Hello! Welcome to my Blog!

Well hello there! Nice of you to take the time to visit my blog!

My name is Josh, I'm a 19-year-old college student, and this is my blog about my experiment with "sleeplessness".  What I'm actually going to be doing is what's called Polyphasic sleep (commonly known as the Uberman sleep schedule). It's a sleep schedule where you sleep for 20 minutes every four hours round the clock.  I will be sleeping at 2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm, 6pm and 10pm.  This gives you a total of two hours of sleep everyday.

Now, at this point you're probably thinking "Josh! You're crazy!" However, allow me to explain the reasoning behind this sleep schedule. A normal person sleeps eight to ten hours every 24 hours; during the time spent asleep a person goes through five or six "sleep cycles".  Each cycle takes about 90 minutes and about 15 of those minutes are spent in REM sleep. (When you are in REM sleep is when you are actually getting rest, the other 75 minutes is spent going into and out of REM sleep).  An average person gets about about 1.5 hours of REM sleep in an eight to ten hour period.  However when you are sleep deprived your body will enter REM sleep much more quickly.  So, when you are only sleeping twenty minutes at a time, your body will drop into REM sleep almost immediately, meaning that all two hours of the time I spend asleep will be spent in REM sleep.  (You experience this sort of sleep all the time actually, it's called a power-nap).

So, a normal person gets 1.5 hours of REM sleep; when on the the Uberman sleep schedule, you get 2 hours of REM sleep. So, in reality you're getting more rest than you would if you were sleeping eight to ten hours a night.

So yeah. Thats the theory behind it. We'll see if it actually works in practice.

What I'm going to be doing with this blog is giving you daily (don't hold me to that) updates on how it's going. I apologize if at first my post are very annoying and hard to read. Apparently the first week or two is absolutely miserable while your body adjusts.

Please let me know your opinions on this. However, please don't try to talk me out of it. I've been thinking about this for several years and have made up my mind :)