Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping

Up and at: Day 4

Wed, 23 May 2012 09:12:33 +0000

No words describe my elation as well as I'd like, so here's a great picture I found recently! ;)

Four a.m. was, in fact, no problem at all. It's five now, and I've made (mostly-decaffeinated) coffee, washed up a bit, taken the trash out, done the catbox and gotten Cat's food and water in order in preparation for being out of town this weekend. (Cat will still hair up / throw up all over the house while I'm gone, but this is the price of having cats. ::sigh::)

Hours of kungfu and writing stretch before me before my errands, packing, or work even need the beginnings of consideration. I may record a nice video for my parents and/or clean up my pile of desk paperwork while I'm at it, too.

Not only is my day nice and started by five a.m., but I was up at 12:45 last night talking to my brother. ZOMG WOOT.

My eyes are a little tired from too much reading-of-screens, but this has been true all week and may not be directly adjustment-related. Other than that, I feel quite proper; barely a yawn. Awesomesauce.

NOTE: I am on a boat (sailing) most of Memorial Day weekend and may not update for several days; don't panic. My schedule will probably suffer a bit from the travel bits, but on the boat itself I should be able to keep it, since I'm on a rotating work detail and all. ;) Wish me luck!

Midnight-thirty, technically Day 4

Wed, 23 May 2012 04:31:57 +0000

…But actually, right before my 1am core sleep on the evening of Day 3, and SO right before that I don't have time for much of an update; but I did want to give something before tomorrow morning.

Today, I should disclaimer, was an EPIC difficult day, by way of being the evening before a ZOMG EPIC difficult one tomorrow. After that I get the hell out of dodge for a long weekend, and I'm not sure how well I'll be able to keep my schedule then, but I do plan to give it a serious try.

The last day-point-five went well. Hockey made me sleep an extra two hours for my core (and not sleeping for the nap before it didn't help, I'm sure…but my evening naps were always the hardest to wind down for; I'm not surprised that I would have difficulty falling asleep for them while re-adjusting), but I woke up refreshed and made it through work fine…although work was nuts, and I didn't get my afternoon nap at ALL. I did get my evening nap, though, and didn't find staying awake until now at all difficult. We'll see how waking up at 4am feels!

(Though the ZOMG EPICness of tomorrow may turn out to be a boon there; as soon as my eyes open, I bet I'll be thinking too hard to fall back to sleep. Now there's something I don't think I thought of utilizing to help stay awake before!)

Day 1-2

Mon, 21 May 2012 08:38:05 +0000

Well, that was not bad for day one of a gradual* adaptation, I suppose!

I laid down for all my naps, but only slept for half of one — that's pretty normal. My core sort of got moved against my will to 9p-1:30a (I should note that sometimes this happened when I was on-schedule before, if I was tired after a long day of work or something) and I took a nap from 3:30 – 4am.

That's not too far off from my old schedule, so though it was a bit sloppy, I'm happy with it (and happy to be up and showered at 4:30am again!).

*Hockey tonight will necessitate the gradual — plus, I sort of forgot I'm traveling** this weekend, whups. But more importantly, remember I am not a typical adaptation, gradual or otherwise! I'm reverting to a schedule I was on for seven years, which changes the dynamic of habit-forming a lot!

Contemplating how many times I’ve used “Day 1″ as a post title

Sun, 20 May 2012 10:18:34 +0000

Day 1 again!

I decided to take today, since I had it, and give a shot at getting my sleep schedule back. By "sleep schedule" I'm referring to the Everyman 3 / occasionally Everyman 4.5 hybrid that I slept on for seven years until things fell apart on me, which was realistically about six months ago (though it was more recently that I stopped trying to fix it and just gave up on schedules; see Hard Writings).

Don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE to get Uberman back, but even I'm not crazy enough to think I can work it on my existing schedule/lifestyle. That's a longer project for a later time, sadly. Still one of my life's goals, though!

Anyway, here's the lowdown:

I slept from 11:30 – 4am, since I couldn't catch a nap yesterday. Today I have taiji + 3 bike-rides (between 2 classes and home), but I should be home by 1 for my nap, and then I'm around this evening, so should have my naptimes OK. Monday is hockey, which takes from about 7:30pm – 1am, but if I'm strict about it and take my evening nap at 7 and go right to bed when I get home, I can make it work I think. (The question there is, Can I sleep just 3 hours after 1.5 hours of hardcore swimming? And I guess we'll see!)

My schedule (the one I had for years, and find works for me pretty naturally now) looks like this:

~7am – morning nap

~1pm – afternoon nap

~7pm – evening nap

1am – 4am core nap (unless one of the daytime naps gets missed, in which case 11:30pm – 4am core nap)

I do expect some adjustment, since I've been off-schedule (off any schedule, really) for several months now; and furthermore, I don't expect I'll really be able to stick by this schedule every day for a while; my near-term future is pretty nuts-looking. YES, that means I'm NOT TAKING MY OWN ADVICE about making sure that you can keep the schedule for 3-4 weeks when you first adjust — but remember, as I've said a million times, the rules are different for everybody, and how adjusted you are or have been makes a BIG difference in how it works for you. I'm arguably a very special case, having been fully adjusted to this schedule for years, and that's definitely informing my decision to try it now, even knowing that it'll have to be imperfect for a little while (a few weeks, I suspect). Even if I miss days here and there, if I prioritize my naps on other days, I'm pretty confident that I can make Everyman my default schedule again, due to how long I did it before.

I might be wrong, of course! But we'll see, now, shan't we?

(OMG using the word shan't is so fun! Try it today if you haven't in a while! ;)

Updates coming!

Attributionses

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:45:03 +0000

I have no idea who this dude is, but WOW does he deserve a tip of the Nap Hat:

…Next time I'm thinking I'm not able to get comfortable enough to sleep, I'm going to see this guy admonishing me in my mind.

Also, remember the cool Nap Infographic I found on some random site a while ago? It was way too huge to post in the main body of anything, but here's a link — really cool stuff! And I did get some attribution info for that, and definitely ought to post it, since wow is that a really well-done piece and must have taken for-freaking-ever to do: It was originally posted at Patio Productions, here. And I am a bit of an asshole for not mentioning that sooner, but you know what? Such is life. I *am* a bit of an asshole sometimes, unfortunately. ;)

And speaking of, it's time to get some fecking fiction writing done, because wow have I been awful about that lately, and I have a massage scheduled for this afternoon (I'm definitely realizing how marvelous those are for keeping the computer/hockey demons off your neck & shoulders!) and so I can slouch and drink coffee and type furiously with impunity this morning, so I'm gonna!

Underwater Hockey is Ridiculously Awesome

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:32:50 +0000

OK, just a note here to say that underwater hockey (or UWH as you'll see it abbreviated) is stone cold freaking awesome. I don't even like competitive sports generally, but I've now played this one for about five months and I wouldn't give it up for anything; I *love* it and I look forward to every single practice. I am learning that the US is generally a very poor location for UWH; Europe and Australia seem to have the really good teams, so if you live in those places, that's even more reason to go check it out! (Though if you live in the US, join and support a local team like I did; they need you! ;)

Since it unfortunately also wakes me up (and no, I don't know why; it's quite exhausting at the time), and I haven't yet wound down from tonight's training enough to sleep, here's the short list of UWH's many awesomenesses:

Stellar sportsmanship, at least on all the teams I've played with — there's friendly competition, sure, but violence, cheating, and being an asshole to people are uniformly and consistently discouraged
Nice opportunity, at least, for gender balance — the game is definitely not in any way easier if you're male, and in countries-that-are-not-the-U.S. there are plenty of mixed as well as women-only leagues. (I'm not generally a fan of women-only leagues, because ahem that's called separate-but-equal and it doesn't work, but it's nice that there are enough women players in many places to warrant them.) The teams I play with are all cross-gender, and especially considering the possibility for problems that you'd expect in a swimming sport, they all handle it *beautifully*. I've never seen a single instance of harassment or anything like it.
Lots of ways to be good at it: Swimming fast, having great endurance, having a long breath-hold, stick-finesse, and having a good brain for positioning can each make you a great player, and whatever you're good at, you've got something to work on, too.
Freaking awesome exercise. Many recreational sports are actually "eh" when it comes to getting and keeping you in shape, but you can NOT beat swimming your butt off in a fast-paced environment that keeps challenging you to push your limits and is never ever boring.
Great intellectual challenge! Stick-work is really difficult to get right and amazing to watch when people can do it; and the usual positioning and teamwork of regular hockey is *mega* harder when you're trying to anticipate yours and your teammates breath-hold times and rotations from the surface to the bottom of the pool. Add occasional other twists like pools with "deep ends", slopes, etc., and it's like the fastest-moving chess you ever saw.

…And hopefully that is enough to get me started on my way to bed (having eaten something will help I think; I finish hockey practices hungry, but man the food you get afterwards is some of the best food you'll ever eat — one of my favorite things about swimming in general; do enough of it and you work up the best hunger ever). Hope everybody's having a great week!

[P.S. Because I am insane and the scheduling couldn't be worked out better, I also have my kungfu/taiji lesson early tomorrow morning -- so hockey kills my evening nap and then kungfu wipes me out in the morning -- augh! This is definitely resulting in my finishing Fridays a bit short of sleep, but I've been letting myself sleep in on Saturday to make up for it, and that's been working. More postage (?) on exercise & napping lately, but this post warranted a note to say "yeah, hockey does sometimes mess with my sleep, but at least so far it's workable".]

Everything I Ever Needed To Know I Learned From Napping

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:26:00 +0000

(Because why not, right?)

Pause to contemplate. If you just keep rolling down the same road at high speed for too long without pausing, you're likely to wake up one day and think, "Where the hell am I?"
Relax regularly. Muscles are not meant to carry around low-level tension 24 hours a day: Make a conscious effort to relax them all once in a while.
Appreciate the clock. Time is a mental construct, but it's there for a reason: Let its ordered restrictions help you get the most out of your limited lifespan.
It is, in fact, darkest before dawn. But dawn is totally worth staying awake through the darkness for.
Don't keep worries alive too long. If you're still worrying about something that isn't actively happening now, then you're keeping the stress of it alive with your thinking. Let it go; things have enough stress in them as they are.
Don't be ashamed of being smart. Practice letting your eyes flash when you say, "I need a nap." Because you're smart enough to need a nap, and no matter what the media says, being smart is awesome.
Everything is a tool. Sometimes trying something for which there are no pre-built tools is a great way to see this truth.
Love your body, don't fear it. If your car wouldn't go faster than eighteen miles an hour, you'd spend some money and effort and get it fixed. Your body is a vehicle too; don't be afraid to improve it.
The focus of your attention is completely your choice. Sometimes you need to focus on the smallest thing (like standing upright), or ignore the biggest one (like a loud barking dog), but neither of these tasks are impossible with the proper practice and perseverance.
You can, in fact, live in the light without fearing the darkness. Just bring lots of light with you! ;)

They’re like scheduled disruptions of everything

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:11:32 +0000

No naps yesterday due to work craziness — my last day in the office for a couple weeks, plus a major datacenter operation. Then the operation itself last night, which got me woken up about three times, though thankfully just for questions and such and not emergencies or failures.

Today I have to pack for a long trip in ways that are both inclusive of lots of Xmas presents, and that can be fit on a train.

This afternoon I have one last chance for swimming/hockey training and I won't get anymore until mid-January, so I'm taking it hell or high, um, water.

Tonight I have one last non-family-intruding date with my dearest. Taking that too.

Tomorrow at 8am I have to be across town for one last taiji class before I miss 2 weeks! Not missing that either, thank you. ;)

And then tomorrow at noon I have to catch a loooooong train. It will be dull, and I don't have a sleeper car (not much sense since I can almost never sleep on moving vehicles anyway), so I'm hoping I'll spend it writing!

(Err…did anybody see anywhere in there that I can catch a nap??)

((Kidding, kidding! I'll get one eventually.))

(((THIS is why I hate holidays though. >,< )))

Napping Infographic and Hilariously Disjointed Update

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:04:00 +0000

Found this neato (and huge!) infographic about naps, and it's interesting enough that even I learned something! Check it out if you'd like.

I know you can't hang much on search terms, but it still weirds me out that the second most used search term to find this site is…."women what the fuck happened".

Then again, on another level that makes me a fierce sort of happy. And I like the fierce happys. You get those from hockey too!

And speaking of underwater hockey, I'm now doing that twice a week in addition to weekly taiji (and its attendant should-be-and-nearly-is-daily practice). This has caused me to back off of P90 a bit, but not to abandon it — the cardio workout, specifically, is really useful for hockey and I can feel it helping, so I'm keeping that at least 3x a week, even if I miss the other one. Oh, and on Mondays, when I have both taiji and hockey? Er, no P90 that day, thanks.

I could try to describe what has kept me away from the Internets almost entirely for half a week, but I seriously don't think you all want to know. Think phrases like "production downtime" and "24-hour shifts" and you'll start to get the idea. My job is awesome, but the piper she does come collect sometimes!

So my favorite short story that I have ever written got its rejection letter a few days ago — right after I worked a 24-hour shift actually. I mean to say this with the same half-bruised nonchalance that your rather wild friend may say to you one morning, "So last night a cop kicked me in the ribs." There's nothing you can say back other than a sympathetic "Ow", and that's ok. I'm angry that the story is a) too specific to really publish anywhere else (it was for a particular anthology) and b) being held onto by said anthology in case they want to use it for a future one, so I'm not even sure I ought to publish it myself, i.e. here. Annoying, world. We can do better than that.

Speaking of "better" and "writing", it's also NanoWriMo finally! I love Nano — the 30-flash-fics version of NaNoWriMo — because last year I could feel it making my writing better, and this year, even though I'm behind by 3 stories already (see: 24-hour shifts), I'm already impressed with what's coming out. Flash-fic is so useful that way, for making you write beginnings and endings, focus on revealing and concealing, and burn the dialog into the tabletops because it has to stand out in a sub-1K work. ::shivers with awesomeness::

Anyway, I am sorry that updates have been shit this week…sleep kind of flew off the rails (again, see: 24-hour shifts — though I should add that my ability to snag a nap, and to wake up after 3 hours pretty reliably, came in amazingly handy too), and I'm only really just blinking my way back to coherency (and even so, wondering why it's Monday and not Saturday…I spent the whole weekend working!). I'll come up with something useful to say soon, promise. In the meantime, everybody have a great day/week/etc.!

P.S. Oh, because I always forget to mention stuff like this: I got interviewed! Um, like, three times last week, if you count the one that was for underwater hockey too. (I'm a newbie, but they wanted to interview me…why? Because of my "bright, interesting" tattoo. And probably the fact that i was the only girl there. Ah, well; fame she is fickle. ;) …The two that were for polyphasic sleep were encouraging, though; the quality of information seems to be going up, if one can take interview questions as an indicator.

OK, off to try and catch up on those stories! Then nap, taiji, work, nap, hockey and a sleep that will probably feel blissfully like being in a coma. ;)

Useful new alarm helps spread addictive new songs

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:27:00 +0000

So, I lost my phone the other day — actually kind of a fun napping story/warning itself, because apparently I woke up a little too fuzzily at work, and rolled the phone up in my blanket when I put it away, d'oh — and was looking for a good webpage alarm, when I stumbled on the Online Video Clock. Here's what's cool about it:

Lets you pick from a preset list of videos, or anything on YouTube, to wake up by
Works entirely in-browser
Nice big numbers for glancing at the screen if needed
Easy to use once you figure it out: Push the "Update" button to sync the clocks, and then "+15" or "+30" to automatically tune the alarm to that much later (or just adjust the numbers manually). Don't forget to push the "SET ALARM" button on the bottom!

So, for instance, if you have the new MC Frontalot video totally stuck in your mind, you can now reward yourself with it as a wake-up call, easy as pie. Or you could watch that awesome Space Lord / Time Lord mashup yet again; or bump up your mood with Weird Al's Anime Polka; or get inspired to craziness with some parkour. Tons of possibilities, there — and the nice part about a video is that you won't want to just lay there and listen to it; it virtually screams get up and look at this!

Batch Baiting Message #2

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:44:00 +0000

I'm trying out a technique I got from the 419eater forums here: http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=177125

I got the big list of fresh scammers' addies, and sent out the initial ASEMish script message in the vein of "I'm interested. Could you tell me more?"

Waited a day, then sent out the next message in the script:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: xxxxxx <xxxxxxxx@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:37 PM
Subject: I'm interested
To: many many scammers

I've got some cash lying around that can stand to get off its fat ass and do me some work. But not enough. Ain't that always life?

I think I'll go along with this. First, I gotta have some proof that it's real. No offense, but I don't want to sink a few hundos into, say, Islamic-Friendly Bacon. That stung, bad. You and I gotta be sure we're going to get rich, or it's not worth the bother for the either.

Since I gotta trust you, I'm going to put some of my info you may want. No biggie. Just so you can get a better idea of what I am and who I am.

Name: Ramses Luther Smuckles
Address: 11 Via Verde, Achewood Court, CA, 90714 USA
mobile #: (xxx) xxx xxxx
Age: 36
DOB: 4/1/1974
Marital status: divorced
Occupation: brawler

That shit is like poetry. It sings in my ear holes. Need any more info, just ask. I'm not gonna go around describing which way my dick is hanging, but I won't keep it a secret if people have to know this.

Peace, love, and kumquats,
--
Ramses Luther Smuckles
We are, after all, professionals.

Fwd: Re. Attn. The Chairman CEO

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:19:00 +0000

"I love the sound of deadlines whooshing past"- Douglas Adams (PBUH)

From: olae umena <olaeumena@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: Re. Attn. The Chairman CEO
To:xxxxxx <xxxxxxx@gmail.com>
Cc: barr_williams_ass.chamber2000@yahoo.co.uk

Dear Mr. Tom,

Thanks for the detail informations of your contact and will submit tomorrow to the security finance company for onward processing of all relevant of the transfer clearance documents on your name but one thing lest is your passport photo so please send it again because the attachment of your driver's license did not show on the mail maybe you forgot to include to attach to me so please hasten to resend the driver's license to enable me submit all your informations at the same time tomorrow morning thanks and wishing you all the best in life to keep this issue very confidential.

Please always send your replies direct to my private mail box at barr_williams_ass.chamber2000@yahoo.co.uk or barrestarwilliams_tg2000@yahoo.com for more security reasons thanks.

My regards to you.
Barr. Prince Williams Koffi Esq.
Tel.+228-0137830

From: xxxxxx <xxxxxxx@gmail.com>
To: olae umena <olaeumena@yahoo.com>

Sent: Fri, October 29, 2010 5:58:14 PM

Subject: Re: Re. Attn. The Chairman CEO

Name: Tom Stockton Delays
Address: 11 Via Verde, Apt #B, 3467 sani-lot #45B, Achewood Courts, 90714 CA USA
Mobile #: (424) 704-3468
Occupation: Organ-grinder Accountant
Sex: Male
Married Status: Widower
Children: 10 illegitimate sons
Bank: National Bank of Blues
Bank Acct # 02289845 45 6

Attached is a scan of my driver's license, passport, SIDS, high school transcript, receipts from the past 30 deposits I have made, and a photo of myself on stage at Prague

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:20 AM, olae umena <olaeumena@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear Tom.

thanks for your reply well appreciated.

well, since you can assist please send me your contact informations and banking informations with which i will send to the finance security company to enable them prcoess to obtain all transfer clearance document on your name for easy making of transfer of funds to your account, please if possible you can call me so that we discuss briefly thanks and be blessed.

regards.

Barr. Williams

Tel.+228-0137830

From: xxxxxxxx <xxxxxxxx@gmail.com>
To: olae umena <olaeumena@yahoo.com>
Cc: barrestarwilliams_tg2000@yahoo.com; ndeyoung2002@yahoo.com
Sent: Fri, October 29, 2010 5:06:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re. Attn. The Chairman CEO

I'm certainly as interested as a man could be. COuld you tell me more?

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:01 AM, olae umena <olaeumena@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear Sir/Madam,

Am so much glad to contact you, and also reading your informations from a business friend in India who has intimated your contact as a relaible and trust-worthy person to me, Infact , am also glad to find your email id accordingly and I do strongly beleive that my coming accross to know you will never bring any default,shame or become a stepping failured stone to ruin my life and carrier as I have planed and made up all my best and suitable mind and arrangements to quit out from my Dad who's one of the top Ruling Ministers here in my country Lome -Togo, please kindly note first that, I am the first true son of my Father Hon. Dr. Williams Awosely Koffi. Esq.

Then I am his first son and a barrester by profession, and am also a prince but this does not matters to our busines engagement anymore, then all I want is to live on my own and become what I should be in life as a complete full man, so due to the much pampers and coverages and back ups which I have been having from my Dad so long, and due to his position in the government no matter he is today one of the special adviser to our present president but to me all this I personaly do not cherrish them in life rather than to build up my own life suitable for me.

So, I have planed to leave my country and find a suitable country through which I will make my ultmost investment of my own, also a suitable place for my steady living with my own family if possible and there i will make up things by my self, so with this direct connection with you, this only made me and even gave me much assurance to entrust these my planed of business into your hand so that my coming out to your cuntry I will find a better place to make my investment of $5.0 Million Dollars,

So note please, this amount I have already made the arrangement with my father's security finance bank, now I only need your contact and account informations through which the security finance bank will wire these amount to and for my safety use in your country, so please confirm if you can assist me making this investment successfully, and if yes please do not delay further to send me your account informatins and name of beneficiary through which these funds will be wired to, then I have agreed to settle with you as soon as I come over to your place atleast 15% preferablly out of the total sum to be transfered to your account please confirm.

Also note that I want us to complete these issue within a short period of time so that before my Father will start askig of me he will by then notice that am already in your country doing my business, then you dont need to fear about this business because myself I will cover you and protect your interest but I knew once I succedded on this plan my Father will appreciate it all seeing me doing very well with the money insteady of keeping eyes on him everyday thanks and hope you will find this details very usefull and interesting waitting for your answers soon.

Yours regards.

Barr. Williams Brooksman A. Koffi Esq.

Tel.+228-0137830
Alternative Emails: barrestarwilliams_tg2000@yahoo.com
ndeyoung2002@yahoo.com

--
There's a few things I never could believe,
Tom Delays

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There's a few things I never could believe,
Tom Delays

Re: ASSIST ME

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:06:00 +0000

From: xxxxxx <xxxxxxx@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: ASSIST ME
To: Mrs rebecca Garang <mrsrebecca.garang1@yahoo.com>

I do not understand. You didn't ask me anything. I read your plight, and my heart was moved out of Christian goodness to help you. You queried if I could assist, but didn't say anything about what it was about.

It appears you do not need any assistance, thank the Lord. I'm glad that even after all this suffering you are healthy, not suffering any financial difficulties, and enjoying yourself.

Please, once again, thank the Lord that you are in perfect condition and if I may offer my aids to you you are welcome to it.

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Mrs rebecca Garang <mrsrebecca.garang1@yahoo.com> wrote:

go want to assist me or not, because i know why i am asking you

--- On Thu, 10/28/10, xxxxxxx <xxxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

From: xxxxxx <xxxxxxx@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ASSIST ME
To: "MRS REBECCA GARANG" <mrsrebecca.garang1@yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010, 5:07 AM

How may I assist you?

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 4:51 PM, MRS REBECCA GARANG <mrsrebecca.garang1@yahoo.com> wrote:

From Mrs Rebecca Garang .

Greetings!
It is a good pleasure for me today to contact you for your humble assistance.My name is Mrs. Rebecca Garang the widow of late Dr. John Garang who was until his death the vice president of Sudan in Africa. In brief, my late husband was a strong opposition to the incumbent government and for over 22yrs he has indefatigably fought for the liberation of the Sudanese until he was appointed the vice president on the 9th of July 2005 following the cease fire agreement that was signed on the 6th of January 2005.
A decision welcomed by the International Community as an avenue to quench the decades of civil war in Sudan. He died on the 31st of July 2005 following a helicopter crash alongside with 12 others just 22days after his appointment as the vice president. What led to the helicopter crash is still unclear but I know that my husband was the target.

I am a religious person and had always seek for God's direction in all my endeavours.I have a problem I believe you will be of great assistance. Please kindly reply me as quickly as possible to enable me explain things in details to you.
Thanks and Remain blessed.

Yours sincerely

Mrs. Rebecca Garang

________________________________________________________________
Interone Internet - Assine já - 49 3323.6688

--
There's a few things I never could believe,
Tom Delays

--
There's a few things I never could believe,
Tom Delays

Mobile #: (424) 704-3468

--
There's a few things I never could believe,
Tom Delays
Mobile #: (424) 704-3468

Fwd: Western union infos SMTP Inbox Webmail and email links for sale

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:28:00 +0000

Ha. It bounced. Too bad.

From: xxxxxxxxx <xxxxxxx@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: Western union infos SMTP Inbox Webmail and email links for sale
To: spamzey5@web.de

Gee. You must be, as the kids say, l33t.

Listen. My bogophonic multiplexing factory pattern is PEBKAC'ing all over the bit bucket. I gotta drain that bitch before it leaks magnetic monopoles all over the core. You know how it is: no one wants a hydra invading his firewall. Next thing you know, you got people hacking your Gibson. And that Gibson, he don't want to be hacked by no one.

What I'm saying is, I need someone to get me a copy of Battletoads. I don't care how expensive it is. I can count on your technological sophistication.

Y0ur5 in 0-d4y 1337n355
R4|\/|535 5|\/|UCK135

2010/10/28 HACKERS ONLINE <spamzey5@web.de>

We hack admin offices,Western union database another receivers name.Smtp and webmail inbox.

Email Links,Track 1 and 2 Cvv2 and employment Logins.Ticket online and Europe Visa Hotel Invitation by Bank login.

if you are interested please buzz me on my yahoo id for Yahoo Chat at {uaedealerz}

--
Ramses Luther Smuckles
We are, after all, professionals.

Deceased Relative / Client. !: Scott Adams tries to back out of our transaction

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:27:00 +0000

He suspects that I am a joker. I must slap him a bit.

From: xxxxxx <xxxxxxx@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: Deceased Relative / Client. !
To: Mr Adams Scott <adamsscott@acerconsultants-uk.com>

Wait a goddamned minute. Uncle Culpepper's middle name was Fred. Uncle Culpepper Fred Smuckles.

Are you trying to cheat me out of my inheritance? I can sue your ass in Internet Court, you little shit.

Now I demand that you send me a scan of his death certificate. If my dear uncle is actually dead, I want to know. I haven't been able to get in touch with him on the phone, but he's an old man.

Listen. Cunt. You will send me the death certificate of my uncle if you indeed have one, or so help me God I will litigate.

Note that if you have the wrong Fred Smuckles, I don't mean this personally. I am just very concerned regarding the health of my family, even those in distant lands.

Note that if you have the right Fred Smuckles, I will hunt you down.

Call me immediately on my mobile number upon sending me the death certificate.

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Mr Adams Scott <adamsscott@acerconsultants-uk.com> wrote:

Dear Ramses Smuckles,

Thank you for your response to the inquiries. I take it by your response that you have no explicit knowledge of the subject. The fellow with the previously referred description: Mr. Frederick Smuckles died intestate and nominated no next of kin after having made substantial investments with Royal Bank of Scotland PLC. Standard procedure dictates that we seek out and exhaust all channels to find any one related to inherit the title that his estate may pass on.
From what I see, we have not been successful. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Thank you for your kind understanding.

Yours sincerely,
Mr Adams Scott
ACER Consultants Service Ltd
For: Royal Bank of Scotland.
364 Windbridge,London Uk.

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:14:25 -0400
Subject: Re: Deceased Relative / Client. !
From: xxxxx@gmail.com
To: adamsscott@acerconsultants-uk.com

I love your cartoon. My, Dogbert gets me every time!

Yes, I do have a dead relative who lived in Zurich. Old Uncle Culpepper. He was a mighty man, steeped in southern charm and mint julep. Tell me he is not dead! Oh dear.

If it is indeed Uncle Culpepper Smuckles, I assure you I can provide mountains of photographs and such of us taking an iced tea together on the porch, inhaling the cool scent of honeysuckle while the gentle sounds of cottonpickers flow to us in the languid breeze of Louisiana. I also have several of his letters. Would this constitute sufficient proof?

2010/10/27 Mr Adams Scott <info@acerconsultants-uk.com>
From: Mr Adams Scott
ACER Consultants Service Ltd.

This is a confidential message from ACER Consultants: private consulting firm in London, United Kingdom.

I have been directed to contact you with regards to ongoing investigations involving a deceased client of Royal Bank of Scotland. The client, who shared the same last name with you, died intestate so it is standard and mandatory that a next of kin be sought who may inherit the estate. Kindly clarify the following:

- Are you aware of any relative of yours whose last known contact address was Zurich, Switzerland, with investments of considerable value with Royal Bank of Scotland?

- If you answered yes to the above then can you establish beyond reasonable doubt your eligibility to assume status of next of kin to the deceased?

Understand that we are at this point contstained to share more details of this matter with you. We will need to hear from you urgently and hope you can assist us in bringing this inquiry to a conclusion.Please respond to my private email below as soon as possible to afford us the opportunity to close this investigation. Thank you for accommodating our enquiries.

Yours sincerely,
Mr Adams Scott
ACER Consultants Service Ltd
For: Royal Bank of Scotland.
364 Windbridge,London Uk.
Email: mradams_scott@consultant.com
Tel/fax: 00-44-7005-921-477

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Re: Funds Transfer/Change of ownership

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:27:00 +0000

I discombobulated the dear Scotsman so much with my request that he momentarily lapsed into Nigerian semi-literacy.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mr Frank From Royal Bank <royalbnk741@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:56 AM
Subject: Funds Transfer/Change of ownership
To:xxxxx@xxxxxx.com

Thank you for your mail Mr Tom Delays,

In response to your request for my photograph and that of Mrs Hilary weston, Am sorry Its not official to provide you with such information's. My duty is to make sure the funds is safely transfered into your account. secondly, payment should be made before the bank can provide you with the online account, without the change of ownership the bank cannot provide you with any account information, so you are advice to make payment for the change of ownership before we can commence transfer.

Payment cannot be made to Royal Bank of scotland directly, because, the Bank account is for transctions exceeding $1 Million USD. All payment less than $1 million USD should be sent to the Bank P.R.O, Mr Andrea Williams who is appointed to receive foreign payment from customer.

Furthermore, this transaction is between you and the transfer unit of Royal Bank, Mr Andrea Williams is just the bank P.R.O and its not officially connected to this transfer.

Thank you for your Co-operation,

Sincerely,

Mr Frank Moss

Head of Corporate Responsibility
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Business House F
Gogarburn
PO Box 1000
Edinburgh
EH12 1HQ
UK
Telephone:
+(44) 702 404 2655

______________________________________________________________

© Bank of Scotland plc 2010. The copyright and material on Bank of Scotland's Internet web site is owned by Bank of Scotland plc and protected by the copyright laws of the United Kingdom

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Maxwell Tapsoba, Owner of the World, wants my help

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:38:00 +0000

This is certainly the hugest amount I've seen a scammer claim to not own. As a manager of a banking institution, he will surely notice that he was a little fuzzy in describing this number and then correct me on the orders of magnitude error I made.

From:xxxxx <xxxxxxx@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: My Dear Friend
To: maxwelltapsoba@voila.fr

1. FULL NAME.......... Tom Stockton Delays
2. TELEPHONE NUMBERS...... (424) xxx xxxx
3. YOUR AGE......36
4. YOUR SEX.........male
5. YOUR OCCUPATION........organ-grinder accountant
6. YOUR COUNTRY AND CITY......USA, Achewood
7. YOUR HOME ADDRESS..........11 Via Verde
8. MARITAL STATUS............Widower

Wow. I look forward to acquiring even a tiny fraction of that $10,200,000,000,000. Count in in, my good man, and let us TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Maxwell Tapsoba <maxswellekong@gmail.com> wrote:

My Dear Friend
I am Mr. Maxwell Tapsoba, address: #205 Ave. Kadiogo Rue de Gounghin Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Assistant Manager in banking institution, for your kind attention; I will be very glad if you do assist me to relocate a sum of (US$10,200,000.00 Million Dollars) from the fix balance sum of (US$15.3M) in an account here into your personal bank account for the benefit of both of us.

All confirmable legal documents to back up the claims will be obtain legally here, I shall be directing you as it is progressing I don't want this money to go into our Bank recovery account as abandoned fund; I will come over to your country as soon as the fund is transfer successfully into your account. This is 50/50 business deal because of your account and support, also this matter should be a confidential between you and me, delete it if you are not interested.
Upon the receipt of your reply and indication of your capability, I will send to you a draft text of application form to apply for the money and more details, I don't want anyone here in the bank to know my involvement during the process.

PLEASE STATE YOUR INFORMATION BELOW TO KNOW YOUR CAPABILITY OF HANDLING THIS DEAL.

1. FULL NAME..........
2. TELEPHONE NUMBERS.......
3. YOUR AGE......
4. YOUR SEX.........
5. YOUR OCCUPATION........
6. YOUR COUNTRY AND CITY......
7. YOUR HOME ADDRESS..........
8. MARITAL STATUS............

My Regards
Mr Maxwell Tapsoba
Tel:+226 79237654

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Williams Lari excites this foreigner

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:23:00 +0000

From: xxxxxx <xxxxxxxx@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: from the royal chambers
To: JOSEPH MORGAN <info.jpmargan_consultancy@yahoo.com.au>, info.africamonetary_union@safe-mail.net

I am certainly enthusiastic. You simply have no idea how often in my childhood I curled up in a fetal position with a bottle of Captain Morgan and imagined receiving consignments of valuables from the depths of the Dark Continent. Afterwards I would clean myself off and tell myself that like a 1980's music video it can only be a dream.

"Or is it?" was the thought that barreled through my brain as I read your message. All those debauched childhood dreams came flowing back like liquid monkeys being poured out of incredible silver-plated barrels. I felt so nostalgic I defecated immediately right where I sat.

Please, tell me more details.

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 4:21 AM, JOSEPH MORGAN <info.jpmargan_consultancy@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

I am Barrister A. Williams Lari (Esq.)., legal consultant to JP Morgan International and the Africa Union bank.

I'm sending you this mail in respect of my late client's son ( Chudi Malik), he is from war torn Republic of Sudan in north Africa. My client was a reputable business man (A Diamond/Gold and Oil Merchant), It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in France during one of his business trips abroad. Though his sudden death was rather suspected to have been masterminded by his relations and political opponents especially an uncle of his who traveled with him at that time. But God knows the truth!.

Before his death, he deposited two metallic boxes with a security company here in Accra, the capital city of Ghana because of the political unrest (situation) in his country (Sudan), the contents of the two boxes are Diamond/Gold while the second box contain cash $2.7 million USD, for security reasons he told the Security company that the contents of both boxes are his personal and family effects.

The deposit documents are with me as his legal adviser, now his only son, who is the beneficiary is here in my country as a refugee, he came through the assistant of the Africa Union Peace keepers in his country, on a refugee status due to different family problems, political instability in his country and safety of his life too, which has made things very difficult for him at the moment.

I need you to be his guardian and legal appointed beneficiary, to enable the security company release the boxes to you , so that you will get him papers to travel to your country to continue his education while you invest part of the money for his future.

If your response is positive, I will present you to the Security Company as the foreign business partner to my late client and all documentations will be done legally with his son.

We forward to hear from any enthusiastic foreigner.

Regard,

Bar.Williams On behalf of the bank. 00233 285025303 contact me via my official email address info.africamonetary_union@Safe-mail.net

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Mobile #: (424) 704-3468

Princess Williams ignores the story of my birth

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:53:00 +0000

Showing no curiosity toward it at all toward the epic situation of my birth, she just sends me an impersonal description.

I will get her birth story, somehow.

From: Princess Williams <princess4silver@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:20 AM
Subject: I WILL LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT YOU
To: xxxxxxxxx <xxxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com>

Dearest One.

I am more than happy in your urgent mail to my email.How was your day today?..Mine a little cold over here in Dakar Senegal.My Name is princess Williams,I am (24) years old, single and never married, 5ft 7 inches Tall, 55kg weight, black hair and brown eyes,i am from Cote d' Ivoire in West Africa and presently i am residing in the camp here in Dakar Senegal as a result of the civil war that was fought in my Country some years ago.
My late father General Donatus Williams was The Former Director Of Cocoa Export In My Country (Cote d' Ivoire) Who is now Dead with my Mother Calaralin Donatus.
It's only Me that is alive now and i managed to make my way to a West African country Senegal where i am living now as a refugee. I would like to know more about you.Your likes and dislikes,your hobbies and what you are doing presently. I will tell you more about myself in my next mail. Attached here is my picture.Hoping to hear from you soonest.
Yours Forever
MISS PRINCESS WILLIAMS

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We are, after all, professionals.
mobile #: (530) 426-2419

I won the MegaMillions Intertubes Lotto!

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:58:00 +0000

From: xxxxxx <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: Official Notification
To: johnfullham1@w.cn

Wow this is amazing! I've never won anything that was to be won! Are you sure I won? This is a miracle. This is the greatest thing that has ever happened in the history of the entire universe. This is better than eating a chicken sandwich.

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NAME: Tom Delays
ADDRESS: 11 Via Verde, Achewood Courts, CA, 90714, USA
COUNTRY: USA
OCCUPATION: Organ-grinder Accountant
AGE: 36
SEX:… Male
PHONE NUMBER: (xxx)xxx xxxx
BATCH NUMBER: SA/10/FE
WINNING NUMBER: 06-09-13-15-40-43-09
TICKET NUMBER: FE08WCSA

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Megamillions Lottery Award <johnfullham1@w.cn> wrote:

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Re: Hello

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:06:00 +0000

From     xxxxxxxxx <xxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com>
to         princess4silver@yahoo.com
date     Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:06 PM
subject     Re: Hello

Top of the day to the bottom of your heart. You warm the cockles of my heart.
My dear vestige of feudalism, my symbolic monument to the age of serfs and plagues, let us talk of Cabbages and Kings.

I have a lot to tell you, and I am sure my pretty little Princess Buttercup Williams will have a lot to tell me as well.

Let's start off with the days of our births.

I was born on a dark and stormy night. Lightning flashed and thunder roared outside while my mother, the dear Abbess Von Vorglewurst, writhed on bloodsoaked sheets. Nine months earlier she had been raped by Lord Chauncey-Dur-Gambolputty. Now she was giving birth to an enormous baby boy. My head being too large to fit through the opening of the womb, the doctor hit her upon the head with the nearest object, a fattened rooster, and then cut me out of my mother's body using a pair of pliers, his teeth, and a common garden trowel. My poor mother did not survive this, but I survived. Less than two hours later, my rapist-father's voivods burst through the door and killed the midwife and my aunts. They tied me into a burlap sack, strapped me to a horse, and then crushed its testicles. The horse fled, terrified, at top speed into the wind and rain and dark.

By morning I was found hundreds of miles away in the wilderness of Bollockshire, Wales.

How was your birth?

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:49 PM, princess williams <princessxxxy@att.net> wrote:

Hello my dear,
i am writing to you from the bottom of my heart, i found you to be catchy and i thought it will be wise to let you read from me, i would be very grateful if you would respond to me. I shall send you my pictures the moment i read from you with much pleasure that you are having a very nice and a lovely wonderful day without wasting your precious time will like to end and waiting to read from you. Contact me direct to my email for easy and direct communication take care and be safe.
your best regard
miss princess williams

--
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We are, after all, professionals.

Re: Funds Transfer/Change of ownership

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:06:00 +0000

* First Name: Tom
* Surname: Delays
* Middle Name: Stockton
* Country: USA
* Residential Address: 11 Via Vera, Achewood, CA, 90714, USA
* Phone Number: 1-757-484-9987
* Mobile Number: My employer issued it, cannot use outside work
(for sms alert)
* Occupation: Organ-grinder Accountant
* Age: 36
* Sex: Male
* Next of Kin: Tom Waits, P.h.D., S.o.H.K.

* Scan Copy of your passport or ID : attached is a scan of my Passport, Driver's License, National ID, SIDS, High School Transcript, and a photo of myself on stage at Prague (The last is just so you can put a face to my name. Could you send me a picture of yourself and Mrs. Weston too?) [note: the "scan" is a 6.8MB file in the magical .jpx format]

I have some questions. Do I pay the transfer fees now, or after I have received the online account informations?

I tried to call you before I left the office, but I kept getting "Danny Boy" played on a loop by what sounded like a toddler squeezing a constipated cat. It must be a bank holiday. Do you have a personal number I can call?

I'm concerned about this Andrea Williams. Who is she? Why am I not paying the Royal Bank of Scotland directly? Come to think of it, why am I not wiring you the money? If I'm going to be sending her money, could you have her email me?

Can I go to your Internet web site and pay through there?

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Mr Frank From Royal Bank <royalbnk741@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

Welcome to Royal Bank of Scotland
Good Day Tom Delays,
I am Mr Frank Moss from Royal Bank of Scotland, United Kingdom. We today received a mail from Mrs Hilary Weston to transfer her funds with Royal Bank of scotland to your name, presently she's undergoing a surgery operation in canada. Her instructions is to change the ownership of the funds/account to your name before the Bank can commence transfer of your entitled funds of $5,000.000.00 (Five Million Dollars) to your nominatted bank account.
Furthermore, you are required to send your correct data listed below so I can send it to the Crown court here in the United Kingdom for change of ownership of Mrs Hilary Weston account to your name.
THE BELOW INFORMATION'S ARE REQUIRED:
* First Name:
* Surname:
* Middle Name:
* Country:
* Residential Address:
* Phone Number:
* Mobile Number:
(for sms alert)
* Occupation:
* Age:
* Sex:
* Next of Kin:
* Scan Copy of your passport or ID
As soon as I can get this information's from you, the Bank attorney will represent you in the Crown Court to sign the neccessary documents needed for the change of ownership, Afterwhich you will be provided with an online account informations for you to transfer the funds yourself online to any Bank account in the world, or we can do a Bank to Bank transfer depending which method of transfer you need.
NOTE: The court fees for the change of ownership and documents have to be paid by you before the changes can be made, because the funds is currently on Mrs Hilary Weston Name and we do not have the right to transfer the funds directly to you without change of ownership.
Payment for the change of ownership $320.43 (Three Hundred and Thirty Dollars) should be sent to the P.R.O of Royal Bank of scotland Via WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER or MONEY GRAM with the information's below.
Receiver's Name: Andrea Williams (JP)
Receiver's Address : PO Box 1000
                     Edinburgh
                     EH12 1HQ
                    united kingdom
Amount(fee) : $320.43
As soon as payment is made, you are to send to this office the scan copy of the payment receipt as given to you by the WESTERN UNION/MONEY GRAM officials. In Absence of scanner, you are to provide us with the following;
(1) SENDERS FULL NAME(S) :
(2) SENDERS ADDRESS/COUNTRY:
(3) MTCN (money transfer control number):
   (written on the western union receipt)
(4) AMOUNT SENT:
Thank you for your Co-operation,

Sincerely,
Mr Frank Moss
Head of Corporate Responsibility
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Business House F
Gogarburn
PO Box 1000
Edinburgh
EH12 1HQ
UK
Telephone:
+(44) 702 404 2655
______________________________________________________________
© Bank of Scotland plc 2010. The copyright and material on Bank of Scotland's Internet web site is owned by Bank of Scotland plc and protected by the copyright laws of the United Kingdom.

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Collaborative Scambaiting at Posterous

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:45:00 +0000

I've set up http://419baits.posterous.com

If you've got a bait going on, all you have to do is ask me to make you a contributor, and you can bcc your baits directly to the blog. Posterous, unlike Blogspot, restricts posting access by email address, so an accidental cc will only alert the scammer rather than ruin everything by giving him posting access.

Re: Good day,

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:20:00 +0000

Are you sure you have enough gold to meet my needs? I shall need 450kg of 94.5% pure gold dust.

I am actually travelling to Accra next week on business. If you can provide the needed quantities with necessary purity, I will bring along my assayer. I will keep you updated regarding my travel plans.

Waiting your response in hopes of mutual profit and decadent investments,
Ramses Luther Smuckles

2010/10/26 kwame nanas <kwamenanasmail@rediffmail.com>

Good day,

It really an utmost pleasure writing to you.I am Kwame Nana from Ghana.I got
your email after a research from the internet,i went through your profile
and found it really interesting because i believe you are someone i can
collaborate with in my gold business which i wish to expand.

I and my mother are poor gold miners in Ghana.At the present time we have
been able to secure enough gold.Selling the gold here is very cheap as there
are enough gold in Ghana and we are not making enough profit in the
business.It is for this reason that we are in need of a foreign partner who
will assist us in selling this gold outside Ghana so that we would be able
to make more returns from the business.

We will send the gold to you by diplomatic means to your country.On the
other hand,if you would prefer coming over to Ghana,you are highly welcome
because we have enough gold at the moment.If you are willing to partner with
us,kindly send us the information below to the address:
kwamenanasmail@rediffmail.com

1 Your name and address
2 Your phone number

Thanks and God bless,
Kwame Nana.

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Re: Deceased Relative / Client. !

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:14:00 +0000

I love your cartoon. My, Dogbert gets me every time!

Yes, I do have a dead relative who lived in Zurich. Old Uncle Culpepper. He was a mighty man, steeped in southern charm and mint julep. Tell me he is not dead! Oh dear.

If it is indeed Uncle Culpepper Smuckles, I assure you I can provide mountains of photographs and such of us taking an iced tea together on the porch, inhaling the cool scent of honeysuckle while the gentle sounds of cottonpickers flow to us in the languid breeze of Louisiana. I also have several of his letters. Would this constitute sufficient proof?

2010/10/27 Mr Adams Scott <info@acerconsultants-uk.com>

From: Mr Adams Scott
ACER Consultants Service Ltd.

This is a confidential message from ACER Consultants: private consulting firm in London, United Kingdom.

I have been directed to contact you with regards to ongoing investigations involving a deceased client of Royal Bank of Scotland. The client, who shared the same last name with you, died intestate so it is standard and mandatory that a next of kin be sought who may inherit the estate. Kindly clarify the following:

- Are you aware of any relative of yours whose last known contact address was Zurich, Switzerland, with investments of considerable value with Royal Bank of Scotland?

- If you answered yes to the above then can you establish beyond reasonable doubt your eligibility to assume status of next of kin to the deceased?

Understand that we are at this point contstained to share more details of this matter with you. We will need to hear from you urgently and hope you can assist us in bringing this inquiry to a conclusion.Please respond to my private email below as soon as possible to afford us the opportunity to close this investigation. Thank you for accommodating our enquiries.

Yours sincerely,
Mr Adams Scott
ACER Consultants Service Ltd
For: Royal Bank of Scotland.
364 Windbridge,London Uk.
Email: mradams_scott@consultant.com
Tel/fax: 00-44-7005-921-477

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We are, after all, professionals.

Georgina is waiting

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:56:00 +0000

From: Georgina Kofi <georginakofi@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: please contact the company on my behalf.
To: xxxxxxxx <xxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com>

i am waiting

On 10/27/10, ramses smuckles <rames.smuckles@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1.senders full name: Ramses Luther Smuckles
> 2.text question and answer: Where's the beef? In me
> 3.transaction code which is MTCN: 489625878
> 4.Amont send:$3,300
>
> There. I mistook a five for a three! Ha! I'm such a fucking retard!
>
> Write me back when you get the money, my love. I can't wait to hear from
> you.

Fwd: help the sos children

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:52:00 +0000

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: xxxxxxx <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: help the sos children
To: georgepad512 <georgepad512@zoho.com>

I am good, and my children are happy and plump. Thank you for your concern.

Sorry about the delay. I was in East Asia on business, and was far from any electricity, let alone internet access.

You say you have 11 virgin girls, but how many total healthy virgins under the age of 22? Sex is not a factor in our decision to acquire them.

Please tabulate and return back to me the number of healthy virgins you possess. If possible, list their names, ages, how sure you are that they are indeed virgins, and any comments regarding their health you feel necessary. This list is not urgent, however, as we will send a physician out to inspect them personally anyway.

I am pleased you are such a generous man. I hope your family prospers. How is your family?

Oh. Please note that, as I said, our legal department will provide all documentation necessary for the transaction to appear legal. We will cover all costs. You need not worry about appearances.

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:33 AM, georgepad512 <georgepad512@zoho.com> wrote:

Dearesr Brother
how are you doing today and how is the family, i got the mail you sent to me and i want to say is nice hearing from you again.
i would want to know how many virgin kids you need so as to enable me prepare them for you, also you must know that this is africa and these kids are motherless and fatherless kids. it will be my delight to inform you that right now we have 11 grown up virgin girls of about 22 yrs of age. i also want to inform you that you will be taking care of their international passport, ticket and visa funds as over here our mission is to take care of them till they are fully grown up and due for marriage.
in this manner i will be awaiting your responds so as to know what your comment is on this, but i also want to let you know we do not sell kids or use them as a means of making money, in this case it will be seen that we are giving them out for marriage as i will be going to the missionary church that heads all the orphanages homes here to collect a permit paper so as to enable their free movement in the embassy.
do get back to me with your responds.
May the peace of the Lord be with you.

Direct from email postings

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:37:00 +0000

I've enabled email posting. I should now be able to simply bcc my responses directly to the blog. I'll have to watch out for odd misformats and gibberish appearing. I may also want to sanitize the posts of email addies prior to publishing.

This gives me an idea. Why not set up a posterous blog in which people can do exactly this?

Georgina Kofi

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:33:00 +0000

I got this on the 21st from a Georgina Kofi (Billy's dear Georgina):

Dear Sir,
I want to thank you for your response, I sincerely appreciate your interest
to assist me in my needs, however I would like to be sure of your
willingness, trustworthiness and commitment to execute this transaction with
me, I cannot afford to compromise these virtues because this transaction
highly sensitive, I have my principles which will profit both of us
immediately it arrive your country.

I know you might be wondering where I got your email contact but to be
honest with you, I got your contact email directly on the Internet during my
search for a reliable partner who would be of assistance to act as my
foreign beneficiary of my two consignment boxes in the standard security
company here in my country Ghana, if you read my previous email properly I
have explained why I need your assistance for a better investment and my
further education in your country.

I have attachments the two documents,ownership and deposite certificate to
you in other to prove you that this properties belong to me,it is necessary
for me to be sure of the person to whom I will be entrusting this
transaction, so I need to be convinced that you are a matured person with
some integrity and I will also prove my integrity to you. I will like you to
send me your photo and your contact number for easy communication as i have
attach my photo and my consignment documents to you and plaese contact the
standard security company where my father deposited my properties for the
clearance and shipment to your country.

Here is the company informaions.
Name of the company director:Dr.Anthony Klu
Email:standardsecurityservicegh@gmail.com
Private telephone number:00233548331778

introduce your self as my late father business partner or as my
husband and he will direct
you on how to clear the properties and ship to you thank you.

Hope to read from you soonest.
Best Regards,
Georgina Kofi.

I responded:

Attached you will find my photo [note: photo of Christopher Walken as Max Zorin].

Send me another picture of yourself without a shirt, and I'll give you
my personal home phone number.

She responded:

GOOD EVENINGAND HOW ARE YOU DOING, HOPE EVERY THING IS OK WITH YOU?
PLEASE I WANT TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE WRITE THE COMPANY, SO THAT I WILL BE
DIRECTING YOU ON WHAT TO DO.
PLEASE GET ME BACK AS SOON AS POSIBLE

THANK YOU
GEORGIN KOFI

Wow. Quite excited! I responded:

Now now. Pleasure before business.

I will wire you $3,550 via Western Union the moment you send that
picture. Then our real business can commence.

It's simple. In your next email send me your payment details and the
picture of yourself. I will immediately respond with an email
containing the MTCN for immediate pick up.

Then, after I have seen your breasts and you have held my money, we
can get down to the real business.

I'll be waiting for that picture. I hope you're as eager to get on
with our business as I am.

She replied:

Ok,if you wish here is my receivers informations:

receivers name:(josephine ashong)
after you have send it ,here is the information i will need from you as follows.

1.senders full name:
2.text question and answer:
3.transaction code which is MTCN:
4.Amont send:

This will help me pick up the money without any problem thank you very much.

Regard
Georgina Kofi

I replied:

1.senders full name: Georgina Kofi
2.text question and answer: Where's the beef? In me
3.transaction code which is MTCN: 489623878
4.Amont send:$3,300

This did not please her:

why will you tell me that? Hw can senders name should be my name am i
the one sending the money to you ? why? beside i have track the money
through the number you give me but is not real why?

pls if you real know you send the money, here is the informations i
need from you.

1.senders full name i means the person who send the money name.
2.transction code MTCN NUMBER.
3.what name do you send the money to.
4. test question and answer
5.country of origin, where the money is coming from.

thank you and waiting for you.

I replied:

What? I thought I was giving you correct informations.

Wait a second, I'll check my receipt and get back to you. Maybe I used
another string of numbers or something on the paper.

Sorry about this. I'll make it up to you, my love.

I then followed up with:

1.senders full name: Ramses Luther Smuckles
2.text question and answer: Where's the beef? In me
3.transaction code which is MTCN: 489625878
4.Amont send:$3,300

There. I mistook a five for a three! Ha! I'm such a fucking retard!

Write me back when you get the money, my love. I can't wait to hear from you.

Let's see how she responds.

Older

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:38:00 +0000

Ships in the night

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 03:48:00 +0000

I received this from a Billy:

Hello Georgina,

I have received your e-mail requesting help. My name is Billy Ferguson, I am a business man from Scotland. I have read about your terrible plight and I am deeply moved. It is disgusting to hear that your uncles are mistreating you. What can I do to help?

Kind regards,
Billy

I responded:

Do I look like a Georgina, even one who has been cruelly mistreated by nefarious uncles who almost certainly possess eye patches and lecherous pugs?

Sir, you have made a terrible mistake. I demand satisfaction. You and I shall square off at noon tomorrow in Tianenmen Square. Our weapons will be chimpanzees, two black rubber dildos, or the perfectly preserved corpses of both Orson Welles and Jimmy Durante. Your choice.

We shall fight to either the death or the giggles, you perspicacious rapscallion in whose father's face I smear something indescribably foul!

He responded, to my utter shock:

Woops. I was replying to a mail from a Nigerian scammer. I lifted your mail (seems to have mailed you too) instead of his. I was hoping to waste his time rather than yours though your challenge for a duel sounds entertaining, I'll go with the corpses.

Wow. I responded:

They always do. They always do.

Hey, do you want to bait together? I can be your Inuit brother-husband, Cthulhu-cultist pastor, the lad dolla-chopping you, etc.

If you like, I'll throw some your way. I'm working on a trick I call Accidentally Forwarded Emails. The idea being that you forward the lad's email to another character who then gets somehow involved in the transaction. An exchange develops, and at some point you reply to this second character "accidentally" cc'ing it to the lad. Now there's a fine sub-plot, you double his work-load, double the opportunity for confusion, etc.

Here's hoping to ruin some profits together.

The Alphabet Serial Song

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:34:00 +0000

I won the webmaster lotto!

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 09:11:00 +0000

Proof:

Juliet, Oh Juliet

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 08:13:00 +0000

I got this average refugee-orphan-with-a-ton-of-money scam letter:

Hello,

Thanks for your email and the acceptance to assist me. I want you to help me retrieve the money from the bank where it been deposited by my late father for investment purpose, the procedure is that you have to contact the them to initiate the process.

Your full name / address: ............................

Identity card/Passport:................................

Age/Marital statue:...................................

Telephone number:......................................

Occupation:............................................

country................................................

As soon as this information are received, I will forward all the information of the bank to establish contact with them to start the process.

Awaiting to hearing from you soonest.

Best regard,
Juliet

I enthusiastically responded:

Your full name / address: ............................Tom D3lays, 11 Via Verde, Achewood, CA, 90714 USA

Identity card/Passport:................................984982424

Age/Marital statue:...................................36 single

Telephone number:......................................1-757-484-9987

Occupation:............................................lounge singer

country................................................USA

religion....................................................satanist

favorite color.............................................ice cream

favorite food.................................................black

dog's name....................................................Fernando Smellybottoms

Mother's name................................................Brucella Christina Donaldson-Higgensworth

Mother's SSN..................................................867-53-0900

Father's fetish....................................................diapers

Baby daddy........................................................NO

Microwave-owner................................................yes

Boss name........................................................Alexander Graham Bellbottoms

Boss's wife's mole................................................inner left thigh

Favorite singer........................................................Ted Bundy

Favorite serial killer...................................................Dick Clark

Least favorite person..................................................muhatma gandhi

Favorite person.......................................................... Marcellus Wallace

looks like a bitch..........................................................NO

Catchphrase................................................................."gosh-darned cunt"

MTCN............................................................................4759128790

Religious Widow response

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 08:09:00 +0000

I sent the following in response to a normal "I'm a religious widow who needs you, a random email address, to distribute millions of dollars toward charities". I haven't gotten a response yet:

I am a Satanist. I hope this does not affect your decisions.

I simply believe that this world is designed to make humans suffer and
inflict suffering on other humans, in a neverending cat and mouse game
which in even the best of times can be characterized by the sadism of
a young child pouring salt on slugs.

I simply believe with my utmost fiber that every human who has ever
lived ought to have been strangled at birth. This is my faith, and it
has served me well.

I believe there is no God, no good, no decency, no such thing as
Canada. I believe my life is measured only by the number of orphans I
create. I believe Santa Claus is an imaginary pedophile, and I salute
his work ethic.

I believe you will vanish into utter oblivion once you die, and I
would pay good money to have sex with your corpse.

Oh, I also believe that I am just the right man for your job. I am
positively erect with eagerness to distribute your money. Oh, I will
distribute the fuck out of it.

Yours in eternal nothingness and random perturbations of chaos,
Ramses Smuckles

End of Everyman Attempt 1

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:11:00 +0000

This whole social life thing makes me really busy. I want to make it clear. Reason is not sleepiness. So I'm back monophasic again but this doesn't mean that I will abandon my blog. Acutally I will only write "information" from now on.

This is not the end. I'm planning on a different schedule but this is not the time.

I'm thinking about doing it again. We'll see at 2012 Summer.

Day 8 - First Big Oversleep

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:50:00 +0000

I missed my second (8:00 PM) nap and at my core sleep I slept until 10 AM.

Mental: 8
Physical : 9
Social: 10
Alertness: 8
Will: 8 - I feel like I'm back at beginning
Hours slept: 7 hours 50 minutes.

Day 7 - Sleepy

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:53:00 +0000

I'm feeling very sleepy at the moment. Everyman kinda sucks. When you can become uberman why become everyman? I'm afraid I have to go with everyman.

Mental: 8
Physical: 9
Social: 9
Alertness: 6
Will: 9
Hours slept:5 hours 10 minutes

Sorry guys!

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:57:00 +0000

Sorry guys I couldn't update my blog past 3 days. I even hardly come to my house let alone blogging. Past 3 days were routine. Hours I slept:

day 4: 5 hours
day 5: 6 hours 20 minutes
day 6:5 hours 10 minutes

Also I'm feeling pretty awake and well. I know that difficult days are still ahead of me.

I will try to update my blog from day to day. Not every 2-3 days.

Day 2 and 3

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:41:00 +0000

Day 2
I slept for an extra hour and woke up because of the noise outside. I couldn't sleep at my first nap but the second one gone as planned. I was really sleepy when I woke up but I felt better around the midday.

Mental: 9
Physical: 10
Social: 10 - Everyman is very flexible
Alertness: 7 - just like yesterday

Day 3
Day 3 is this day. I just woke up and I'm feeling very sleepy. I hope I'll get better quickly.

Mental: 8
Physical: 10
Social: 10
Alertness: 6

Day 1 - Good Start

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:44:00 +0000

Day one gone as planned. I didn't miss any naps. I woke up from my core sleep easily. Napping was difficult. I was at the border of sleeping but I couldn't fall asleep. I drunk 2 beers but I'm not really feeling drunk. Another great thing about everyman is that if you drink too much it doesn't really matter since you will have a core sleep. I will try vodka in two days. I hope that won't be a problem.

Mental: 10
Physical: 10
Social: 10
Alertness: 7 - I'm not really sleepy but I feel like I'm ready to sleep whenever I lie down
Will: 10
Total hours slept. 4 hours 50 minutes. Perfect day.

Everyman Schedule

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:38:00 +0000

My new everyman schedule is this:

schedule2
2:00AM-6:30AM core 4.5 hours
<6>
12:00PM-12:20PM 20
<8>
8:00PM-8:20PM 20
<6>
total:5 hours

Sleeping for 20 minutes and getting up is easy but sleeping for 4.5 hours and getting up is difficult. I don't have enough alarm clocks (Actually I have only one and it's very quiet) so it may be bit difficult.

End of Uberman Attempt 1

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:59:00 +0000

I'm bringing and end to my first uberman attempt. I will try everyman from now on. The reasons are

-It's almost impossible to balance your life if you are a social person
-I can't fix my oversleeping problem. Maybe this will help
-Other personal issues

This attempt was not a waste. I learned a big deal about polyphasic sleep. I managed not to sleep more than 7 hours a day and it's a big feat for me. Since I sleep for 10-12 hours a day. Now it's time for everyman. I'm thinking about starting my Uberman attempt 2 around the end of Summer.

I will post my schedule next day. I'm still thinking about it.

Day 14

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:35:00 +0000

Everything is okay. I didn't oversleep and didn't miss any of my nap. Except for 8:40 8:40 PM nap.

Mental: 9
Physical: 9
Social: 7
Alertness: 7
Will: 9
Hours Slept: 1 hour and 40 minutes. Actually I don't sleep right after I start sleeping but I write every nap as 20 minutes.

Day 12

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:53:00 +0000

This must be end of 12. day. I couldn't write about other days. I don't really like writing these days. Writing information is better for me. Past days were pretty routine. I will write information mostly from now on.

Day 10 - 3.5 hours slept (missed some naps and overslept
Day 11 - 2 hours (missed some naps and overslept)
Day 12 - 1 hour (didn't overslept missed some)

I miss naps because I can't fall asleep.

Day 8 and Day 9

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:56:00 +0000

Day 8
2.5 hours of oversleep at 12:40 AM nap. Other than that it's perfect. I still have difficulty at falling asleep though

Mental: 10
Physical: 10
Social: 8
Alertness: 9
Will: 7 - I'm not making any progress.
Hours slept: 3 hours - I slept well on 3. nap and I think I slept a bit at my 4. nap.

Day 9
2 hours of overlseep at 8:40 AM nap. slept 30 minutes at 4:40 PM. I couldn't sleep other naps

Mental: 9
Physical: 10 - it was a tiring day and I'm not even tired
Social: 8
Alertness:8
Will:8
Hours slept: 2.5 hours

Day 7 - End of Week

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:47:00 +0000

My second biggest oversleep. I slept at my chair and overslept at my 4:40 AM nap and woke up at 7 AM. I couldn't fall asleep at other naps (I tried sleeping on a chair). Also I tried sleeping on a bed to fall asleep easily and overslept at 8:40 PM and woke up at 12:30 AM. So I slept for 6 hours and 10 minutes. That's not my longest. But when I was monophasic I was sleeping for like 12 hours so this isn't that big to me.

It's end of the week. Let's take a look.

As you can see whenever I slept a good ammount of hours (2 hours) I always oversleep next day. To avoid this I will be more careful when I sleep well. This week was like preparation period. I will reduce my oversleeps next week. Wish me luck!

Mental: 10 - Sleepy but I can read books easily. I got a lot of reading done these days
Physical: 10
Social: 7
Alertness: [6 after first nap] [9 after last nap]
Will: 8
Total hours slept: 6 hours 10 minutes.

Day 5 and Day 6

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:03:00 +0000

Day 5
I couldn't fall asleep at first naps but I wasn't feeling tired too. Everything was fine until last nap. I slept from 12:40 AM to 2 AM. When I woke up I felt really groggy.

Mental performance: 7
Physical performance: 10
Social performance: 9
Alertness: 6
Will: 8
Total hours slept: 3 hours 10 minutes

Day 6
My day started fantastic. At my 8:40-9:00 nap I actually saw a dream. That means ... REM sleep!. I couldn't sleep at my 2. 3. and 4. nap. I don't know if I slept at my 5. nap. See, if you don't have the REM sleep it's very difficult to rembember if you slept or not. It's like microsleeps. But that morning nap was great. Dream was very vivid and strange I still laugh whenever I rembember it. It was about to turn into a lucid dream. At the last nap I slept for an extra hour. I always oversleep at the last nap. Also until the last nap I felt really sleepy. My alertness hit 4 (If you need to know the number) and I was like "aaah there are only 17 minutes left". My eyes were tired so much, I wanted to sew my eyes shut. I was too sleepy to go to chair I ended up sleeping at my long sofa.

But that sleepy and groggy feeling I got after my last nap means I'm adapting. Didn't make any sense? When you are monophasic if you take short naps like 20 minutes you won't even feel the sense of sleeping. You might be refreshed a little bit if you managed to sleep. But when you are polyphasic if you sleep for long hours you will feel groggy and much more sleepy. Whenever I slept for 1 hour or more than 1 hour I felt better. But now I feel awful.

Mental performance: 10 (after last nap 6)
Physical performance: 10 (after last nap 8)
Social performance: 7 - I have a reputation for weirdness
Alertness: 10 (after last nap 4)
Will: 8
Total hours slept: 2 hours 40 minutes

About that social performance thingy. Now people around me started hearing about what I do. Most of them know one thing about sleeping and it's wrong. "WE NED 2 SLEEP 8 HOURS EACH DAI. THAZ WUT SCIENCE SEZ" So it's a pain in the ass the explain all this. I start explaning from zero and at the end of it I get the "GTFH and get some sleep" look.

A six-year study of more than one million adults ages 30 to 102 has shown that people who get only 6 to 7 hours a night have a lower death rate. Individuals who sleep 8 hours or more, or less than 4 hours a night, were shown to have a significantly increased death rate compared to those who averaged 6 to 7 hours.
Stole this one from here

Sleep less, live longer? Sleep is full of mysteries.

Day 4 - Fatality

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:57:00 +0000

I slept on my comfy chair at 1:40 and rolled into my bed which is quite far away from my chair and slept until 7:15. Not much to say I guess.

Mental: 10
Physical: 10
Social: 7 - Oversleeping makes me angry
Alertness: 10
Will: 9 - I have 2.5 months to succeed. I will do it one way or another.
Total hours slept: 6 hours 45 minutes

I guess it's time to tell the way I sleep monophasicly.
When I was monophasic I slept for 10 hours each day. If I have an exam I sleep for 7 hours and take a nap at class. I take naps if we don't have any lessons. If we have I just microsleep until the day is over. At weekends I sleep for 12 hours. To change this weekend-laziness, I tried sleeping at 12 and didn't set any alarms to see if I was going to wake up early myself. It didn't work. It doesn't matter when I sleep. I slept at 12 AM and get up at 12 PM. I slept at 3 AM and get up at 1 PM. I slept at 5 AM and get up at 2 PM. I sleep for 12 hours at weekends because I don't want to leave a warm, comfy bed and throw myself into cold, ruthless world. Sometimes I just be like "Oh shit, another boring, monotous and stressful day is starting. I better wait in my bed until this is over" I cover all my body and my head with blanket and draw the curtain. But I'm not in depression. These are just my low-days. In my high-days I go out and live the life. But I had a lot of low-days past months. I had so much things to do I was multi-tasking like crazy.

And now I'm sick of it. I'm sick of spending an hour or two in the bed to fall asleep. I'm sick of waking up at the midday. I'm sick of feeling sleepy at day and feeling energetic at night. I'm fucking sick of my delayed sleep phase syndrome shit. If this doesn't work I'm gonna take sleeping pills or something. I said my will is 9, but it's 10 now. I'm declaring war on my brain.

Day 3 - Oversleeping

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:37:00 +0000

I couldn't sleep at my 1. 2. and 3. nap. I slept at my 4. and 5. nap. Overslept on my 6. nap for 2 hours. I can't find a way to avoid oversleeping. I don't even rembember touching my clock. I set it off unconciously and go on sleeping. Sleeping on chair didn't help much. I don't know what I'm gonna do...

Mental performance: 9 - maybe a bit bad
Physical performance: 10 - did lotsa tiring stuff today. I don't even feel tired.
Social performance: 9
Alertness: 8 - I could say it was high until 4. nap. After the last nap I felt very groggy
Will: 8 - I can't find a way to avoid oversleeping
Total hours slept: 2 hours 40 minutes.

Zzz Spotlight: Alter Ego

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:58:35 +0000

And another polyphasic blogger contacted me to contribute to the Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping news feed (see correspondence below).

Check out Alter Ego’s “Nocturnal Effect” blog here:
http://nocturnaleffect.blogspot.com/

Correspondence with Alter Ego

From: Alter Ego
Date: 2010/6/22
Subject: About the feed
To: jorel314@gmail.com

Hey, It’s Alter Ego

I’d like to see my posts at the polyphasic news feed. We, bloggers, need to get the information about the polyphasic sleeping out there as best as we can. There are so many people who even doesn’t know what “REM sleep” means. This is what I’m trying to do with my blog. Providing information about it. I mostly try to provide information rather than telling what I do.

http://nocturnaleffect.blogspot.com/

Thanks…

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- Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping (feed)

Tagged: Alter Ego, polyphasic, sleep

Zzz Spotlight: Tom

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:53:04 +0000

Got word from another polyphasic blogger that would like to contribute to the Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping news feed (see correspondence below).

Check out Tom’s “grizzlyboom: a journal of a polynapping fledgling lojbanist” blog here:
http://grizzlyboom.blogspot.com

Correspondence with Tom

From: Tom
Date: Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:11 PM
Subject: I’m a polyphasic sleep blogger
To: jorel314@gmail.com

This is day 7 of my first polyphasic sleep experiment. I’m blogging
about it at http://grizzlyboom.blogspot.com

I’d like to be added to the feed and wiki.

By the way, in my post
http://grizzlyboom.blogspot.com/2010/06/light-anomie-brainfart-on-polyphasic.html
I throw around the idea of creating a karma-based, collaborative
LessWrong-style polyphasic community site with a “bug” database for
easily pinpointing problem spots.

If I set it up, do you think polyphasers would be interested in it?

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- Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping (feed)

Tagged: polyphasic, sleep, tom

April, May, and June 2010 Polyphasic Bloggers

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:14:56 +0000

cc photo by Miles Davis

The following have been added to the list of current polyphasic bloggers.

- “grizzlyboom: a journal of a polynapping fledgling lojbanist” by Tom
- “Nocturnal Effect” by Alter Ego
- “Contemplation” by akshatrathi294 (long term)
- “Polyphasiac University” by rhtkc
- “Steel Willpower” by SteelSovereignty
- “Uberman Sleeptracker” by Joseph Dowdy
- “The Unending Fortress” by AnOctopus
- “In a state of thixotropy” by Lee Olesky
- “all about energy healing” by odinkirk
- “Reflections of the Cosmic Mirror” by PathRhino
- “Life in the Ages” by dontremb
- “Unexpected Observations” by AnotherSuggestion
- “Conecuh Software“
- “High Existence” by Jordan Lejuwaan
- “Untrained and Derailed” by Jose
- “VAL1ant” by VAL
- “waycoolnick’s Journal by waycoolnick

The following have been removed from the list.

- “A Polyphasic Lifestyle” by Aximilation (long term)
- “Sarah McCulloch.com” by Sarah McCulloch
- “Sleeping Less Than Recommended.” by James Pain (long term)
- “hatten” by hatten (long term)
- “lavalamp’s sleep diary” (long term)
- “Dan’s Polyphasic Blog: Everyman-in-Training” by Dan Froese (long term)
- “Rich Frog” by Jordan Curzon (long term)
- “dancePROOF” by Arsène Hodali (long term)
- “Polyphasic Sleep Blog” by Marc Beneteau (long term)
- “Mental Crud” by Maharaba Tenneb
- “Übermensch” by Rasmus
- “Jorgen’s Blog” by Jorgen S Hookham
- “The world according to an Angel” by JP Russell
- “Head Full Of Lightning” by Craig New
- “We press on!” by Ashwing
- “Polywood” by prilozadav

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- Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping (feed)

Tagged: polyphasic, sleep

Day 2 - Getting Better

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:07:00 +0000

I couldn't sleep for first 3 naps. But I think slept at 3. nap (8:40). Also at the 4. and 5. But it's not really clear. At the last nap I slept for 2 hours.

I tried this "Isochronic Tones" thingy today. At my 3. 4. and 5. nap I think that's what helped me get up. First I listened to a tone named "Sleep" after that "Adreline Rush" and I think "Adreline Rush" really did wake me up.

http://www.iso-tones.com/tones.html

Summary
Mental performance: 9 - I was confused after my last nap. I'm feeling groggy now.
Physical performance: 8 - got tired easily this morning when I was walking.
Social performance: 10
Alertness: 6 - Very groggy and sleepy
Will: 10 - My overslept only left me wanting to fight more.
Total hours slept: 2.5

I will start sleeping on chairs now. Since I'm sleepy falling asleep isn't really a problem.

Beating Sleep Deprivation

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:40:00 +0000

Sleep deprivation can have serious effects on your health.

-Impaired moral judgement
-Memory loss
-Tremors and aches
-Impaired immune system
-Hallucinations

Dealing with sleep deprivation is really difficult. I never overslept consciously. Some of the things I do to deal with sleep deprivation:

-Don't wear comfy clothings. Wear tight jeans or something like that.
-If you are standing in a room and if there is a bed inside there, get out of there. You will "lie down a bit" and sleep eventually
-Drink water
-Take a cold shower
-Don't read a book. You will fall asleep quickly. That happened a lot to me.
-Listen to metal music or anything that makes a lot of noise.
-Drink caffeinated drinks

But the best things to do when you are in zombie-mod are these:
-Jogging. This really helps. Go outside and take a walk when you get up from your nap. Be careful, when you are in the zombie-mod you sometimes forget what were you doing

-Let's assume something happened and you are stuck in a room. If there is TV watch it but don't watch it like stupid. Think about everything you see. Watch commercials and find their flaws.

-Think about everything. Play games that require attention. Count how many steps does it take to the bathroom.

-Shout. That helps a lot. Look at the mirror and scream. That may sound a bit hardcore but you are trying to be polyphasic. Nothing is hardcore after that. If you are sick of adapdation period you can shout like "THIS [bleep]ING SYSTEM DOESN'T WORK" You will feel better.

Day 1 - Bad Start

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:47:00 +0000

There we go. Before I start this is how I'm going to keep writing. First a journalish nonsense that probably you won't care about

My first day. I had to sleep 2 hours but I slept for 3.5 hours. I guess I need more noisy alarm clocks. Oversleeping on my first nap. It sucks but it's not really a big hole in my indestructible iron will. The reason was my first oversleep was "just 5 more minutes". But I gotta act like I have an iron will if you know what I mean. On the other hand I don't feel sleepy. Also on my second nap, my eyelids were closing and I couldn't stop it. I had to keep my eyelids open using my hands. This lasted for like 5-10 minutes. At the final (sixth) nap I felt awesome.

And just a brief part about my day in general.

Summary
Mental performance: 10 - same as monophasic
Physical performance: 10 - same as monophasic
Social performance: 10 - same as monophasic
Alertness: 9 - Maybe a little sleepy
Will: 10 - Bring it on!
Total hours slept: 3.5 hours

I guest that doesn't need any explanation. But I'll tell them about too
Mental performance inculdes things like reading, creativity, learning
Physical performance is about activites like jogging, swimming, fine motor skills
Alertness means how awake I am. Don't confuse it with physical. If physical is high but alertness is low it means I could jog but if I stop I just sleep very quickly.
Will speaks for itself. If it's zero it means I'm giving up or changing schedule.

Tips and Facts

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:55:00 +0000

Some interesting facts on polyphasic sleep and useful hints about adapting

1. Food clock

You know what circadian rhythm means. It's roughly 24 hour cycle which goes like this. Well, there is also a "food clock". I will skip the science stuff and enlighten you with the fact that if you do a fasting for 16 hours your food clock will reset. Which means you will start waking at the time when you had your breakfast.

if you want to start waking up at 2:00 am, you should start fasting between 10:00 am or 2:00 pm the previous day, and don't break your fast until you wake up at 2:00 am. Make sure you eat a nice healthy meal to jumpstart your system.

So, if you are having trouble staying awake in the morning or night. Just change your clock. Works good for jetlag too.

2. Sleeping on a chair
Oversleeping is the worst nightmare of every polyphasic sleeper at the adaptation period. Nobody wants to leave a comfy bed and face with the real life out there. This is why most polyphasic sleepers sleep on chairs or on the floor. If you have just started your polyphasic quest it will be difficul to fall asleep on a chair. But if you are at the zombie-mode you will fall asleep while you are standing up anyway so just find a chair and sleep there. Who needs beds when you are polyphasic right?

3. Classical conditioning
Your subconcious mind is your enemy. To beat your enemy you must practice. When you get up from your 20 minute nap, going all "I'm very self-disciplined! I will use my will and make my mind conscious instantly" won't really help you. Hitting that snooze button and sleeping for "5 more minutes" is what most of us do. Practice getting up from your naps. Go take a nap. You don't have to sleep just think you are asleep for 20 minutes and just daydream. Believe it or not, doing that at the preparation period will help you a lot. If you are thinking I'm crazy, Behold. Using isochronic tones will help your chances with avoiding oversleeping. The idea is, you start listening to certain "tone" that will make you sleepy for 20 minutes. You nap while listening to that. After 20 minutes you switch to another tone which will make you alert. What is a isochronic tone? I guess you can call that a "brainwave entrainment" you can mess with your brain using isochronic tones. You can find a huge list here

Dymaxion and Everyman

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:34:00 +0000

Dymaxion is one of the most difficult schedules. First person who succeeded at this schedule was Buckminster Fuller. He slept for 30 minutes every 6 hours. That's how dymaxion works. Eventually he had to quit. Suprisingly the reason of becoming monophasic again wasn't sleep deprivation. The reason was peer pressure. Usually the reason of quitting is social problems. It's hard to become polyphasic in this monophasic world. Anyway, back to topic. After that most people who tried dymaxion failed. People who tried it and Uberman both, said that Dymaxion is far more difficult than Uberman. Myself, I think dymaxion is very difficult to succeed. 30 minute naps are less likely to suit you than 20 minute naps. 6 hours of gap between naps are difficult to endure. One other thing; I said Uberman isn't flexible and you will feel like shit if you miss a nap. Dymaxion is even worse. If you miss a nap you won't feel like shit. You will feel like bullshit (or holy shit) Don't be scared if you were planning on Dymaxion. Fuller did it for 2 years. So you might be able to do it too.

Everyman has got, as you can see, a 'core' sleep. It's like normal sleep just a bit shorter. Everyman is kinda like Siesta but more complicated. Everyman is very flexible. It's so flexible you can set it however you like. It is considered as "less hardcore than others" You won't feel very zombie-like at the adaptation period but it will take more time to feel alert like monophasic people. Uberman takes around 2-4 weeks but it is very difficult to adapt. If you can't handle Uberman but got a lot of free time everyman is better. Now, about the flexibility: I know a guy who experimented with some everyman schedules. He said that the best schedule he had was 4x20+1x170. That means you have 4 naps 20 minutes each and you have a core sleep for 170 minutes. Sometimes people make it 2 core sleeps and 2 naps. I came across a schedule where you have a core sleep for 4 hours and take only one nap. But if it works for someone that doesn't mean it will work for you too. As I said, everybody's system is different. You should create your own schedules and find the one that fits better your lifestyle. A word of advice, 15-20 minutes of naps are the best. If you make it like 30 it will be difficult. Not impossible, but difficult.

Introduction and Uberman

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:10:00 +0000

This part is for people who doesn't know much about polyphasic sleep.

So, let's forget the "we need 8 hours of sleep each day" crap. We need 1.5 hours of REM sleep. Other stages of sleep aren't really that important. But to get to the REM sleep first we need to go through these stages right? Wrong! We can just skip them. To skip them we just need to sleep polyphasic. Which means we need to take naps. Naps are usually 20 minute because that fits humans perfect somehow. Also "4 hours awake 20 minutes nap" schedule fits better. That is called Uberman (more like Übermensch)
An example of Uberman:
00:00 - 00:20
4:00 - 4:20
8:00 - 8:20
12:00 - 12:20
16:00 - 16:20
20:00 - 20:20

Uberman and monophasic (normal) :

You take 6 naps each day. 20 minutes per nap. That makes 120 minutes. But we need only 90 minutes. That 30 minutes isn't a waste. At the "adaptation period" going 90 minutes straightaway is pretty hardcore. You will use that 5 extra minutes to fall asleep. When you are over the hump you will be able to sleep almost anywhere. Your brain will set itself offline when the time is right and you won't need that 5 minute anymore. Some people cut that 5 minutes but some don't. 20 minutes fits perfectly I don't think that's not worth the risk. However, Leonardo Da Vinci slept for 15 minutes every 4 hours. But also, there is a volunteer who decided to follow Leonardo's footsteps. He didn't manage to perfectly adapt like him though. He only managed to sleep 30 minutes each nap. With 6 naps that makes 3 hours. As I said: "Some schedules will work for you, some will not." Everybody is different and everybody has a "perfect schedule"

Uberman sleep schedule isn't flexible. If you miss a nap you will feel like shit or maybe oversleep. Oversleeping is common during the "adapdation period" and it will definietly set you back. You have to get back on your feet and keep up the fight.

Okay, I told you the Uberman but there are some other schedules as well. I will only tell you the important ones. you can see them below.Ciao

Hi!

noreply@blogger.com (Alter Ego) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:23:00 +0000

This blog is about polyphasic sleep. It will be a little journal-ish but I just want to get the information out there. I will start in a week

This blog is for people who know at least something about polyphasic sleep/read a few blogs about polyphasic sleep/looking for more information about polyphasic sleep. I won't only tell my experience. It won't be only "I slept x minutes, I feel blah blah" I will provide you information about polyphasic sleep while telling my experience. Sleeping isn't easy like "We need 8 hours each day. End of the story." There are lots of things about sleep we don't know yet. Not everybody's sleeping system is the same. Some schedules will work for you, some will not. If it's not working for you it will work for someone else. If you don't know much about polyphasic sleep that's okay. I will start from basics to the brainy stuff. I'm not an expert on this topic myself anyway.

If you want to help... just comment. Reading comments from you will motivate me. Criticize, appraise, anything. Knowing that someone cares about this blog will make my quest easier.

Zzz Spotlight: James Pain

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:02:11 +0000

Woot! Another polyphasic blogger would like to contribute to the Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping news feed (see correspondence below).

James is on his third polyphasic sleep attempt. He is adapting to an everyman schedule. Check out his “Sleeping Less Than Recommended.” blog here:
http://www.polyphasic.raapidenterprises.com/

Correspondence with James

From: James Pain
Date: Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:56 PM
Subject: Polyphasic Feed.
To: jorel314@gmail.com

Hey Jorel,
This is Raap!d, who is the author of ‘Sleeping Less Than Recommended’. Just letting you know that I am back up being polyphasic again, and I would love to be hooked up to the polyphasic feed. Let me know if this is possible, I’d like to get the word out ASAP :D
Thanks a lot,
James Pain

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Zzz Spotlight: Sarah McCulloch

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:36:00 +0000

I just got word from another polyphasic blogger that would like to contribute to the Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping news feed (see correspondence below).

This is Sarah’s second time transitioning to polyphasic sleep. She was previously on an Uberman schedule for 8 months in 2009. Check out the blog here:
http://www.sarahmcculloch.com/blog/category/polyphasic/

Correspondence with Sarah

From: Sarah McCulloch
Date: Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:01 AM
Subject: Polyphasic blogger here
To: jorel314@gmail.com

Hello there,

I just found the polyphasic sleep wiki that you set up, which looks rather win. I have a personal blog at http://www.sarahmcculloch.com/blog/ where I have a category on my experiences with polyphasic sleeping here: http://www.sarahmcculloch.com/blog/category/polyphasic/

According to TryPolyphasic’s map, I’m the only polyphasic sleeper in Manchester, UK, which is unfortunate in a city of 2 million people, though 5 of my friends have tried and failed to go polyphasic. It would be cool if you could add me to your feed and the wiki. :)

Yours,

Sarah McCulloch

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It’s better than red bull: polyphasic sleeping and exams

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:14:37 +0000

Here’s a fact: I’ve never taken an exam at the University of Manchester while sleeping through the night. Here’s another: I’ve never slept more than an hour in the night before my exams and I’m averaging a 2:1. And another: I took only twenty minute naps every four hours for three consecutive days while writing a piece of coursework. My mark? 73. If you’re a student, polyphasic sleeping, or taking a series of naps over a period of time instead of sleeping for nine hour blocks at night, is pretty useful when you have assessments on.

There are several different styles of polyphasic sleeping, of which the two main ones are the Uberman and the Everyman. Uberman, where you sleep for twenty minutes every four hours round the clock, is the hardest schedule to maintain but with the greatest benefits. Everyman, where you take a “core sleep” from 2-5am and naps at 9am, 2pm and 9pm is easier to maintain but far less useful. All references to polyphasic sleeping in this article are to Uberman.

I first went polyphasic in January 2009, just in time for my first year January exams. I stayed largely polyphasic until July, switching to Everyman from June, but the pressures of an intensive summer school made it impossible. I then went back to polyphasic sleeping this January in order to support friends through the process, and have been doing it on and off ever since: I’m terrible at sticking to the schedule but I muddle through- but that’s another article. When it comes to exam-time though, I am as orthodox an polyphasic sleeper as there ever was. Why? Polyphasic sleeping lets you get your work done without having to deprive yourself of sleep (which may sound insane to people who don’t know what I mean: see here for how it works).

I did take some exams in Ireland while sleeping monophasically and scored 84, 80, and 48 (that last one due to severe burnout) – after allowing for the ability to score much higher in a language-based test as opposed to classic essay-style assessments, it seems there’s very little difference between using a monophasic or a polyphasic sleeping pattern as long as you use the time you have to do proper revision. I had a lot of time in Ireland, as I was doing nothing but studying one subject up to eight hours a day; when I have several exams and pieces of coursework due in the same week, being able to go down to my 24 hour library and literally work around the clock has been a massive asset.

Another advantage is that if you really can’t fit it all in, as I couldn’t in the June 2009 when one exam took up far more revision time than I was expecting, you can do what I call “crashvision”, or what other people call “learning everything the night before”. The major beneficial difference when you’re on a polyphasic sleeping schedule though, is that you can study throughout the night without feeling exhausted or as if you are fighting your own body for every second. I managed to achieve a 65 in my Ancient Israelites exam having begun my revision at 11pm the night before: I took my naps at 12am, 4am, 8am and 12pm and took the exam feeling shattered from concentration but remarkably awake for someone who’d been up all night buried in Megiddo and the Enuma Elis.

One thing that a lot of polyphasic sleepers and anti-polyphasic writers like to mention is that going polyphasic damages your memory recall for a month or two after you first adapt to it. What they mention much more rarely, however, is that although it takes longer to recall things, it is a lot easier to memorise them in the first place. Because of the amount of time I had to spend on my coursework, this semester’s exam revision had to be crammed into the day and night beforehand. I sat down and spent 12 solid hours looking up facts, writing down dates and quotations, and then memorised them all. I used 23 different quotations in my essay; some were indeed difficult to recall and took half a minute or so to come back to me, and I had to give up trying to remember one, but I got them all down: I scored a 75. Polyphasic for the win.

So if you want to take up polyphasic sleeping and fail miserably over longer periods of time than a few days, just before your exam period is the best time to try switching again. You have to break through the adaptation period beforehand, which usually lasts a week, to ensure you don’t fall asleep in the exams or during your revision, or ache so much you can’t face the thought of uni, but once you’re through it the thought of failing your exams should (one hopes) make it much easier to keep yourself going until you settle into a pattern.

Polyphasic sleeping can’t help you if you don’t revise at all, but it’s a pretty useful tool if you find lying comatose for nine hours just before your exams somewhat unappealing. Enjoy. :)

For more resources on polyphasic sleeping, check out the category at the bottom of this article or my collected writings on the subject here.

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January, February, and March 2010 Polyphasic Bloggers

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 09:36:32 +0000

cc photo by Quinn Dombrowski

The following have been added to the list of current polyphasic bloggers.

- “A Polyphasic Lifestyle” by Aximilation
- “Polyphasic Sleep Blog” by Marc Beneteau (long term)
- “Mental Crud” by Maharaba Tenneb
- “Übermensch” by Rasmus
- “Jorgen’s Blog” by Jorgen S Hookham
- “The world according to an Angel” by JP Russell
- “Unamusing Musings” by Rick Jones
- “Polyphasic Sleeping and Hypnosis” by therealwg
- “Head Full Of Lightning” by Craig New
- “We press on!” by Ashwing

The following have been removed from the list.

- “Nocturnology” by Pendulum
- “Keighsie’s er… livejournal.” by Keighsie (long term)
- “aeia” by Aya Hu (long term, video blog)
- “Contemplation” by Akshat Rathi (long term)
- “My Polyphasic Sleep Experiment” by Nate C (long term)
- “Sleep to Wake” by Xialuote (long term)
- “neurohack” by Sharif Olorin (long term)
- “Raven’s Rant” (long term)
- “Becoming an Architect.” by Matt Reynolds
- “PolyGraham” by Graham Austin
- “The Meatyard” by Dwielz Camauf Descartes
- “Joachim Schwarz . net” by Joachim Schwarz
- “Uberman Sleeptracker” by Joseph Dowdy
- “Deranged Altruism” by Ayden De Vries
- “q v d r . n e t“
- “I Fry Puppies” by The Fryer
- “Uberman Adaptation” by Vulfe
- “Nilbus Is Loquaciously Beginning Uberman Sleep” by Nilbus
- “Everyman For The Moon” by ragingmoon

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Polyphasic Sleeping Diary 2010: Part 2

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:56:33 +0000

In January 2nd of this year, I once again began the transition to polyphasic sleeping. Polyphasic sleeping is a sleeping pattern where you don’t sleep through the night in a block (monophasic sleeping) but take a series of naps throughout the day or night. There are a variety of polyphasic sleeping styles, from the Everyman, which is a block of three hours followed by three thirty minute naps during the day, to the Uberman schedule, which consists of six twenty minute naps spaced four hours apart.

I had previously lived on the Uberman schedule for eight months in 2009: you can read about those experiences, as well as more about the sleeping schedule itself, here. It has been an interesting learning experience going through transitioning to polyphasic sleeping a second time, and I feel that I have learnt many new things this time round.

Below is my diary from January 8th-January 24th. The first part can be read here. I stopped keeping a diary at this point because after a month your body has fully transitioned to the sleeping schedule and, while the psychological problems with being constantly awake continue, you do find that your body naturally starts wanting to fall asleep every four hours. It become harder to oversleep and when you do it happens for shorter periods of time than you would naturally sleep monophasically. That’s not so interesting to write about. :)

January 8th:

12:31am: 4pm and 8pm naps went fine. Looked at clock twice during midnight nap and feel fine. I’m guessing that’s the sleeping tablet-induced eight hours sleep then…

8:44am: Took 4am with some trepidation but got up fine, with some difficulty. For the 8am I made myself sleep with an arm outside the covers and slightly propped up on the pillow. I woke up by reaching out my arm and picking up my clock exactly as it began to go off, which was quite interesting. Just eaten, feel slightly sick and trembly. Stumbled down stairs, so sleep deprivation has kicked in.

8:24pm: 12pm went fine, 4pm I woke up from but have a vague memory of voluntarily going back to sleep and dozing in and out until half five. Got up to deal with guest polyphasic sleeper but decided to take another nap to try to clear the aching tiredness. Up ended turning off the alarm without realising and slept through until someone called me at half 7. 8pm nap, however, went as usual.

January 9th:

12am: Feared I would not wake up again, so I made sure to prop myself up with pillow and sleep with an arm above the duvet. Got up with some tiredness but felt quite well within fifteen minutes. Had drunk some irn bru and Jack Daniels beforehand, so particularly proud.

12pm: I woke up from my 4am feeling tired. I took a short acting-stimulant at one but not after, so the fact that I was able to sleep does suggest that it is possible to take them and stay on schedule. However, after the nap I was the only person in the house, so after I got up from my 4am and checked my email I went back to bed without setting an alarm. I woke up at 9am. Consequently do not feel fatigued but do feel tired – oversleeping seems good at the time…

January 10th:

12:40 am: One observation a flatmate just made is that a part of being asleep is the comfiness of the duvet, and that when you take it away, you become tempted to stay in bed and oversleep, not because you feel too tired to get up, but because of the comfiness of the duvet.

3:55pm: 4am nap overslept by 45 minutes. 8am I woke up fine, but due to absolute boredom I slept until 12:30pm. Was woken up twice and felt awake, so polyphasic has worked physically, but my lack of a laptop is taking its toll on my ability to motivate myself to stay awake. Buying a new one tomorrow.

10:12pm: Everyone was tired for the 8pm, so it would seem that we all overslept. I was out til 10 exactly. Ah dear.

January 11th:

12pm: Woke up from 4am nap fine, but due to my guest having fallen asleep in my bed next to me and not having a laptop to work on, I decided it would be easier to just sleep monophasically. Woke up several times but reached the same conclusion every time. Eventually got up at half ten. The thing about monophasic sleeping is that when you engage in it while polyphasic, it does feel just like a light switching off – you’re out and then you wake up ten hours later feeling as if no time has passed at all.

5:49pm: Took 4pm late as was out in town. Took it at about 4:45 instead. Noticing a definite increase in the desire to roll onto my front as opposed to lying on my side – this suggests I have now fully adapted physically to polyphasic sleeping. Mentally I have some way to go.

January 12th:

Woke up at 11am after taking the 8am nap. This was particularly interesting because neither me nor my guest at the time had felt particularly tired. We lay down fully expecting to get up again and just didn’t. I have experienced this before which suggests something of a secondary phase of adaptation, where your body has physically adjusted but there’s still something going on to make you oversleep. Because I have no memory of switching the alarm off, I cannot say what this is. Naps have otherwise gone fine today, and have felt myself relax into REM sleep at will, which is good. I am going to stop monitoring every nap now.

January 13th:

Had coursework to do. Procrastinated by sleeping from 1 til 9. I am a bad person. And it’s still there… Also took every nap today late because I was working too hard on other stuff. I can feel my body rebelling as a consequence. 8pm nap was highly restful, not sure why. Boredom is definitely a major part of the battle to avoid sleeping – if someone wants to go polyphasic they really need to think up a variety of tasks that don’t involve computers, tvs or reading, cos you eyes just hurt after a while and your brains turn to mush.

January 14:

Out from 1 til 5. My bad. Boredom again. Otherwise naps kept absolutely fine, do not feel tired. Amazing.

January 15:

I’m pretty sure the willpower required to get through the night is never going to be there when the alternative is coursework. On the other hand, planning to take my naps in the library tonight. Oversleeping impossible.

January 16:

Stopped keeping diary. Polyphasic now.

January 18th: Woke up at 11am. Had an essay due. Electricity went out in my house so I decamped to the library with caffeine, clock and dinner. Now 12pm and I have not overslept. Yay!

9:33pm: Woke up disoriented as fuck for the 8pm – but on time. 8 naps. Excellent. Feeling slightly fatigued though, but will be heading to the library in a bit.

January 19th:

One other thing I’ve been doing when I get tired is to just sit myself comfortably and not move for a while to allow myself to physically relax. One of the consequences of being awake 22 hours a day is that you end up feeling really quite creaky. It also provides a useful demarcation between activities so you don’t feel like you’re just experiencing endless time and everything is bleeding into each other.

January 20th:

Well, that was an adventure. Discovered that sleeping in chairs produced same quality of sleep but made it impossible to oversleep. Successfully spent 3 days and I think 17 naps consecutively awake, feeling mostly fine (though powered on caffeine for the very early hours of the morning so I could get my coursework done). Took a trip to London to attended a training day on the 19th, the first all day thing since I went polyphasic. Took 8am on the train no problem, the 12pm was delayed until after lunch and was taken sitting on a sofa in a hallway at the venue: good quality sleep. The 4pm had to be crammed into an access break and consequently only lasted ten minutes, which left me feeling a bit rough. As a result, I was typing up notes that eveing at about 7pm on the train, and my body just started to start down. No kidding, my vision started to darken and my muscles started relaxing. I realised something was wrong when I looked at what I had just typed and I’d written “”powder enflamed mad guy com then I counted how many hapennies did we eah on has i’ sure but it all happens at 58 this week, :)” Put myself down for a twenty minute nap at 7:30pm and then when I woke up reset the clock for another twenty minutes for my 8pm. However, woke up three minutes before the alarm was due to go off in utter confusion unable to work out what I was doing. Took a few minutes to clear.

Streak ended when I ate a very heavy meaty meal just before the midnight nap yesterday and, although I made it through it fine, felt sufficiently ill and disinclined to stay awake with the looming prospect of coursework that I went to sleep in my bed at 1am with the intention of getting up at 7am. I actually got up at 1pm today. I have no memory whatsoever of the alarm at 7am, but I was awake at 9am. Set alarm to take a monophasic nap and get up several times, but each time either fell asleep or felt so warm and cosy I couldn’t up.

Lessons learned:

1. I do not want to consume meat anymore because of the way it makes me feel.
2. After 3 days wake, trying to set an alarm when sleeping monophasically is pointless. Just leave a day.
3. Beds have never, ever felt quite so comfortable once you’ve given up sleep. I was lying on a particularly squishy sofa at the training day and felt almost joyful sitting on it, it was that nice.
4. You do not feel rested even when naturally waking from monophasic sleep. I felt tired, drowsy and like I just wanted to go straight back to sleep again. It would be interesting to see just how long I could sleep for if I were to just stay in bed as long as I felt like it.

I now have so much stuff that has piled up while I fucked around this month that I can’t afford to sleep until about the 31st of January. That will be a challenge.

January 21st:

Room in which I was sitting got very cold, and suggested it would be difficult to sleep (hard to sleep when your body’s shaking). Ended up sitting up in bed wrapped in my duvet. Fell asleep polyphasically, if deeply, but could see the risk of having a nice warm bed to snuggle down in.

January 22nd:

It’s 12:29am and I have drunk only a few mouthfuls of energy drink, and feel mostly fine. Have an incident at the 8pm nap where I was woken early by feeling too hot and felt constantly confused until I sat down to go to sleep again. That nap was interrupted by a flatmate but otherwise passed peacefully and I felt much better.

6am: Aha! Oversleeping happened. Took an extra two hours that I didn’t know took while sitting in my chair. Discovered that Firefox’s sounds had cut out again and my alarm had never gone off. Desperately tired.

An interesting thing I have noticed recently is that because all my muscles relax when entering REM sleep, my jaw does so as well and I end up sleeping with an extremely slack jaw, which is a very odd feeling.

January 23:

Chose to oversleep last night, as coursework was in and I felt like relaxing. Didn’t set the alarm and slept from 3am until 11am. Stayed in bed until 3pm. Interestingly, no fatigue at any point. I went to sleep feeling wide awake, and woke up feeling wide awake. I just stayed cos of the comfy – sleeping in a bed tends to make one want to go back to sleeping in a bed. Highly addictive would probably be the best way to describe it.

January 24:

Took my nap half an hour later than usual. Seems to be okay up to half an hour. Thirty five minutes off and then you get progressively more and more tired after that.

More on my experiences of polyphasic sleeping here.

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Going Polyphasic: 15 useful hints and tips

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:10:26 +0000

I’ve had to break myself into polyphasic sleeping three times now. It definitely gets a lot easier every time. But the first time is an absolute nightmare. Here’s some helpful tips that you may find useful if you also would like to go polyphasic.

1) Be determined. It takes a week to adapt to Uberman before you don’t want to curl up and die. Comfort yourself with the amount you’re going to get done, the euphoria you’re going to feel, and the fact that if you stick to it, even if you go monophasic at some point, you’re never going to suffer from sleeping disorders again. None of this is guaranteed, but seems to happen to most people and certainly happened to me.

2) Make a very, very long list of things that you need to do. If you’re a pretty organised person on top of things, include frivolous things that you’ve thought would be nice but never really had the time nor inclination for. I know we all have things we mean to do but don’t get round to, but those lists probably don’t include things like “Clean every wall in the house.” Make sure you include things that don’t require that much concentration, for when your brain feels like total mush.

3) I would suggest you will probably not be wanting to use the beds for the night naps, or at least not in any way that is familiar or sleep-inducing (so, napping on top of the covers on your side rather than cuddled up in the duvet). I find my most productives naps are taken in a comfy reclining chair.

4) You probably shouldn’t cycle, drive, or conduct crucial tasks that require fine motor control or a fully functioning memory for a week. I ad to have my coursework spell-checked before I handed it in.

5) Plot ways you can actively relax without falling asleep. This is something I definitely have had trouble with. There is only so much television you can watch before your eyes get tired, and when you’re out the adaptation period you will be spending a great deal of time alone and wide awake at 3am.

6) You will not be able to take drugs for the first thirty days, or at least, drugs which will interfere with your sleeping schedule. However, afterwards are largely uncharted waters, and I would be very interesting in hearing from anyone who has used drugs on a polyphasic sleeping schedule that they’ve maintained. This is well worth further research – the brain scan results of taking an REM-only polyphasic nap and LSD, for example, would be hugely interesting.

7) Expect to need to eat more than usual to compensate for being awake an extra eight hours a day. So make sure you’re monitoring your eating patterns.

8) Suggestions for interesting activities to stay awake include board games, fingerpainting your vision, jamming, sex, banner-painting, jigsaws, and other things that require non-intensive movement. You will be taking more exercise than your body is used to and not giving it its usual mechanisms for rest, so you will feel achy, exhausted and miserable sporadically and frequently.

9) You may wish to create a schedule that lists regular activities for you to default to. Pure Doxyk writes “Follow a schedule. Sometimes you just get sick of thinking of the next thing to do – I know I do. Building a schedule, either for your entire day or just for the times you tend to get bored, can be an easy way out in that case.” If you cannot think of anything to do, you will default to either sleeping or drug use, both of which are counter-productive to our aims.

10) If you can hack it, you will need to look at your timetable and work out when you’re going to be regularly out the house and suss an alternative sleeping place. Be prepared to sleep anywhere – once you are polyphasic you can induce a nap by closing your eyes virtually anywhere, including sitting cross-legged and slumped on a toilet. You probably won’t get as good sleep as on a bed but it should tide you over. Be prepared to be undignified.

11) Circumstances in which you should give up at least temporarily: if you become ill with something more than a sniffle or sore throat, if you have a heavy drug session, if you are going on an all-day action, if you are having an emergency, if you are having a deeply meaningful bonding session with someone, if you are going to get yourself labelled as terminally weird by the people you are with and this would adversely affect your career/ambitions.

12) If you’ve fucked up and fallen asleep for longer than twenty minutes, when you do wake up get back on schedule immediately, however awake you are. You need to keep the habit.

13) You’re going to need a countdown alarm. Mine came from Amazon but has now been discontinued, but I would suggest something like a Salter kitchen timer here.

14) If you have any specific tasks that you peg to your monophasic sleeping pattern, say brushing your teeth before going to bed, or masturbating in the morning or something, pick a specific time and frequency to do it in – day, night and days of the week aren’t going to mean very much to you…

15) You should obviously also go read everything on polyphasic sleeping. (Wikipedia has links to most of the polyphasics out there). You may wish to practice sleep conditioning to make sure you can get up immediately: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/how-to-get-up-right-away-when-your-alarm-goes-off/. I think the way people nap is different to each other from what I’ve read, so I won’t give any specific advice on how you should do it, but I find lying down in a comfortable position but one that I can’t normally sleep in stops me from dropping off monophasically. I also found that I stayed conscious even when I was asleep and could actually feel the physical and mental shift from waking to REM sleep, so I learnt to “breathe myself down” into REM. You should learnt to master this for when you don’t want to sleep but need to (12pm naps are easy to skip…)

You can also check out my other resources on polyphasic sleeping.

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Polyphasic Sleeping Diary 2010: Week 1

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:39:48 +0000

Below is my diary for the first seven days. As you can guess from the dates, I have only posted the first part of my diary. Further parts will be posted in due course.

January 2nd:

Got up at 10am today. Still half-recovering from epic New Year. Currently 84kg, low-carb vegan, no sleep debt.

12pm: First nap taken with little effort. Not tired, so it was more setting the environment and mind-space for future naps. Checked the clock halfway through exactly like I used to, so I suspect that I may get back into this reasonably quickly.

4pm: Much comfier nap. Body still tense, especially the neck, but could definitely feel myself dropping off slightly.

8pm: Checked clock with only four minutes to go. Starting to sleep deeper. Feel slightly groggy on getting up, but also very slightly spacey.

January 3rd:

12am: Starting to feel much more tired now, and I’m yawning quite a lot. Checked clock with only seven minutes to go, and again at 2:31. Felt quite restless for the final three minutes. I also slept with the light on – not sure whether this is a good idea, in order to not fall asleep monophasically, or a bad idea, because it prevents me napping properly. Hmm. Very much wanting to go to bed right now and stay there.

1:25am: Feeling a bit tired but quite perky right now. I think it’s because I went downstairs into our cold, cold kitchen and made a drink. Might be a useful way of staying awake.

4:26am: Definitely felt that one. Have no recollection of switching the clock off. Woke up somewhat confused and stumbled next door to wake up flatmate. Am somewhat irritable. The car alarm that is going off outside probably isn’t helping.

8:25am: Feel dreadful. No recollection of switching alarm off – but am awake and about. Feel unsteady on my feet and given to stumbling and staggering everywhere, but that I am moving is progress.

10:19am: Have had breakfast and am now trying to write an article for a local newspaper. It is not going well, my thoughts are all over the place, but words are going down on the paper and I do feel much more with it than I did at 8.

12:33:pm: Don’t remember switching alarm off or sleeping. Heart was racing as I went to wake up flatmate. Have lost a kilogram in weight. Now feel dopey but manageable.

1:33pm: I feel really quite awake now. I think the euphoria is starting to kick in…

1:50pm: Not sure if this is related to polyphasic sleeping, but I can’t eat the same size meals I could only two days ago. I have to leave a small portion to be consumed later. Strange.

4:30pm: Checked clock halfway through but no recollection of waking up or getting up.

6:42pm: Started to fulflil action items. A good sign?

January 4th:

12am: Flatmate was unexpectedly away and I overslept by two hours. Was woken up by a different coincidental alarm.

4:26am: No recollection of napping. Do not feel rested.

6:52pm: Took advantage of flatmate’s absence to sleep over intentionally at 5am. Woke up at 9 but went to sleep again until 10:30am. Took 12pm nap and slept consciously but polyphasically. 4pm nap was put off by 40 minutes as a bike trip unexpectedly took three hours, and was also taken outside the house for the first time. Slept well, although checked clock three times. It will be interesting to see what impact the level of exercise I took today will have on my schedule. Because of the oversleeping and late sleeping, I feel somewhat tired and fatigued.

January 5th:

12:33am: 8pm and 12am naps taken uneventfully. Feel mostly alert and spent much of 12am nap thinking about an interrupted task I was performing. May be due to adaptation, maybe be due to epic oversleep. We shall see at 4am.

10:23am: Slept straight through 4:30am alarm and slept through til 9am. Took another “nap” and ended up having a vivid dream about being in a computer game until woken up by flatmate at 10:20am. Oh, the fail. Feel drowsy, fatigued and terrible.

6:01pm: Slept badly for 4pm nap. Restless, and got up with two minutes to go. My room has suddenly become very hot though, which may be contributing to this. Perhaps if I sleep elsewhere I may be more relaxed.

January 6th:

9:53am: 4am was a definite struggle, and I went to bed at 7am exhausted, slept through the alarm and woke up at 9:30am. While oversleeping by two hours isn’t quite the fail of the day before, I think the strategy of sleeping in my own bed is definitely failing. I will shift into the spare bedroom for a bit and see what happens. I’m also starting to develop back pain every time I oversleep. Another incentive, I guess.

Oversleeping three nights in four seems to suggest that we’re doing something wrong, but even with the oversleeping, I got 4 hours sleep cumulatively in the past 24 hours and feel fine (now I’m up). Polyphasic sleeping is clearly starting to have its effects, it’s just bloody hard to persuade yourself at 7am that you really need to stay awake. I think this is really something I have to think about deeply.

12:28pm: Nap very restful. Feel much better, and got up with a little reluctance. Not a good thing for adapting, but good for the daytime naps.

8:26pm: Took 4pm well. 8pm left me with racing heart and some reluctance to get up.

January 7th:

1:24pm: Midnight nap was taken in another person’s house and went well. Unfortunately, I was prevailed upon to take a sleeping tablet at 1am and was told that it would wear off by 4am. To judge by the way I fell asleep for 8 hours and woke up at 12:30am, I’m guessing that was a pack of lies.

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New Year's Resolution

Toad008 — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:26:00 +0000

Well, I've decided I need to resurrect this blog.

No post since July? That's horrible! I need to use this blog for it's original purpose again though.

Since I started my new job in October, I haven't been polyphasic. I was starting to fall off the wagon towards the end of my old job, but the change of environment and everything just worked as a catalyst to fully quit. And I hate it. I have so much less time, I'm more tired than I was while polyphasic, it just sucks.

Enter New Year's Resolutions.

1) Quit chewing my nails. Working on it. It's about time I kicked this nasty habit. So if you read this (which is no one) and you see me chewing my nails, slap me.

2) Get to the gym more. I've not been making it to the pool as often as I'd like. So I'm going to try to force myself into swimming twice a day during the week, before and after work. Step one is getting a pool pass... working on that this week.

3) Get back into Polyphasic sleep.
This will be hard. Winter here is cold (normally, it's only -20C today, which is quite nice) which makes it so I can not sleep in my car. This restricts my potential sleep locations quite a bit. Also, since I'm at a new job, I need to organize a nap location. I'll be discussing it with my bosses sometime this week. A nice side effect is my parents house isn't too far from work, but then I have to see my parents, which is an undesirable outcome. Also, an 8 hour stretch is just too long to go without a nap, if you are trying to be polyphasic.

This will mean setting up a schedule that works with my body, and work schedule, and pool swim times. This should be easier now that I'm not taking a class as well (one of the excuses I used in the fall for falling off the bandwagon. I had commitments on Tuesday from 8am-7pm, which made finding time to nap very difficult). I'll sit down and fiddle with the numbers sometime this week, shooting to start the transition next week. Hopefully it will go as smooth as my first transition.

I'll hopefully be keeping this blog more updated. It's a good item on my "TODO" list to keep me awake too.

Until next post!

December 2009 Polyphasic Bloggers

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:15:26 +0000

cc photo by Adam Baker

The following have been added to the list of current polyphasic bloggers.

- “Sleep to Wake” by Xialuote
- “neurohack” by Sharif Olorin
- “Raven’s Rant“
- “Rich Frog” by Jordan Curzon
- “dancePROOF” by Arsène Hodali
- “PolyGraham” by Graham Austin
- “The Meatyard” by Dwielz Camauf Descartes
- “Joachim Schwarz . net” by Joachim Schwarz
- “Uberman Sleeptracker” by Joseph Dowdy
- “Deranged Altruism” by Ayden De Vries
- “q v d r . n e t“
- “I Fry Puppies” by The Fryer
- “Uberman Adaptation” by Vulfe
- “Nilbus Is Loquaciously Beginning Uberman Sleep” by Nilbus
- “Everyman For The Moon” by ragingmoon

The following have been removed from the list.

- “The World and I” by Qhost
- “Polyphasic Sleep” by smashingparadox (long term)
- “Vytautas Kaziukonis. Daily.“
- “All Things Me” by Derren Brown
- “YakShaving” by ash bhoopathy
- “Drew Skwarcan” by Drew Skwarcan
- “The Finer Things” by Cofo
- “Uberman 2nd Attempt” by Paulan
- “Jamie Clarke’s Blog” by Jamie Clarke
- “Improving Personal Development” by Alex

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Zzz Spotlight: Pendulum

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:25:34 +0000

I just got word from another polyphasic blogger that would like to contribute to the Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping news feed (see correspondence below).

Pendulum will be attempting to adjust to the Uberman Sleep Schedule. Check out the blog here:
http://nocturnology.blogspot.com/

Correspondence with Pendulum

From: Pendulum
Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:56 AM
Subject: New polyphasic blog
To: jorel314@gmail.com

Hi there,

I’m new to polyphasic sleep and am starting up a blog. It was mentioned to me that I should drop you an email and see if you’d like to add it to your feed. I don’t know how dedicated I’ll be about maintaining it, but it’s likely I’ll keep it going for at least a little bit. It’s at nocturnology.blogspot.com if you want to check it out.

Your site’s a great resource; it was a big help to me when I was researching polyphasic sleep!

Pendulum

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October and November 2009 Polyphasic Bloggers

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:08:44 +0000

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The following have been added to the list of current polyphasic bloggers.

- “hatten’s polyphasic weblog – ” by hatten
- “Raapid’s Life” by James Pain
- “Contemplation” by Akshat Rathi
- “Vytautas Kaziukonis. Daily.“
- “All Things Me” by Derren Brown
- “YakShaving” by ash bhoopathy
- “Drew Skwarcan” by Drew Skwarcan
- “Becoming an Architect.” by Matt Reynolds
- “Polyphasic Sleep” by smashingparadox
- “The Finer Things” by Cofo
- “lavalamp’s sleep diary“
- “Dan’s Polyphasic Blog: Uberman-in-Training” by Dan Froese
- “Uberman 2nd Attempt” by Paulan
- “My Polyphasic Sleep Experiment” by Nate C

The following have been removed from the list.

- “Up at 2 AM” by Konrad
- “Nap Time” by thesixthnapoleon
- “Dymaxion/Everyman sleep” by GinMartiniStirred
- “Unlocking the Human Potential” by Emerald Wolf
- “J’s Polyphasic Sleep Log – The Uberman” by Jason West
- “Aqil’s Polyphasic Sleep Experiment“
- “Kyle Murphy’s Blog” by Kyle Murphy
- “xialuote’s sleep blog” by Xialuote
- “randallCbennett[dot]com” by Randall C. Bennett
- “unlikelysquiggle” by Leigh T Cooper
- “Br. David Klecker” by Br. David Klecker O.Cist
- “Steve & Thoughts” by Steve Torpey
- “icasm” by zecqi
- “Puppies & Ponies” by Clutch
- “Francesco Georg’s Blog” by Francesco Georg
- “TendoMentis Projects” by Nick
- “greenGuru” by greenGuru

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Zzz Spotlight: Qhost

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:45:24 +0000

I just got word from another polyphasic blogger that would like to contribute to the Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping news feed (see correspondence below).

Qhost will be attempting to adjust to the Dymaxion Sleep Schedule. Check out his blog here:
http://theworldandi.co.uk/category/polyphasic/

Correspondence with Qhost

From: Qhost
Date: Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 3:33 AM
Subject: Also.. : )
To: jorel314@gmail.com

I would love to be entered into your feed, I made a “Polyphasic” cat and moved my posts into there : )

Sorry for the double email : )

PS – I will also be trying to adapt to The Batman Sleep when I get a longer holiday : )

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It's been one week!

Toad008 — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Since I last posted. There goes my good record.

So I'm participating in a triathlon team. I'm doing the swimming leg. I have to swim 500m as fast as possible. It's currently not very fast... But as a result, I've bee hitting the pool quite regularly. I've been enjoying it. I feel like I'm getting in better shape, and there is a cute lifeguard there in the mornings. =) It's quite refreshing to wake up and swim though. Hopefully I can make it through the triathlon swim. An interesting side effect is I'm sleeping better now. Maybe it's just the addition of another routine thing, maybe it's just the physical activity. I'm getting back to a good core sleep. I'm currently exhausted by my afternoon nap, I think I need to move it a little earlier, as it's pretty late currently. So I'll be making those tweaks in the next week. It's nice to have my polyphasic sleep back on a good track again.

So due to weather, I still haven't gotten any of my garden in the dirt yet. I did till the ground, but we are still getting frost warnings every night... Maybe I can actually plant this weekend. It's supposed to be nicer. I want my plants to get going! Quicker they start the quicker I can eat them.

So on the weekend, I was vacuuming the lawn. Yes, you heard me correctly. I had to borrow a shop-vac, and vacuumed the lawn. It's the first I've ever heard of anyone doing it. The story is an interesting one. Friday after work, I turned a bunch of dirt, and did a bit of weeding, and found a hole in our hose. The key thing from Friday was the backyard was great. Then, Saturday morning, I look out the back window, and see our patio table overturned. It had a glass top. Our backyard now had a section that was just covered with broken glass. Awesome. I was planning to mow the lawn that morning. Alas, I had to clean the glass up first. So I tried to pick up some of the biggest chunks, but pretty much all of it was crumbling further when I went to pick it up. It was a mess. So I tried sweeping it up, and raking it up, and collecting it in a dustpan. Those techniques did ok, but there was still a lot of glass it was missing. Only thing I could think of to try was vacuuming. Which, for the record, worked great! I am intending to spread some dirt in the area too, after mowing, just to make sure no small sharp edges are left.

So we were trying to figure out how our patio table decided to smash itself on our lawn. All I could figure was a) The Wind, and b) Young Hooligans. I thought the wind was pretty unlikely, as nothing else in the backyard looked moved, and the neighbours stuff was all fine, so I was forced to blame young hooligans. Around supper time, I answered the door, and it was our neighbour. He apologized for breaking our table, and I was confused. Did he jump the fence and smash it? He continued to explain. Apparently his dogs, in the morning, decided to break through the fence, and run around our yard. They ran into our table, knocking it over, and making a huge mess. (The dogs were fine). It did however leave me with a bit of an uneasy feeling. If those dogs can trash a patio table, they could easily take out roomies. (As the heaviest of the roomies, I suspect I'd have the best chance at survival). Our neighbour explained that he has now lined the fence with chicken wire, so they will have to break more than just weak boards to do it again, and he is intending to buy us a new table, which is nice. I'm glad he was honest, but at the same time, frustrated at those dogs. They bark all the time, and now they are damaging our property too? Sheesh.

I'll let you know my thoughts on the patio table our neighbour picks to replace it. I might just ask him to pick us up like a home depot gift card or something for the value of it, then we can pick it ourselves.

Frustrated

Toad008 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:30:00 +0000

So I write my final for my course in 2 days. I still do not know if they will be giving me my degree. I have been receiving invites to grad, and all that stuff, but no one has concretely told me if it's possible or not. So I'm studying, and hoping I'll be done school potentially forever come Friday.

And then, oh boy, do I get even more busy. I have a game project, Project Instant Ramen, that we are hoping to have in reasonable shape to submit to some competitions. The deadline for most of the competitions is the end of the month. We have quite a bit of work to do to make that deadline. The good thing is almost all our art assets, including 3d models and everything, sound like they are almost finished. Our script is past first draft, but by no means finished. A lot of the libraries I intend to use are somewhat built up. I have a lot of the pieces done / ready to go. It's just waiting on me to finish my course, so I can sink a lot of time into it, and get it going. My plan is to sink quite a few hours into it this weekend.

My other goal for the weekend is to get my sleep schedule adjusted for the summer. I get "trapped" in various requirements during the school year to allow me to attend class and work, and my body doesn't like all of them. It works still, but I know I could do better. I'll have to work it all out, and likely re-adapt somewhat. Done it before, and it'll be good to get back to a better schedule. My plan is as follows:
Up at 4am. Yoga, Breakfast, Shower, and so forth. Drive to work around 6:30-6:45. Nap at work, before starting anything, around 7am. Work, breaking for a nap around 2pm. More work, Drive home. Eat supper. Nap around 8pm. Up till 1am. I'm hoping I can lock in the 9pm to 1am range as time to work on Project Instant Ramen. My biggest concern with it, is for the next 2 or 3 weeks, I'll be logging roughly 13 hours of programming a day. I need to, as I have a lot I need to get finished, but that might be a bit stressful. That does leave my weekends code free. I may say like Tuesday Thursday, evening work on PIR, and Saturday Sunday, and take the other evenings as entertainment time to keep my sanity.

I'll keep you updated with how well it pans out.

A Successful Year of Polyphasic Sleep

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:24:36 +0000

I would first take a moment to thank the StumbleUpon community. Collectively over 23,000 of you have stopped by my little blog in the past year. I am flattered and overwhelmed by the interest and hope I have provided some useful advice to everyone, and to those kind enough to leave a comment or some feedback.

Now on with the story.

Exactly one year has passed since beginning my first polyphasic sleep schedule. I wanted to take a moment to reflect on my experiences and share with you some of the results.

The other day, I was thinking about how much time one could reasonably expect to gain using a polyphasic schedule. That lead me to wonder:

What is Reasonably Possible?

I personally have fallen in love with the Everyman sleep schedule of 4.5 hrs core, and one or two 20 minute naps throughout the day. It has by far been the easiest to maintain and most cohesive with my body and lifestyle. I wondered how much time this could add to a person’s waking life if it was strictly followed for a full year. The results shocked and amazed me.

The calculations are simple, but here they are if you haven’t done the math yourself already. With a 1.5 nap average at 20 minutes per nap, that comes out to exactly 5 hours of sleep per day. Assuming a normal person needs 8 hrs of sleep to feel rested without napping, the resulting amount of additional time comes to:

1095 waking hours per year.

You read that correctly – 1095 hours.

That amounts to 45.6 full days, or a full MONTH AND A HALF of extra waking time!

My Personal Results

Now the above results are of course only theoretical. Life happens: naps are skipped, alarms are missed, and business trips, vacations, projects and drunken nights will take place. However, after being on a polyphasic sleep schedule for the majority of the past year, I feel I can provide some living proof and shed some light on what is realistically possible.

Looking back on the past twelve months, I spent at least 70% of it on some form of polyphasic sleep schedule. Because my exact sleep scheduled varied over the course of the year (ranging between 3 hr core + 3 naps, 4.5 core + 1-2 naps, and 6 hr core +1 nap) I have approximated my average amount of sleep to be 5.5 hours per polyphasic day. Using these estimates and the same calculations as before, my resulting totals are:

639 additional waking hours, or 26.6 days.

And That’s Not All

If I’m not adjusted and in a regular schedule, 3 hours sleep is still difficult, but when deadlines or other reasons force me to take less sleep it becomes quite easy. But 4.5 hours is just cake. I can hardly remember the time when 4.5 hours seemed like a horrific and unfathomably miniscule amount of sleep to be had. Now, 6 hours literally feels like a luxury. It is the same feeling I would get when I slept in 10 hours on a weekend in high school or college – feeling guiltily over-rested.

Other less obvious benefits include: the ability to nap nearly anywhere, being able to fall asleep quickly (no more laying in bed wasting time waiting to fall asleep), and no jet lag (the schedule is easily shifted – even if I’m not polyphasic at the time).

The downsides: finding a time and place for a nap(s) every day, if naps are missed, more likely to get tired throughout the day (if the mind is left not being stimulated), seeming strange to the general population.

Fortunately the first two downsides are easily remedied – if there isn’t a time and place to nap, I go back to monophasic. If I get tired throughout the day, a nap or a little caffeine will do the trick (but I could see it being difficult to stay awake in a particularly boring class for those still in school).

I don’t have a solution for the last one - but fortunately I don’t really mind.

Making it Work for You

The real secret behind successfully becoming polyphasic is having a reason to need more time.

For me it was my goals in my work and play. I love my work, and want to do as much as possible to become successful. I also loved my free time. Throughout the past 365 days, my pastimes and personal goals have kept me busy to the wee hours of the morning, and then I am lucky enough to have my job to look forward to when I wake up.

However, at times when work was slow, or I was less interested in the things I was doing in my spare time, I found I would sleep more for lack of better things to do.

Sleeping is easy. Sleep fills empty time. It is the path of least resistance.

Know what your passions and goals are and work your ass off towards what makes you happy. It will be the path of more resistance, but that is what makes life worth living. If having more time in the day will help you towards those goals, you will have no problem adjusting to a polyphasic sleep schedule.

Are there things you would like to know I haven’t touched upon? Would you consider a polyphasic schedule? Post a comment and let me know!

Allergy Season!

Toad008 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:38:00 +0000

Its not here yet. We've been getting quite a bit of snow lately. But I have started my pre-season treatments. They have created an interesting dilemma. They put me to sleep. Something about injecting with pollens makes me sleep. Maybe I just need to time this better. They sure knock me out. Worth it though. I can't imagine doing through a spring without my shots. It's bad enough with my shots. My allergies are definitely one of my biggest concerns about moving to the coast. In more temperate climates, I suspect I will have allergic reactions much more frequently. I'll be constantly on meds. I think it'll be worth it though, for the nicer weather.

Due to demand, I'll look into posting a version of my assignment here for people to try out. It's definitely not perfect. I should have started working on it earlier than I did. I think over the summer, or maybe after Project Instant Ramen (the code name for Monoclesoft's current project) is done, I'll come back to it, and improve it. I'd love to get it more so to a quality product I am willing to use to supplement my resume for job apps to the industry. Although with the economy the way it is, the Games industry seems to be laying people off left and right, so that may hinder my chances there. You never know until you try though.

So I'm in the process of correcting my sleep schedule still. I really need to just buckle down, and re-adapt the the changes I want to make. I'm been getting to work between 7:30 and 9 ish, which takes a lot of the pressure off in the morning, which has turned into me sleeping in more regularly. I really need to be very rigid with my schedule for a bit to correct this. Hopefully as weather warms up, I can go outsied more, which will help provide more tasks I can work on. I'll keep you updated with how that all pans out.

Sleep Warrior

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:58:04 +0000

To those interested in sleeping and sleep studies, I must direct you to SleepWarrior. It has a lot of valuable resources, along with a free PDF of Claudio Stampi's famous polyphasic sleep research.

Also, a follow-up. Going back to monophasic sleep has been no problem for me. I'm back to wiling away 1/3 of my day in bed with no unexpected waking during the night. It makes me upset, though, because now my schedule will return to the unhealthy 90%-of-my-waking-hours-spent-on-college-related-stuff deal again. Polyphasic sleep had the nice side effect of preventing me from dropping into a bottomless spiraling depression by allowing me time to draw, relax, and do commissions instead of being a slave to getting my degree.

Hum

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:20:53 +0000

I am sad to say that ~~divine~~ parental intervention has caused the ending of my polyphasic sleep experiment. It's not that it's bad for me... actually, it's quite the opposite. It's that it could be bad, and poor parents, ever-fearful for the safety of their kids, will always choose sitting in a familiar, but boring hole all day over venturing out into exciting unknowns that might carry some risk. I completely understand their concern, and I don't want to cause conflict in my family, so I'm stopping the experiment.

I'm not so upset--after all, I accomplished what I set out to do. I found out whether polyphasic sleeping worked for me, and whether it worked well. The answer is yes in both cases. It worked exceptionally well, and the effects of this experiment (eating more healthily, getting up to my alarm, scheduling my time more effectively) will last a long time into the future.

I'll just say that I'm definitely going to look into returning to this experiment in the future, when I'm more independent and self-sufficient. The only way we're going to find out about possible long-term effects of polyphasic sleep is if someone actually gets up and tries it! :)

Everyman 2.0 day 2-4

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:47:31 +0000

I haven't been posting due to laptop breakage, but here's the scoop.

Everyman day 2--Sunday the 12th
On the night of day 1--Saturday--I believe I accidentally poisoned myself with spray varnish. In any case, I went to bed at 3:30, and woke up from my core sleep at 5 feeling nauseous and sick. I wound up sleeping the entire day until 7pm.

A setback, but I feel it is justified because I was sick.

Not surprisingly, I could not get to sleep for my 9pm nap. I accidentally broke my laptop screen shortly after waking up from my 9pm nap, so after this nap I started using my cell phone as an alarm instead.

Everyman day 3--Monday the 13th
Forget Friday the 13th... Mondays are so much worse!

I could not get to sleep for my 1am nap, due to my excessive sleeping the day before. I got busy after 1am, and decided on the spur of the moment that I was tired of core sleeping--I wanted to go straight to Uberman. (I'm still holding to this now--I should stop calling this Everyman, then!) So I went to bed at 5am. I had trouble sleeping, but got a little rest.

I was dead tired from 5-9am, and because my laptop was broken I had nothing to do. It was a struggle to stay awake. I overslept for an hour at 9am, because I accidentally set my cell phone alarm for 9:20pm instead of 9:20am. Duuuumb. That wouldn't have happened if I had my nap music.

My 1pm, 5pm, and 9pm naps were finicky. I'm not sure if my body was still getting over Sunday's huge sleepfest or the recent oversleeping, or if part of it was because I didn't have my familiar white noise track to lull me to sleep.

Polyphasic day 1--Tuesday the 14th
Once again, oversleeping struck. I overslept my 9am nap until nearly noon. This time, the oversleeping was not due to tiredness, but due to lethargy. I was bored, sad, and I had nothing better to do. I've been in a depressive mood lately from a combination of midterm stress, breaking expensive electronics, and failing to renew my prescription of Wellbutrin. (I held off on renewing it to see if I could do all right without it... but it's now apparent that I cannot function in society properly without being drugged on it 24/7, so I'm getting it renewed right away.) Unfortunately, a side effect of depression, for me, is feeling the need to sleep in order to 'get away from it all.' I will have to find more things to do that don't involve computers so that I don't fall into the depressive trap of sleep again.

I find it interesting that I actually felt worse after my long oversleep than I do on my 20 minute naps. I felt hazy and gross, even after eating and getting my blood running.

After that slipup, I had no problems getting to any of my other naps, though I wasn't able to fall asleep during any of them.

Bilan à 2 mois et demie du sommeil polyphasique

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:10:00 +0000

Bonjour ! :-) A tous ceux et celles qui s'intéressent à mon expérience polyphasique : je vous invite à passer sur mon blog, où vous trouverez la suite de l'expérience. Et notamment, passez lire cet article :[...]

Les conséquences positives du sommeil polyphasique

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:05:00 +0000

Après 3 semaines de ce sommeil d'un autre type, je tire un bilan globalement très positif de l'expérience. Les déclics qu'elle a provoqués sont en train de me métamorphoser à vitesse grand V. J'essaie ici d'en faire le tour, et j'envisage l'avenir de ce blog, qui n'a pas vocation à rester[...]

Le sommeil polyphasique coupe-t-il du monde ?

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:07:00 +0000

Ha ouais, tiens ça alors... (Pour retrouver l'ensemble des posts de l'expérience, c'est par ici : Dormir 3 heures par jour : le sommeil polyphasique, ça vous branche ?

Sommeil polyphasique : L'alimentation

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:18:00 +0000

Que mange le sujet polyphasique en pleine métamorphose ?? Vous le saurez en regardant cet épisode !... :-) Ou bien encore : Comment mettre toutes les chances de son côté et réussir à entrer dans le monde merveilleux de la polyphasie ?? Voici quelques clés réunies... (Pour retrouver l'ensemble[...]

Sommeil polyphasique : Qi Gong et méditation

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:18:00 +0000

Me revoilà donc en live, mais maintenant que l'impact initial de l'expérience se disperse, que ma nouvelle vie commence à s'organiser -autrement-, j'ai choisi de quitter le côté "journal de bord" , pour aborder plutôt quelques thèmes particuliers, quelques évolutions saillantes... :-) Et si[...]

Napping notes

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:00:16 +0000

Here are my notes from the past week and a half or so. Apologies for the sloppiness.

7/28 - Monday

4.5 hrs
nap: 10 am (20 min)

Total: 4.8 hrs

7/29 - Tuesday

4.5 hrs (6:30 am wake)
nap: 9:30 am (40 min)

Total: 5.2 hrs

7/30 - Wednesday

6 hrs (7:30 am)
no naps

Total: 6 hrs

7/31 - Thursday

4.5 hrs (6:30 am)
nap: 7:40 (20 min)
nap: 4:00 (20 min)

Total: 5.2 hrs

8/1 - Friday

8 hrs (9:00 am)

Total: 8 hrs

8/2 - Saturday

6 hrs
no nap

Total: 6 hrs

8/3 - Sunday

7.5 hrs
no nap

Total: 7.5 hrs

8/4 - Monday

6 hr core
nap: 4:00 pm (20 min)

Total 6.3 hrs

8/5 - Tuesday

6 hr core
no nap

Total: 6 hrs

8/6 - Wednesday

6 hrs core
no naps

Total: 6 hrs

Finally a polyphasic update:

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:03:29 +0000

Its been really great being able to switch between 4.5 hrs and a couple naps to 6 hrs- no naps, t0 8 hrs monophasic. Here are the past couple days with my nap schedule. Additionally, regardless of which combo I choose, I usually never feel tired throughout the day.

One thing to note - when I have alot of things to do the next day, I am very motivated to get up after little sleep, while on days when there aren’t things extremely pressing to get done, I’m more likely to convince myself to sleep in instead.

Wed 7/23/08

Wake 8:00 am (6 hrs)
Naps none

Total: 6 hrs

Thurs 7/24/08

Wake 6:30 (4.5 hrs)
Nap 1 7:40 am (20 min)
Nap 2 4:00 pm (20 min)

Total: 5.2 hrs

Fri 7/25/08

Wake 9:00 am (8 hrs)
Naps none

Total: 8 hrs

Sat 7/26/08

Wake 9:00 am (6 hrs)
Naps none

Total: 6 hrs

Sun 7/27/08

wake 8:00 am (6 hrs)
Nap 7:00 pm (20 min)

Total: 6.3 hrs

(nap taken to try and make it easier to get up after 4.5 hrs sleep - not taken because of tiredness)

Just a Sleep Update

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:45:07 +0000

Recap Sun (7/20/08)

Woke up: 8:30 (6 hrs)
Naps: None

Total 6 hrs

Recap Mon (7/21/08)

Woke up: 6:00 (4.5 hrs)
Nap 1: 1:00 pm
Nap 2: 10:30 pm

Total: 5.2 hrs

Switched right back into the 4.5 hr schedule with 2 naps. Felt great all day and quickly fell asleep for both naps (didn’t even really want to take the last one, but did it to negate tiredness for the following day).

Free and Clear

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:48:04 +0000

7:15 am - This schedule has worked out amazingly well so far. Not only am I easilly getting up after 4.5 hours right as my alarm goes, but with two naps, I feel as if I’ve had a full night’s sleep. I remember my initial adaptation phase took over a week and I was lethargic and tired the whole time. I am happy and relieved that I’m not experiencing that again.

It appears that after a relatively short break (4 weeks) from strict polyphasic, a once polyphasic sleeper can quickly re-adapt to a new schedule with minimal negative effects. Yay!

Recap of yesterday (7/16/08):

Woke up: 5:00 am (4.5 hrs sleep)
Nap 1: 10:40 am (20 min)
Nap 2: 5:20 pm (2o min)

Total 5.2 hrs

iPhone

Toad008 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:21:00 +0000

So I think I'm getting an iPhone today? I'm pretty excited. I have an appointment at 1:30 where I think they are going to get me all set up. It'll be nice to actually have a cell phone and move into the 20th century. I'm a little concerned that I'm going to get all sorts of calls I don't want now though. My privacy is going to be invaded, in a big big way.

So I expect to have a flicker account soon, to post all the random gps tagged photos I'll be taking. I'm excited to see if I can write blog entries from it without too much hassle, as that will help me maintain this blog. It'll be a big change.

I've been having weird dreams in my naps lately. I think a big part of it is the heat. I sleep in my car to get away from the office, and to get a bit of fresh air. I do leave my windows open for a breeze, and have window blocks and such to try to reduce the heat in my car, but it very often is a couple degrees over room temperature, especially in the afternoon. I still usually sleep fine, I Just wake up a touch sweaty, and have weird dreams.

Case in point: Yesterday, during my afternoon nap, I dreamt that I woke up, and walked upstairs back to work and sat down at my desk to get back to work, then I realized, in my dream, that I was dreaming, and woke up. In my car. So I had to get up, and go upstairs to work. It was the worst part of waking up, twice. My brain likes to torture me like that apparently.

I was going through my traffic numbers the other day, as I am inclined to every now and then. I have been getting a fair bit of traffic lately from a source I hadn't noticed before. http://jorel314.wordpress.com/contact/adventures-in-polyphasic-sleeping/ He's got a pretty decent collection of bloggers and other decent information. He's been doing a pretty decent job of keeping it up to date as well. I recommend it as a good starting point to gather resources if you are thinking about trying polyphasic sleep. PureDoxyk's book would be the other great resource I highly recommend. According to him, I'm the second longest sleeper he's found, second to only PureDoxyk. So I think that means I can say I'm the longest Canadian Polyphasic sleeper. That's kinda cool, in my books anyway.

Still waiting to hear from Ryan my photographer friend with the Edmonton Journal who did the video on me last year. He mentioned at my Canada Day Party that he wanted to do a follow up, but hasn't given me any details yet. Maybe it's because he has this whole wedding thing to worry about. I'll let you all know if / when the follow up goes live.

That's abou tit for today. In the future I'll be trying to seperate my posts more. There's a feed (Jorel's) which I might start contributing to, but I don't want to bother all the other polyphaser's with my useless drivel I Often post. So all sleep related posts will become their own seperate post. We'll see if I can actually get in that habit...

Quick first day update

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:20:27 +0000

It was so much easier to get back into the schedule than I expected. Yesterday, even after 4.5 hours of sleep, I didn’t get tired and had to make myself take naps. We’ll see if it catches up to me today.

Yesterday notes (7/15/08):

Woke up: 5:00 am (4.5 hrs sleep)
Nap 1: 10:30 am (20 min)
Nap 2: 8:30 pm (20 min)

Total: 5.17 hrs

The first nap was at the office in the new room. I just used a backpacking sleeping pad which works well, but I can’t wait to get a cot!

Polyphasic Sleep Success and A New Beginning

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:44:49 +0000

I’m back!

After a month of being off my regularly scheduled polyphasic program, I’m finally back to blogging and getting ready to start up my sleep schedule anew. I’ve missed my sleep schedule sooo much.

First, quickly what went down: June 16th, moved out to Atlanta for business and proceeded to work two 100 hour work weeks (by choice; more work = more reward in this job). My sleep discipline was a lifesaver; as I was well prepared to function with very little core sleep. Sadly, the new environment and lack of sleeping areas made naps hard to come by.

Fortuitously, our operation just moved into a new, much larger office space. Since there happens to be a couple of us who are more productive on a polyphasic schedule, the overlords offered to reserve a room specifically for napping (i guess they like getting as much work out of us as possible).

Anyway, today it begins.

Got up at 5:00 am after four-and-a-half glorious hours of sleep. My new plan will be 4.5 hr core sleep, with 2 naps plus an optional one. This will wind up netting between 5 and 6 hrs of sleep per day. I found this distribution of sleep to be the least resistant and the easiest one to maintain.

As for my previous expereinces, I will (at some point) put up the rest of my data. I made it well over 10 weeks, averaging under 6 hrs of sleep a night. I believe my goal of 3 hr core w/ 3 x 20 min naps was a bit lofty with such a variable work/life schedule (as will be seen in the data; even with sleep-ins and mistakes, I still averaged around 5.7 hrs of sleep a day though ).

Well here goes, good luck me and everyone else working to be polyphasic!

Survived

Toad008 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:06:00 +0000

I'm alive!
I survived Jazz Festival. My schedule is just now starting to slow down a bit. A little anyway. I still haven't cashed any cheques from it, but they are all in my wallet. I should be able to hit the bank tomorrow. I ended up only attending two shows this year, as I just couldn't find time for more. I caught Ivana Santilli after my Broadway opening gig, and watching Kellylee Evans. I also caught Dave Brubeck. Both were pretty awesome shows. I preferred Ivana with a full band though, like last time I saw her, and not this keyboard based trio. Dave Brubeck was weird because the band was so old, but just rocking. He could barely walk, and talked extremely slowly, but then he just played like a madman. So very good.

My sleeping is pretty much back on schedule now. Only took me a day or two to get back to normal. I'm still hitting the snooze in the mornings a bit, so I'm getting closer to 3.5 or 4 hours in my core. Hopefully this weekend I'll correct that. I think I need to update my TODO list, of things to keep my extra time busy. I've not been productive with my time at all lately. One of the catches is just a lack of a good place to keep the list, that's always accessible to me. That problem will very likely go away in about a week.

I'm intending to pick up a 3g iPhone. I figure it's about time I move into the Cell world. Although the cell aspect is extra to me. More important is the calendar, and being able to check my email. It'll also be a convenient way to keep an extra copy of my nap mp3's, and a fun toy. It will likely end up being an expensive toy though. I'll write up some sort of boring review for it once I have had it for a bit. I'm reasonably excited.

Ryan Jackson, my friend photojournalist who did that piece on my a year ago, was discussing doing a follow up with me sometime soonish. I thought that was a pretty good idea, but I need to get some big things accomplished soon then to make it seem better. Hopefully the parts for the Bass I'm building arrive soon, and I can work on that. I think I'm going to re-edge the garden sometime in the next week or two as well. Those are likely some not too shabby accomplishments. We'll see.

But I should get to work, I have a bunch of things I really need to accomplish in the next month, before my very long and super awesome holiday.

Everyman Sleep Schedule - Week 5 in Review

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:25:23 +0000

Data from week 5, just for you:

Day - Core Sleep - Nap Total

Day 29 (5/6/08) - 3.75 hrs - 1.67 hrs

Day 30 (5/7/08) - 3.0 hrs - 1.0 hrs

Day 31 (5/8/08) - 5.5 hrs - 1.0 hrs

Day 32 (5/9/08) - 3.5 hrs - 1.0 hrs

Day 33 (5/10/08)* - 3.5 hrs - 2.08 hrs

Day 34 (5/11/08) * - 6.0 hrs - 0.33 hrs

Day 35 (5/12/08) * - 7.0 hrs - 0 hrs

Average core = 4.61 hrs / day

Average nap total = 1.01 hr / day

4.61 hrs + 1.01 hrs = 5.62 hrs sleep / day

Skipped naps = 6 / 21

*DC Business Trip

The DC trip was the first major test for my sleep discipline. First, since I had become a proficient napper, I was able to take advantage the plane flight and managed to get four 20 minute naps on the way there. During the stay, however, Martin and I were so busy that I only managed to sneak in one nap the entire time. Fortunately, I was able to adapt nicely; I got more core sleep (6 then 7 hrs) and felt fine the whole time. Additionally, being able to fall asleep nearly at-will negated any adverse effects from jet-lag.

On the flight to DC, I decided to use the placebo sleep track to cover the background noise of the flight - and it was great. It not only blocked out the sound, but it would lull me to sleep and gently wake me up with chicken clucking and other minimally intrusive sounds.

5.62 hrs sleep / day seems like a very reasonable average, especially when a business trip is included into the mix. I am extremely pleased with the results of my polyphasic sleep experiment thus far.

Everyman Sleep Schedule - Week 4 in Review

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:44:28 +0000

I have made it to the 4 week checkpoint. The data from week 4 is as follows:

Day - Core Sleep - Nap Total

Day 22 (4/29/08) - 3 hrs - 1 hrs

Day 23 (4/30/08) - 3.5 hrs - 1.33 hrs

Day 24 (5/1/08) - 3.25 hrs - 1.33 hrs

Day 25 (5/2/08) - 3 hrs - 0.33 hrs

Day 26 (5/3/08) - 7.5 hrs - 0.67 hrs

Day 27 (5/4/08) - 7.5 hrs - 0.67 hrs

Day 28 (5/5/08) - 3.25 hrs - 1 hrs

Average core = 4.43 hrs / day

Average nap total = 0.9 hr / day

4.43 hrs + 0.9 hrs = 5.33 hrs sleep / day

Skipped naps = 4 / 21

I successfully brought my daily average down for this week. If it weren’t for the two days where I accidentally slept in, my daily average would have been much closer to 4 or 4.5 hrs / per day.

Everyman Sleep Schedule - Week 3 in Review

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:37:39 +0000

Week three stats for your viewing pleasure:

Day - Core Sleep - Nap Total

Day 15 (4/22/08) - 4 hrs - 1.25 hrs

Day 16 (4/23/08)* - 3.75 hrs - 2.75 hrs

Day 17 (4/24/08) - 4.75 hrs - 0.75 hrs

Day 18 (4/25/08) - 3.75 hrs - 0.67 hrs

Day 19 (4/26/08)** - 5.5 hrs - 1 hrs

Day 20 (4/27/08)** - 5 hrs - 0.75 hrs

Day 21 (4/28/08) - 4 hrs - 1.33 hrs

Average core = 4.4 hrs / day

Average nap total = 1.2 hr / day

4.4 hrs + 1.2 hrs = 5.6 hrs sleep / day

Skipped naps = 3 / 21

*On the late nap I set my alarm for the wrong time - slept for 2 hrs before waking.
**Went to bed 90 min early to make up for a missed nap earlier that day

Snoozing issue and alarm setting mistakes and recovery sleep (see **) have accounted for the excess time this week ( 4.4 hrs core / day rather than the target 3 hrs). I’m pretty happy with 5.6 total hours however. Hopefully it gets easier in the following weeks.

Weird dreams are creepy

Toad008 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:04:00 +0000

April 16th morning nap.
Weirdest nap ever.

I was at my parents house, except my grandparents lived there. No idea if it was their house now, or they lived there with my parents or what, that wasn't the important thing, it was just odd.
Then I went to the new basement, as there was one below the current basement. It was just like a unfinished concrete basement, but still had linoleum on the floor.
I curled up and had a nap, conveniently there was a sleeping bag there. (If you nap in your nap, does that count as two naps?)
When I woke up, there was a box beside me, and I knocked the box getting out of my sleeping bag, and a ton of mice ran out.
Then I noticed the small field of bamboo starting to grow in the basement. I kicked a couple and the cut cleanly with my foot, but then I noticed a little pile of dirt, so I proceeded to kick it.
It was an anthill, full of the hugest, fastest ants I've ever seen. Bigger than the mice. They were pissed off, and started coming after me, so I panicked and ran. They chased me upstairs, but gave up once I was around the front door.
So I was going to tell my parents about it, who conveniently enough had just pulled up and were loading some car I had never seen before onto a trailer.
Then as I was about to tell them, I woke up.

Weird dream.

Then, to make it even more ominous, there was a huge Raven sitting on the hanger right behind my car, caw-ing at me. Which of course, has bad symbolism.

It was a great nap... I physically feel very refreshed. Mentally taxing though, as I'm a little shaken up.
I am just having a warm glass of tea to calm my nerves. No alcohol to help unfortunately.

A Post about the previous week, how busy I was, and being ill to follow. Feel free to analyze my mental state from this dream. Post about it in the comments, We'll see how crazy I really am.

Project Polyphasic Sleep - Days 163-271

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:28:31 +0000

Days 163-271

From and including: Monday, November 7, 2005
To and including: Friday, August 4, 2006
It is 271 days from the start date to the end date, end date included
Or 8 months, 29 days including the end date
Alternative time units
271 days can be converted to one of these units:
    * 23,414,400 seconds
    * 390,240 minutes
    * 6504 hours
    * 38 weeks (rounded down)

This is the an overview of the time I've been doing the polyphasic sleep. Looking back from now it looks like a hell of a lot of time, much more than the usual. In these 8 months I've accomplished many things, and I have to thank the PS for many of them. Without it , I would not have been able to do many of the activities I'm involved, I should have left something behind. Let's look at the time I spend awake with the PS and what I would have spend if I did not use the PS schedule.

SLEEP TIME
SINGLE DAY           POLYPHASIC           MONOPHASIC 
* 1                  ~5-6hrs              ~8hrs
TOTAL                POLYPHASIC            MONOPHASIC 
* 271 days           ~1600hrs             ~2168hrs

Having a total of 6504 hours, that make the time I was awake...

PRODUCTIVE TIME
TOTAL                POLYPHASIC           MONOPHASIC 
* 6504 hours         ~4900hrs             ~4300hrs

TIME GAINED (~, transformation into units)
    * 2160000 seconds
   * 36000 minutes
   * 600 hrs
   * 25 days
   * 4 weeks

More or less a month of my life. That was less than I expected when I first started, but still, quite and achievement, in which I stated:

In one year, if everything goes right, I will be living 2 more months, since they would have been unnecessary sleep.

I, instead, lived 1 more month in 8. Not too bad.

Vacation: a case study, real life problem with PS

The main reason I see people stopping the PS is due to the fact that all the rest of the world seems to be monophasic. True, in part. The point is: if I can survive the vacation, in which I will have serious problems in following the PS schedule, I think I'l be able to bear it for the rest of my life, as it is now. When I have kids and a job that might change. Might.

Project Polyphasic Sleep - Days 101-162

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:26:18 +0000

Days 101-162

In my personal opinion and experience, these are great days for the polyphasic sleep. I am finally starting to see ACTUAL improvements in life, not only on the personal level, but the beneficial effect of the polyphasic sleep regime reflect also in my academic performances, as a remunerative payment for the my studying.

The beautiful thing is that I did not have to convince myself that the method worked, and quite well I might add, the problem was to find a way to convince the skeptics about it, using objective facts. And here I am, now I have proof.

Current Schedule

     04:30 - Wake up           Total Sleep Time: 5-6 Hrs/day
     07:35 - Sleep                               Variable
     08:00 - Wake up
     12:35 - Sleep
     13:00 - Wake up
     18:35 - Sleep
     19:00 - Wake up
     00:00 - Sleep

This is what I call "My perfect schedule". That's right, MINE, that's because there is no such thing as the perfect schedule, there is just the perfect way of living for each one of us, it took me more than 100 days to get it right, and now I do not intent to abandon it for any reason at all.

I see that Steve Pavlina switched back to monophasic, not because of health reason, but primarily because "the rest of the world is monophasic". I can understand his position, since he has a wife and a daughter, wether I live basically myself. Yes, I do share the apartment with some friends, but I do not have any responsibility that is comparable to the ones that a father has to face.

I think one of the reasons might also be that he was an advocate of the "Strict regime", and I understand that it can be pretty difficult to follow the 4 hours cycle. My lifestyle is a bit different.

A New Theory

Here's my theory. Animals in nature, and specifically mammals have several naps during the day, according to their natural instincts, therefore their sleep is "aleatory". But we humans, who differentiate from the beasts because we are rationals, as the great philosopher said "Zoon Politikon", we have the power to impose to modify nature, and therefore we also changed our habits. So why don't we use that power to ameliorate our sleeping techniques and habits, instead of using our power not properly?

Here is a set of rules (tough word, maybe suggestions is more appropriate) to follow if you want to succeed with the polyphasic sleep:

Don't push yourself. The polyphasic is supposed to help you feel better and more receptive, it's no use if you walk like a zombie for days.
Start gradually. Using a 5 hours schedule the first week, moving to the 3 hours the next two weeks.
Find your own equilibrium. Instead of sleep randomly like beasts, we can achieve better results. According to your lifestyle, model you nap gaps. A normal person who works 8 hours a day or goes to school is probably not going to be able to bare the 4 hours gap. Instead, sleep a bit more in the night and take 2-3 naps at a distance of 6 hours in the day. I suggest before the meals, that way you will avoid a hell of a lot of problems and complications. Also, almost everybody gets about 1-1½ hours break for lunch and dinner, hence the choice fits perfectly.
25 Minutes. The most important thing is the 25 minutes. That may be 30, 35 at maximum, but it shall not vary more than 10 minutes. Your nap should be 25 <= nap <= 35 minutes.

If you follow these instructions, I think you'll manage with the polyphasic.

Project Polyphasic Sleep - Days 51-100

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:23:36 +0000

Days 51-100

It sounds kind of strange to call this an experiment, when it's been such a long time since I started. During these 100+ days it has become more of a habit, a state of mind. I already listed in my previous posts all the beneficial effects of the Polyphasic Sleep, and I noticed that whenever I am not able to stick to the schedule and I fall asleep for more then 5 hours I feel like rotten during the day.

Current Schedule

     07:30 - Wake up   Total Sleep Time: 5-6 Hrs/day
     13:00 - Sleep                       Variable
     13:25 - Wake up
     18:00 - Sleep
     18:25 - Wake up
     22:30 - Sleep
     22:55 - Wake up
     03:00 - Sleep

One of the benefits of having this schedule is that I can easily manage to return to the 3-4 hours without struggling.

I have had some problems falling asleep in the 25 minuts lately, mainly because I happened to sleep more then 5 hours during the night. After three months of living experience I can say without the minumun doubt that sleeping for a prolonged time destroys my health.

Dorsopathy - I think my body is not meant to stay too many hours in the same position. It is possible the I do not assume the right position in bed, or that my bed is not appropriate for my body, in either cases the polyphasic solution was beneficial.
Fatigue - having to stay awake for more then six hours, my body accumulates tension, as a result I wake up very tired from bed.
Bad Mood - Self-explained. I am simply better off dividing my sleep time.

With the polyphasic sleep regime, all these problems are avoided

I thereby declare that until I am proved wrong, I will continue the polysleep habit, which I consider to be a success.

Project Polyphasic Sleep - Days 14-50

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:21:56 +0000

Days 14-50

I became quite inconstant in my naps. I try very hard to stick to the schedule, and I manage to do it for five of them, but usually the 11:00 nap became a nightmare, tonight, Wedsnday 23 - Day 16, I slept five hours during this nap. Mhmmmmmmm...... something is happening. Maybe I became sleepwalker, I developed an algorithm that would allow me to switch off my mobile alarm clock just if I am really awake, but even so I did not manage.

The possible solutions to this mystery are:

I hear the alarm clock, I wake up, stand up, open the drawer, switch off the clock with the right button, so that it doesn't ring again, put the mobile inside that drawer, go back to sleep without even noticing nor remembering.
My roommates are having fun.
I do not set the alarm clock properly (not this time, it was right)
I do not hear the alarm clock, and it goes on for hours.

Now the only PLAUSIBLE solutions are 0 and 2. Number 1 is possible but I doubt that that's the case. Number 3 is not even in doubt, it would bother everyone, and if someone else heard it, he would have awaken me. Number 2 was not the case this time. Ceterum censeo, the only one that remains is number 0, I guess I'll have to start some kind of mental adjustment, maybe hypnosis ( LOL ^_^ ). Seriously, I have to think of something, I cannot believe that I cannot do it properly, plus I like the benefits too much to stop it in the middle, I am just not thinking the right way.

Ab initio, when I woke up tonight at 05:00, I thought that the method was going nowhere, and I titubant of the fact that I could carry it on. But than I read that .

On my 30th day I realise what I can do and accomplish with my polyphasic sleep project. Whenever I have the time to truly implement this method I can achieve professional results. Let me explain what I mean by that. Suppose I have three days straight where I can manage all time available exactly the way I want without restriction of any kind, appointments or deadlines, I am actually able to stick to my schedule and sleep about 10 hours out of 72, which is not bad at all.

This ideal situation mostly describes the week-ends when I have to prepare for an exam. Most of the time this is not the case, though, therefore I fall down the real-life solution. In this case I encounter impedimenta and obstacles of the most incredible kind, which then do not allow me to take the proverbial nap every four hours. What happens is that I feel the need for sleep growing, I do not fall down unconscious as I read in some discussion blog and bulletin boards, instead I just have a much longer core sleep, that allows me to regenerate and recover strength. After that I can start again the schedule without major problems, in then end I sleep an average of five hours a day, depending from what the situation is.

To conclude this period, I did not fully achieved my purpose of gaining five more hours a day but I certainly earned a lot from this experience, which I intend to continue. These are:

Respiration and control my heart beat. When I lay down it usually took me a hell of a lot of time o get to bed before I could fall asleep and feel really relaxed. Furthermore, not always I was able to slow down my heart beat as I wanted. Now this problems have slowly disappeared,
Concentration. I am able to concentrate much more at school and during the
lesson that when I was at monophasic sleep.
Attention. I am more receptive, I never feel sleepy at lesson, that's
because in this trimester I managed to

Travels.

I often take the train th travel all over Italy. In some sporadic cases I take the plane, sometimes is to visit friends, go back home and visit my family, some other times it's purely for vacation. In either I find very interesting looking at people's behaviour, while sitting in the same cabinet for hours you are able to scrutinise them and learn social experience. It's not really nice to say, but you can actually categorise them, depending from their habits and the way the interact with others. There are of course hundreds of categories, and it's a bit simplicistic to put a label on them, in fact what I am doing is something quite different. What I really do is find communal behaviour that people have.

Music.

Yoko Kanno

I will never ever grow tired of saying how this musician is talented. She is just amaising, if you do not believe me just listen to these songs, and you will give me the record.

Escaflowne OST

Shadow of doubt, from the second CD of the Original Soundtrack. An explosion of emotion that fuse together, the image that comes to my mind is a timid light (the first cello) that slowly moves, and all around it is dark. A much smaller and vivid light the appears from the far horizon (the first violin), the all the other lights join together dancing all over, the colours start becoming more flashy and full of energy, carrying inside them the light of life. There is another storm approaching, they are all running together like a river of emotions, donating life to all the things they touch. Until they slowly disappear in a green valley.

Dance of curse, from the first CD of the Original Soundtrack. Pure energy. Chikara. Power. What best describes it really are the very scenes of the series, so go and watch Escaflowne right now. This song became extremely popular and famous all over the World, even though it only appears three times in the entire series, which is composed of 26 episodes.

Cowboy bebop OST.

Tank, Pushing the Sky

Jamiroquai!

I got the Live in Verona. Amazing, superb, mind blowing. Jay's infectious charisma, Paul Turner's slap, everything is unbelievably powerful. I remember I saw the concert on SAT, and it was raining cats and dogs, no wait, it was literally raining a river in the Arena. Even so they played in a excellent music from the beginning to the end, truly incredible. Go and buy the DVD, if you can't afford it, find someone who has it and borrow it, what's important is that you watch it, it is one of the best piece of music that you can experience on the last years.

Listening to it, I inevitably found myself playing the bass like crazy, trying to emulate Stuart. Well, I don't think I'll even manage to achieve what he did, that's too much for my poor limited human-like capabilities, but I'm quite satisfied anyway. Now the playlist is just playing in an infinite loop in my amaroK, songs have average grade of 96/100. Best Best Best: Canned Heat special version and Virtual insanity. Funky Funky Funky!!!

Ideas.

You know when you have an idea, when you remember something important, or when you have an particular inspiration for a creation? It happens to me almost every time I do not have the possibility to write it down, for example when I am about to sleep, in my bed, all the light are off and I do not even have a pen in the nearby. Well, I'll try to overcome this problem in the following way. I installed a rudimental device that will allow me to write down my ideas even when I sleep. It's a very simple but I think quite effective mod to my bed structure, a pencil is floating attached with a string to the wall, which is itself a wooden panel, that can be used as a board, for this purpose.

Geek part.

Vim. The most powerful editor in the World. And I am having a taste of it. I cam across a couple of guides that enlightened my knowledge of this editor. I was aware of the fact that it had enormous capabilities and potential, but I was using it in a simplicistic way.

Final Remarks

I will update the site sporadically, as you can probably tell from the trend of the updates so far. Even so, I am continuing the experiment, and any relevant and significant change will be posted.

Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping

Up and at: Day 4

Midnight-thirty, technically Day 4

Day 1-2

Contemplating how many times I’ve used “Day 1″ as a post title

Attributionses

Underwater Hockey is Ridiculously Awesome

Everything I Ever Needed To Know I Learned From Napping

They’re like scheduled disruptions of everything

Napping Infographic and Hilariously Disjointed Update

Useful new alarm helps spread addictive new songs

Batch Baiting Message #2

Fwd: Re. Attn. The Chairman CEO

Re: ASSIST ME

Fwd: Western union infos SMTP Inbox Webmail and email links for sale

Deceased Relative / Client. !: Scott Adams tries to back out of our transaction

Re: Funds Transfer/Change of ownership

Maxwell Tapsoba, Owner of the World, wants my help

Williams Lari excites this foreigner

Princess Williams ignores the story of my birth

I won the MegaMillions Intertubes Lotto!

Re: Hello

Re: Funds Transfer/Change of ownership

Collaborative Scambaiting at Posterous

Re: Good day,

Re: Deceased Relative / Client. !

Georgina is waiting

Fwd: help the sos children

Direct from email postings

Georgina Kofi

Older

Ships in the night

The Alphabet Serial Song

I won the webmaster lotto!

Juliet, Oh Juliet

Religious Widow response

End of Everyman Attempt 1

Day 8 - First Big Oversleep

Day 7 - Sleepy

Sorry guys!

Day 2 and 3

Day 1 - Good Start

Everyman Schedule

End of Uberman Attempt 1

Day 14

Day 12

Day 8 and Day 9

Day 7 - End of Week

Day 5 and Day 6

Day 4 - Fatality

Day 3 - Oversleeping

Zzz Spotlight: Alter Ego

Correspondence with Alter Ego

Zzz Spotlight: Tom

Correspondence with Tom

April, May, and June 2010 Polyphasic Bloggers

Day 2 - Getting Better

Beating Sleep Deprivation

Day 1 - Bad Start

Tips and Facts

Dymaxion and Everyman

Introduction and Uberman

Hi!

Zzz Spotlight: James Pain

Correspondence with James

Zzz Spotlight: Sarah McCulloch

Correspondence with Sarah

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