...and it begins

So last night was my last night of sleep. I have been pretty faithful to my nap schedule thus far, and feel pretty good, but it's only been like 10 hours, of been awake, of which about an hour was spent "napping" so thats to be expected. Tomorrow should be more telling. For those of you unfamiliar with what is going on, Jarod and I are attempting to switch to an alternative sleep cycle, known as the Uberman. This requires us to sleep 20-30 minutes every 4 hours during the day. The upside, is we only sleep 2-3 hours a day, thus gaining 6 hours of awake time. The downside is that this 4 hour schedule must be rigorously maintained. There are several other types of alternative sleep cycles, some more practical such as the Everyman cycle made popular by puredoxyk, a cycle that consists of a 1.5-3 hour core nap and four 30 minute naps, some are just historically referenced, such as the cycle Buckminster Fuller was reported to have used with supposedly was a 30 minute nap every 6 hours. Several bloggers have attempted to convert to this cycle, the best known and well documented probably being at Steve Pavlina's blog. He committed to the schedule for over 5 months before switching back to regular, or monophasic sleep. Thats all I have to say on the subject right now, so stay tuned to see how all this turns out.

Monday Night Decisions

This is the first post of the Adventures of the TimeBenders, this blog will follow myself, Tad, and my companion Jarod through our ordeal to become polyphase sleepers. Essentially starting at the end of this week Jarod and myself will sleep for only approximately 2 hours a day, according to the Uberman sleeping schedule. Neither of us has attempted this before so our hope is that together we can claim the prize of an extra 6 hours a day. This is the Monday proceeding the experiment, I will start on Friday, which will coincide with Spring Break. Jarod will begin changing his sleep cycle on Sunday. This way for the first couple of days I will have a somewhat awake person to assist me, and hopefully we can work out any kinks before Jarod starts. According to the Uberman schedule we will sleep only 20 minutes once every 4 hours. This has been attempted by several members of the blogosphere before and our plan is to try an imitate the kind of success with the program that others have had.