SPAMAYL Schedule - Day 3

That’s it!

It is 4:32AM and this is my third night on SPAMAYL Schedule. I failed last time because it just wasn’t the right time, my cousin was coming over etc…

I’m napping only at daytime to completely reverse my “habits” and especially to avoid oversleep. It’s just too hard to wake up after a night time nap… Very hard.

I’ve been napping 5 to 6 times at daytime, and today I hit REM twice. I am able to sleep on every nap and I haven’t overslept so far :) I don’t feel especially tired in the daytime but at night, things get a bit tougher!

I’ll try to update everyday over here…

SPAMAYL Schedule - Day 2

OK, so this day went a bit better, I only overslept an hour on my last nap. Here are my napping times:

• 9:00 AM
• 11:00 AM
• 1:30 PM
• 9:40 PM
• 2:40 AM
• 4:20 AM
• 6:40 AM

I can feel how badly my body is used to sleeping at night, I never fall into REM sleep during night naps. I’m going to try to sleep more in daytime, less at night, just adaptation-wise…

SPAMAYL Schedule - Day 1

I just finished my first night as a SPAMAYL sleeper. Fail. I napped 5 times yesterday but after the 5th nap, I stayed lying on my bed kind of sleepy, thinking “Oh I should get up, this is no good… no alarm clock and I’m feeling sleepy… I shouldn’t do… zzZZZZ”. Damn it.

Here were my nap times:

• 11:00 AM
• 07:30 PM
• 10:00 PM
• 2:10 AM
• 3:10 AM

I basically overslept for 4 hours this night, looks like it was more harmful than helpful but, whatever…

Tonight I won’t fail!

Back to Polyphasic Sleeping

I’m back in business!

I just pulled an all-nighter and found it pretty appropriate to start SPAMAYL as of today!

For those who don’t know about it, SPAMAYL means Sleep Polyphasic As Much As You Like. It’s not really a schedule nor a pattern but it is comparable to Uberman in terms of time gain. It is basically napping when you feel the need, which gives you much better flexibility throughout the day (some people actually go 9h without napping everyday without it being a problem). It therefore removes the problem of “something coming up” and not being able to nap…

I’m curious of how you don’t fall into a schedule though… I guess the body must want to go into a 24h rythm right?

I’ll probably update this blog daily to tell you how it’s going, how many naps I managed to do, and at what times. 

Toodles

(The picture is just because I think this city is insanely beautiful.)

Monophasic Sleep

So as you may have guessed, my polyphasic experiment has been over for over a week now…

Basically what happened is that I became very tired at work in the morning, completely zombie, I couldn’t do much, and wasn’t really motivated by doing anything. I went to take my noon nap, which went fine, I took my 6 o’clock nap, perfect. I went for my core nap around 1 and woke up at 9AM…

I don’t really remember what happened, did I switch off my alarm clock? Did I wake up at 4? Whatever…

I definitely failed because of will power, but looking back, it couldn’t last long anyway.

Polyphasic sleeping is definitely not made for people who have “normal” lives, Everyman included. It’s just not possible. You have to completely commit and sacrifice some freedom in order to succeed, even after the adaptation period. This confirms what I was thinking at first, but at least I tried :)

The great part, that I definitely had the chance to experience, is the incredible dreaming experience. I don’t regret it one bit, the noon naps were worth ten times the sleep-deprivation I went through. I can’t explain how great the dreams were, and how vivid they were, you’ll have to try out for yourself :)

There is no question that I will try this again some time where my schedule permits it. Building my own business? This time, it will be Uberman. It seems way more appropriate to use this schedule if you have the right lifestyle for polyphasic sleeping. Adaptation is harder but much quicker, and I HATE that core nap…

I won’t close this blog just now as I may continue to post polyphasic related stuff :)

Everyman Schedule - Day 7

Here it is: One week!

Gosh, I feel so tired right now. I kind of shifted my schedule and did some weird stuff. I had less trouble waking up but I definitely feel like there’s an earthquake inside of my head :D

Basically, I went to sleep at 1am, but like 2 days ago, I ended up taking a great nap, very long vivid and lucid dreams, and I woke up feeling rested as ever. The thing is that I therefore had to stay up late.

I don’t know how I managed to do it but I slept from 4:40am to about 8:00am.

My next nap is in about 2 hours! Courage !

Mind Tricks!

I just woke up from the best nap ever.

I set the alarm clock to 12:08, I closed my eyes at 11:43 (I always count extra minutes to fall asleep).

• My first dream was a dream where I woke up from my nap and it was 7:08PM. I started yelling “What the hell??” and then I realized that my roommate would have woke me up. I said to myself: “Nah, this is a dream…” and suddenly BOOM, the dream vanished.
• Half a second later, it was the same situation, except my roommate came to wake me up and was looking at me because I was talking in my sleep :p I woke up and told her that I bet I was talking and then I saw the door, it was decorated. “My door is not decorated!” BOOM, dream vanished.
• In the last one, I was looking out of the window and there were three people stealing a car I think. That’s when I said to myself: “OK enough, I must be 1 or two minutes before my alarm, I have to go to the chiropractor, let’s wake up”.

I woke up, it was 12:06, and I was feeling so rested.

It’s funny how your mind tries to hide the fact that it’s a dream, and that as soon as you realize it, switches the scene instantly. On tomorrow’s noon nap, I’ll try controlling them :)

I love noon naps!

Everyman Schedule - Day 6

…and loving it.

I just woke up to what can be called the best core nap I’ve had so far. I’ve found the “trick”: sleep 3:30. My sleep cycle is more like 100-110 minutes than 90. It’s much better like this!

When I woke up, I was feeling like when you wake up at 3 am, some kind of twitching in my legs, some grogginess, but really not that bad. In fact, I sat in my bed, blanket on top, without any problems of falling back to sleep or anything like that.

I actually didn’t need doing physical activities just after waking up! I just ate, and I feel well enough to work/read/watch a movie without any fear of falling asleep :)

I’m really happy I kept on going. I read multiple polyphasic blogs and realized how much Day 4 is kind of a “turnpoint” and most of the time, it splits between those who will go on, and those who won’t :D

Everyman Schedule - Day 5

Here I go again then!

I had a weird but restful sleep:

I fell asleep around 1:10, and actually napped for 20 minutes! I remember waking up around 1:35 feeling so good :D I almost thought about getting up and taking a later nap…

Nevertheless, it looks like I’m fitting into the schedule! I woke up feeling like ass but it looks like it’s getting better all right! What I did was consider my sleep cycles a bit longer than I thought: around 100 minutes. So instead of having a 3 hour core nap, I made it 3:30 and let the alarm clock wake me up.I guess I could have slept a little more though, but whatever…

Perfect Nap

I changed my mind and decided to go back to adaptation, thanks imhotep :)

I just had a perfect nap, did 3 different dreams and woke up half a second between them, and it was such a good sleep, I’m really happy about it!

That’s it, it was just to warn you that it was far from over, I won’t let myself fail so easily!

OSU!