I’ve experienced a minor setback. Usually I set an alarm on my cell phone for the time when I want to wake up, but for my midnight nap last night I used the countdown timer function instead. What I thought was minutes:seconds was actually hours:minutes, so I set the timer for 20 hours instead of [...]
This sure has been an interesting two days! I succeeded in taking all my naps except for the one at 8 PM last night. I skipped it because my mp3 player froze and I could not play any music to block out the ambient sounds. I was not tired yet anyway, since I had slept [...]
Today I began my first one-month polyphasic sleeping experiment. I decided to try the Uberman sleep cycle, which involves 20-40 minute naps at regular intervals throughout the day. Thirty minutes per map is my target. The naps will be at 4, 8, and 12 AM and PM, for a total of six naps per day. [...]