Right I hope this is the appropriate place to post this. I'm experimenting with an Uberman derivative technique that would allow me to greatly minimize my needed sleep hours, while still being energetic during the day and having LD's.

detailed explanation of what it is here:
http://dustincurtis.com/sleep.html

It seems that all you really need to survive and feel rested is the REM phase, which is only a tiny portion of your actual sleep phases at night. You only spend 1-2 hours in REM sleep during any given night, and the rest is wasted on the other seemingly useless phases. This is where the opportunity to hack the brain presents itself. What if you could find a way to cut out the other phases and gain 4-5 more hours of productive wakeful time?
Hello, polyphasic sleep

One of the ways to force your brain into REM sleep and skip the other phases is to make it feel exhausted. If you’ve gone 24 hours without sleep, you might notice that you drift away into dreams straight from being awake. This because your body goes instantly into REM sleep as a protection mechanism. The way to hack yourself into entering REM sleep without being exhausted is to trick your body into thinking you’re going to get a tiny amount of sleep. You can train it to enter REM for short periods of time throughout the day in 20-minute naps rather than in one lump at night. This is how polyphasic sleep works.

There are actually six good methods to choose from; the first one, monophasic sleep, is the way you’ve probably slept your whole life. The five others are quite a bit more interesting.




Polyphasic dreaming log. Everyman2. 11pm-3:30am core, 7am nap, 6pm nap.


Days 1-2
I started off expecting these great feelings of dizziness/sleepiness that are supposed to happen during the adaptation period. So far I’m on day 2, that is I already spent 2 nights sleeping this way- it’s 16:12 now and I’m still quite energized. While I did feel somewhat tired yesterday during the evening it wasn’t anything I’d consider “abnormal” – if even this goes away then wohoo that’d be awesome. It’s really awesome how the days are getting longer- I usually sleep 8-11 hours so getting an extra 5-6 hours in a day is incredible I finally feel like I have time. Still, I wonder if the brunt of the adaptation is still in front of me as it very well could be – as of yet I’ve had problems with napping – while I do lie down at the prescribed times I don’t really fall asleep – instead at best I sort of zone-out and am on the verge of sleep. Yesterday something interesting happened- as I was trying to nap I was startled by a very loud violin sound that my own brain created randomly – it was the “loudest” thought I ever had while awake- was quite interesting. So far no dream recall, that I attribute to the fact that my dreams become recallable after I sleep for 3-4 hours of sleep normally (prior to that I can never recall anything) – hopefully if/when I begin to nap my dream recall will go back up.