2012/12/18 10am

Well, this says I didn't sleep, but I say otherwise, what up zeo?

2012/12/16 2pm

2012/12/18 2am

So, I checked the alarm for 10pm, appears to be working normally.  So I either turned both the alarms off while sleeping, or slept through both of them.

2012/12/17

Well, as you can see, I got a good nights sleep last night.  Laid down for my 10pm nap and didn't wake up until 5:30.  I don't remember the alarm going off at all.  I'm going to have to stay up til 6am today and see if the damn 10pm and 2am nap alarms are going off.  If they are, I'm going to have to put the phone where I have to get up to turn it off, which may be a problem also as I can just about sleep through anything.  I'm also going to invest in a screaming meanie.

2012/12/16 10am

2012/12/16 6am

2012/12/16 2am

2012/12/15

Dammit, fell asleep 10pm last night and didn't get up til 6am.  I think this effectively puts me back at square 1 for adaptation.  This is going to be a pain in the ass.  Probably won't nap until 10pm tonight, no point since I got a full night's sleep.

In for a fight tonight

I can already tell.

2012/12/14 2pm

2012/12/14 10am

Nothing of note, felt like it took a while to go to sleep, possibly due to caffeine.

2012/12/14 Nap 2 (6am)

Not a bad nap, didn't get much in the way of sleep, but did not feel tired getting up from it.  Zeo is still putting different sleep episodes together :(

2012/12/14 nap 1 (2am)

Got really cold so went into the bed with the heating blanket.  Almost didn't get up, still slept for 90 min. and was tough to get out of bed.  I don't remember shutting off the alarms, bad sign.

2012/12/13 Nap 6(10pm)

Interestingly zeo decided to combine the 6pm and 10pm naps, not sure why, but I didn't get much useful sleep during the 10pm nap.

2012/12/13 Nap 5(6pm)

Kept trying to get some real sleep here, felt like crud every time I woke up, finally gave up.

2012/12/13 nap 4(2pm)

Yay, finally figured out how to get screenshots of the zeo data.  Didn't get much other than light sleep here, and felt it when I woke up, zeo didn't wake me until alarm time completely elapsed.

12/13/12 nap 3(10am)

Slept ok, used the zeo alarm to wake up at optimal time, but I didn’t really notice a benefit to it.  Still no luck on screenshotting stupid casio commando.

12/13/12 nap 1(2am) and nap 2(6am)

So, last night didn’t go well, fell asleep around midnight and woke up about 6am.  This is not going to be just a matter of will power, as when I get that sleepy, I don’t care, I want to go to sleep.  I’m going to have to have a plan on what to do in order to get up after a nap when I don’t want to, and to stay awake during the night.  Naps during the day are giving me no problem at all (maybe because I’m still getting what amounts to a core sleep at night, or more).  I think I’ll try going over some kata, I need to get back to doing karate anyway and finish up to get black belt.

12/12/12

Naps went well most of the day.  6pm nap zeo showed no sleep, but I’m pretty sure I was asleep for part of it.  Still can’t get screen shots from the stupid phone yet.  When I woke up from 10pm nap I did not want to get up, but had to pick up Meagan.  Once I got going I’m wasn’t tired per se, but man I wanted to sleep.  2am nap is probably going to be a bitch to get up from.

Sleep for 12/11/12

Sorry, slacked on the log during the day.  All naps went well, replaced the zeo during the day so I have a couple of data sets now.  2am nap turned into a core sleep, didn’t wake up until 5:30.  Zeo doesn’t appear to want to save any short sleep episodes when there is a long one, not sure what it will do if I don’t have a long one during a day at all.  Also don’t know how to get screenshot of the phone except for taking a picture of it, the zeo app doesn’t seem to share the graph, and my phone doesn’t doo screen caps.  My web cam at home sux, so I’ll try to take pix with the one at work and attach them to the blog.

Bad night

Fell asleep for the 10pm nap, woke up at 6am .  The 10pm and 2am naps are going to be the beasts for me I think.  Taking the Zeo back to exchange for bluetooth model, so I can hopefully get some data on the naps shortly.

slip up

fell asleep around 3pm for 20 minutes or so, seems to have done wonders for how I feel.  Maybe that’s the key to making adaptation to uberman easier, take an extra nap when the zombie won’t go away?  Anyway, the 6pm nap went well also, the zombie didn’t come back, and I’m only a little tired currently.

Hard waking up now

10am nap was hard to get up from, woke up very tired.  I mentioned earlier that I read something interesting on uberman and circadian rhythm, here it is for anyone interested.  http://trypolyphasic.com/forum/topic/1416/uberman-napbynap-with-zeo-data/

I was noticing this effect for the last couple of days, but I was doing everyman3 schedule not uberman.  Not sure if I’m seeing this with ubernan schedule at this point.  After about 24hours on it every nap is hard to get up from.

Zombie didn’t last too long

Fell asleep quicker than I have been for the 6am nap, but was feeling the zombie when I got up.  Thankfully the sun came up and it didn’t last too long, feeling ok now, just a little tired.

tired now

I didn’t have any trouble today waking up from naps, nor was I tired or sleepy for the most part until about 4am.  I had to get up and go do manual labor to stay awake.  I did take more than a few minutes falling asleep for the daytime naps, but I should have no trouble for the 6am one.  I did find an interesting blog post about uberman and circadian rhythm, but I’m not on that PC at the moment, I’ll try to link to it later.

Bad day yesterday

Was late for my 6am nap and things went downhill from there.  Missed both my 2pm and 6pm nap then crashed at 9.  Slept till 8am.  Haven't missed one yet today.

ugh

Now I know the difficulty, going most of the day is not difficult, it’s getting up that one more time.

Tired again

Slept from 2-6 last night. First nap today getting up I’m very sleepy.  Also forgot the Zeo at home so I will have to wait until Saturday to take it back, or maybe do it overnight if they’re open late enough.

Sigh

I got the wrong damn Zeo.  The one I bought only communicates with the bedside device.  I’m going to take it back tomorrow and get the Pro model, and it should work with my phone.  And you can still do the same data analysis by uploading the data to the web.  Why would I buy the bedside model?  Well because I didn’t know it doesn’t do bluetooth.  Oh well. Did OK on the 10pm nap, though I wasn’t really tired yet, still managed to sleep.  The 2am one should be better.

Got a zeo

Found one locally at best buy, so I will be trying it out.  No naps today due to the 8 hour sleep last night.  I will start with them at 10, going to try for the uberman.

Slept in last night by accident

So, I did actually wake up at 1am, but I laid back down on the couch thinking I could sleep for just another few minutes.  So I got up at 5:30.  I’m really not liking the core sleep period.  I may be missing the correct phase to wake up or something, because I am way more tired waking up from the core than I am from naps.  I may try to move to the Uberman cycle and see how that goes since it’s close to the weekend if I get symptoms of sleep deprivation.  I’m also going to see if I can get a Zeo locally, if I can do that today I may stay with the Everyman3 and see if Zeo will wake me up at the right time.

tired now

did not want to get up after the 3pm nap.  still sleepy, and I have to make it til 9:30.

Still going

Wonder how many posts I’ll title like that

Nap at 10:10 was good, actually woke up early.  I’ve been using a 25 minute timer instead of the 20 minute one, but it seems that isn’t necessary.  Woke up feeling pretty refreshed.

Still a bit sleepy

first nap at 5:10 went ok, wife woke me up a bit early, and I think that is causing me to be a little sleepy now, looking forward to the next nap.

That was difficult

Had a hard time getting out of bed at 1.   I can see this being very difficult in the long run if getting up after the core doesn't get easier.

Not too bad once I’m going

Pushing past the initial sleepiness was difficult, but I’m ok now that I’m up and going.  I’m still a bit sleepy and tired, and my eyes seem to be more dried out than normal (I have dry eyes in the first place, and I’ve had lasik).  We’ll see how the first nap of the day helps out, if at all.

Almost core time

Thought I might have difficulty making it to 9:30, but I seem to be doing ok. A bit tired, but hopefully adjusting core time will help with that, we’ll see tomorrow. I need to make a list of stuff to work on, plenty of cleaning stuff to do, but that will get old fast.

2nd nap and after

I was RED-E for that nap at 2:40 today, I think I feel asleep within 2 minutes.  I think my core sleep time last night from 1-5 was too late, as I was reaaaally tired this afternoon on the way home.  Hopefully adjusting the core sleep time tonight will help with that.  Core sleep tonight is 9:30pm-1am.

First nap of the day

So, I finally got to the point where I wasn’t feeling tired, and then it’s time for my first name 30 minutes later.  I’m thinking there’s no way I’m going to be able to fall asleep in 20 minutes.  Wrong.  I’ve always been able to fall asleep pretty quickly at almost any time, so maybe this adjustment is going to be easier for me than most. 

Tired this morning

Ugh, did not want to wake up and get out of bed at 5:30 today, but I made it.  I am adjust my schedule to match up with an Everyman3 schedule, so today may be rough.  Still feeling tired, but working should help with that.  Also felt hungry when I woke up this morning, and that almost never happens, so I think I’m going to try eating smaller meals but more of them during the day.

Zzzz

Man this block between 8:30 and 1:30 is gonna be brutal.  Ummm saving the job of cleaning the basement until I have trouble staying awake.

Poly- phasic sleep

So I've been reading about poly- phasic sleep and it looks very interesting.  I've always hated wasting so much time sleeping.  I'm going to try easing into it gradually instead of starting of on the uber-man.  I'm to try to blog about it every day.  I'm starting off with a four hour block of sleep between 1:30 to 5:30 with 20 minute naps every 5 hours.  I skipped the first nap tipsy because I wasn't tired yet.  I got a for work naps, and I was surprised how refreshed I felt after my 3:30 nap.  It seemed to take forever to fall asleep and I thought I was going to get no rest.