Uberman: a Retrospective

As can probably by guessed by my lack of posts for this last week, I am no longer on the uberman sleep schedule. This is primarily due to the presence of the girlfriend. On the night of the 11th day I decided to not wake from my midnight nap and slept until late morning later that day. The transition back to my old schedule went easier than I had anticipated, although I wasn't on the uberman schedule for too long which probably made it easier. For the most part, I have been back on my normal sleep schedule of sleep for 10-12 hours then be awake for 12-14 hours, thus bringing a close to the polyphasic sleep experiment.

I have a few observations to make now that the experiment is over. My primary finding is that my body didn't like the sleep schedule, although I may not have given enough time for a proper transition. Basically I found that during the early morning hours I was completely useless, even while awake. I couldn't concentrate on anything but the most basic tasks and found myself nodding off fairly consistently. Seeing as how I wasn't able to utilize these hours effectively, the major benefit of the sleep schedule was lost. The other major thing that I discovered is that it is fairly devastating to have insomnia at any point on this schedule, as I found on day 9 when I became fairly delusional. I was again affected by insomnia on the following day, which certainly didn't help things

I did manage to get a fair amount of work done, regardless of whether or not I was consistent with the schedule, as I was able to build a game prototype to a state in which the player can actually win and lose. I hope to get some videos posted of my progress thus far, probably up by Sunday.

On a slightly different note I had another instance of insomnia last night and have been up for pretty much the last 36 hours, so I apologize in advance for grammatical/spelling mistakes that I don't catch immediately. During this time I was able to build somewhat of a new game prototype from scratch, which will hopefully be integrated into the other prototype that I have been working on. More on this when I have videos to post. Time for sleep now, I think.