End of Uberman Attempt 1

I'm bringing and end to my first uberman attempt. I will try everyman from now on. The reasons are

-It's almost impossible to balance your life if you are a social person
-I can't fix my oversleeping problem. Maybe this will help
-Other personal issues

This attempt was not a waste. I learned a big deal about polyphasic sleep. I managed not to sleep more than 7 hours a day and it's a big feat for me. Since I sleep for 10-12 hours a day. Now it's time for everyman. I'm thinking about starting my Uberman attempt 2 around the end of Summer.

I will post my schedule next day. I'm still thinking about it.

Day 14

Everything is okay. I didn't oversleep and didn't miss any of my nap. Except for 8:40 8:40 PM nap.

Mental: 9
Physical: 9
Social: 7
Alertness: 7
Will: 9
Hours Slept: 1 hour and 40 minutes. Actually I don't sleep right after I start sleeping but I write every nap as 20 minutes.

Day 12

This must be end of 12. day. I couldn't write about other days. I don't really like writing these days. Writing information is better for me. Past days were pretty routine. I will write information mostly from now on.

Day 10 - 3.5 hours slept (missed some naps and overslept
Day 11 - 2 hours (missed some naps and overslept)
Day 12 - 1 hour (didn't overslept missed some)

I miss naps because I can't fall asleep.

Day 8 and Day 9

Day 8
2.5 hours of oversleep at 12:40 AM nap. Other than that it's perfect. I still have difficulty at falling asleep though

Mental: 10
Physical: 10
Social: 8
Alertness: 9
Will: 7 - I'm not making any progress.
Hours slept: 3 hours - I slept well on 3. nap and I think I slept a bit at my 4. nap.

Day 9
2 hours of overlseep at 8:40 AM nap. slept 30 minutes at 4:40 PM. I couldn't sleep other naps

Mental: 9
Physical: 10 - it was a tiring day and I'm not even tired
Social: 8
Alertness:8
Will:8
Hours slept: 2.5 hours

Day 7 - End of Week

My second biggest oversleep. I slept at my chair and overslept at my 4:40 AM nap and woke up at 7 AM. I couldn't fall asleep at other naps (I tried sleeping on a chair). Also I tried sleeping on a bed to fall asleep easily and overslept at 8:40 PM and woke up at 12:30 AM. So I slept for 6 hours and 10 minutes. That's not my longest. But when I was monophasic I was sleeping for like 12 hours so this isn't that big to me.

It's end of the week. Let's take a look.

As you can see whenever I slept a good ammount of hours (2 hours) I always oversleep next day. To avoid this I will be more careful when I sleep well. This week was like preparation period. I will reduce my oversleeps next week. Wish me luck!

Mental: 10 - Sleepy but I can read books easily. I got a lot of reading done these days
Physical: 10
Social: 7
Alertness: [6 after first nap] [9 after last nap]
Will: 8
Total hours slept: 6 hours 10 minutes.

Day 5 and Day 6

Day 5
I couldn't fall asleep at first naps but I wasn't feeling tired too. Everything was fine until last nap. I slept from 12:40 AM to 2 AM. When I woke up I felt really groggy.

Mental performance: 7
Physical performance: 10
Social performance: 9
Alertness: 6
Will: 8
Total hours slept: 3 hours 10 minutes

Day 6
My day started fantastic. At my 8:40-9:00 nap I actually saw a dream. That means ... REM sleep!. I couldn't sleep at my 2. 3. and 4. nap. I don't know if I slept at my 5. nap. See, if you don't have the REM sleep it's very difficult to rembember if you slept or not. It's like microsleeps. But that morning nap was great. Dream was very vivid and strange I still laugh whenever I rembember it. It was about to turn into a lucid dream. At the last nap I slept for an extra hour. I always oversleep at the last nap. Also until the last nap I felt really sleepy. My alertness hit 4 (If you need to know the number) and I was like "aaah there are only 17 minutes left". My eyes were tired so much, I wanted to sew my eyes shut. I was too sleepy to go to chair I ended up sleeping at my long sofa.

But that sleepy and groggy feeling I got after my last nap means I'm adapting. Didn't make any sense? When you are monophasic if you take short naps like 20 minutes you won't even feel the sense of sleeping. You might be refreshed a little bit if you managed to sleep. But when you are polyphasic if you sleep for long hours you will feel groggy and much more sleepy. Whenever I slept for 1 hour or more than 1 hour I felt better. But now I feel awful.

Mental performance: 10 (after last nap 6)
Physical performance: 10 (after last nap 8)
Social performance: 7 - I have a reputation for weirdness
Alertness: 10 (after last nap 4)
Will: 8
Total hours slept: 2 hours 40 minutes

About that social performance thingy. Now people around me started hearing about what I do. Most of them know one thing about sleeping and it's wrong. "WE NED 2 SLEEP 8 HOURS EACH DAI. THAZ WUT SCIENCE SEZ" So it's a pain in the ass the explain all this. I start explaning from zero and at the end of it I get the "GTFH and get some sleep" look.

A six-year study of more than one million adults ages 30 to 102 has shown that people who get only 6 to 7 hours a night have a lower death rate. Individuals who sleep 8 hours or more, or less than 4 hours a night, were shown to have a significantly increased death rate compared to those who averaged 6 to 7 hours.
Stole this one from here

Sleep less, live longer? Sleep is full of mysteries.

Day 4 - Fatality

I slept on my comfy chair at 1:40 and rolled into my bed which is quite far away from my chair and slept until 7:15. Not much to say I guess.

Mental: 10
Physical: 10
Social: 7 - Oversleeping makes me angry
Alertness: 10
Will: 9 - I have 2.5 months to succeed. I will do it one way or another.
Total hours slept: 6 hours 45 minutes

I guess it's time to tell the way I sleep monophasicly.
When I was monophasic I slept for 10 hours each day. If I have an exam I sleep for 7 hours and take a nap at class. I take naps if we don't have any lessons. If we have I just microsleep until the day is over. At weekends I sleep for 12 hours. To change this weekend-laziness, I tried sleeping at 12 and didn't set any alarms to see if I was going to wake up early myself. It didn't work. It doesn't matter when I sleep. I slept at 12 AM and get up at 12 PM. I slept at 3 AM and get up at 1 PM. I slept at 5 AM and get up at 2 PM. I sleep for 12 hours at weekends because I don't want to leave a warm, comfy bed and throw myself into cold, ruthless world. Sometimes I just be like "Oh shit, another boring, monotous and stressful day is starting. I better wait in my bed until this is over" I cover all my body and my head with blanket and draw the curtain. But I'm not in depression. These are just my low-days. In my high-days I go out and live the life. But I had a lot of low-days past months. I had so much things to do I was multi-tasking like crazy.

And now I'm sick of it. I'm sick of spending an hour or two in the bed to fall asleep. I'm sick of waking up at the midday. I'm sick of feeling sleepy at day and feeling energetic at night. I'm fucking sick of my delayed sleep phase syndrome shit. If this doesn't work I'm gonna take sleeping pills or something. I said my will is 9, but it's 10 now. I'm declaring war on my brain.

Day 3 - Oversleeping

I couldn't sleep at my 1. 2. and 3. nap. I slept at my 4. and 5. nap. Overslept on my 6. nap for 2 hours. I can't find a way to avoid oversleeping. I don't even rembember touching my clock. I set it off unconciously and go on sleeping. Sleeping on chair didn't help much. I don't know what I'm gonna do...

Mental performance: 9 - maybe a bit bad
Physical performance: 10 - did lotsa tiring stuff today. I don't even feel tired.
Social performance: 9
Alertness: 8 - I could say it was high until 4. nap. After the last nap I felt very groggy
Will: 8 - I can't find a way to avoid oversleeping
Total hours slept: 2 hours 40 minutes.

Day 2 - Getting Better

I couldn't sleep for first 3 naps. But I think slept at 3. nap (8:40). Also at the 4. and 5. But it's not really clear. At the last nap I slept for 2 hours.

I tried this "Isochronic Tones" thingy today. At my 3. 4. and 5. nap I think that's what helped me get up. First I listened to a tone named "Sleep" after that "Adreline Rush" and I think "Adreline Rush" really did wake me up.

http://www.iso-tones.com/tones.html

Summary
Mental performance: 9 - I was confused after my last nap. I'm feeling groggy now.
Physical performance: 8 - got tired easily this morning when I was walking.
Social performance: 10
Alertness: 6 - Very groggy and sleepy
Will: 10 - My overslept only left me wanting to fight more.
Total hours slept: 2.5

I will start sleeping on chairs now. Since I'm sleepy falling asleep isn't really a problem.

Day 1 - Bad Start

There we go. Before I start this is how I'm going to keep writing. First a journalish nonsense that probably you won't care about

My first day. I had to sleep 2 hours but I slept for 3.5 hours. I guess I need more noisy alarm clocks. Oversleeping on my first nap. It sucks but it's not really a big hole in my indestructible iron will. The reason was my first oversleep was "just 5 more minutes". But I gotta act like I have an iron will if you know what I mean. On the other hand I don't feel sleepy. Also on my second nap, my eyelids were closing and I couldn't stop it. I had to keep my eyelids open using my hands. This lasted for like 5-10 minutes. At the final (sixth) nap I felt awesome.

And just a brief part about my day in general.

Summary
Mental performance: 10 - same as monophasic
Physical performance: 10 - same as monophasic
Social performance: 10 - same as monophasic
Alertness: 9 - Maybe a little sleepy
Will: 10 - Bring it on!
Total hours slept: 3.5 hours

I guest that doesn't need any explanation. But I'll tell them about too
Mental performance inculdes things like reading, creativity, learning
Physical performance is about activites like jogging, swimming, fine motor skills
Alertness means how awake I am. Don't confuse it with physical. If physical is high but alertness is low it means I could jog but if I stop I just sleep very quickly.
Will speaks for itself. If it's zero it means I'm giving up or changing schedule.