Friday, February 18, 2011

Day 1 nap 3 - Urgh....

Well...today could have been worse, I guess. But not by much. I had trouble falling asleep fast enough with my 6pm, 10pm, 2am, and 6am naps...and then I overslept my 10am nap by an hour. Russell had a similar experience.

I feel refreshed right now, but that's from my extra hour of sleep that I got. I don't know how long we can hold up, Russell is half-asleep as I'm writing this. I knew this was going to be tough coming in, but this is ridiculous.

Will update later (have to go to class),
Jon

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Day 0 - Calm before the storm...

Jon here.

I'll consider this to be Day 0, because honestly, the effects aren't going to start until tomorrow at the very least. Most of the information about what we'll be doing has already been given by Russell, so I'll attempt to preemptively answer any questions anyone might have.


Why are we doing this?

We're not sure, to be honest. It was mostly a spur of the moment decision. We agreed that, succeed or not, this is one experience we both do not want to miss. Also, who doesn't want more time? There's so much that we could do, maybe actually finish our 251 homework now...


Are there health risks?

We've done our research, and there's no conclusive evidence to say that there is or isn't. There are a bunch of people who have done it successfully without any adverse health effects...Anyways, in the end, we'll be able to tell if this is detrimental to our health and deal with it.


Isn't the adaptation period going to be terrible?

Yes.


Won't this affect your classes?

I don't have any exams or projects coming up, and I don't think Russell does either. We'll get by on the homework.


I'll answer any other questions anybody may have...if anyone is reading this.

My first nap is coming up, I'm pretty excited (and scared). Oh and I've never pulled an all-nighter, and I sleep pretty soundly. I'll probably be depending on Russell or somebody on our floor to wake me up.

Until...tonight, probably
-Jon

Day One - Nap One

Hi. Russell here.

This will be the blog between Jon and I, where we document our experience trying the "Uberman's Sleep Schedule." Because, lets face it, we will have too much time on our hands. It consists of 6, 20-minute naps a day, with 4 hours between each nap. It's supposed to be the same as 8 hours of sleep, but with more awake time.

Today we started, or just me, I guess. We will be sleeping at around the hours of 2AM, 6AM, 10AM, 2PM, 6PM, 10PM and I started with the 2PM nap today, Jon stayed awake and is starting at 6PM.

Today, it felt just like any other nap because I slept normally last night. I promise this blog will get more interesting as Jon and I become more sleep deprived and start experiencing crazy-ass dreams.

Until I get bored again,
-Russell