Day 1

Spontaneous as it may seem, I have decided to convert my current sleeping style(one 8 hour sleeping period) to the uberman sleeping schedule which consists of six twenty minute naps throughout the day. My major concerns was scheduling these naps around school and work, while figuring out what to do with all my future free time. I decided to just make it so my naps revolved around my job and school, so we'll see how it goes.

The major deciding factor was my recent obsession, if I may call it that, with something I have recently discovered, lucid dreaming. I first encountered the concept online on stumbleupon.com(a website that shows random and extremely entertaining things on the internet). I read about it after I woke up at midnight for some reason, which I never do, then I remained on the computer until six, which is when I had my first lucid dream, at least the first one I remembered vividly. This dream was perhaps, the most amazing out of body experience of my life. When I realized that I was dreaming, I could do anything I wanted, go anywhere I wanted to go. I felt a sudden feeling of freedom knowing that I was in my own mind, and had complete control of it. When I woke up, I felt rejuvenated and focused. I was hooked. From that day on, I kept on trying to have lucid dreams, from meditating to hypnosis, but I still have not had one since that night.

I already knew about REM sleep, but I didn't realize how beneficial this phase of sleep was to the human mind and body, until that morning.


Obstacle 2: Filling up Time
I wrote a list of ideas of things I could in the late of night.

• Learn Guitar
• Write
• Write a blog?
• Stumble
• Yoga
• Draw
• Morning Walk? When is sunrise anyway? That would be the perfect time.

So far, I have considered all of these things, and all of them seem like plausible hobbies that will keep me alert and focused throughout the night.

One drawback: I need some new guitar strings.


When I woke up this morning, I felt a drive. You know, that drive that some people have, the drive that motivates that kid who was born in poverty to rise above his situation, and get a full ride to a prestigious university. This is a theoretical kid by that way. Anyway, I felt that same drive. I woke up, and knocked out all these chores I would have normally shrugged off until the end of the week. I created new goals, the conversion to the uberman sleeping schedule being one of them. The question is, how long will it last?

Self doubt and fear of impending failure is always the one thing that cripples me.

Now here I am, at exactly 3:36 AM, listening to some weird robotic shit that will supposedly enhance my writing mood.

I am just trying to fill up time till my next nap, which is at 5:00 am.

My sleeping schedule by the way. Each sleeping period being twenty minutes.

• 1:05 AM
• 5:00 AM
• 8:00 AM
• 2:25 PM
  
• 4:00 PM
• 10:00 PM

There has not been any research concerning the long term effects of the sleeping pattern. I'm not really worried about it, considering I'm doing a one month trial.

What the hell do I do with five extra hours of awake time? I can barely do anything suitable with the time I have right now. I guess I can see it as more time to waste.

Until Tomorrow Morning