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Tuesday; took my morning nap as usual and slept for it. I eat breakfast before it, porridge and banana, and therefore I were tired when I went up. I even failed at spelling porridge in my sleep log, i wrote “por0ide”. School starts 9:50/10:20 that day, and suddenly I woke up and the clock was 9:30 or so. My tired head convinced me to sleep some more and so I slept to 9:45, which I had an alarm on.
I didn’t sleep for the 12 nap, which I didn’t eat before. I went and slept the first thing as the lesson ended, it ended at 12, and surprised my friends a lot when I came with my food 12:20 and started eating. It worked out nice though as our class often sits and chit chat at the meals.
School ended on 15:15 and I had “stuff” (Won’t bother explaining it) to do at 16, a 10 minute ride away. I first thought that I would have the time to get home and nap and then take my trombone and go, but that ended with me taking a 9 minute nap, which I didn’t sleep for.
I didn’t sleep for my 20 nap, probably because my oversleep earlier, I didn’t feel very tired neither before nor after the nap.
I have no clue what happened for my 22 nap, except that my log says I shut off the alarm surprisingly late, 26 over. After that I killed the script and didn’t answer any question on how the nap was, which indicates that I probably were extremely tired.
I think I slept from the 22 nap to 0, stopped the alarm, slept further until 1, when I filled in the rest off my log quickly and incorrect.
I then slept from 2, through 4 and got up at 6.
That killed my optimism and I decided to quit uberman. But I took my 7:20 nap anyway.
I had a hard time deciding whether I would take my 12 nap at school, as we had very fun playing card games, but I decided to take it anyway, and didn’t sleep for it.

Now that I think back on everything, I think I’ll add a core somewhere, probably so that it ends at 6 or 5, and keep the rest of my naps. I’m having a lot of school stuff and projects to do the nearest weeks, so I must start studying some.

My parents were quite mad at me for missing my big band practice, and they wanted me to sleep normal again. I also had stomach aches and that messed up my nap at 20. I didn’t fall asleep at all. I fell asleep for my 22 nap, but woke up from it _extremely_ tired, If it weren’t for my posters I bet that I would’ve gone back to sleep. But I made it through the night with the help of my dear friend kirby! =D
Atm I’m not very tired, and don’t have so much of a stomach ache as yesterday.

I made it through the night without any complications, and after my 6 nap I got up and showered and ate breakfast. I then took my 7:20 nap and went off to school. The first lessons were no problem, but at the german lesson I started getting tired towards the end, it ended at 11:30. I wrote down everything I should’ve done, but I never raised my hand, something that I always do.
After that I had lunch, ate some weird vegetarian stuff and potatoes. I took my nap at the toilet seat, and fell asleep after a few minutes. The biology lesson after lunch was damn boring, we watched a boring movie about stuff we already knew, and then discussed it. I fell asleep several times, but woke up as my head approached the table. After that we had math, and I had no problem whatsoever there. Now I’m back home again, and will take a nap in 45 minutes, after which I’ll go and play in a big band.
I’m happy that I fell asleep for all my naps, but I’m a little surprised over the positions that I’ve slept in on the floor. In the beginning of the adaption, I slept all my naps on my back, after a week, I went over to sleep on my side. After that I got some books and a towel for pillow, and continued to sleep on my side, alternating between the different sides. But now, I laid down at my side with book, uncomfortable, removed the book, uncomfortable, went over to sleep face down, instant success. I wonder what I will settle with when I’m adapted.

BECAUSE I WILL!!! I SHALL ADAPT!!!

I’ve seen it before when reading other peoples blogs, it have been so for me at my earlier attempts, when you have one good, wonderful day, you will fail like hell the next one.

It started this morning, between 6 and 10 I have no recollection of doing anything, or, I vaguely remember going back to bed (floor) and generally not getting up.
At 12, I decided to nap in the bathroom, even though tired, I didn’t sleep.
After 15 I were extremely tired, and i just kept getting more and more tired, I knew that was bad, as generally, when I go to bed extremely tired, I won’t get up. But I took my nap at 16, and slept to 16:20, not feeling very much better, I laid down again….and poof the clock is 17:46.

The problem is simple: I’m bad at fighting my brain. If my brain says it want to sleep I generally don’t fight back, even though I KNOW that what I’m doing is bad, I lie down anyway. Then when I wake up from an oversleep or so, I’m drained of all willpower, and go back to bed again.
After this mornings oversleep, my father said I looked like a living zombie, and wanted me to sleep properly before school, and unfortunately that didn’t make me mad enough to stay awake. When I woke up at 17:46 I just said to myself that this didn’t work, and that I would quit. I’m now back in my head, and I don’t think I will give up…yet.

I’ve been skipping much of my ‘rules’. I’m not using placebo, I’m not sleeping downstairs, I’m sleeping in the same as room that I ‘work’ in, I’m forgetting the candy I’m promising myself, I’m not filling in info about my nap after napping.

Some of these I have ‘reasons’ to skip, placebo doesn’t wake me up, I didn’t (now i do) have a reliable alarm clock downstairs and I’m not wanting to wake up the family when running in the stairs, I started sleeping in my room before I got my phone working and haven’t quit with it even though I should, skipping candy and info is also pure lazyness.
The reason for skipping everything is pure laziness! I’m making up excuses that doesn’t work out, the downsides are the reasons I’m doing them!

A few nights back all of the family were away, except for me and my sister, my sister sleeps in the basement, so I had the whole ground and second floor all for myself. I had the lights on, and I didn’t get the slightest tired. I believe that if I had the whole house for myself, I wouldn’t need to have headphones, I could blast music all night

#hatten got sidetracked, started playing around with bash scripts and accidentally closed down the browser window, fortunately wordperss autosaves.
#time flows…

Okay, after having taken a few naps and thought this through I’ve realized that the only thing I need to fix is my motivation. That is quite a hard thing to do, but I came up with the idea of “motivational posters”. So I went and grapped some paper and pens and started putting big a4’s in my room.
“_NO_CANDY for those who sleep like a bear”
“SUPER EGO!” -a reference to bit.trip void, a damn hard game where you certainly have to stay concentrated to stay alive
“Resist the urge
you’ll be glad you did
UBERMAN FTW”
“Do not, under any circumstances, sleep when you shouldn’t.
Do not, lie down when you shouldn’t.
Do not, close your eyes, when you shouldn’t.”

These sit at different places in the room, clearly visible, and I hope, no, know, that this will make me get up after napping.

I thought whether I would rewrite the first part of this post, but I decided to let it stay like it was, written by a confused, tired guy.

The latest nights have for me been really good, with no unintentional sleeps. I’ve made some major changes to the way I’m sleeping.

Right now I’m sleeping in my room, on the floor. That way it’s easier to transition back to alertness mode from sleep mode. Yesterday night I watched through the entire Hellsing series, I started in the evening and as soon as there was naptime I paused, laid down, fell asleep, woke up, continued watching. I did the same this evening, although with American pie 2 & 3. And I’ve loads of anime to watch, I’ve watched Rozen Maiden, and I’ve got 100 episodes of kirby, and more than 200 of bleach. So I definitely won’t run out of things to do in the evening.

I never went to my grandparents, I managed to steer that to being at a friends house, and I bet that helped a lot, although I didn’t sleep perfectly there. The ‘coolest’ oversleep I had was that I lay down for nap, and started thinking, like I usually do. Eventually my thoughts came to what I would write in my log, had I slept, or had I not? Oh yeah, my friend shouted my name once, I wonder why he did that. My tailbone really hurt (I slept on my back). I started to get impatient, like I usually do a few minutes before 20 minutes have passed and I haven’t slept, and I eventually got up 19 minutes into the sleep track.
The sleep track was on repeat, and when I got up 50 minutes had passed.

I got home, and had another issue with the sound track, which made my backup alarm wake up my mom, who eventually went down and woke me up. After that I revived my phone, took my mom’s old worthless SIM card and put in mine, and I’m using that as my alarm clock now. The calendar function is awesome, and the alarm is loud enough to wake me up. So I sleep in my room, on the floor, curled into a ball, with my cellphone in my pocket, and the backup alarm 1m away from me.

I’m now sleeping on most of my naps, and I don’t plan on cutting off my extra naps for a while. Right now I feel like I’m on my way to adaption, but one can never be sure, and school starts in 48 hours, I hope it won’t take long until I sleep at my naps in school.
Now I’ve passed the steps to fall asleep on my naps, and not oversleep. I’ve yet to remember a dream, although I have woke up before my alarm feeling nice, eg the last nap. After starting dreaming I gotta make sure to not start slacking, I’m not gonna have done this just to fuck it up by missing/moving naps. Next vacation is in 4 weeks, and by then I’m hopefully so adapted that I won’t fall off.

EDIT: Right after posting, I didn’t fall sleep for my 7:20 nap. But I went to the bathroom, and fell asleep there xD

I have several times slept through the whole placebo soundtrack, which have fucked up my schedule a little. It hurts my ears, which make me turn down the volume of the soundtrack, which makes it easier to sleep through it. I’m now making my netbook start spitting out disgustingly loud beeps if I won’t turn it off in time, which I hope won’t affect the other people in the house so much…

I’m actually at a friend instead of my grandparents, but that makes it even less fun to blog, compared to what else one can do. I’ll give you a detailed numbers when I’m home on exactly how I slept.

Now that I think about it, my last post cannot be correct, I couldn’t have been on the toilet between 4 and 7, because one of my alarms go off at 6, and it won’t stop until I turn it off. I guess, that there were no screwup between 4 and 6, and that I fell asleep after my 6 nap, essentially taking an additional nap.

I’m feeling that this is going forward quite nice, I haven’t been especially tired this night at all, and I slept for all but one nap. The time after 4 was worst yesterday, and I’m soon to have my 4 nap, so we’ll see what happens. My log program was a little ugly, and I have cleaned up the code to give a nice output file, but I will have to tidy it up a bit before I push it out. I will go to my grandparents tomorrow, and stay for two nights, I will load up with books, and have some anime on my netbook. There will also be a dog that I can go out and walk with. So if that night will be as hard/easy as this one I probably won’t fail.

Everything have been nice so far, I’m now sleeping for all my naps nighttime. After the 4 nap I went to the toilet, and didn’t get out until 7, a 3 hour unintentional sleep. That left me extremely tired, so after my 7:20 nap it was damn hard to stay awake, but I managed, mostly, I think.
I’ll make sure not to go to the bathroom directly after a nap, and hope that it won’t happen again.

Now is my uberman attempt officially started. I started my day with oversleeping, I woke up 2 minutes before school started, and ended up 10m late to the first lesson. That was my last ‘real’ sleep for a long time, I must have slept roughly 10h.

I took my 12 nap at the toilet, but my ipod were out of battery, so I had to go without any alarm clock. It was kinda awkward to sit there and hear people doing what people does when they use the bathroom. I didn’t fall asleep. My inner clock is very good at estimating nap lenghts, when I use placebo’s sleep track, I can say within 1m that it will end, and now that I didn’t have any placebo, I got up at a perfect time.

My 16,20 and 22 were nothing special, I still haven’t started sleeping for my naps.
I’m right now kinda tired, and it’s 23:19, if this was a normal all-nighter I probably wouldn’t have been this tired now, but my body knows that I’m on a polyphasic schedule now.

I’m napping at 7:20, 12, 16, 20, 22, 0, 2, 4, 6. I will start removing the extra naps at nighttime, 22, 2 & 6, when I feel that I don’t need them. I’m believing that my body needs to get used to nap, so the more naps, the better.

I’m using cronjobs to alert me of naps, and to make sure I get up. I sleep in the basement, and I got my computer two stairs up. I will answer three questions after each nap, how it was before the nap, how the nap was, and how I feel at the moment. I will get these 9 times a day, so how often do you want me to update? My posts will then mostly be copy-paste from that, with a few comments inbetween perhaps. Wish me luck!

Yesterday I started to take my naps, I didn’t do it at saturday because I had a friend over, but he left around 12 at sunday. So I took my nap at 16. I took it in the basement, on a regular mat, with headphones and placebo. Did the same at 20, slept at none of them, but it was nice to lie there. When I decided that I would start napping, a few minutes before the 16 nap, I felt how my body switched to poly-sleeping mode, and I yawned and become tired, even though I wasn’t before. After laying on the floor for 2*20 minute my legs was really sore for having lied in a weird position, I sleep on my back. I will try experimenting with a pillow under my knees or similar, I’ll see if google can tell me anything about that. I went to bed at around 23 and woke up at 7.

I took a nap in school at 12, and decided to try sleeping on the toilet. I experimented with various positions, such as sitting straight up, and then lying down the upper body on the legs, and let the head and arms fall down. I ’sat’ like that for roughly 10 minutes, and I bet I would be able to sleep like that if I needed to. I also tried half-lying, half-sitting, but that would have resulted in me sliding off the seat if I fell asleep. I also tried sitting, and resting the head against the wall on the side, and that was a very nice position. I also tried sitting sideways on the seat, and resting the head against the wall, but the [cabin/booth?] was very small, so I found no comfortable positions for my legs. The last thing I tried was to turn around and ’straddle’ the seat, resting my arms and head on ”the area where the button that you push in order to flush is”. Similar to how I slept seated by a table, this was also a nice position.

I’m unsure whether I prefer to sleep in the toilet or at the library, in the library, it’s a nice, clean environment, but people have a tendency to poke at one, and it generally draws more attention. It can also be quite noisy at times, it’s a small library without teachers.
When sleeping in a toilet [cabin/booth?] you cannot have as comfy chair, or place to lie your head and arms on, and it’s generally a ‘dirtier’ environment. People also have a tendency to slam the doors in neighbouring booths. Although it has its own lamp, so it’s possible to turn off the lights, people cannot poke at one, and it’s always place for one.

I have no idea what I’ll settle with, these are the main alternatives for sleeping in school, at least until the weather gets better, then it’s also possible to sleep outside, which is a combination of the other, in terms of privacy and comfyness.

btw, which is correct, cabin or booth?