Today my head aches more than usual. Yesterday I worked my usual 7 hours non-stop, and had my 12 hours of sleep that I usually need during the Mighty Nordic Winter. But today, there is something wrong. After sprinkling some water on my face, I get my laptop and as usual, come down to the eating room for reading the news. And what do I find?I find a post thread on the far best group on CouchSurfing, called "Alternative Ways of Living & Consuming". This group really rocks. I learned so much stuff just from random posts on this forum, than probably anywhere else in life: from no-shampoo lifestyle, to healing with plants, and living up a tree. So, this time there is this post about the Uberman Sleeping Cycle. And I have a sudden enlightment: yes! That's what I've always needed! And I suddenly realized that I might be neither lazy nor a long-sleeper, but that I might rather have a sleeping disorder, that in the middle of the Arctic winter reaches worrying proportions. And that I can actually heal that disorder by means of a polyphasic sleep cycle.Apparently, there are several methods. The best-known ones are called Uberman and Everyman. The former consists of splitting your monophasic sleep into many naps, distributed over the day. The latter consists of a core sleep of 3 hours, plus an extra hour during the day, split into 3 short naps. After a while, your brain gets the training it needs to fall immediately into REM phase, without actually wasting most of the night waiting for it, as usual That's more or less how babies sleep, and maybe how humans used to sleep in primitive times, when they needed to be awake during the night in order to stay alert of incoming dangers. Another great advantage of polyphasic sleep is that I will probably be able to always remember my dreams. I've always had a great interest in dreams, and oftentimes I had great ones, where I have foreseen scenes that then actually took place. But I usually sleep so long into the morning, that I always forget my dreams, except when I have deja-vus (and I happen to get a lot of those). This is the right time to change something about it.I am going to try Everyman, because as this awesome blog explains, it's much easier, much more forgiving if you screw up, and it takes less time to train your brain. So I am going to sleep 3 hours from 1 to 4, and then three naps at 8am, 1pm and 9pm. From 4 to 8 I am going to read books, something that I never do these days. My alarm is going to have some extra work. But I have great optimism and I know I can make it.And yesterday I finally decided I will move to the Netherlands next autumn. I am going to remain a nomad for as long as I can, but at the same time take another degree. And with this current degree pending, this is the time I can actually use some extra time awake during the day.
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