Day1-2

I didn't start this blog till day 3 on the suggestion of a friend so I am a little behind as it is currently the night of day 4 for me but hopefully I can catch up. Also I will be posting about my first experience at some point when I have more time haha (if your awake 22 hours as day its really funny[what I really mean is more time when your actually productive]).

Here is a link to my plan if you don't know what I am doing. You can also see it in the sidebar of my blog history.
http://polyphasicandexercise.blogspot.ca/2012/06/plan.html

I started the Uberman Schedule on Sunday night starting to nap at 9pm. What I am considering day one though is Monday from dawn. So the start of day two was Tuesday at dawn. This usually coincides roughly with my 5am nap.

First day at work was actually better than normal because I was able to take naps during the work hour and really I was only deprived from one nights sleep. I am no stranger to sleep deprivation as I have spent almost 4 days awake consecutively and slept 3-5 hours for the entire first semester of university( I will be returning in the fall for my 6th year of electrical engineering). My naps during the day seem to come at just the right times. As soon as I got to work I was feeling a little tired and groggy but then 9 rolls around very soon and I am off to nap.

Here I should take a second to explain my work situation. To begin a huge shout out and thanks to my boss who gave me the go-ahead for doing this (even though he will most likely never read this). The only downside is I have to take the naps in my car. I have subs in my trunk so I can't lie the backseat down and make a bed that's half in the trunk. My car is much to narrow to lie across the back seat (its a 97 Civic ya I know ladies settle down), as a result I am left with reclining the drivers seat. This seems to work alright as long as it is not too hot out as the car also doesn't have air conditioning. I have a pillow and a blanket and my naps were really easy the first day. I fell asleep within my 20 minutes. I seem to wake up from my naps feeling kinda groggy and out of it, usually takes me about another 20 minutes till I feel re-energized from them.

When I got home I spent my time trying to keep busy. I made some meals for the next couple days and just hung out with my family. I was not able to fall asleep at my 9pm nap but I still laid in bed for my 20 minutes. After this I was feeling a little more tired but nothing too crazy. At my 1am nap I forgot that there was a pm/am (who invented that stupid system anyways) so I set it for 1pm. This led to me oversleeping by 3hours...... Not off to a great start on this one. I woke up feeling super disoriented didn't know when it was even after looking at the clock like 3 times. I knew though that no matter what happens just stick to the schedule and ride it out so in another 40 minutes I took another nap. This took a crazy amount of will power to get up from. I felt extremely fatigued and just wanted to roll over in bed.

This next 4 hour block (start of day 2) was the start of my zombie phase. All I did was clean my room because I thought if I sat or lied down I would fall asleep. I managed to stay up and I came up with a great system for making sure that I get out of bed. I set two alarms on my phone that vibrate, before I was using just 1. I would tuck the phone into my underwear band on my hip to make sure i felt it. The second alarm was set 2 minutes after the first and how it worked was if I was able to get out of bed before the second alarm went then I would get to "reward myself"(take that as you will, remember I am trying to be as open and thorough as possible. Also dire times call for dire action)

When I got to work I was fairly zombie like but it was still ok cause I could bank on those two naps that I never used to get. They turned out to be super refreshing. I am actually sleeping better in my car then I am at home in my bed. I am not sure if this is due to their timing or if it is because of the location. Surprisingly enough I came up with a solution to a problem at work that would let me knock about 1/3 of the time off a month long project I have been working on (maybe I just had to look at it from another angle, a very sleep deprived angle). For the most part though I would say that my mental capacity was below normal for sure. During this stage you get a kind of mental quite though that is really relaxing. I would find myself staring off into space and usually when this happens I would be day dreaming or thinking about something but now it was just blank.

After work I went to muay thai. I know I am not supposed to be exercising till after the adaptation but my plan was just to go and do a light warm up, throw some kicks and then just do slow technique practice. I did this but didn't end up leaving till 9:05 pm so I went to the parking lot and slept in my car. Again i couldn't sleep during this nap time but I stayed there anyways.

This night was surprisingly easy I felt really good not tired at all though I was still kind of in the Zombie not thinking state. Sometimes I would find myself picking up objects and just looking at them without any thoughts just observing lol. I think the night was easy to stay awake because of the exercise, it got my blood flowing and my core temperature up.