12am. Well, whatever the case may be tomorrow I will be the wiser.
As for now I felt a little bit groggy after my 6am nap but a few minutes later remained the light tiredness from before without any torturous experiences.
I think I'll experiment a little bit with the lengths of my naps. Yesterday I've watched a
vlog from this (seemingly) french guy who also tried the uberman schedule and made interesting videos, even showing himself in zombie-mode and giving a few insights along with that.
The most interesting thing I got from his videos was that after about 2 weeks he suddenly found something that finally got him to adapt:
The solution for him was just 2 Minutes... 2 Minutes!
He previously slept for... I think it was 23 Minutes and then, after 2 weeks, when he added 2 more minutes he suddenly would wake up everytime and would mostly be a little tired, but no zombie-mode anymore!
So there you have it,
sometimes it's the small things that can make a huge difference.
I felt a little more tired an hour ago, but it's still bearable.
My next nap (10am) is coming up and if anything deviates from the positive feelings after the naps I had so far then I'll update this post.
If there won't be anything special then I'll be back with my report of DAY 6 (especially to report if the nighttime went as smooth as the last time).
So long,
Edward