Adopting Uberman, and Everyman-A quick summary.

I actually have been doing a polyphasic cycle for a while now(about 6 months), and I don't plan on stopping. This blog will be more about the evolution of a polyphasic sleep cycle than how to adopt it.

Me and my friend BLEAH, being both 16 years old decided to start doing polyphase. I took on EVERYman (4 naps 3 hour core) nearing the end of the school year on 2011. It went swimmingly, but unfortunately right when I was at the peak of the cycle I had to stop it for a week.

Then summer came along, so I had "time" to start UBERman (6 naps no core). What I was planning to do was to quickly switch between uberman, everyman, and monophasic that way my body would have the ability to quickly switch between various cycles quickly. Looking back it was more or less of a sucess

ADVICE: Something that is designed to give you more waking hours won't take time away from your day. I had a shit load of time on my hands and I didn't have much to spend it on, so I naturally did what bored people do, sleep.

I did: one month uberman attempt, one month monophasic, one+ month everyman and everafter...
I slowly learned that Uberman was not for me after many, many failed attempts, (about a month's worth). It being summer, I started monophase again, remember I had alot of time so I could afford it I was bliss for my sense of alertness, but my day's were just way too short, after the waiting room of everyman, monophasic became the blink of an eye. Then I started Everyman again so I could adapt to it before school started it went well, what I remember most was the difficulty of getting the noon nap(lunchtime). ADVICE: plan ahead, if you don't like planning then you won't get your naps consistently. If you don't nap consistently then that's just regular sleep deprivation.

When school started I more or less kept the schedule the same. Enough of me though, on to my friend BLEAH...

BLEAH was in a sport, and already deprived himself of sleep before polyphasic. Unlike me he started during the summer. He tried Uberman, and I guess he failed because now he does triphasic (3 naps, 90 minutes). I also know him to be an inconsistent napper, so consider that as well.