Sleep Log

modjoe86

Alright, I started this uberman sleep schedule last night. I'm taking a 20 minute nap at: 10:50 am, 2:50 pm, 6:50 pm, 10:50 pm, 2:50 am, and 6:50 am.

I'll update once a day on this to give you guys an idea of what's going on.

Right now I feel normal, but I am a late night person anyway so this isn't surprising. Waking up after my 6:50 nap will be the first tough part.  I'm guessing the sleep deprivation will kick in in a couple days, and being able to function in class worries me a bit. Oh well, here goes nothing.

Nierro

Good luck; at the beginning of school this year I tried to go to sleep around 8:00, rather than 11 or later to help me focus...but it didn't help me at all, I think my  classes might be just boring as hell.

grenades69

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If it works well then I might try my own modified version of it. I usually nap whenever I feel tired, I can't seem to be able to sleep for longer than 4 hours in one go so I just sleep loads whenever I can.

8hammer8

This leads to one of my favorite memories from high school to this day.  I know I have told this before a long time ago, but anyways. Our group was a bunch of guys who were late night people and we all looked at sleep as a "necessary evil."   Well, my friend decided it would be fun to see how long he could stay up without any sleep.  As we were pretty much always up as it was, we could monitor him make sure he wasn't trying to cheat, but we also understood he was the type of guy to see this as a legitamite challenge.  e was fine for the first three days, after that, things started getting wierd.  His motor functions were slowing down, his memory was getting hazy...basically everything the rest of us could have really hoped for in watching this debacle.  He hit the 100 hour ...

Over that last day he said if he moved his head, the entire world would smear then snap back into focus.  That if he wanted to do something he had to go through the following process: I am thirsty, I need some water. **see's glass and wants to grab** (approx. 3-5 second delay) and then he would begin to reach for the glass.  He could not do anything basically "without thought."  Everything took thought and effort, all of which seemed to happen in slow motion to himself.

His body basically collapsed a little after the 100 hr marks and he proceeded to sleep for 22 hours straight.  Have fun with you cat naps, I just suggest being careful. 

We suggest you do not opporate heavy machinery until you know how your body will react to sleep deprivation.  Side effects include: fatigue / loss of memory / lack of proper judgment / the desire to drink energy drinks / one final collapse.

 

Signe

I have dreadful insomnia.  I've tried so many different things.  I've gone a few days with being able to get any proper sleep and even though totally exhausted, I would still toss and turn for hours.  I take a pill (Ambien) most nights now and even though it helps, it still takes a couple of hours to fall asleep and I usually get five or six hours, at most.  Luckily, I didn't have this problem when I was your age and in uni.  Back then, I could fall asleep on a pointy rock if I was tired enough.  I've only had this problem the last couple of years or so and it's completely stress related.  Good luck with your napping test!  Hope it works! 

Meon

i think your naps will become progressively longer..good luck though!

YodaGreen

Originally posted by modjoe86

Alright, I started this uberman sleep schedule last night. I'm taking a 20 minute nap at: 10:50 am, 2:50 pm, 6:50 pm, 10:50 pm, 2:50 am, and 6:50 am.

I'll update once a day on this to give you guys an idea of what's going on.

Right now I feel normal, but I am a late night person anyway so this isn't surprising. Waking up after my 6:50 nap will be the first tough part.  I'm guessing the sleep deprivation will kick in in a couple days, and being able to function in class worries me a bit. Oh well, here goes nothing.

  didnt kramer from the seinfiled try do similar thing, and on the end of the show he fell aleep on the top of some babe who touth he was dead and got some friends to get rid of the body. Was funny as hell, be carefull dont let it happen to you. Sorry for gramar errors I am typing from the bed ,  my 8h nap

Techleo

   I have a fiancée in the Philippines and I've been going to bed at 11pm. I get up at 2am and talk to her to about 5am. Then I wake up at 7:35 AM. The waking up at 7:35 Am is the hardest part. I do occasionally nap about 3am. Also when I get home. All in all the body can adjust to sleep patterns as long as its obtaining the needed REM sleep patterns to reshuffle memory fuctions. I will note that in the 2 years I've slept like this that I've lost a good portion of my memory for words. Anywho good fortunes ModJoe. OH and Id recommend trying to figure out when you normally dream. If you go to bed at those precise times and nap. You could go on that pattern forever.

kel11

I can't take naps.  At all. 



If its mid day, I usually would like try to go to sleep or something, and I just can't.  I just lay there for like 2 hours then say, screw this and quit.



Have fun joe.

Astropuyo

Originally posted by Signe

I have dreadful insomnia.  I've tried so many different things.  I've gone a few days with being able to get any proper sleep and even though totally exhausted, I would still toss and turn for hours.  I take a pill (Ambien) most nights now and even though it helps, it still takes a couple of hours to fall asleep and I usually get five or six hours, at most.  Luckily, I didn't have this problem when I was your age and in uni.  Back then, I could fall asleep on a pointy rock if I was tired enough.  I've only had this problem the last couple of years or so and it's completely stress related.  Good luck with your napping test!  Hope it works! 

I too am an exteme case.

I've gone 4 solid days of no sleep before I decided to hop back on my HCI, within 5 hours after taking a pill I crashed.

I did this to prove to a certain family member it's not all entirely psychological, alot has to do with serotinin (SP? Probally not) and a chunk to corosone.

Both which produce sleep/wake states.

Sucks to be us!

 

I'm actually interested in how a non insomniac handles this, I've heard of people having waking dreams from a system like this.

Art bel's former show often had a guy on who would do this and well, see stuff.

d_sk12

I take 5hour naps! its so weird if i fall asleep(nap) i can stay up all night and not get tired and go threw school and the whole day till night time then i really go to bed for like 9 -10 hours

mithrandir72

I'm interested to see how this comes out, Joe. If you start slurring your typing, or remarking on the pretty colors on the screen, we'll know you've gone for too long.

Really though, I'm interested because quite recently, I've noticed that the less sleep I get, the more awake/less tired I am. For instance, last night I had a really good nights rest. Hit the bed at Eleven, asleep by 11:30, and awake at 7:00. I wake up tired as hell, and continue to go through  today tired as hell (I'm yawning as I type).

Now, back to the day before. I tossed and turned until 2:00 (Probably later). Woke up at 7:00, lost at least two or three hours. Went through the day completely awake and alert. This type of thing has been going on for a while. How the hell does it make sense?

Draenor

I'm glad to see that you're following through with this, the forum as a whole is obviously very interested, hopefully you stay awake enough to remember to keep us posted

gpett

I will have to search the internet for a news story I read about a year ago.  A guy woke up from a long coma (I am remembering 5 years) and after he woke up from his coma he cannot sleep.  At the time of writing the article the guy hadnt slept in like a year.  Talk about doubling your poductivity!

Astropuyo

Thats so hard to believe!

I'm not saying it's a bs story, but a person no matter how long the shut down was must sleep regular after 5 days of staying awake.

The body does not store sleep time on a clock.

We have electrolytes those lose charge no matter how much resting you did prior, eventually the battery is tapped and the brain can shut down completely, if you resist sleep too long you can actually induce a coma and stay veggie tales like.

I've been stuck reading alot of sleep science at night haha....ha?

mbblade

so your just sleeping 20 minutes every 4 or so hours?? ahh ok sooo