Christmas Time!

I am going home for the Holidays, I am not sure how my nap cycles will fair then. Probably not well. Toodles till then. You like that alliteration? Fuck ya.

Poly Note #6

So I slept in today. My alarm wasn't set properly, and I had awoke very late. This was an extreme piss off, but what can you do. I am still going to try to continue to do it. I have something to do on Friday that might conflict so I may take a longer nap before I do this.

Post Numba 5!

So this afternoon during my 4:00 nap I had a nightmare. I wasn't quite asleep, half-way between awake and asleep. I awoke to hearing 6 or 7 different voices carrying on in my head that were rather annoying. I was immediately frozen by a black wolf and it felt like my brain was being split as described by my friend who apparently has had this happen while he was awake before. It was possibly my worst paralyzed moment yet. This was not induced by sleep cycles though, just a regular nightmare. These types of mental "problems" happen almost every nap/sleep and is another reason why I am taking polyphasic sleeping. This inbetween period of awake to sleep will be removed almost completely.

I just had my 8'0 PM nap. I forgot to set my alarm when I went to sleep and I had a full hour of sleep instead of only half an hour. This nap felt like I acheived over 3-5 hours of sleep but really I only had one. Very quick dream that I can't remember so that's kind of good. I do like dreams, but I also, like not having dreams. I can't even remember if I slept in earlier today lol which is horrible.

A note about 5HTP. I took about two pills by cutting the pills in half or by diluting them into water in the past 3 days. It made my head feel really strange, as if 5HTP got right up into the very corners of the left side of my brain. After I drank water after I took a pill, my head was literally throbbed, but it wasn't painful. This is the kind of throbbing that I fear one day I would wake up out of sleep and I would be screaming in agony because of a wretched pain in my head. I would recommend eating two bananas before ever taking 5HTP unless you have a serotonin deficiency.

Sleep Log Submission #4

So I screwed up again. This time I can't be blamed, or can I? I initially went to go to sleep for my 8:00 nap on schedule. I set my alarm extra loud and my eyes close. I wake up and I am on the couch and it's 12:19, 10 minutes before my next nap. How clever can my body be? I have absolutely no recollection what so ever of waking up, changing sleeping places or anything of the sort. What a piss off.

No matter, this is still a shorter nap than if I would of slept, so slowly we are still making progress. I just fear that I will not be able to get into the sleep pattern before I go to home for Christmas.

PolyBlog Post #3

So, I slept in again today, but not as bad. I actually pulled off the naps (I hit the snooze button a couple times) until I started watching Daily Planet. BAM, out like a light. I have no idea where or when this sleep came from, but 2 hours later, FUCK. Maybe a good thing because I don't think I would of went to Karate if it wasn't for sleeping in. I don't think I will be going to the other two classes this week so it's important that I got my ass off the couch so I didn't develop sitting sores and dead legs. I do yoga sitting positions to increase the blood flow after sitting for a long time, but regardless, the body wasn't meant to be like this.

The brainwave generator really worked, made me so comfy and relaxed. I didn't really go to sleep a couple times but I was in the in-between place for over half an hour so it was as good as a nap. I have another nap in another 3 hours. I can't really blast my alarm because I will wake up other people in the house. So naps when people are at sleeping are more difficult because I can't really rely on my alarm. I could use my headphones but they tend to fall off when I go to sleep.

I predict that the rest of my naps will go smoothly until later, then I will hit a wall. Who knows from there. My family doesn't really enjoy me doing this too much so it's not like I get any support. But I this is self exploration here, so I will march on!

I wish I had a robot that could wake me up and so forth.

Polyphasic Sleep Log #2

So, I didn't pull off staying awake yet. In fact I have slept in large sick amounts because I am still attempting to remember my dreams. Once I sleep in once I wake up angry at myself and just go back to sleep in spite. Really stupid. I awoke relatively on time once, but I just laid there and wham I fell right back to sleep. So a new rule. Once that moment of inbetween sleep and actually being awake is broken, I have to get up. It is true if you do move you do raise the probability of dreams, but I have learned it does not matter as I never forget anything more.

So right now I am free-run sleeping because I have no bedtime and I only sleep when i'm tired and I am trying to take naps. I can only try harder, and further extend my passion of self exploration as a tool to encourage my sleep patterns. It's really flippin' hard! >=( BUT I CAN DO IT.

Polyphasic Sleeping Entry #1

I am starting strict polyphasic sleeping today. Also called the Uberman's sleep cycle. I've been trying to do it on and off for almost a year now, maybe more.

The main problem is I have very bad sleeping habits. I don't get up, I curl up into my extra comfy bed and blankets and tell myself I need to lay there to remember my dreams (which I do not, I have never remembered anything more) better and then I fall right back to sleep. The other problem is that I am in Karate and the classes are staggered so some days are timed differently than other days which is a real nuisance.

To solve these problems I say a mantra of "I'm not going to wake up and hit the snooze button, I'm not going to wake up and hit the snooze button" and I pray to the sleep Gods to help me. Since I've started sleep cycles my sleeping habits have improved vastly. I stagger my naps by moving them 2 hours 1 way or another to be able to go to Karate on Monday. Pretty simple.

I've done polyphasic sleeping successfully before, a 20 minute nap feels like you've slept for a few hours. Really odd experience. It also causes dreams to be more intense. I have read stories of a person going back in time multiple times, getting to hang out with our old before the human race ancestors which is just insane. The longer you pull the naps off for the longer the dreams become because your body becomes more and more use to going into REM cycles at this point.

The first REM dream I had was flippin' nuts. I mean nuts. I saw the Raelian movement leader and I was in British Columbia somewhere beside a really huge beautiful mountain. It was extreme. I awoke feeling as if I went through a worm hole and I was scared to continue doing REM cycles, and because of my girlfriend at the time who I did not finish nap cycles because I chose to cuddle and fall asleep. Not this time. I could blame her for quite a few things... *shakes fist*

I am listening to Sven Vath on my winamp. It's silky trance with a little house cut into it, an essential mix with Pete Tong, so you know it's good. My next nap is in 4 hours. I took a nap earlier today and slept in a little bit, but that's not too bad for my first nap. I am using brainwave generators to help me sleep. They are extremely relaxing, and the stimulating settings are quite intense. They make my ears ring and when I am off it I feel quite odd. I have heard stories from people who use theta wave generators and they say it's like nothing else. You go for a walk and it's like seeing the world for the first time after a month of theta.

The biggest problem with doing polyphasic sleeping is boredom apparently because they have way too much time on their hands. I don't really get too bored too often. I have drawing, stumbleupon, counter-strike, starcraft, TV, music, msn, facebook, guitar/banjo, my production and flash projects, DJ'n, etc etc. So really I should never have any excuse.

I have a couple other blogs; swaenk.blogspot.com and codyharmsen.blogspot.com but I cleared all the posts and I am starting fresh with those because they were really unprofessional with spelling mistakes. Plus people were google searching me and it made me sick of people reading my personal thoughts and leaving impersonal comments without telling me who they are.

So this polyphasic sleeping will probably last as an experiment until the 21 until I go to Grande Prairie. I have to get a job, but I really don't want to if I pull this off. There has got to be some other way to make money besides working for someone. I know it takes money to make money but there has to be a way around this besides obviously selling drugs which I don't want to do. How else can you make tax-free money? Honestly. Selling Popsicles?