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Uberman's Sleep Schedule Anonymous
TL:DR Sleeping 20 minutes every four hours. Thoughts?
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=892574&displaytype=printable
>> Anonymous
Gay.
>> Anonymous
You'd only be getting like two hours of sleep a day, and you would never get any REM sleep.

Look up the effects of deprivation of REM sleep.
>> Anonymous
Actually you do get REM sleep i did the 30 min every 6 hours one summer until my parents made me stop, fucking hard to do but once you get use to it it really does work.
>> Anonymous
bump, has anyone else tried this?
>> Anonymous
>>324640

>>fucking hard to do

I've tried adjusting several times, ultimately meeting with failure. My longest attempt lasted almost two weeks and I could tell that my naps were becoming more and more recuperative, but ended up sitting down to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer for some reason at 6:00am and ended up falling asleep for like an hour, which fucked up plenty of things.

>>324631

You do get REM sleep. You actually get mostly REM sleep while you are napping and end up getting more than from an average 7-8 hour block.

This is entirely possible but comes down to a matter of practicality and initial adjustment endurance.

If this can fit your lifestyle (or if you can make it fit) then go for it. Just make sure that you can free up about a week and a half of time for you to be relatively catatonic and far below normal functionality. Some form of blaring 20-30 minute delayed mp3 alarm also will help greatly.

Seeing this thread makes me want to attempt adjusting again, actually.
>> Anonymous
I had no idea REM sleep could work like that.
I might try this
>> Anonymous
I was extremely interested in doing this, but then I realized I would play WoW the whole time I was up during the night since I would have nothing to do. Also, check out this guy's post on it, he tried it for a while:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/
>> Anonymous
This is hard to do. It requires that you are really disciplined. I have some doubts to whether it works for everyone or not, but if you have a job or school that gives you short breaks in between, you might have a conflicting schedule. How strict do you have to be? The article seems to think you need to be very strics...

For example...I have school monday and wednesday. I have time in between classes to take a half hour nap if I wanted to...maybe longer...However, my first class starts at 1 and ends at 2:30 and my second class starts at 4 and ends at 5:30. There's a gap of 4.5 hours or shorter...but not perfectly 4.

Some many say "well you can just adjust the times...sleep at 11, sleep at 3, sleep at 7." No, on wednesdays, I go to school from 6:30-10. Can't sleep at 7. And what about days I have work? At a part-time job, you don't get much of a say when your hours come and go and a lot of people work 8 hour shifts at least once a week. You may get a lunch break, but you only get 30 minutes. If there is even a place for you to sleep without looking like a bum on the street, when do you fit other things in like eating? Also, how do you stay on a tight schedule for sleeping when you have to work. You maybe have 2 or 3 hours in between each sleep or even 5 or 6 because of lack of flexibility...Is that harmful to your pattern? I think it would be especially in the first few days.

Also, how good is this for /fit/ people? Your body recovers while you sleep. Yea, you need REM and this claims to give it to you...but Jefferson and Da Vinci didn't work out and their bodies were accustomed to the work they were already doing. They didn't need to recover their bodies like some of us do.

TL;DR
>> Anonymous
>>324807
weird fucking story, but I read that article like 2 years ago, then like 4-5 months ago (many HDD formats since then) and my firefox randomly landed on steve pavlinas homepage. I have no fucking idea what the fuck happened, I was on forums and it was in like a tab that I hadn't been browsing in a while

I fucking shit bricks when it happened, I never figured out what the fuck happened.. it's kind of an obscure web site to randomly get linked to
>> Anonymous
http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/?catid=10&newsid=12673

what of that do you think
>> Anonymous
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that might work if it didnt take me 40 minutes to fall asleep

i hate you fucking shitfags that can fall asleep at the blink of an eye
>> Anonymous
>>324842

I'm interested in this hogwash as well, but I have the same problem as this anon. It takes me between 10 mintues and an hour to knock out. If I start the program, do I just take lying down time as sleep time and hope that eventually I get sharper with falling asleep on command?

Also, I have a 9 to 5 job, I was thinking of strategic lunch breaks (despite potential issues with people moving in and out the break room and people's idiotic tendency to get your attention when you are obviously trying to relax) to solve that and napping right after work as well. How well do you guys think this would work in the long run?

Finally, I'm looking to start a harder exercise program, like Stronglifts or just Squatz, how would this affect that?
>> Anonymous
>>324807
Overall, it seems pretty tough for anyone that has a job or a social life.
>> Anonymous
I have read a few blogs. One had a dude who managed to get through it. The "training period" takes months to master apparently. Not only that, once the dude got control of it, he was bored out of his mind. He gave it up after a few months. If you have no family and friends or job, I say, why not?
>> Anonymous
RRFTP NON STOP
>> Anonymous
>>325100

It sounds like guy didn't find enough productive uses for his time, so just sat around like some loser from 4chan.

Fuck it, take up carpentry on the downtime for extra income and life fulfillment.
>> Anonymous
>>324607
it's a bad idea

everyone i know that's a doctor (a lot of people since my fiance is a doctor) thinks it's really really stupid and dangerous idea

you really need deep sleep in sufficient amounts of you have a high likelihood of type 2 diabetes among other things

also i know people who have done the uberman for a couple months, and once they got in the swing of things a month in, they were perpetually tired as fuck and couldn't concentrate for their job anymore so they stopped the uberman
>> Anonymous
>>325181

He knows the hell out of doctors, everyone.
>> Anonymous
If I get this right, after you do it for some time your body adapts to that sleep pattern and lets you experience REM sleep in those 20 minutes? Cause usually REM sleep comes on later.