Überman sleep challenge
I haven’t updated this blog in years basically and decided this might be a good time for a return. I changed the title and deleted older posts since they aren’t very relevant to this.
Anyway, I’ve decided to try a Überman sleep schedule for 1 month, starting today. Überman sleep is also known as polyphasic sleep and also as Da Vinci sleep. To read more about it click the links.
The short version is that it involves sleeping 6 times per day, but only sleeping 20 minutes at a time. This means you will be awake for 22 hours every single day. You never sleep a whole night or anything longer than 20-30 minutes.
The upside is obvious, you’ll get a lot more time on your hands to do whatever you want/need to. The downsides are several though. Sleeping can be nice and not being “allowed” to sleep longer than 20-30 minutes can drive you nuts. And from what I’ve understand from reading about people who have gone through this it’s absolutely crucial to not take a “day off” and sleep because the whole reason this thing actually works is because your body adapts to the sleep schedule and by sleeping longer your body will “reset” and you’ll have to start over again. The reason starting over isn’t good is because it usually take 1 or 2 weeks for the body to adapt to this sleep schedule. During these days you probably won’t feel very good, but once the body adjusts I’ve heard you’ll do just fine.
Another downside is that you get out-of-synch with the rest of the world. For the same reasons as above it’s also important to not stay awake for more than 5-6 hours at a time, since that will also interrupt your schedule. This means you have to plan your naps carefully if your going to friends, going to a party or whatever that may require you to be somewhere for several hours.
I’ve tried this before but gave up after about 6 days. I hope to succeed this time, but I think it’s pretty likely I won’t. So, don’t put your hopes up too high.
I think that’s enough for the first post. I’ll update soon about what I plan to be doing with my time and with links to others who have done this successfully.
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