So I saw a doctor or three after passing out like that. After blood work and a CAT scan my doctor’s conclusion was “cut it out!”
So I’m not doing the uberman again.
However, I am considering sleeping for 90 minutes every six hours. That’s six hour of sleep daily! Plus it will give me five-and-a-half hour “days” during which I can be totally awake.
Last night I developed a sharp pain across the back of my skull. It grew worse, then unbearable.
I started feeling nauseous, as if I were to vomit, so I stood in front of the bathroom mirror, staring at my too-pale face, trying to compose myself.
Then I felt pain. That’s it, just pain—that’s all that registered. I was on the bathroom floor, propped against the tub. The bottom of my chin hurt. A lot. It still hurts right now, six hours later. I must have hit it on the way to the floor.
So I crawled onto the couch and closed my eyes; I felt better. I crawled to my computer, changed my away message to something appropriate, then made my way to bed and slept for six hours. I awoke with just the pain in my chin.
I don’t know what caused this, but this never happened when I ate better and slept monophasically. I can’t afford to eat better right now, so I’m going back to mono/bi-phasic.
I’m going to miss you, uberman.
Since my last blog post each sleep has occurred without fanfare or problems. Some are easier to awake from than others, but I’ve had no problems yet.
The next 12 hours might be the problem.
Update: I have developed extremely sharp pains across my skull, especially toward the back left. I cannot figure out how to trigger them, but sometimes pain shoots across my head. I haven’t had a headache since I quit caffeine three years ago. This is slightly concerning but extremely aggravating.
I really enjoy these four-hour days. I want a four-hour watch; I’d actually wear a watch if I could get one of these.
However, here is one issue I did not expect: my feet are filthy. I walk around barefoot on a dusty floor all day, then I climb into bed six times. This means that the bottom part of my bed, where my feet go, is six times more dirty than normal. I am unsure what to do except obsessive vacuuming.
Sometimes I lay in bed using my laptop. The secret: always put the laptop back on the desk, across the room, before you sleep. That way you need to get out of bed to get it after you awake. Anything that gets you out of bed is great.
Here’s the 24 hour breakdown:
I did it! I did the 60 hours without oversleeping!
However, I have no idea if I just overslept. I might have subconsciously manipulated the timer—when I awoke it had a minute left on it but was 11:30PM. I’m too disoriented to know if it really was 11:30PM or whether I went to sleep on time. I’m going to assume that I didn’t oversleep.
Currently I feel good. I’m in bed, because I was too cold out of bed, but I’m listening to dance music to keep awake. I might go outside to look at the Red Sox riots too.
Having extra hours is great: I finished watching all the Casters’ videos. The string diagram ones were especially illuminating.
Anyway, in summary:
I’m writing this during my second-worst phase: 3AM to 6:30AM. Right now, I’m feeling good and mostly awake. Here’s a re-cap:
I spent some time today trying to figure out how to entertain myself when my Internet connection goes down. I’ve concluded that I need a soundtrack that will prevent me from sleeping. This is what I’m working on now-ish.
Other things that Web sites suggested to stay awake, all of which suck or do not apply to me: caffeine, resting well beforehand, caffeine, oh and caffeine.
Just completed 24 hours without oversleeping. Some highlights:
Why was the alarm going off? Where was everyone? How did everyone leave with the door locked? Where am I?
Must have been a damn good dream.
I’m also able to stay in bed, awake, on my laptop. This is convenient, since my floor is cold.
I just awoke at 11PM, after going to sleep at 9PM or so. I’m starting my uberman back up.
Currently, I’m tired. Maybe I should start while I’m awake? Doesn’t matter, I’m just going to be fucking exhausted anyway.
My goal is 60 hours (15 microdays; 2.5 days) without oversleeping. That’s October 21st, 11AM. I can totally do this.
(Oh, and to explain EveryMike’s absence: he’s been failing lately and is too embarrassed to admit this in a blog post.)
Now that I’ve tasted the freedom that is uberman, anything less is no good.
I slept for 12 hours overnight. That’s half a day! Four times more than my uberman! And I awoke with a sore neck, still kinda tired, after having three dreams.
What a waste. I resume uberman tomorrow.
The frustration at my inability to awake at 3AM and 7AM—combined with the stress of recent unemployment and the illness I seem to have—has finally gotten to me. So I slept in, guilt-free. And I going to sleep whenever I feel like it, however I feel like it, until I am ready to go polyphasic again.
So far I’ve noticed that the monophasic/biphasic day is really long. My favorite part of the uberman was the 3.5 hour days; now I’ve been up for eight hours!
My real plan is to start the uberman again in two days.
