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Monday, August 17, 2009

Day 30: Lucid Dreaming!



Sorry for the lack of updates! I felt like I had the same failures and successes as I had already mentioned in every blog that there was no point in continuing to update. I am now on day 30 (yikes!) and still not completely adapted. Aya Hu mentioned that at day 27 she fully adapted and felt terrific, so hopefully I will soon too!
I had a lot of cases of oversleeping (usually by an hour or so), so that may be why I am still not completely adapted. I will give it another week or so and, if I still feel the same, I may abandon polyphasic sleep for now. Sleep deprivation for this long can't be healthy!
On a positive note, I had my first lucid dream and it was pretty cool. I read that if you keep an eye out for unusual stuff, you can sometimes lucid dream, so that's how it happened. What I remember of the dream is as follows:
I arrive at my house and notice it is sorta broken into or sorta run down. There are window slats missing, etc. So I peek in the front door and am afraid that there are people inside or something. I make noise and notice some kids jump out of the window on the side of the house and run to the neighbor, where they apparently live. The leader is a huge fat kid around 17 and about twice my size! I somehow become friends with them (don't really remember anything in between) and we were leaving my apartment to go for a drive. Mitch was dilly-dallying on his computer when I left, so everyone was waiting for him. I proceeded down the stairs where "Leon" from the Professional (actor Jean Reno) and an undead version of Dr. House from the show House (actor Hugh Laurie) were waiting. I then noticed that the staircase had a very strange configuration. This made me immediately think that I was dreaming and that I could do whatever I wanted. I then decided to fly off the balcony and up into the sky. At some point my alarm woke me up and that was it...
I will try to keep everyone updated on my last week or two of adaptation. With any luck I will soon adapt well and be able to stay on uberman!

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Day 19: A Dream Machine!



2.5 weeks in and I'm still suffering from some serious sleep deprivation. It comes and goes, like always, but is really starting to take its toll on me mentally and physically. I have had several instances of oversleeping that may have hampered my progress so far, but I am not ready to give up and will keep up the schedule!

I sometimes would sabotage myself from waking up and have no memory of it. This has started to occur more frequently in some funny ways. The other night some friends called me and I answered the phone, talked for 30 seconds and hung up, and now I have no memory of that ever happening. I am not sure how to overcome this except by repeatedly trying to force myself to wake up after each nap and put in place more fail-safes that will make it hard for me to sabotage.

Everyone is talk to about this has seemed so intrigued by Polyphasic sleep. If it wasn't for such interest and encouragement, I may have already given up and gone back to monophase. At this point, though, I am locked into this and will continue it for as long as possible!