hatten

Okay, this evening, or rather yesterday, I made the rash decision to start napping. I’ll nap as soon as I get tired, and stay awake for at least 20 minutes between naps. I’m only having two nights at home, and next night I may not even have my room for the night, before going on a trip with an orchestra I’m playing in. We will go to france by bus, and I wonder how the hell I’m supposed to nap on it, but my classmates think that I’m on a polyphasic schedule (=D) so I won’t dissapoint them, and I hope I’ll at least get some to sleep. They won’t be able to party all night, at least not all of them, so I’ll get some sleep at least.
We will be sleeping in a hotel, and I’ll sleep with a bunch of guys I don’t know really well, so we’ll see if I’ll spend my time in the corridor outside the hotel room during the night :D
We will go to Disney Land, visit the Eiffel tower, go to a concert and watch a proffesional orchestra, and play a bunch of times on our own. So if I survive this week without sleeping more than 20 minutes, it will be a miracle, and SPAMAYL can be considered the ultimate schedule.

I won’t be overly disappointed if I fail and sleep a bunch of extra hours some nights, but I’ll see how it is to take naps on vacation, and it will be interesting to see how I will enjoy the trip, being alone vegetarian in a group of tourists, and trying to take a nap whenever I can. When I get back I’ll probably try the schedule “for real”, without extreme amounts daytime activities. I will try to keep track of every single time I close my eyes, partly with my netbook and partly with a paper notebook.

Hello everybody, I’m not dead, even though I haven’t posted. When your willpower fails your will to post also fails, at least in my case. I’m not polyphasic any more, and have given up my uberman attempt. I’ve realized I cannot do this unless: I get a friend to do it with me, or, I get somebody to cheer me on, or, I get an _extremely_ good reason to do this. Preferrably all three of them. I won’t stop taking my naps though, and I’m thinking of either going gradually into polyphasic, or go with the spamayl way. We’ll see when I’ve slept myself through this cold.

The biggest problem I have is that I have to eat. I tried eating a small meal with pasta tonight, oversleep. I tried eating one dm^2 of pancake yesterday, oversleep.
At schooldays I have to eat before my 7:20 nap, alternatively earlier during the night, making it possible to potentially oversleep. In school I have to eat before my nap mon/wed/fri, unless I want to eat alone, which I could do on monday. It’s also generally hard to say “no thanks, I’ll eat in an hour” when everybody sits by the kitchen table at home.
Solution; Spread out eating evenly over the night so I don’t have to eat as much before the 7:20, and can eat lightly in school too. The problem is finding something good to eat, that won’t have any effect on a nap 1 hour later (2 hours between naps; -20 minutes for nap; -10 minutes for getting up; -30 minutes for preparing and eating). I just tried eating a pear, let’s see how that works out.
It’s fortunate that I’m vegetarian, cause then I have a reason not to eat when the other does, but I sit down and eat some vegetables and chit-chat.

Night food:
one dm^2 of pancake=oversleep
a plate with a potato and sauce=ok
clementine=ok
small plate with Macaroni=oversleep
pear=pending

Of course the food isn’t the only reason that I oversleep, but I have noticed that the times I’ve overslept the last days have been when I’ve eaten right before.

After three nigths with 8 hour sleeps I’m back on track. I haven’t changed my schedule yet, and made it through this night. I’m unsure how I will do, how much will it help to add a 45/90/180 nap? How much will it prolong the adaption? I have no clue. I have no idea how my 3*8 nights will affect me, I haven’t skipped any naps though, and I’ve slept for most of them.

The one thing that I did horribly wrong the first time was eating, the few times I tried eating at night I overslept afterwards, simply because I ate too much and too close to the next nap. Last night I ate two times, once one piece of pancake, and the other a potato and some old sauce, that was enough.

I now have improved my alarm clock even more, and I have to pass a typing test within 3 minutes in order to not start the alarm again. That’s definitely something, I’m reaching 56WPM when I’m having a good day.

I also have started to go to bed a little late, rather than early, when I’m extra tired, in order to avoid dropping into deeper stages.

At midnight this morning I didn’t fill out anything, and have no recollection on how I managed to stop all alarms. That was the nap after my piece of pancake. The only thing I remember is that suddenly I stood in my room, and the clock was 01:59, time for another nap. The nap was good and I woke up and performed 44WPM, not extremely bad.

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.