Uberman Sleep Experiment Going On Now

[ubermansleep]

Hey everyone,

My brother challenged me to do the uberman schedule. I did some reading about it and started about 24 hours ago. So far so good and I am keeping a log of it on twitter if anyone wants to watch, ask questions or give advice.

My twitter is

Twitter

I am almost 24 hours in. I have been keeping an active log of how I feel, and my thoughts, trials and tribulations on this sleep schedule via twitter. Feel free to participate.

I am also thinking about doing a blog if anyone thinks it would be helpful. I dont want to get to involved until I know I can survive past a few days. Im thinking if I can last 7 days I will put up a blog that recaps things, but Ill keep live up to the minute stuff on twitter.

Its really interesting that I have not just completely passed out of pure exhaustion, which is what I thought was going to happen. Maybe it still will, but obviously not in the first 24 hours. I'll see what happens when I get closer to 48 and 72 hours.

[ubermansleep]

just finished my 10pm nap... feel pretty good and energetic... i really need something to occupy my time during the night

updates posted to twitter

[elucidate]

You haven't really explained what you are doing. Maybe you are assuming we all know what the 'uberman sleep " thing is, but I for one have never heard of it.

Is it where you just don't sleep?

What is it you are doing exactly?

[ubermansleep]

Originally Posted by elucidate

You haven't really explained what you are doing. Maybe you are assuming we all know what the 'uberman sleep " thing is, but I for one have never heard of it.

Is it where you just don't sleep?

What is it you are doing exactly?

Hello,

Sorry I was under the assumption that everyone knew what uberman sleeping was on this site.

In summary, most people sleep 6 to 8 hours or more each night, all at once. Uberman sleeping is reducing the necessary sleeping schedule down to 2 hours per day by napping 20 minutes 6 times throughout the day.

Steve did this back in 2005

Polyphasic Sleep

you can learn more about polyphasic sleeping and uberman schedule here

Uberman's sleep schedule || kuro5hin.org

It is one of the hardest sleep schedules to adjust to and most people drop out between day 3 and day 7. Although there are countless blogs of people who tried and failed, there are only a couple of rare instances of people documenting the transition period and successfully implementing a uberman sleep schedule for months or years on end.

I am simply giving this a try myself and documenting what this transition period feels like, hour by hour.

There is a high chance of failure, but if successful, I will only sleep around 2 or 3 hours per day leaving me with what may seem like endless amounts of time on my hand to do basically whatever.

[ubermansleep]

Recap of uberman experiment - 1st 24 hours

Hey everyone, just wanted to give a little recap of what its been like during the first 24 hours of my uberman experiment. Please keep in mind, I may have written poorly due to the brain fatigue and lower levels of concentration and train of thought at this moment.

Uberman start date 10/07/2011 @ 10pm

It all started with a challenge from my younger brother on friday. I heard about uberman years ago but never really gave it some serious though. Then my brother came in the office on friday and told me about uberman, something he just learned about. We got all hyped up about how cool it would be to practically never need to sleep, how much time we would have and things we can accomplish. I told him it would be an interesting idea to test out. We are in a unique situation as we both work together and for ourselves, so we are not bound by any 9 to 5 shifts or bosses who limit what we can do. So we decided, lets give it a try and see what happens. It was the weekend so the perfect opportunity to see what happens over a 2 to 3 day period. We basically figured we can probably last until monday and by then we will probably just be completely dead and sleep the entire day. Lets see what happens...

I decided to start friday night at 10pm. After looking over my daily and weekly schedule we concluded that naps at 2, 6 and 10 will work almost perfect for our daily lives. Nothing going on at 2 am so no big deal there, 6am is right before I normally wake up anyway. 10am and 2pm which I can easily squeeze in a quick nap during work hours. 6pm right after work and before I pick up the kids and 10pm is not that bad if I plan on going out that night, it will be just a little bit of a late start. If I ever adapt I can easily push these naps up or down an hour to accomadate any activity.

I wanted to try and get a few naps in rather than stay up all night to the brink of sheer exhaustion so I started at 10pm friday night. The first nap didnt go so well since I could not bring myself to go to sleep. My monophasic sleep schedule is normally 11pm to midnight for bedtime and 6am or 630am wake up.

Summary of 1st 24 hour experiences

I could not get myself to fall asleep at 10pm and 2am. I laid their for about an hour each time and realized I just wasnt going to fall asleep. Possibly my thoughts racing kept me up, thinking to myself often "I need to sleep". Then rethinking to myself, "did I fall asleep yet", only to realize if I am thinking this, I probably have not.

I found it extremely hard to get myself to fall asleep in under 30 minutes and under command. My first possible nap was at 6am although I am still unsure.

I started to experience brain fatigue, loss of concentration, and unable to keep my train of thought as of 6am. I even tried to register for this forum with no success. I could not figure out why registration kept failing.

My first "I know I slept" nap was 10am, my alarm woke me up and I felt the absolute worst at this point. I even questioned if it was worth continuing.

Falling asleep since 10am has not been a problem, but I still felt brain fatigued, sluggish and hard to concentrate.

Although I am mentally tired, my eyes are not tired. I do not have the heavy eyelid feelings which is probably the only thing that would absolutely make me want to stop if I had that symptom all day long.

I have noticed that the first 15 minutes of waking up is the absolute worst and makes me want to stop completely, but after 15 minutes I am full of energy and enjoy giving this a try.

I was able to operate a vehicle between 10am and 2pm with no issues or problems.

falling asleep on cue is increasingly becoming easier and easier, and post nap symptoms of dizyness and light headedness are less and less with each new nap

I am finding myself missing the monophasic sleeping experience. I look at my bed thinking, I may practically never need this ever again, but then I think of how comfortable it is and how much I enjoy just cuddling up in a bed each night.

As the 24th hour approaches, my train of thought and concentration levels are starting to come back. Still nowhere near what it would be with a full nights sleep, but dramatically increasing with each new nap.

Adjusting to this new sleep schedule seems to be getting easier and easier and I am now naturally switching focus of feeling tired to what am I going to do while I am awake.


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If anyone here is on this schedule and wants to connect or offer help and advice, please message me.

thanks

[Drew78]

This is amazing. Please keep going. I'd love to know your results. I hope you're able to continue without dropping out. I know it's very hard, and I can't imagine doing it myself at this point, but please keep us posted on your progress. I've heard it takes a week to ten days to get fully adjusted to it.

[ubermansleep]

Originally Posted by Drew78

This is amazing. Please keep going. I'd love to know your results. I hope you're able to continue without dropping out. I know it's very hard, and I can't imagine doing it myself at this point, but please keep us posted on your progress. I've heard it takes a week to ten days to get fully adjusted to it.

yeah i hear the same thing. Its sunday, I have almost completed a full 48 hours, and to be honest, if this is the worst part, then its all down hill from here. Only had 1 mishap so far last night where I slept a little extra. But I guess its a live and learn kind of thing. Now I know I cant just turn on the TV right when i wake up. HAHA

[ubermansleep]

Recap of uberman experiment - 24 to 48 hours

Hi everyone, just wanted to update hours 24 to 48 (day 2) of my uberman sleep experiment. I am feeling much more concious, higher levels of concentration (still not as high as on normal 8 hour sleep cycle) and I can hold my train of though long enough to do a lot more activities now.

Summary of hours 24 to 48

Naps 10pm, 2am, 6am and 10am were by far my best naps. Feel asleep within minutes and work up on time or even before. I did have a mishap on 6am, as I was watching tv prior to 6am, took my nap, woke up and returned to watching tv. Somewhere between waking back up and starting the next episode I fell back asleep for an extra 1.5 hours. Not the end of the world, but at least I didnt snooze it for 8 more hours.

naps 2pm and 6pm were more difficult since my daughter kept waking me up. Sleep was not a quality as the others and somehow I even doubt I really dozed off on these sessions. However when I got up I still felt somewhat rested and no sleepy eye symptoms

Still having a hard time falling asleep, there is a lot of brain chattering going on in my head which forces me to extend my nap session to try and really doze off and ensure I am getting at least my 15 minutes.

Brain fatigue, loss of concentration and losing my train of thought is down to a minimum. I am able to read a lot more, play games more effective and write more often, which to me seems like cohearnt sentances. (maybe not... idk)

I am enjoying my quick naps and at NO point today did I ever think, "this sleep system sucks I want to go back to 8 hours".

Still a little mentally tired, but no sleepy eye, which is great. To be honest, if I had sleepy eye for the past 48 hours, I would have given up by now. I can handle being mentally tired, but if I was constantly at that stage where your eyes just wont stay open, I would have easily given in.

Post nap symptoms are practically gone. No more or very little dizzyness and light headed.

I did not miss monophastic sleeping the past 24 hours and I slept on the couch as often as possible. I think I only used the bed 2 times.

My body is naturally starting to tell me it needs a nap, almost on schdule. I can only describe it as something similar to being hungry or needing to go to the bathroom. Its a subtle internal signal saying "hey, i would like to sleep soon"

Boredom in the wee hours of the morning was at an all time high. I just read random things online and wiki articles. Need to start putting a list of things to do



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[elucidate]

Originally Posted by ubermansleep

Hello,

Sorry I was under the assumption that everyone knew what uberman sleeping was on this site.

In summary, most people sleep 6 to 8 hours or more each night, all at once. Uberman sleeping is reducing the necessary sleeping schedule down to 2 hours per day by napping 20 minutes 6 times throughout the day.

Steve did this back in 2005

Polyphasic Sleep

you can learn more about polyphasic sleeping and uberman schedule here

Uberman's sleep schedule || kuro5hin.org

It is one of the hardest sleep schedules to adjust to and most people drop out between day 3 and day 7. Although there are countless blogs of people who tried and failed, there are only a couple of rare instances of people documenting the transition period and successfully implementing a uberman sleep schedule for months or years on end.

I am simply giving this a try myself and documenting what this transition period feels like, hour by hour.

There is a high chance of failure, but if successful, I will only sleep around 2 or 3 hours per day leaving me with what may seem like endless amounts of time on my hand to do basically whatever.

Ah, ok. There are thousands and thousands of people who come to view this site. I'm sure not all of them know what this is, and I had not heard of it before I read your thread, so thankyou for explaining what it is, and best of luck with that.

[Brutha]

Then rethinking to myself, "did I fall asleep yet", only to realize if I am thinking this, I probably have not.

That's not true. You can reach stage 1 or 2 sleep without noticing that you have slept.
I spent a week of life in that state

You might be interested in Polyphasic Sleep Experiment Discussion | Zeo Sleep Manager

[ubermansleep]

Originally Posted by elucidate

Ah, ok. There are thousands and thousands of people who come to view this site. I'm sure not all of them know what this is, and I had not heard of it before I read your thread, so thankyou for explaining what it is, and best of luck with that.

thanks... so far so good

[ubermansleep]

Originally Posted by Brutha

That's not true. You can reach stage 1 or 2 sleep without noticing that you have slept.
I spent a week of life in that state

You might be interested in Polyphasic Sleep Experiment Discussion | Zeo Sleep Manager

thanks for the resource. I see what you mean about stage 1 and stage 2 sleep. You can be in it without really realizing it and while also having your prenap thoughts transfer in and back out of stage 1 and stage 2 sleep.

Very interesting which may explain why even thought I feel like I got no sleep, my eyes are still rested enough to not experience sleepy eye symptoms.

I like this myzeo thing as well. I am going to order one after a little bit of reading up on it. Regardless if I remain polyphasic or go back to monophasic, this device can be really helpful to increase the quality of my sleep and possibly even understand my sleep a little more.

thanks!

[ubermansleep]

Still going strong... now onto day #5

starting to feel much better, naps are getting easier and more restful. Still have mental fogginess, and waiting to start dreaming during naps

[Drew78]

great! i'm so proud of you. this is not an easy feat. you're almost there it looks like and it's getting easier already. keep up the great work. SP always said that he felt great after he got used to his polyphasic sleep structure.

[Silence Dogood]

How has progress come a long this last week?