Polynapping in Vancouver: Archive

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...

Nov 5th

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…

Sep 2nd

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...

Aug 31st

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...

Aug 30th

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...

Jul 30th

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...

Jul 20th

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,...

Jul 19th

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...

Jul 19th

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...

Jul 18th

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!

Jul 17th

Everyman Schedule - Day 4

Yes, I know, it’s dissapointing… Let me go back in time and explain to you what happened: Yesterday around 1pm, I went to take my nap as usual, and did take a really good nap, I fell into REM sleep for about 9 minutes, I caught myself on camera to actually realize my eyes were moving etc… I survived the whole afternoon without any problems as usual, until my 6pm nap, I went to take my...

Jul 17th

Everyman Schedule - Day 3

Oh, it’s getting tough… Time passes by so slowly… I’d give so much for a quick nap right now… Once more, my app didn’t get enough time to write the graph, I’ll set the alarm 1 hour before I go to bed tomorrow… Excited to see what my graph looks like now. This is becoming such a will-power-related exercise… I’m feeling that once this is over and when I’ll have...

Jul 16th

First REM Experience

I think I just hit REM on my last nap. It’s weird to think it was that quick, and seems kind of unreal, but it seems like all the parameters were there: I set my alarm clock for 1:10PM I started my nap around 12:50PM I woke up at 12:59PM and before even checking out my alarm clock, I was already telling myself: “Oh shit, I just missed the alarm, I’ve been sleeping for 5...

Jul 15th

Morning Bike Ride

It’s better than I thought, I’m actually going to be able to do my bike rides at dawn, where most people are just in bed and not taking over the bike path. It’s so much peaceful and natural with no-one around! Anyway, too much talking, I took a couple pictures: Lost Lagoon Lake Downtown Buildings Lion’s Gate Bridge Back home

Jul 15th

Everyman Schedule - Day 2

Yay! I woke up on time and easier than yesterday! I guess state of mind counts then… I haven’t even showered yet, it is 4:10 and I have been up for 10 minutes now :) Something went wrong with my Sleep Cycle app though, it didn’t generate this night’s graph… Maybe it considers that a night’s sleep cannot be inferior to 3 hours so it doesn’t even count it as a...

Jul 15th

Everyman Schedule - Day 1

I woke up about half an hour ago from my core nap. It’s harder than I thought, and going back to bed crossed my mind already a couple times… I guess that for everybody it’s the same deal, but adapting to this 4am wake up every night is really going to be the toughest thing I’ve ever done to my body. Anyway, at least I woke up on time. I’ll keep posting these graphs just...

Jul 14th

First Schedule Modification

It’s about midnight here, and I’ve just figured out a better schedule: Core nap: 01:00 to 04:00 Nap: 08:00 to 08:20 Nap: 12:40 to 13:00 Nap: 18:00 to 18:20 I remembered that I bought earplugs especially for those morning renovations so I was able to move it a bit and actually get the 4-8am span I wanted. Why? Sunrise! I get to take a nice walk on the beach at sunrise, then head...

Jul 14th

Everyman Experiment Kickoff

Yep, that’s right. I’m finally trying it out, after the past months I’ve been dreaming about a moment to start. A bit like quitting smoking, you always find an excuse not to start, so here it is: I’m trying Everyman-3. Basically I will be sleeping 3h a night, and 3 naps during daytime at some convenient times. My first schedule looks like this: Core nap: 04:30 to 07:30 ...

Jul 13th