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Rough Time Napping

So I went to get my Dymax­ion nap this after­noon and I had set my To Bed time at 3:45pm, wake win­dow at 30 min­utes and alarm time at 4:00. I lay down at 3:35-ish.

Well, I lay there and lay there and checked the time at it was 4:00

I real­ized that if I’m going to get a nap that I’m going to need to quiet my mind.

For­tu­nately for me, I invented a method to do this which I devel­oped.

I reset my watch for the alarm at 4:30, To Bed at 4:00 with a 30-minute window.

My watch woke me up at 4:26 and I was very rested.

Hooray!

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Starting the Dymaxion Schedule

Last night I set the alarm for 5:30am with a sleep win­dow of 30 min­utes and was awak­ened at 5:04. Very nice. Felt good. Felt a bit tired since we went to bed last night at 12:15 catch­ing up on Tivo (just love 24).

I started my first Dymax­ion nap today at 9:15am. Nor­mally, this will be at 8am, but I got started a lit­tle late on that plus I woke up from last night’s sleep at 5:30, so I fig­ure I don’t have to start at 8 today. I will nap again at 2pm. Then nap again at 8pm. Then I will start cut­ting my reg­u­lar sleep short by an hour.

I think I will keep doing this each day until I’m sleep from midnight-ish until 2:30. Then I will start cut­ting the bed time at mid­night in favor of going to be later such that I start sleep­ing from 2–2:30 each night.

It’s look­ing good so far. I just love the watch.

For my nap just now I lay down at 9:30, set the To Bed time at 9:45, sleep win­dow at 30 minute and alarm at 10:15. Well, I actu­ally was awake at 9:43. If I had set my watch to 9:30 for the To Bed time, it would have woke me up at 9:43. So, I went “back” to sleep know­ing that if I started sleep­ing deeply that it would wake me before 10:15 which is what I wanted. Well, it woke me at 9:52. Per­fect. I got in two sleep pat­terns. I’m think­ing that get­ting in two sleep pat­terns is pretty ideal. I still felt a lit­tle tired when I woke at 9:43. When I woke at 9:52 I felt more rested. I’m so glad I have such con­trol over these things. This watch makes this all possible.

Oh, and by the way, I’m drink­ing cof­fee just fine, thank you.

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Dymaxion Sleep Schedule

One of the more chal­leng­ing sleep sched­ules is the Dymax­ion sleep sched­ule. It was cre­ated by the first real polypha­sic sleeper Buck­min­ster Fuller. The guy was a genius. He invented the geo­desic dome and had a num­ber of ideas to ben­e­fit soci­ety. He wrote bril­liantly as well.

Here are some of his quotes:

“Every­one is born a genius, but the process of liv­ing de-geniuses them.”

“Faith is much bet­ter than belief. Belief is when some­one else does the thinking.”

“God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.”

“I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremen­dous bun­dle of experience.”

“If human­ity does not opt for integrity we are through com­pletely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.”

Well, I won’t be the first or last per­son to quote Bucky or use his ideas, but he is the one who invented the Dymax­ion sleep schedule.

I know that among polypha­sic sleep­ers that it’s been tried and has been found dif­fi­cult, but I have really put a lot of thought into the time that I need for this and that and found that this will work best. This will have fewer sleep peri­ods (4) com­pared to the Uber­man Sleep Sched­ule (6) so that is more appealing.

So I plan to get sleep breaks at 2am, 8am, 2pm and 8pm. I might find that I will take a dif­fer­ent sched­ule as time goes along, but this is what I will be prepar­ing myself to do. I think the key to this sched­ule is going to be to get a short nap between 2am and 8am or when­ever the sched­ule isn’t work­ing so well.

For today, I plan to get in a nap at 2pm, 8pm and then go to sleep as nor­mal from mid­night (or ear­lier) and then up at 5:30 again.