Switching to E3

[Ben Kuhn]

Hey polyphasers,

I started adapting last Friday. Until tonight, I didn't have much trouble adapting to Uberman; I was able to stay quite alert and functional. However, tonight after my 9PM nap that all went downhill quite quickly. I'm now having massive difficulty staying awake, microsleeping like crazy and feeling fairly miserable. Is this a sign of SWS deficit? Should I be switching over to E3?

Also, if the answer is Yes, what do I do about the SWS dep before my core? Just tough it out?

Ben

[Matthew Fallshaw]

This could be SWS deficit. If you managed to hold out for the 14 hours since your post, and you're still feeling sleepy:

1. consider toughing it out and trying for a full Uberman adaptation - those extra two hours every day would be awesome, no?
2. switch to E3 and bask in the glory of 3 full hours of sleep (sounds extraordinary, doesn't it! three full hours!) - expect life to get better but not perfect, and to steadily get more and more awesome over the coming weeks.

Congratulations on making it this far!

[Ben Kuhn]

So I decided to switch to E3, but in the mean time I overslept a couple naps and am now having trouble napping. What's a good solution here? Stay up a night again to build REM pressure? Switch back to Uberman for a bit? Just continue with the E3 schedule as planned?

Ben

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[Malcolm McCulloch]

Your three proposals should all work in theory. The first will produce more acute sleep dep, the last the least, and the middle in between. My recent readings of Ubersleep (written by the person who named uberman) suggest that continuing E3 is best, as you're not going to lose the napping skill (to the extent it is one) in a day or two, but what you can lose is your body's sense of when it is supposed to sleep. So be firm with it and communicate to it that it should be sleeping on ____, _, _, _. (replace blanks with your schedule)

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