Thread: Queen Zukin's Dream Journal

Walking doesn't keep me awake

Damn. O_O

Also, what about caffeine tablets? Or just coke/coffee?

I'm glad you managed to get up before your alarm went off! Progress!

No Caffine! (Sorry XeL,) That will offset the sleeping schedule!

DDR probably works, (especially your freestyling techniques */jealous*) and if that doesn't, ask me to go bike riding, and we'll try not to fall.

~Joe

Originally Posted by XT-421

No Caffine! (Sorry XeL,) That will offset the sleeping schedule!

Actually I'm totally guilty of a bowl of chocolate double fudge brownie ice cream last night...

Best of luck with your trial, sounds pretty intense!

End of Day 10

When I start each entry with the header End of Day ... I always feel bad for the corresponding number. End of day 10? Yeah right! I don't deserve that.

If you noticed my self-hate, then you probably could also jump to the conclusion that something awful has happened - I overslept. I set the alarm on my phone for 2:25pm. The battery in my phone died, and I'm not awoken until 6:30, the end of my 6pm nap.

Tomorrow, my friend and I are going to the store and we are going to stock up on alarm clocks. I don't care how many it takes, as long as it gets the job done. I also feel like I don't deserve the title of 'Day 10 Uberman' anymore. The heading of tomorrow's entry will be 'End of Day 1'. I feel that it's more appropriate than 'End of Day 11'.

Don't think that I'm giving up - I'm not. If anything, now it's really just begun.

Oh, and before I forget, I promised you guys the half completed chart on Day 10. I'm not sure if I'm going to continue recording my reaction times in that chart because after an oversleep like this one I believe it might mess up the data.

I wasn't expecting that trend in the data. I was expecting that my reaction time would shoot up and then gradually return to normal. That might be the case already, but 10 days isn't sufficient enough to see the entire trend.

Brutal to oversleep that deep in it, but other than that you seem to be doing fine. I'm also trying Uberman at the moment, I'm currently on the day four and have already suffered two oversleeps, so effectively I'm still in square one. Both oversleeps were physical activity related (after playing a soccer match), so I hope I'm going to progress now that I will not have matches for a few days.

Originally Posted by Jakro

Brutal to oversleep that deep in it, but other than that you seem to be doing fine. I'm also trying Uberman at the moment, I'm currently on the day four and have already suffered two oversleeps, so effectively I'm still in square one. Both oversleeps were physical activity related (after playing a soccer match), so I hope I'm going to progress now that I will not have matches for a few days.

High five for trying uberman (but sucks that you overslept!)! Do you have a blog?

Well yeah, but it's a rambly mess mostly that I wrote during the days so post therefore feel really disjointed.
http://dymaxionexperiment.blogspot.com/

It started as a dymaxion in last February, but I soon enough switched to Uberman before failing in it too. I just made it through my hardest nap without oversleeps this time.

Originally Posted by Jakro

Well yeah, but it's a rambly mess mostly that I wrote during the days so post therefore feel really disjointed.
http://dymaxionexperiment.blogspot.com/

It started as a dymaxion in last February, but I soon enough switched to Uberman before failing in it too. I just made it through my hardest nap without oversleeps this time.

Dymaxion is scary.

Originally Posted by Queen Zukin

Dymaxion is scary.

And impossible. At least that's the conclusion I've come. I mean maybe it's possible for someone who has done Uberman for prolonged period of time to adjust to Dymaxion, but it seems pretty impossible to just transition straight to it.

End of Day 1

Or end of Day 11, doesn't matter.

Surprisingly, today was really easy. I was wide awake in the morning *gasp* and stayed that way pretty much throughout the day. There were only a few times when I really got sleepy. I still fell asleep at my nap times, just not a real deep sleep. When I took my reaction times for today, I was really shocked at what my results were. I scored a better reaction time than I did on Day 1.

My friend and I got 8 cheapo alarm clocks, so I'm no longer running the risk of sleeping in anymore. Seriously if I sleep in, you guys have the right to slap me. I hid the little alarm clocks throughout my room so I couldn't turn them all off at once when I woke up. When they all went off, I tried my best to find all of them and turn them off but I'm missing one alarm clock...It ran out of buzzer time so it's probably lost in my closet until tomorrow when it goes off again.

I know that I'm going to sound ridiculous for figuring this out just now, but I've found eating more really helps. If I eat a meal equivalent to lunch or dinner at around midnight and 7am I don't feel as tired as I would without it.

One thing that I forgot to mention in my earlier posts was some weird sleep amnesia that I've been getting. When I wake up from a nap, sometimes I'll forget that I even took the nap. My memory is erased as far back as 10 minutes before I fell asleep...I wouldn't even remember setting my alarm clock. It's not really an issue because I usually have Joe calling me to make sure I'm awake, which helps me remember. I've always been a real forgetful person though, so this really isn't anything new.

I had something else real important to talk about here, but I forgot.

Gotta post this here. I can't keep my trail of thought at all anymore, I'm so badly sleep-deprived. I mean look what non-sense I wrote into my latest entry:

Germans were smart enough and ttook the first bit of advice on terms of sleeping somewhere else. I am very tired again at the start of this nap, so I'd expect him hel him sleep soon.

What the hell am I writing?!

"eyot cumo up js pugffein kuvs"

I just had to maintain something I wrote that doesn't make any sense. I was too tired to keep my eyes open. Sorry. I gotta get up before I fall asleep, there's that risk gain.

Good stuff! I mean, I'm decent in English, but it's like my brain just skips between phrases and uses similar words and it ends up bunch of nonsense. And the middle phrase was just an example of my current typo-frequency.

I still don't get why I have written Germans. I'm pretty messed up alright.

How long has it been since you've slept? Try taking a cold shower.

I feel fine now (it's day now, daytime has given no problems for me so far) I had just awaken when I wrote that nonsense, probably there was some intense sleep inertia in play there. It's only 29 hours since my last oversleep and I've gotten naps on schedule. Just thought that was hilarious.

Incidentally, I've been taking cold showers pretty consistently, though more to keep my self cool than anything else. Here's record-breaking heat wave at the moment. If I feel like falling asleep I usually either go jogging or beating up punching bag

End of Day 2

I had a huge response typed out, and then lost it because of the forum update. </3

The re-write of my day is not going to be as in depth as the original.

My circadian rhythm seems to have done a 180, I am alert when I used to be tired, and tired when I used to be alert. I'm not sure if this switch is a good or a bad thing, but it's definitely been interesting.

Today was the first day since the very beginning of the experiment that I drove a car. I left at 7am to get a present for my friend's birthday party that was happening later that morning. It felt great, I was alert and focused.

I got home later that day at around 2:20. My attention and energy was plummeting because I was late for a nap. I felt soo tired it was terrible. I decided to take an hour nap instead of a short 25 minute nap because I didn't see how a short nap could possibly combat what I was against. When I woke up, I felt groggy and disorientated.

My 6pm nap was by far one of the best naps I've taken since I began. I woke up very refreshed, and even remembered a dream! In my dream humanity was surviving off of energy from the sun. People harvested the sun's energy in long test tube vials that were either blue, yellow, or green. The ending of the dream had something to do with a transsexual who was mad at his/her partner so he/she jumped in a pool.

About an hour after my 6pm nap I started to get really tired again. When I woke up from my 10pm nap, I had amnesia again and had forgotten that I had taken the nap. That's really annoying.

I think Day 1 (11) was probably better than Day 2 (12) but today might have been better if I hadn't missed my 2pm nap. I still had a surprisingly quick reaction time today.

End of Day 13

I'm just going to call the days by their proper number again, it's too misleading naming them otherwise.

So yep, all has been real good here. No oversleeps or nothing it's pretty smooth sailing. I've been 'almost' remembering a lot of my dreams. When I 'almost' remember something, it's like I think I had a dream about a certain something, but I can't remember any details. I think I had a dream about a waterpark and the exchange student.

Today my friend and I went out to see Inception. It was totally awesome!!! We scheduled it in between naps and made perfect timing.

I'm still feeling the effects of a reversed circadian rhythm. Zombie mode has been both gaining strength and losing it at the same time. I felt a lot of zombie mode today, but I can easily get rid of it by captivating my mind. It's no longer about physical activity, it's about how interested I am in my surroundings. If I get bored then I'll drop off the face of the planet.

A lot of people write about how they feel their days meshing together and so 1 week feels like 2 weeks. I'm not feeling that, maybe it's because I'm used to staying up extremely late already.

Hmm I think that's it for today.

That's nice to hear! I'm one week in and despite all the over-sleeps I'm starting to have REM-sleep more consistently now. I had an awesome nap just and I'm now feeling the best I've felt since I started.

Oh and the sleep-inertia or whatever half-asleep writing struck again both last night and this morning. I deleted both entries, but they were once again pretty crazy stuff, much more nonsensical this time an containing lot of just mishmash of letters.

I feel like I've been on this schedule for a month. Days don't necessarily mix as every phase has already established themselves very different so there's clear transition every day, but the few hours this add to the day really feel like adding a ton. Of course the fact that you're going to sleep and waking up 6 times a day also contributes.

End of Day 14

Aaaaaah.

2am - feel like i had a dream. Frag about a blonde headed chick who was a poly sleeper. she was standing in her bedroom talking about poly sleeping. she was real aged even tho she was young.

6am - felt like i rem'd again but I was unnecessarily woken up twice. First by my alarm clock which was set at the wrong time, second time by Joe calling me.

[8:30 am - zombie mode can easily be solved by playing iSketch]

10am - amnesia after nap, got over it quick

2pm - slept outside. found it hard to sleep because it was real hot out there. turned over on my side, probably only slept for a few minutes

[5:30 pm - first real round of zombie mode that is harder to cure]

6pm - I was on the computer and I was really tired, fighting to stay awake. I looked at the clock and it said 5:35...I looked back at it was 6:05...What?! I totally blacked out during that 30 minute period. I think that I was awake because I have vague memories of being awake....But I'm not really sure...

I was really, really tired after that. I assume it's because I hadn't had 2 good naps in a row yet. I kept falling asleep at the computer.

I woke up in my bed around 10:18...How did I get here? Damnit, 3 naps now that I haven't slept through. I walked back into the computer room where I continued to have micro sleeps up until this point. Somewhere throughout the day I had a cornfield dream.

So that was my day. It started out wonderfully and degraded as I continued to either miss naps or have low quality naps. *yawns*

This morning has been a total mess. I overslept again - this time over 2 hours - two oversleeps in a space of few hours. We'll see how big of a setback it is during the rest of the day's naps. If I don't start getting it right again soon all my good work so far will have gone to waste. I mean I was already feeling good the whole day yesterday, I really should've just kept going instead of wrecking the whole progress.

Are you withholding caffeine or sugar?

I found that my drowsiness yesterday was 95% caused by the disturbances while I was trying to nap. I feel fine now.

I'm having minor problems as well. It's clear that I'm adapting since 90 % of my naps are completely trouble-free. For many naps I went asleep and woke up just before the alarm exactly 20 minutes later. The refreshness of the naps still varies, but overall I've been feeling good. Except night. That has been my problem part. I let my judgement lapse again by going to bed to "relax" for a few minutes and ended up napping an extra 40 mins. It's nothing severe, but it will slow down my total adaptation by making couple of next days harder. Amnesia and all other more extreme symptomps seem to have subsided already.

You really need to get off the computer if you seem to be blacking out like that. Do you have a plan how long you're going to keep going?

Originally Posted by Jakro

I'm having minor problems as well. It's clear that I'm adapting since 90 % of my naps are completely trouble-free. For many naps I went asleep and woke up just before the alarm exactly 20 minutes later. The refreshness of the naps still varies, but overall I've been feeling good. Except night. That has been my problem part. I let my judgement lapse again by going to bed to "relax" for a few minutes and ended up napping an extra 40 mins. It's nothing severe, but it will slow down my total adaptation by making couple of next days harder. Amnesia and all other more extreme symptomps seem to have subsided already.

You really need to get off the computer if you seem to be blacking out like that. Do you have a plan how long you're going to keep going?

End of this month or maybe a little later, if I'm not adapted yet then I might just drop it. Usually the computer helps to keep me awake but I guess today was the exception. Most of my naps (not counting today, today was just very unfortunate for naps) are usually trouble free but like you I have a time of day when it gets real hard. Mine is around 6pm-10pm. After that, even in the middle of the night, it's real easy.

I just woke up from my 2am nap, basically my first undisrupted nap in about 20 hours. I feel a lot better now, and I remember a dream . In my dream I was biking with 2 other people in the woods. Our path was treacherous and one part of the trail involved biking right off the edge of a large drop. Nightfall was coming quickly and the mosquitoes wee coming out. I asked the girl if she had any mosquito spray, and I was surprised when she said yes. She just didn't seem like the person to have mosquito spray.

At one point in the dream I also may have become lucid. I remember looking at my hands. The left hand was normal, but when I looked at the right hand it only had 3 fingers.

I also get a weird feeling that in the dream I was trying to build something.

I don't do caffeine to begin with and all the sugar I get is from fruit. I know that this was just a lack of discipline on my part, I was feeling a little tired but somehow managed to do the traditional convincing to myself that I'm just going to lay down a moment, of course I'm not going to sleep! I don't remember how I ended up sleeping the second oversleep, though.

I can only be angry with myself because I'm 100 % succeeding if I keep even the same discipline I had in the first few days. The worst part is clearly over - though it'll be interesting to see if I hit as bad narcolepsy tonight as I did week ago, since I'm gonna play a football (soccer) match in the evening. It really messed me up last week, we'll see what happens today. If I remember correctly both those times (had 2 matches early last week) led to oversleeps.

End of Day 15

By far today has been the best day since I begun sleeping polyphasically. I have had so much energy, so much productivity, and yet at the same time I have enough time just to chill out and have fun!

2am - Posted above. Great nap, remembered a dream.

6am - Good nap but I couldn't recall any dreams.

10am - Another very refreshing nap. I dreamed that I was in the backyard, and in the backyard was a large ditch. My mom and sis were doing some really weird lawn work, and she wanted me to drop a pebble in the ditch. It was a purple pebble. I did so and a small group of other kids found me. An old friend of mine was in the group. We talked before we had to leave again. I noticed I was wearing a white top.

2pm - Had trouble falling asleep during this nap, but I was able to.

6pm - Another nap that I had trouble falling asleep. I was too energized with the past naps. I'll be needing to relax more before my naps if this continues.

10pm -Nap was same as the others, felt great though because I was starting to get tired.

I'm starting to think that oversleeping isn't such a bad thing after all. On Day 10, I had a tragic 4 hour oversleep. However, this turned out to be in my advantage. Here's my theory: During the oversleep, what remained of my circadian rhythm was completely destroyed and rerouted. I believe that my body grabbed this chance to get a good sleep, and because I slept so long it must have thought that this was my core sleep, thus 'fixing' my circadian rhythm. The past few days after that oversleep I was no longer getting tired during the 7am-11am chunk...I was getting tired from 4pm - 10pm, very close to the time where I overslept. The day after the oversleep I felt amazing...

I overslept yesterday multiple times. Today I feel amazing and my circadian rhythm has changed again...coincidence?

I found this article really entertaining, especially the iNap Nano...Oh how I can relate