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Through It All

Just a note to let you know that I’ve been using the Sleep­tracker watch a great deal and it has been great. I have found that even when I don’t use it that my body seems to have had enough biofeed­back that it knows when to wake up.

This morn­ing, in fact, I woke up early than nor­mal and I believe if it weren’t for the Sleep­traker watch that I wouldn’t be up right now get­ting a few things done and I’d be asleep right now.

I’ve been set­ting it so that I get a forty-minute nap. I set the alarm to go off an hour from now, tell it to wake me 20 min­utes ear­lier and it does the rest. It’s really great!

We have moved to a new apart­ment and I’ve just been super-busy. I’m glad I had this time to check in and blog.

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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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My Wife’s Experience With the Sleeptracker Watch

I needed to wake up early on Sun­day to com­plete an assign­ment for the uni­ver­sity. Joseph offered to let me use his watch to wake up. So he pro­grammed the watch for me and gave it to me with some clear instruc­tions: Wear it snug, not tight. I was a lit­tle rest­less try­ing to fig­ure out how to do my home­work (yes I do that some­times) and woke up at around 4:00 am think­ing about it.  I thought to myself, “oh great! this thing is NOT going to work now that I’ve woken up and it’s too early for me to get out of bed” so I decided to try to get som eztra zzz’s and wait for the alarm to go off and see what hap­pened. Well, it woke me up at 6:04 am. Joseph had pro­grammed it for 6:30 and had given it a 40 minute win­dow to wake me up. I got up, my body was still tired but my mind, sur­pris­ingly was pretty sharp. Slowly but surely, my body started to wake up as well and I was able to fin­ish my assign­ment and turn it in on time (and get an A+)

This thing really works and I was pretty surprised.

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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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First Sleeptracker Nap

So today I thought I would exper­i­ment with using the Sleep­tracker watch while tak­ing a nap.

It worked really well but there is a bit of a trick to it.

I had set my alarm for 1:30 with a 30-minute win­dow and I started my nap at 12:45; my To Bed time was 1:00. My alarm woke me up right at 1:08 which wasn’t really enough time to nap. I had fallen asleep by 1, but got less than a half hour of sleep.

So, I decided to try some­thing different.

I set my alarm To Bed at 1:30, gave myself a 60 minute win­dow and set the alarm at 2:30. The result? I was woke up at 1:40. So I ended up get­ting two naps and woke up feel­ing rested and fresh. What’s nice is that I feel phys­i­cally refreshed as well as men­tally refreshed on this one.

My Dymax­ion sleep times are going to be at 2/8/2/8. I think what I’ll do is to try my To Bed time at 2:30, alarm by 3:00 and have a 30-minute win­dow. That way I will go to bed so that I’m asleep by 2:00 and will sleep at least a half hour and then wake up between 2:30 and 3:00. After a while, I will adjust this so that the To Bed time will be 2:25 and maybe 2:20 or 2:15 and see how that goes.

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My Wife Tried Sleeptracker Last Night

My wife Veron­ica has been really inter­ested in my results with Sleep­tracker since she has been watch­ing me wake up with much more men­tal energy. I have been describ­ing to her the dif­fer­ence it has made for me just in terms of being more alert and cre­ative and such and so she was inter­ested in get­ting her own watch.

I told her that I wanted her to try it out first before we con­sider buy­ing it to make sure that she gets some results.

She has had some dif­fi­culty with sleep and it has made it dif­fi­cult for her since she likes to wake up at 5:30 am to start work. She does over-the-phone inter­pret­ing and early morn­ing is the busiest time to do it; if she sleeps in, then earn­ings are not being made.

Right now she is work­ing on her col­lege work and I’ll post what she thought when I get it.

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Second Morning With Sleeptracker

I had got to bed just a lit­tle bit after mid­night and so I had to set my time to bed at 12:30 still with the wakeup time at 5:30 and a 40-minute window.

My watch woke me at the right time, but it was still pretty early and I felt tired, so I snoozed it and got in another 10 min­utes and then got up.

This watch is great. I’ve been busy as a beaver with no one else up at this time. I’ve been get­ting things done and get­ting a lot of work done.

This is great. I’m going to start get­ting naps dur­ing the day to get my body accus­tomed to nap­ping and then once that is done then I will shorten my sleep peri­ods at night.

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First Morning With Sleeptracker

I just woke up at 5:22 with my Sleep­tracker. I had set my alarm to 5:25 with a 40-minute win­dow. I think it’s inter­est­ing that it woke me 3 min­utes before.

And I thought it would buzz AND beep to wake me but it buzzed for a few sec­onds and then start beep­ing and I hit the but­ton and it was off.

I was very awake. My body was still a bit tired, but my mind was awake.

I began to think about how much I just LOVE sleep­ing. Oh man, do I love sleep­ing.

I have really become very angry at peo­ple who inter­fere with my sleep. I don’t think that this is going to be an issue going for­ward though.

My mind is very active when I woke so I’m ready to work.

I did make some cof­fee and I really hope that’s not going to become an issue. I know it’s not the health­i­est thing in the world for me so I’m more will­ing to give it up while I do polypha­sic sleep, but I haven’t even started doing that just yet.

I’ve been doing a men­tal gauge on what hours I will sleep and I need to write it out and post it on my com­puter. We’re buy­ing ink today for the printer so I can just print that out and put it in front of me.

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I Got My Watch!

I got my watch today! I’ve read it and have set my alarm for 5:25 (5 min­utes before my wife gets up) and I have set it with a 40 minute win­dow (which allows the watch to wake me dur­ing that time if I am in an ideal sleep stage to wake up).

I’m not sure if this is true with all the mod­els of the watch, but to get the watch to start record­ing your sleep (for down­load to a Win­dows com­puter via USB) you must tell it at what time you will be asleep. They set it up so that you can just press the lower left but­ton on the watch down for 3 full sec­onds to tell the watch that in 30 min­utes you will be out for the night. I sus­pect that when I’m tak­ing short sleep spells that I will have to make this 5 or 10 min­utes after I get into sleep posi­tion because in 30 min­utes I’ll be done with my sleep spell.

The watch is big­gish and has an accelerom­e­ter inside which mea­sures fid­get­ing fre­quency which is an indi­ca­tor of my sleep stage. If I fid­get a lot then I’m closer to being fully awake. If I don’t fid­get or hardly fid­get at all, then I’m in deep sleep and hope­fully in REM sleep.

But the watch is really not much big­ger than my medium-sized Iron­man watch. The other day when I bought my Iron­man watch (for inter­val tim­ing because I use the Gal­loway method of marathon train­ing for work­ing out), they had a big­ger Iron­man watch which was big­ger than my Sleeptracker.

Any­way, I’m delighted to let you know how things go in the morning.

By the way, I set the alarm to vibrate and beep and I think that by the next day I’ll be able to just put it on vibrate to wake me.

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What is Uberman Sleeptracker?

The Uber­man Sleep­tracker blog is my attempt at get­ting the most out of Uber­man polypha­sic sleep (though I’m not sure which sched­ule I will use: Uber­man? Every­man? Dymax­ion?) using the Sleep­tracker sleep watch. Please see my posts on both Uber­man and Sleep­tracker to get a bet­ter idea of why these are appeal­ing to me. To my knowl­edge, no one has tried these two things together and I think they were cer­tainly both meant to be used together. The Uber­man sched­ule seems to be in need of elim­i­nat­ing the prob­lems asso­ci­ated with it and the Sleep­tracker seems to be a solu­tion in search of a really good prob­lem to solve.