Uberman sleeping

[wakeforce]

I've just read on polyphasic sleeping just now, and it seems something great to try to get more time out of the day. There seems to be no ill effects as of now, I'd be interested to try it this summer.

Comments? Anyone knows someone that did this personally?

http://polyphasic.blogspot.com/

 

[Lifeforce]

Yeah, I've touched on polyphasic sleep. It was a great time saver, I used it when I had alot of examns to do and very short periods where I could sleep. An hour on the train, half an hour on the bus, two or three hours in the hotel room after studying. I don't think I would manage all this doing it all year, but doing it for a short time worked out well.

 

[Double]

i thought muscles only grow significantly while sleeping, so wouldn't that hurt your bb progress?

 

[wakeforce]

I don't know, that's why I'm asking around other kind of people than the sources I found...

 

[Lifeforce]

IMO, I got way better sleep when I slept short amount off time, I got more energy and felt like all the overflow off data during the day was gone. I woke up completly relaxed without a thought in my head.

But I have no idea if it's good or bad for BB.

 

[Fred Da Head]

Originally posted by Double
i thought muscles only grow significantly while sleeping, so wouldn't that hurt your bb progress?

If I remember the classes I took in previous semesters, I'm pretty sure muscles grow through the same sleeping cycle that makes you less tired, which is the same cycle that uberman sleep attemps to maximize.

I don't know the specifics of bodybuilding while on an uberman sleep schedule, but I would assume it wouldn't have that big of an effect. The biggest problem would be working out around your sleeping schedule, as exercise within approximately 3 hours of going to bed tends to mess up with your sleeping cycles.

 

[aolsuxs]

I am gonna try this bad boy out, gonna shoot for 3 hours a night with 1 or 2 half hour naps during day.

 

[medik167]

your body does most of its repairing during deep sleep (REM) so i would assume that its not good for bb. i don't think that gives your body enough time to properly rejuvenate after a serious workout.

 

[I-am-someone]

Cool!
I tried doing this for 2 months last summer together with my brother. My parents were gone most of the time, so we had free playing grounds in our house. It was pretty fun... except for the long period of constant hallucinations in the first week which I suffered from.
After three weeks, I had to give up. My body had gotten so weak because I didn't let it recover and build with normal sleep. One day I litterally couldn't walk up straight anymore, I had constant headaches and I had bags under my eyes the size of tokio.

I stopped, but I still keep on having headaches because of it.

Coincidentally, I went to see a doctor today, that explained to me why this happened. The hormonal production in my body had been going into a slightly off cycle somewhere along the line, before I started doing the Uberman schedule. When I started doing it, it was the last straw for my body, so it just made the hormonal inbalance become so bad it started giving me headaches.

Basically, I want to advise you to be in very good condition when you're starting this. Make sure you eat enough and eat healthy while doing it.
Don't drink, don't do drugs, don't drink coffee, don't do anything that may possibly affect your sleep.
The optimum sleeping span is 21-24 minutes, after that you get into deep sleep. It's the idea that you avoid that deep sleep, but sleep so many times that it amounts to the same.

It's fun as hell though, you can do SO much work while on it, it's not funny anymore. I remember finishing a 50 hour project, in 3 days .

Oh yeah, try and find as much info on the net as you can. It's important you know what you're doing.

 

[dastal]

i think somewhere in Europe (spain, I think, but correct me if im wrong) most people take naps in the day. And in Arabia in the summer they take naps too. Theyre supposed to be fresher in the evening or something.

 

[Virtú]

REM isn't deep sleep.

Deep sleep is dreamless, or when time passes with no awareness of it.

Have you ever seen the time on your glowing alarm clock, rolled over, lay there for a few minutes, and then rolled back over to discover that several hours had passed? That's deep sleep.

I've also heard that it matters what state of sleep you wake up from - if you awaken from a dream, you'll be tired and disconnected, but if you awaken from the dreamless sleep, you'll have as much energy as you do when you're awake.

 

[Centaurion]

I'm interested in this as well.

I actually did one uberman sleep cycle last semester for a week (exam week) without knowing it. I basically took a 30-40min nap everytime I was tired, which turned out to be every 4 hours or so. I got A LOT of things done, and I was really refreshed after each nap. But at the end of that week I crashed and slept for 18 hours straight.

I might give this one more try though.

 

[Fitch]

Muscles do not only grow when you sleep. It grows when it is inactive; in a resting state.

 

[il_duce]

Originally posted by Fitch
Muscles do not only grow when you sleep. It grows when it is inactive; in a resting state.

This is true, but when your body is in the deep sleep phase, it releases certain hormones and testosterone which are a big part of the muscle recovery process. If you are bulking (or cutting, for that matter) I would not suggest doing the Uberman sleep phase. Based on what that site said, the first two weeks of getting adjusted to the sleep phase will be hell, and you'll have no energy to do much of anything.