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?