Going on with minimal sleep? Possible? - Page 4

On June 30 2008 13:41 HeavOnEarth wrote:


The term "Da Vinci sleep" is often used as a synonym for polyphasic sleep. . . .

as for einstein i don't know really , i just read it somewhere

On June 29 2008 06:47 HeavOnEarth wrote:
Einstein and Da Vinci used the uberman sleep schedule

i myself tried it for a week, before AP/SAT/FINALS cram for 11th grade

it was alright... it was like i was really high
but it catches up to you, i was out like a light for an entire day, not to mention i was fucked up in the head for about 2 weeks and i went though sleep paralysis and hallucinations ; common symptoms of sleep deprivation

but it was worth it
3 on english (fuck you paper over pennies!?because we all care about if the penny should be removed or not!)
and 4 APUSH

and ~2100 on SAT

although i bombed by calc final i still passed! woo~

;edit;
but after reading that blog, i only used it for 5 days and apprantly those first few days are the hardest.. ?( Either way . . . anyone under 18 shouldn't try this, GG ur IQ if you do) u know, but dire situations call for drastic measures

On July 01 2008 03:15 Funchucks wrote:
Integra's story is a good example of something to be suspicious of.

"I sleep 15 minutes every third hour. For a total of 2 hours per day."
"It's okay. Yes i'm still polyphasic. I'm about to sleep now for 20 minutes"
"During the weekend I actually get 5 or 6 hours sleep during the night"

So is it 15 minutes, or 20 minutes? (that's a pretty big difference when you're taking 8 naps per day) Is it always only the planned amount of time? Is it only on weekends that he has long sleeps? Does he really only sleep 5 or 6 hours in those times, or does he crash for 10 or 12 hours?

Nobody is watching him and recording it. This is apparently a bragging point for him, so he's probably exaggerating to some degree. He probably considers the times he oversleeps as a failure of discipline, and dismisses each occurrence as an isolated incident.

It wouldn't surprise me if an impartial observer who could watch him continuously would find out that he averages over 4 hours of sleep per day, and that he himself would be shocked and disbelieving to hear it. ("Well, I knew I slipped up now and then, but I didn't think...")

That is just the way self-reported data works. You can't trust it.

On July 01 2008 03:00 Holylight wrote:
May I ask how old you are Integra and if you have a drivers license or a girlfriend (good relationship)

On July 01 2008 03:50 Holylight wrote:
lol okay, just wondering because it soudned like you were quite young and didnt have to worry about much which would have made the uberman schedule easier...guess I was wrong

i was interested in what type of person you are because i have a feeling that its mostly young people who try these schemes because they can and dont have too many responsibilities

its all very interesting though although i dont think its healthy at all in the long run

On July 01 2008 04:24 Klockan3 wrote:
I actually believe in Integra, sure I do not uberman sleep but instead I only eat once per day and have no side effects from it at all. I do not even get hungry any longer, so its sure is possible to adapt your body to more effecient living patterns than 99.9% of the worlds population are using.

After reading this I might try it out, seems like it could work for me and I am already strange enough as it is in other persons eyes so a little bit more would not hurt.

On July 01 2008 04:34 Funchucks wrote:
Eating your full allotment of calories once per day and getting one third as much sleep as is considered the minimum healthy amount are pretty different.

I'd say it's unusual to eat only once per day, but not rare.

On July 01 2008 04:35 Integra wrote:


Klockan, read my previous posts. Start out slow. dont go straight into it, slowly phase between normal sleep and ubermansleep and you should be able to pullit off wihtout too much problems.

The reason why the majority of the people fail is that they think "all i need to do is to go in straight to the schedule and all I need to do it is to duke it out until I've adapted." It doesn't work you have to do a slow progress. if yuo odn't you will just crash. When i say crash I mean that you will over sleep or actually become fatigued for real and when that happends you will sleep sooner or later, either by your own will or by simply collapsing

EDIT: I study at Linköpings universitet. going to start my forth year in systemvetenskap.

On July 01 2008 04:50 LuckyOne wrote:
wait i dont get it , if you are so smart(top 0.5% of the world) why did you need more time to study in the first place?

On July 01 2008 04:24 Klockan3 wrote:
but instead I only eat once per day and have no side effects from it at all. I do not even get hungry any longer, so its sure is possible to adapt your body to more effecient living patterns than 99.9% of the worlds population are using.

On July 01 2008 04:50 LuckyOne wrote:
wait i dont get it , if you are so smart(top 0.5% of the world) why did you need more time to study in the first place?

On July 01 2008 05:05 Holylight wrote:


lol, I guess you dont work out

i guess you eat alot that one time, but any normal person who is active and moves during the day would get very hungry after say 8 hours after eating, besides you arent feeding your body energy more than one time a day and your body doesnt ration it out during the day, only a certain amount of the nutrition and energy for some hours to come

thing is, youll pretty much run out of energy like 6 hours later and my guess is that you would function better overall if you would eat again then.
besides mood-swings and low blood-sugar might become an issue and i dont know many people who could pull this off without getting inhuman cravings for candy and shit

a year ago i used to eat two times a day for a couple of months and it worked pretty well i guess, but its a pretty big difference from eating once a day

also your body will have to work harder, your kidneys etc to digest and take care of all the food you eat once a day so i dont think its very healthy

On July 01 2008 05:08 Holylight wrote:
um integra, youre not on a uberman sleeping schedule since you sleep longer on weekends, i think this makes quite a big difference.

klockan; no one is saying he is lying

On July 01 2008 05:13 Integra wrote:


I only started to sleep normally on weekends once the summer started since univeristy closes over the summer. If i have to pick boredom or lseep I choose sleep.

On July 01 2008 05:08 Holylight wrote:
klockan; no one is saying he is lying

On July 01 2008 05:12 Klockan3 wrote:

I usually work out every day, 15-25 minutes and i put it just ahead of my meal, I also walk to my uni instead of taking the locals and its a 25 minutes walk.

If what you say about the blood sugar were true I would not even get up on the mornings since i eat at the evening, and I learn better at the lectures than all of my peers since I do not have to study for my exams due to learning everything at the lectures.

And im one of the most coolheaded persons there is, I have even argued quite a lot on the mbs threads against the standards of TL and I have not gotten banned once even :p