Übermensch

Project has been closed

2008-05-13T20:10:00.003+03:00

The Sleep Camp was canceled and right now don't have time for investigating mysterious world of "sleep".

At the moment busy with creating 3D internet:)

See more www.3dmlw.com

2. sleep camp in summer

2006-04-30T17:25:00.000+03:00

Second Übermensch Camp was postponed to July. More information coming up to website www.ybermensch.com soon.

Ybermensch.com

2006-03-15T14:17:00.000+02:00

Soon we will open website www.ybermensch.com!

End of (first) experimental Übermensch Camp

2006-02-17T16:02:00.000+02:00

Yesterday Iff also gave up uberman sleep schedule. Reason: social pressure, not enough things to do with time and stressful situation with school.

Mätas will deside for Monday whether he will continue or not. He is going to work in Finland from March 1st and idea would be to work in 2 shifts.

Mario has been giving controversal feedback, but seems, that he is basically still sleeping in ubermen mode. Although he is not doing regular naps (he uses also naps longer than 30 minutes).

Tiko quit Übermensch Camp on day 6. The main reason was getting cold.

I am recovering from Camp and probably will continue with softcore schedule (4-5 hours core sleep and 2-3 naps). This has been the benefit of Übermensch Camp that you are able to take naps and sleep more effectively (if keeping up the the regular schedule and nap-times).

Hopefully in near future we will also add summaries (by days) to the blog. We will also write some suggestions for the next Camp and think more about time management and motivation (as the crucial part of staying in polyphasic sleep schedule). The initial time for new Camp will be the end of March / beginning of April (before the end of spring semester and exams).

No good

2006-02-12T13:37:00.000+02:00

Saturday night didn´t go well. I went for a quick nap at 3 AM and woke up about 10.30. Some of it could be attributed to drinking too much champagne the day before. But tonight wasn´t any better. I slept from 4 AM to 11 AM.
The obvious fact is that I just can´t do it on my own. It might be a good time to quit now. But Iff´s experience is showing that it can be done, so I´m keeping open the possibility of trying again at some point in the future.

Waiting for new Camp...

2006-02-12T11:03:00.000+02:00

The last days haven't been good for me to adapt the polyphasic sleep schedule. Today overslept almost 6 hours and yesterday 4 hours.
There is still some illness (head cold), that doesn't want to go away.

Hardest part is getting up and so far I need alarmclock (or wake-up calls) for most of the times. Oversleeping is definitly not good for the progress and makes the adaption more difficult.

The best solution would be new Camp...

the lost art of sleeping too much

2006-02-11T00:13:00.000+02:00

Hey again! Haven't posted for a while, again. Just have been quite busy and most of the time also without a computer. So.. news. Everything is going well. I fall asleep quite quickly when taking a nap and about one third of the times I wake up before the alarm goes off. Also I usually feel very alert and fresh. Kinda like that ;) At the moment I use eardrops when taking naps at a public or a semi-public place. They work well. The only problem is that it's possible that I don't hear my alarm, but I just ask someone to wake me up when my alarm goes off and again, problem solved.
I overslept just this one time after a friend's birthday party, where I also drank, luckily not too much. It was just alcohol and the thing that I took the last nap earlier and pushed the next nap later (so stayed awake for about 6h 20mins). I slept for 6 hours. But it didn't become a problem, I just continued with my schedule and everything was ok.
Right now I came from soccer practice and feel fysically exhausted, it's nap-time too. So off I go. There's just one thing I'm missing - lucid dreams. I've had some that are close, but I couldn't entirely control them. Maybe now, when I'm also fysically tired, I see something. Let us hope :)

Something

2006-02-10T22:42:00.000+02:00

I slept 7 hours yesterday night to help my body recover from illness. I´ll try to get back on schedule tonight. I have to admit that currently it seems a little too much effort maintaining it as long as I have to use an alarm clock every time I want to get up.

The Good, the Bad and The Ugly

2006-02-09T18:35:00.000+02:00

The Good:
-you are above rest of the society. It feels like being Übermensch and you are not being "shutdown" for half of the day, you only take small naps.
-yesterday was first lucid dream :P
-I really have more time and whenever I feel tired, I can start taking nap

The Bad:
- still feels a bit lack of sleep.
- Probably can't drink a lot of alcohol (haven't tried yet), 1 beer doesn't distrub the schedule.
- Hard to get up....damn it feel realy complicated sometmes to get out of the bed after nap

The Ugly:
- You can't be sure when to wash your teeth.

Pese hambaid hoolega!

2006-02-09T14:09:00.000+02:00

Esimesed niidetakse
Tagumised tapetakse
Keskmised tulevad koju tagasi;)
Tiko,
üle oma varju ära kipu!
Maga ja ärka keskmiste sekka
Übermensch alandlike meka -
keha sõna kuula
toida, kata,
liiguta, mata
teki alla ka;)

Redemption blog

2006-02-08T15:21:00.000+02:00

One cannot beat time
So let us live it
carpe diem

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
’cause none of them can stop the time.

I return and see my friend, Kaspar alive
and optimistic just as I left him.
He`s a better organizer than me,
who likes to pile things to do
ending up being a slave to them
failing, trying, failing -
don`t try this at home,
do it in camp

Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
’cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.

Losing motivation

2006-02-08T12:54:00.000+02:00

Getting out of bed is getting harder and harder. Tonight I again slept a couple of more hours than planned. My cold isn´t any better either. At least the air temperature outside is rising rapidly at the moment.
I´m currently at the camp, where I took the midday nap. It went well. I woke up in the middle, but had dreams before and after that. It seems that REM is starting to kick in nicely.

Free Bonus - Lucid Dreaming

2006-02-08T07:25:00.000+02:00

Here is a robustious calculation for those who might value their time:
you spend 10 days in Übermensch Camp, this will cost you 240 hours.
After Camp you will be sleeping 5 hours less than "normal" person. So it will take you 240/5=48 to make back your initial time investment (240 hours). And with first year you will have 360x5=1800 extra hours. And return of your initial investment is 650% with a first year.

Not bad, huh?

But there is also an extra bonus, which was actually the point of this post. Extra bonus is ability to see Lucid dreams and as today was the first time I experienced strong Lucid Dreaming, I will also describe it a bit closer...stay tuned!

Future of the Camp

2006-02-08T05:02:00.000+02:00

After Sunday we are not anymore tied with the camp - it means, that we are free to come and leave as we want :)
Actually we should have made being in camp mandatory for 10 days, so it wouldn't be that easy to oversleep. But after all adapting uberman sleep physically is one thing, but adapting it also socially and psychically is another assignment. This needs really high motivation and is actually the hardest part.
We have set up SSR reporting, so everyone who is away from camp will report the figures and if not, others will take it as a potential hazard of oversleep. So they can make wake-up call which is allrerady another word we use here as oftenly as word "nap".

But the Camp isn't closed yet, we allready have quite many potential "cutomers". So if you want to gain extra 5 hours a day, join us! :)
Anyway, new camp will start hopefully during 30 days and this time it is not experiment anymore, but it will be allready like tuition of adapting uberman sleep schedule. We hope to make a co-operation with university people here (go regularly under EEG machine etc.) and track the SSR and maybe other ratings (that discribe the health situation) of the participants. There will be more dicipline and physical work / exercises. We need to look up the diet and food additives. Our fan and guide of lucid dreaming - ORZ - suggested we should also take omega-3 fatty acids.
The main instructor will probably be Iff, as he has been the best so far, he also have a talent for giving orders, we have noticed ;)

More information about polyphasic sleep may found from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic

Beginning of day 8.

2006-02-08T02:19:00.000+02:00

We have been running in polyphasic sleep mode 7 days. How does it feel?
Well first I have to admit, that I overslept today 2 hours, this is bad. Comparing with monday it is a progress :) Tomorrow I need here some fans or cheerleaders.. hardest for me are naps 12 and 4 pm. You just don't hear the alarmclock.

There are no more this kind of hard sleep deprivation feeling, however I still am more tired after each nap than before - this is not right. Comparing with Steve Pavlina we haven't had such a progress, but this doesn't mean, that there are no progress. I am slowly adapting this new uberman lifestile, yesterday (it becomes more and more hard to use terms such as "yesterday" or "tomorrow") I was developing new time management methodics for myself and planning the time for naps becomes more and more spontaneous. I certanly need some physical work or training, badminton today after some time felt quite good. I am still thinking about the theory of physical an mental tiredness that need to be balanced to get an optimal nap. It has been almost a week after my last badminton. We even thought here to do some jogging in the mornings, but it is a bit cold outside (last couple of days around -20 celsius).

So back to the question, how does it feel..
I can allready say that it is good and probably going only better: full REM, better alertness, lucid dreaming..

Update

2006-02-07T00:28:00.000+02:00

I haven´t been writing lately, but it seems at least my post won´t disappear if I post it now. That means it´s time for an update.
Sunday morning was very good compared to the previous mornings, we were all nicely awake. Evening wasn´t that good for me. Mood was down and the cold I had caught was getting worse. That was of course helped by the fact that we had run out of wood and it was really cold (or it seemed that way). It certainly seems that the immune system is not working as good as it could, at least during the transitional period.
I decided to go home to be in a warmer place and maybe even get something done.
On Monday morning I managed to oversleep for a few hours. The moments you think "Oh, I´ll just lie here fore a couple of more minutes" are the hardest ones. If you have got nobody to pull you out of bed when needed, you need a really good discipline to succeed.
The 4PM nap was scheduled while in school. But I only had a short break and was really hungry. So I couldn´t get any sleep and ate instead. The 8PM nap went fine, but I didn´t get any sleep during the midnight one.
New day brings new challenges. I may have to resort to playing Football Manager to keep myself up through the night. It will also be difficult getting sleep at the university between lectures.
I´ll keep you posted...

Between Day 6 and Day 7

2006-02-06T21:48:00.000+02:00

The last nap was a really good one compared to all of my previous naps. When I woke up, I felt relaxed and good and alert. SSR 1 or 2 :)
The feeling that the body/mind needs more sleep almost disappeared. Even went to all of my today's lectures, no problem whatsoever.
Right now at camp with Kaspar - cooking.

towards being an Übermensch...

2006-02-06T15:50:00.000+02:00

I haven't posted for a while. It is because we have been quite busy and there has not been any greater progress. It still feels like having a sleep deprivation and I eaven made my 8am nap longer (I took 30 minute nap, then wake up, but felt so tired that I decided to sleep another 30 minutes, which became 2 hour sleep, although I woke up the first time when alarm went of).

Tiko also overslept (he is also a bit sick), Iff is running well and just now in his lectures - good for him!

But then again we have survived 6 days and 7. is just now going on. According to Steve Pavlina after 7. day it should change - the feeling of sleep deprivation will disappear. We will see.
Actually after sleeping this 2 hours almost in a row, i feel quite good. I have a new burst of motivation and today we probably also deside how to continue with the camp. We definitly need more dicipline and time planing, I haven't done my work-related tasks lately, so it makes me a bit nervous...today I finally consentrated on unfinished things...also makes me feel good.
No lucid dreams yet, but the REM phase is recognizable. So we allready are almost ubermen. And this means, we can take new people to the camp and be instructors (we allready have couple of candidates:)
Future plans of Übermensch Camp are coming soon. Sorry about webcam, we still haven't desided weather we would like to be reality show stars or not, the main purpose is still implementing the polyphasic schedue, not making show to people.

webcam. live!

2006-02-05T22:58:00.000+02:00

We are testing our webcam.

http://www.ybermensch.happyhost.org/index.html

*****

Testing over. It works just fine. For the moment, though, we turned it off.

slow improvements

2006-02-05T11:30:00.000+02:00

naps are getting better, slowly, but still. besides the "accident" yesterday, I'm starting to feel better and not so tired. SSR 3 probably. Only one thing - I feel cold all the time, atm there's 18 degrees celsius here, but I'm wearing two jerseys, a scarf (ok, that's also very nice for the eye ;)) and gloves. Weird, huh? Time for nap.

1 sleep left to beginning of 6. day

2006-02-05T11:05:00.000+02:00

Iff, Kaspar and Tiko are in the Camp. Situtation in Camp is OK.

Mario is in Tallinn, being badminton referee in some competitions. Mätas will be back prabably this afternoon, he didn't pick the phone right now.
Mario had skipped 2 naps yesterday and planned to take 1 hour nap instead of 30 minutes. He reported a strong headache and tiredness. He will be back today, probably after 7pm.

Webcam was allready tested and will be publicly acessable for monday's morning. Crew is using reportsheets to record SSR-s before, after and 1 hour after naps. This data can be analysez later.

Outside temperature is -21 degrees and we are out of firewood. But inside temperature is +18, so there is no problem yet.

Today crew is planning to set up the end-date for the camp.

5. day with some difficulties (delayed)

2006-02-05T05:32:00.000+02:00

Last guests (girls) left 4am.
4 am nap was good, but for Tiko and Iff it was disturbed (whispering girls).
After 4 am nap Kaspar and Iff were really sleepy. Kaspar slowly passed away.
Team decided to take the 8 o'clock sleep earlier. Kaspar slept from 7.15 till 7.45, Iff and Tiko from 7.45 till 8.15. At the same time Kaspar was already quite passed out and was napping on the chair. Iff didn´t manage to wake up properly and somehow went back to bed and slept 10 more minutes after 8 o'clock nap.
From 8.15 till 10 Iff and Kaspar were like zombies, Tiko had no power to wake them up. Team decided to take the nap earlier - 10 am. Kaspar took nap 11 am and overslept, woke up around 13.30. Iff and Tiko continued being zombies: Tiko called Iff's name, Iff opened his eyes for a second then closed them again, Tiko watched the unlit fireplace, collected power, called Iff again and so on.

In the morning there were problems with 2 posts by Tiko. They disappeared???
Just now the team is OK and plans to continue with the old schedule: next nap will be at 4 pm.

Technical problems with Blogger.com

2006-02-04T22:53:00.000+02:00

We are sorry, Blogger.com seems to have some technical problems. Our new posts are getting lost regularly. We are

waiting for feedback from Blogger, unfortunately they are not working in uberman mode :(

second visit by Don Digimon

2006-02-04T00:11:00.000+02:00

was taday, on Friday. Alrady it seemed normal flow of the things - afteh playing LOTR RISK with Iff & two of my friends @ the fraternity house I took my dailynap @ the AlpenHaus. And the waking was awful, and then, in minus 17 degreed of Celcius, I rushed to work again.
Life" beautiful, although it seems a bitch most of the time. Why? I dunno, but the bitches seem to gave lost their roof & mind & act weirdly lately. Winter depression? Too few sex? No boyfriend? All cool dudes taken already?

4. day running

2006-02-03T19:55:00.000+02:00

So it is allready 4. day of our camp. Results are quite good and seems that everything is now going only better. We can get sleep during the 30-minute nap times, we allready see dreams (this is pointing to REM phase) and we don't feel that tired (or we have got used to that). We haven't overslept or skipped any naps and seems that the camp is functioning the way it was planned (teamwork).

About the organizational side:
Mätas went to Kohtla-Järve, will be back on sunday and we will communicate with him over the phone and internet (hopefully he will also add something to the blog). Mario will be stepping by, and during the weekends he is also away. But he seemed to manage the schedule by himself (as he does with his schoolwork), so there shouldn't be any worries about him.
If everything goes as planned, we all, this means 100% of the crew, will be Übermenschis by the end of last week.

That's all for now, time to take a nap.
And then party with the fans...jippikaijee

Naps

2006-02-03T19:16:00.000+02:00

As I said, my last two naps have been an improvement. Just before the end I believe I've managed to experience the REM-stage. It's hard to explain, everything felt and seemed real, but then I woke up and understood that what I saw was a dream. Hopefully now the REM-phase becomes longer and longer. Eventually it should be possible to have lucid dreams, but right now that's in the future.
One more thing, also quite hard to explain, and you need to have a very good imagination to even grasp the concept. At the start of a nap when I lay down and close my eyes and mentally try to guide myself towards the REM-phase I seem to become flatter and heavier. I'll try to explain - when you lie in your bed before falling asleep, you are totally relaxed and you feel warm and comfortable, there doesn't seem to be anything that would make you feel even more relaxed and so on. But this "flatter and heavier" is that more. At some levels, it's like becoming one with the bed, sort of falling a bit into the bed. It's a very very strange feeling, but a quite good one, as well.
More to follow.. I hope.

First official sponsor

2006-02-03T15:29:00.000+02:00

We got first official sponsor: Hill (Iff's brother, fresh dad).
He has provided us firewood and hopefully will provide in future also. Just now it is -16 degrees according to Celsius, so we need to use the fireplace here to prevent death by freezing. Actually we have also noticed that with uberman sleep you need warmer place and you start feeling cold pretty easily.

Progress

2006-02-03T11:53:00.000+02:00

15 minutes ago Blogger.com was down, I hope it's not because we are actively posting here.
Anyway, 8:00 sleep was quite good. First nap, when I finally saw the dreams. Not the Lucid ones yet, but it is a good sign - a progress.
The mental state is better than yesterday, but SSR at the same time 5. It means i feel better but i am more tired. After morning nap it was quite crazy, as soon as you sit down you start falling away.

Ps.
Today there will be a little party here for fans. It is like with sport, you need fans and sponsors. Fans we got, sponsors not yet. But again, we are hoping for a progress in this field too.

feeling better

2006-02-03T11:44:00.000+02:00

haven't posted for some time now, but I'm still here, spent the last night again at a fraternity house in tartu. Played Risk:LOTR Edition the whole night, keeps you awake and concentrated. Naps are getting better, too. Most of the time I'm at SSR 4. Webcam coming up soon probably.

Hard times

2006-02-03T10:14:00.000+02:00

It was hard staying up after the 4AM nap (SSR 6), but after 8 o´clock it got really bad. I couldn´t really understand what was going on, so i´d say it was SSR 7-8. Now, with assistance from a breakfast and a tea you could say I have regained conciousness, up to SSR about 5. I wouldn´t like to feel like that again, hopefully I can get some energy from the next nap.
This wouldn´t be so hard if it wasn´t so goddamn cold.

He`s got the whole World in His hands

2006-02-03T09:46:00.000+02:00

A time for a few is at hand:
guten morgen!Feelin`
fresh as a daisy,
a bit lazy(basic human lazyness),
thankU, Lord!
almost 2 days überwork behind,
rough last night
rough road tonight, but..
the mornings are bright:)

Silly questions, silly answers

2006-02-03T04:47:00.000+02:00

People are asking a lot of questions about Uberman sleep and our camp. Some of them are stupid but of course the curiosity is not a sin and some questions might have a deeper meaning. For example:

What will happen to estonian children, when fathers/potential fathers in Estonia are ruining their health in this way?

Well...hmmm...ää..

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But here is a small FAQ, if YOU have some questions, don't hesitate to add them to the comments. That's also why we allow anonymous comments.

Why are you doing this?

Well, maybe we are insane. Maybe we like to do wierd things. Maybe we are just clever and we would like to gain extra 5 hours a day and be rested and full of energy whole 24 hours.
It doesn't mean that you will live your whole life this way, but important is knowing, that you can achieve uberman sleep schedule.

This is bad for your health. Why are you doing this?

Lot of things may be bad for your health. And it is not that black and white. Something may be bad in short term, but useful in longer term and vice versa. Why we are doing this? Scroll couple of rows upwards: we allready answered this question.

How long can you live this way?

Leonardo DaVinci, Buckminster Fuller etc. slept all their lives this way. If you eat properly and get all the needed vitamins & minerals you probably could live this way for years. Some guy sleeped this way half a year and didn't complain.

How can you be back normal?

What is normal? Monophasic sleep 8 hours and friday night couple of bears and 10 hours sleep? Basically you just switch your sleeping schedule back and it will be much more easier.

Human being needs 8 hours a sleep. How is this uberman sleep possible?

This 8 hours is a myth. First the needed sleep depends on individuals. Secondly there has been studies, that show the optimum is actually 6-7 hours (probability to live longer is greater). But this is for monophasic sleep.

Are you drinking a lot of coffee?

No. Not much more than usually. The problem is not being awake but willing to get to the uberman sleep pattern. Using a large amount of coffeine may be useful in short term, but it will also increase the risk for sudden breakdown, so we don't reccoment it.

I am interested, how to join?

That's a practical question. We would be interested in organizeing next camp, but so far you can join over internet by asking questions and submitting your progress. If you are really sure about switching to uberman sleep, then let us know and you will be member of this blog.

How will this influence my sex-life?

Well..we don't know your sex life and we are also not sexologists. But sex and sleeping are 2 different things, so there shouldn't be any problems. During the traning period you are too wasted for sex, but if you wish and can, then just go ahead.

Why sleep at all?

Humans and other animals need REM sleep. Otherwise your brain will stop functioning, memory wouldn't work, you would get bored of yourself etc.

Gute Nacht, Fraülein8!

2006-02-03T01:08:00.000+02:00

uni tundub töeline,kuid ärkamine kustutas sisu (nagu tavaliswelt), esimene uni oli tähendusrikas (nb!unenäoseletajad)1lõvi&tiiger noolisid mind,tahtsid vast süüa (eila veel,n üüd uni sügavam, kell 1:15 peale keskööd, need lisatunnid mulle juba armsad;)).,

Slowly progressing

2006-02-03T00:38:00.000+02:00

Had about 4 fully slept naps in a row already, now is the first time during that when I´ve felt good. Fresh and alert. Until my last nap I was sleepy, disinterested and nodding off when given the opportunity. Also had a mild headache and a fever.
My body seems to be adjuting to the rhythm, no more problems falling asleep when needed. An interesting detail I´ve noticed is that at least during the last three naps falling asleep has followed the following scenario: Trying to fall asleep, then a sudden trembling of my body which reminds me waking up from a nightmare. And then I shortly fall asleep. I would speculate that I´m possibly already asleep when experiencing this, but it seems to me I´m still awake.

Situation is stabilized

2006-02-02T23:31:00.000+02:00

People look quite tired and they prefere not to move more than nessecary. Slow motion. Exept the Mätas, who was actively skiing today and now tries to study.
For me the last naps have been like this: before nap SSR is like 3-4 and after 5-6. Makes no sense but it is caused by short time for nap (now 30 minutes) and thing, that your body is not waking up entirely or something. After naps it takes about an hour, then i feel better again. And the closer to the nap time (after being 3 hours awake) i start feeling more tired - i think that's a good sign.

Tiko and Mätas on the photo, we catch up with Iff later in the city. Mario will hopefully show up also today.

first visit to AlpenHaus made by don Digimon

2006-02-02T21:50:00.000+02:00

me, don Digimon, made the first visit to the main camp (AlpenHaus aka Alpimaja in estonian) on Wednesday after we had quite some awesome time playing Risk: Lord of the Rings Trilogy Edition in the fraternity house.

So I decided to test the sleepin-conditions in the main camp on myself before going to work for 4 PM. I can assure the conditions are satisfing. So I can say that the naps taken by contestants provide enough rest for the participants.

Keep up the good spirit boys! Althoug I can not make the whole camp with you
I am with you in my mind and try to make a contriution to your experiment making my own experiment - trying to make a camp of playing RISK: LotR. All nights long (sth. between 9 to 14 hours on playing through night-time & getting no sleep on day-time). So - it also can be considered as "pushing the limits of yourself experiment": only 3-4 hours of sleep in one or two parts per 24 hours.

So... let"s see what becomes out of my experiment "coz on Monday (Feb. the 6th) starts the school... over 2 & a half years... yeah. Let"s see what becomes out of it.

So - again I wish you all the strength there in the Camp.

Don Digimon,
your official traineer

Innovation in the Camp

2006-02-02T19:55:00.000+02:00

The crew desided to provide also webcam of the sleeping room. Webcam needs to be setup properly and we also need right software for transmitting the picture to the Übermensch blog.
Instead of 20-minute naps we decided to use 30-minute naps. Later we will change back to 20. Problem was not falling asleep as quickly and the actual sleep-time seems to be a bit too short.

Not To Worry..

2006-02-02T12:32:00.000+02:00

because Mätas was found again and he is still with us. He and Kaspar are taking the nap atm.

Mätas lost again?

2006-02-02T11:53:00.000+02:00

Should we start again mission for finding Mätas? He supposed to go to some lecture, that was from 9 to 11. Just now he is not answering the phone.

Still no REM, crew is feeling sleepy

2006-02-02T11:35:00.000+02:00

We still don't get to the REM sleep, this worries me a little bit. I hope today/tomorrow get some REM finally. This morning was quite crazy, SSR was about 6. Just now it is better again, though my stomach hurts.

Officialy we will start with 3. camp day this noon. We'll see.
And btw. friday (03. february) we will have a small parti in the Camp House. Of course without alcohol, cause it may affect badly for the sleep-schedule.

Allan and his progress

2006-02-02T09:32:00.000+02:00

Allan complained that he took the 8 pm nap and overslept. This is the worse thing actually, because you will not anymore be so tired and then it is also more difficult to get the REM sleep. Oversleeping brakes the rhythym.

Getting difficult now

2006-02-02T09:08:00.000+02:00

Managed to get 10-15 minutes of sleep at last. Same for Iff. That means serious difficulties staying up now. Everybody´s struggling against sleep, have to do something about it...

sleepy

2006-02-02T06:53:00.000+02:00

First marks of feeling sleepy and tired. SSR 4-5, was even 6 when we were watching "Waking Life". Waiting for the next nap.
Additional problems - from time to time there are ideas similar to "maybe I should just stop this whole thing and sleep 20h straight" etc.

Is this a dream?

2006-02-02T04:57:00.000+02:00

What if you hear everything around you and think that you are awake but actually you are sleeping? Last nap was something like this, I hear everything around me and it really seemed, that i was awake. Still it was really relaxing (for body) and at the same time the pain of waking up let's you know, that you really slepd. Still it doesn't seem like the real REM sleep with Lucid Dreams, althoug i felt some eye movement and it was quite rapid.
But after nap SSR around 3-4 and i feel quite ok.

This is getting strange...

2006-02-02T04:33:00.000+02:00

This time I had a feeling I would soon fall asleep, but suddenly my heart started pounding and I felt hot all over. Quite scary, actually. I´ve sept for 20 minutes during the last 36 hours and still not feeling tired. Why?

Mood has dropped and apathy is sinking in - status maybe down to 4.5 SSR

The Midnight

2006-02-02T03:45:00.000+02:00

yep, just like Ouroboros, couldn't sleep during the last nap. But it felt a bit better than the previous attempts. Maybe soon I'll get some sleep. Spent my time at a fraternity house again, before that also visited my brother.

Being tired isn't bad actually

2006-02-02T02:12:00.000+02:00

I feel quite ok, SSR is something 4-5. Yesterday it felt quite depressing at the same time, but now somehow body has got used to the fact that i am constantly tired. Some sort of awareness about my muscles and bones. But I also know, that quite soon i need another nap again. And this will be also the time to go to sleep according to my "old bioclock", so i probably sleep better. Sleep is not pure REM yet, but at least i sleep half (10 minutes) of the whole sleep-time. So it takes me about 10 minutes to fall asleep.

Badminton was quite hard, but it swept any sort of sleep away. I know that i supposed to be tired after this kind of training, but quess again. It felt like balanced: mental tiredness equals physical tiredness. And total would be over-tired?

The Midnight Update (with a picture)

2006-02-02T00:58:00.000+02:00

Guess what?
That´s right, couldn´t sleep this time either and feeling fresh from playing badminton. The closest I´ve got is the feeling swirling around I´ve come to associate with falling asleep.

And now something completely different:

19.50 nap

2006-02-01T20:16:00.000+02:00

No sleep again. And still not even sleepy. Getting out of the warm bed makes the cold even colder, shivering at the moment. Hopefully some wood will arrive soon. Next up: Getting wood and going to badminton training... That might be tiring enough to actually fall asleep next time.

team at the moment:

2006-02-01T18:31:00.000+02:00

Mätas and Mario are in their sweet homes, they will be joining with us (Iff, Kaspar, Tiko) today. Mario has almost kept the schedule, Mätas has rested a lot (read the Mätas saving mission) and is probably fresh and alert (-1 day comparing with rest of us).

Also Allan (username Allah:) will join with us, but not physically. He is trying quite similar schedule and at the same time in Tallinn. Plus he is working 8 hours a day ;) Don't try this at home!

Nap Ranges

2006-02-01T18:30:00.000+02:00

Here are the approximate times when we REM-sleep. We sleep in two shifts at the moment. So the time ranges are (all in GMT+2) as follows: 03.45-04.45; 07.45-08.45; 11.45-12.45; 15.45-16.45; 19.45-20.45; 23.45-00.45
Technicly this means that we usually have our naps somewhere during these time ranges. We would very much appreciate if no calls are made during these periods.

The Übermensch Camp Crew

15.50 nap update

2006-02-01T16:42:00.000+02:00

No sleep this time. Shouldn´t have eaten those grapes before trying to nap - all I could think about was eating. But I actually wasn´t really tired and current condition is satisfactory as well.
My only complaint is that it´s too damn cold in here - so cold my laptop fan won´t start working even when under the most intense workload, which I haven´t seen happening before.

PS. When buying grapes from the market I forgot what they´re called, so I just bought some of "those"

Mätas

2006-02-01T14:16:00.000+02:00

At last, Mätas showed a sign of life and he is still with us. Although he's going to start again this evening, because, apparently, he fell asleep last night and was unable to wake up. Let's hope he is stronger now.

Back in Tartu

2006-02-01T14:03:00.000+02:00

First nap failed, I just couldn´t fall asleep. So I watched the sunrise instead. In Tallinn it started to snow, which was nice. Meeting went okay despite me being even slower than usual. Then it was time for another 2,5-hour bus trip back to Tartu. I was feeling pretty bad already (SSR about 5 + nausea), but finally it was 11.50 and time to sleep. That was a success. Upon waking at 12.10 I was feeling refreshed and hungry. And now, 2 hours and some food later, I´m at SSR 2 and still upbeat.
It must get nasty eventually, though...

it is not as hard as you think.. it is harder

2006-02-01T12:12:00.000+02:00

I have tried uberman sleep 2 times before. Of course without a team, so I haven't managed to get to the final target: you can wake up without alarmclock and most of your day (being übermensch you will have 6 days in normal 24-hour day) you feel rested and full of power.
But this time with team spirit and sleeping in shifts we will do it!!!

So what is so difficult about being Übermensch? First you feel just a bit tired, then you start getting this kind of "natural high" state and finally become almost a zombie. Well, all this being awake is a piece of cake (at the beginning), but now you start teasing your body with 20-minute naps.
The most difficult part is getting up: last nap (8 am) I allready actually slept. And it is a long way from the alarm to getting off the bed. When you oversleep, you will actually go back in progress and it is not allowed!

Just now it is a daytime again according to my old bioclock and it is not that hard to stay awake. SSR is about 5 or even 4. But the regular naps are needed to train the body for these 20-minute REM naps. Later we also write more about REM, Lucid Dreaming (another cool thing, that comes with uberman sleep schedule), Vitamins etc. Just now the nap and later we will entertain fans.

Today Mätas and Mario will also join the camping place - our cool Alpi house in the center of Tartu. Tiko will be back from Tallinn about 4 pm.

Between Day 1 and Day 2

2006-02-01T11:43:00.000+02:00

We tried to save Mätas, but we couldn't wake him up by throwing snowballs at his windows. So on we went towards one of the fraternity houses in Tartu. We fell at least 1 or 2 SSR points. Kaspar had some problems staying awake, but the situation was managed. The nap at 08.00 was better than the ones before. We (me and Kaspar) were successful in falling asleep for at least a few minutes. Though, waking up is becoming harder and harder. Most of the night was spent watching 2 non-ybermenschians play RISK:LOTR Edition. Kept us awake and sane. This morning we went to a local locale for some breakfast and now we're back at base camp.

Here we go

2006-02-01T06:37:00.000+02:00

I´m off to Tallinn for a meeting, no sleep yet tonight :)
Hopefully I can limit myself to 20 minute naps in the bus while not being too antisocial at 10 AM
Current status: alert, minor difficulties focusing, surprisingly upbeat.
Next update by me hopefully 8-9 hours and 2 naps later...

Mätas is lost

2006-02-01T01:20:00.000+02:00

Mätas supposed to take his nap in his place, but seems he has got "lost". We probably need to go to resque him, because he doesn't pick the phone. He seemed pretty tired too, working 2 shifts in a row or something..

Timezone

2006-02-01T00:50:00.000+02:00

one more thing, the time zone is GMT +2

Situation in Camp

2006-02-01T00:44:00.000+02:00

Why is it a camp? Four men, 7-10 days, one place - Kaspar's apartment. But the conditions aren't too nice.. 11 degrees Celsius (~52 degrees Fahrenheit), hopefully we'll get some firewood tomorrow. But right now I just came back from my firsti 20min nap. Didn't sleep at all, but that's not a surprise. If I was about 2 SSR (Sleepiness Scale Rating) before the nap, then I am 3-4 now. So, we all will probably go a bit insane before this thing starts working. Hopefully we become more or less sane again then.
At the moment Kaspar is having his first go aswell, should be about 15 minutes to go for him. Time for more tea.

How to rate your sleepiness?

2006-02-01T00:29:00.000+02:00

As the idea of Übermensch blog is to record in real time the mental and physical state of team members and also provide detailed information for sleep scientists (unfortunately there are not so many of them yet ?) we also need to measure our sleepiness.
We are going to use Stanford Sleepiness Scale (http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/sss.html):

An Introspective Measure of Sleepiness

The Stanford Sleepiness Scale (SSS)

Degree of Sleepiness	Scale Rating
Feeling active, vital, alert, or wide awake	1
Functioning at high levels, but not at peak; able to concentrate	2
Awake, but relaxed; responsive but not fully alert	3
Somewhat foggy, let down	4
Foggy; losing interest in remaining awake; slowed down	5
Sleepy, woozy, fighting sleep; prefer to lie down	6
No longer fighting sleep, sleep onset soon; having dream-like thoughts	7
Asleep	X

1 day

2006-01-31T22:51:00.000+02:00

Camp is opened, it is about 11-12 degrees above Celsius.
Here are: Kaspar (slept 5 hours last night), Iff (6 hours), Tiko (10 hours), Mätas (4 hours).

Feeling is OK.

Uberman's sleep schedule

2006-01-24T02:08:00.000+02:00

From January 31 till February 7 there will be going on real-time experiment with human sleep patterns. The descriptions and comments will be posted here on this blog: http://ybermensch.blogspot.com/

The idea is to addapt so-called Uberman's sleep schedule. Uberman's sleep schedule is type of polyphasic sleep, with 6 sleep-periods during 24 hour and total sleep time 2-3 hours per 24 h.
More info: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=892542

the beginning

2006-01-24T01:33:00.000+02:00

hey, it worked :)

local time - 24.jan 1:35 AM Tartu, Estonia