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Although I haven’t mentioned it in this blog, anyone who knows me can tell you that I’ve been talking about going on the Uberman sleep schedule for a while. For those of you who don’t know, the uberman sleep schedule is a form of polyphasic sleep in which you take a 15-20 minute nap every 4 hours. In total you end up sleeping about 2 hours a day. If you sleep 8 hours a day, that’s 6 more hours per day and 42 more hours per week. Just imagine how much more you can get done with those extra hours. Hell, you could get another full time job with all that extra time.

95 percent of the people I talk to are skeptical that it can be done and 99 percent of people I talk to believe that it’ll have devastatingly negative health consequences. I hope to prove both of these concerns wrong once I go on it in September. From what I’ve heard of people who have done it successfully, you’re actually less tired throughout the day. That 15 minute nap every 4 hours keeps you at your optimum level more often. Usually, after a bad nights sleep most people become useless for the next day. On the Uberman Sleep Schedule you’re only 3 hours and 45 minutes away from your next nap, so at most a bad nap can only hurt you for the 3 hours and 45 minutes.

The first time I hear about the sleep schedule was probably 6 years ago back in high school. It didn’t really appeal to me at the time because there weren’t enough things to fill those days as it was, and going to school from 8 to 3 would make the sleep cycle impossible to do. These days however things are different. I have so many things that I want to accomplish and so little time. Also, the college schedule is extremely flexible and there might not be another time in my life where I’ll be able to do this.

What really propelled this far fetched idea to become an obsession was reading Steve Pavlina’s blog. Steve Pavlina is a very famous self-help guru and blogger. Although I had no idea who he was before I found his uberman posts on a random google search, apparently he’s one of the most popular bloggers on the net and makes almost 6 figures doing so. Anyways, he was able to go on the uberman sleep schedule for almost 6 months and realistically could have gone on much longer. He documented this time period in his life, giving vivid details of what it was like from day 1 to 180. The toughest part of the whole routine are the first 10 days. Going from monophasic to polyphasic is a huge adjustment, and it takes a while for your body to get attuned to it. Once you past those first days though, it becomes much easier, and you’re even able to get up from your 15 minute naps without an alarm.

Anyways, I’m going to try the sleep schedule when I get back from Japan on September 18. Starting it right away will probably help ward off the jetlag as well as give me some breathing room before school starts. I’ll write a few more posts about it before I go on it and then document how it goes day by day. Stay tuned.