Day 31

I had so much work to do last night that I ended up shooting for only 1 1/2 hours sleep. I set my clock wrong (it's a long story) and woke up after 45 minutes. I decided to just go with that and see how it went. I found it quite doable; i keep to a rigid schedule of 30 minutes sleep every 4 hours, and I was at normal functioning capacity all day.

I was very shocked that I could do it so easily - I believe it is because I have eased my way into the schedule all along the say - so I decided to jump right to the Uberman schedule today to see if I can do a day of it, or maybe two. It's 6:50 am and I'm fighting off the sleepies, but that is the way it works with most new schedules I try, so it's to be expected. The only part now is that it is very hard to wake me up and I have taken to holding my iphone in my hand while sleeping so that I can feel it vibrate and that combined with the noise is doing the job.

7:04am - I set my time for 10 minutes and put my head down on the table and went out like a light. I'm now refreshed. These little 5 and 10 minute naps really help when I'm too fried to get anything of merit done.

BTW, I have taken to sleeping on the floor at work in the server room under a desk away from everyone using my backpack for a pillow - i have to say that simply laying down like that when i nap (as opposed to laying on a couch or the car's back seat or reclining in the car front seat) has made a huge difference in the quality of my naps. I pass out fast and sleep deep. I guess I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and sleep on the floor a lot in the future. I'm thinking how I can make this sanitary (e.g. by wearing a nylon jacket.)

Also, I've decided to call a nap "going offline" or "taking my brain offline." It seems to capture the essence of what I'm doing - a nap is no longer accurate of what happens when I sleep for 20 minutes on this schedule - and it's kinda fun at the same time to call it "going offline".