Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Uber (super) man sleep schedule
Well, it seems I have stumbled upon a new sleep system, known only as the uberman sleep schedule. What it is, is basically getting 2 hours of sleep a day, but getting quality sleep from this short time period. Essentially, you are making a little rest go a long way. The idea of it is to get 20 to 30 minutes of sleep every 4 hours you are awake. When you sleep on a normal schedule with 6 to 8 hours a night, you normally enter REM sleep. REM sleep (rapid eye movement) sleep is quite literal. Your eyes shake rapidly back and forth. In this short period of sleep, your brain begins to rejuvenate itself, along with your body, making you feel rested. With all this being said, you are probably wondering how you can feel rested if you are only getting series of 30 minute naps each day. Well, the secret is to trick your brain into entering REM sleep right away. See, what happens is, over time, your brain begins to realize that it is not getting the normal 8 hour sleep pattern it is used to. So, what can it do? It has only one choice: compensate. After about 3 days of the uberman, and your brain is about to lose it... So it begins to adjust. REM sleep gets pushed closer to the beginning of your sleep, instead of 4 hours into resting. About 10 days in, you will start feeling a little better. One month in, and you should feel better than ever. In fact, with the perfected schedule, you could be getting up to 2 hours of REM sleep each day. This is twice as much as most people. Well, I am going to give this my best shot and continue to record all of my feelings and emotions each day. Hopefully I can successfully increase my waking life by up to 9 years, or at least get really good at video games in the next month or so... Wish me luck
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