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Woo! My first actual update. Not just affirmation that I am alive. Sorry, but I can’t in all honesty call this day 1, nor day two for that matter. However, in terms of how I feel, it is definitely a second day type of feel. Also, this is the first day I haven’t overslept yet in a while. So, yesterday I slept a total of 8-ish hours. I’m gonna consider that day one as I took naps after the full 8; much like the first day of my Uberman adaptation. Now onto talking about me: Oh how I love talking about me. Haha

I figured out a purpose for this paragraph finally: It is kind of an explanation on what I do with my extra time and such. It is not a detailed account by any means; nor will it, probably, give you any insight into what you should do with all your new found free time. I guess it could also be a sanity checker on me for you reader(s?). If I start talking about purple rhinoceroses and such, someone may need to track me down and get me help. On a serious note though, don’t track me down. I don’t want to be killed for one. Also, odds are meeting me and telling me you found me will end with a restraining order on you. Let’s face it; that would be straight freaky of you if you did it. Anywho, onto my little update for now. I am really into the Gorillaz right now. 19-2000 lyrics make up the title of this post.

I feel like being more helpful this time around on my account of the adaptation. Firstly, I am writing this as it is happening. My day is not even over yet. I’ll probably edit this post later tonight, complete with strikethroughs (just one) and everything. I guess I’ll address people who haven’t tried adapting right now. When you try to adapt you may experience the following during the adaptation period as I have: More sensitivity to cold; weird eating schedule (be repulsed by the thought of food, followed by ravenous periods); the desire to eat more throughout the day; weird perspective on time; boredom; extreme tiredness; some irritability for the first couple of days. Extreme tiredness is going to happen to you no matter what as you will be sleep deprived for the first of the adaptation. This can cause one to become irritable. It also screws with your body, causing the sensitivity. The fact that you don’t have a long sleep to separate days causes you to lose track of days and such. Also, being up 22 hours makes you want more food. Combination of these last two tid-bits causes weird eating schedule.
Remember those anti-smoking commercials talking about learning to do everything without a cigarette? Well, somethings are like that with sleep, like showering, brushing your teeth, and eating breakfast. Odds are you do all of these things within the first hour of waking up from your hibernation. Well, without that hibernation and perspective of a day, you may not naturally remember to do any of these. I have to physically think about it to remember to do it. Furthermore, on the brushing one’s teeth business, you don’t get a giant plaque buildup in the 20-30 min naps. So, you lose that indicator too. On the positive side though, this may mean that polyphasic sleeping is actually healthier for your teeth in the long run. It makes sense.

Onto my actual day so far. I am definitely at zombie mode again. Definitely worse than when attempting Uberman, but that is to be expected. By the by: I would never recommend starting off with the Dymaxion schedule. It is just too extreme to have as your first schedule. Also, study when would be best to take your naps before attempting a polyphasic sleep schedule. I have had to change my schedule 3 times to get to my current Dymaxion schedule of 6′s and 12′s. Back to personal experience again- The 6 hour intervals between naps feels a lot more natural to me. On the days of my semi-being on this schedule, where I wasn’t in zombie mode, I did not get tired between naps, but could easily drop off to sleep for my naps.

I didn’t need to do strikethroughs, except for the second s on strikethroughs. However, I do feel the need for adding more about my day after it happened. I didn’t oversleep per se, but I did fall asleep for 2 hours at 2pm. If I would of listened to my own words made in the p.s. of this post about staying out of bed it wouldn’t of happened. I do not feel that bad about this sleep error though as I still have only slept for 4 hours today. I’ve discovered that my weak point is at the 6am-4pm area. To counter this weak point I am going to be walking mindlessly around like a zombie through some biking trails near my house. If I get arrested for scaring pedestrians, I’ll post as soon as I get back from jail. Haha

Thanks for reading
-Robby

p.s. Get out of bed, and stay out of it if you hope to not oversleep, or die.

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