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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.

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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.