When I was little, I had a game called Duke Nukem 3D, which was by Apogee/3DRealms(my dad probably bought it in a store; I wasn't allowed to play it until some time or I played it anyway or something). I had some other games by them, but Duke3D was probably my favorite(since I had 300 user maps downloaded for it). When I was using the internet, I went to 3DRealms' site and found out about Duke Nukem Forever. Manhattan Project came out and I thought it was Duke Nukem Forever and got it for making a speech at a church(don't go to church anymore). This was in 4th grade, during the summer break before it, toward the end, I think.. It was pretty boring so I gave it to a friend. I payed quite a bit of attention to 3DRealms at the time but stopped then and went to other places on the internet.
I came back to it when I was bored one day a while later. I knew what forums were at this point and had quit one a while ago due to it taking up lots of time(newgrounds) and was on the Cube Engine forums but they didn't have much activity. I joined and stayed there for a while before reading a post about a site called damninteresting.com.
I was reading Damninteresting regularly now and there was a post about a group of people who sleep two hours a day and have a simple language(it violated a theory) and I said that they might be stupid from only getting two hours of sleep.. Someone told me about polyphasic sleep, which was what they were doing.
Either they linked me to something or I googled around and I read about it, maybe finding some other stuff to read. Someone mentioned Steve.. I tried to do it by sleeping eight times with variable lengths(1 hour each, reduced as needed) spaced apart evenly and gave up after a week because some oversleep and having to skip cycles discouraged me.. I was planning to adapt to and then change it before school.
School was starting soon so I went to bed at 2AM as that was what I was doing at the time. I woke up at 6AM and had another two hours of sleep when I got home, at 3:30PM. It worked pretty well, so, instead of going back to eight hours of sleep, I decided to improve it, and I knew that polyphasic sleep would help me out. I googled around and found Steve's articles about it, and I knew that he was good at it, so I read a little of them, and decided to read the other articles instead since they interested me.
I was pretty surprised to learn that he made Dexterity because I read the articles there before and liked them, along with the ones he was writing here. I've been experimenting with my sleep since school started and don't intend to stop yet(the total time is nice and short, I'm wide awake at home(under an older version at least), but I'm sleepy during two points at school and awake the rest of the time. Also, I want a true polyphasic schedule when I don't have school(weekdays and holidays) and there's lots of oversleep without school(never over, say, 16 hours per 48-hour period though))...  |