Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Added a music and audio section
I put aside a page for all of the music and recordings I have made. So far, there’s only a zip of the 3 ambient noise tracks I made a year ago. Some people really liked them, but they’re probably talking out their ass.
Listen for yourself:
Music/Audio page
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Flirting with Polyphasic Sleep - Part 2
It’s been a few days since I started altering my sleep cycle, and it’s been more than 48 hours since I decided to adapt to the Uberman cycle. The first tip people will tell you who have attempted polyphasic sleep, according to many blogs and websites I have read about the topic, and I can now confirm this as truth:
DO NOT OVERSLEEP.
I did this twice already, at the 4 AM spot. My schedule currently goes 12, 4, and 8. Yes, this screwed me over because not only was it difficult to get up from naps afterward, it makes you tired like you haven’t slept for a few days. And on the Uberman schedule, you basically haven’t. It does way more harm than good, because all of the sleep you missed in the middle of adapting, your body is going to want to make up for. [Read More…]
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Flirting with Polyphasic Sleep - Part 1
I decided I finally had something to write about here, that is, an experiment in polyphasic (meaning broken up into different naps through the day, as opposed to monophasic) sleep. I am the guinea pig here.
After a major disturbance in my regular 8-hour sleep schedule two nights ago, I took two naps, exactly two hours long, but 4 hours apart (and I’ve kept this up for the past two days), since it reminded me entirely of the original Uberman’s sleep schedule, which I aim to adopt. According to the author of this article, she was able to get through the day on just 20 minutes of sleep for every 4 hours of being awake, taking a total of six naps spread out through the day.
I’m not really going to discuss the benefits, the research, and the drawbacks here, because the links above elaborate more on that. Rather, I will be documenting how it affects me. [Read More…]
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Master your EQ, make your music sound clearer
Yes, the EQ, or equalizer. The average person usually doesn’t bother messing with it, but if you want to get the clearest sound for every song, you need to do more than just use the presets. I’m no music technician, but I get pretty anal about the quality of my music. Hell, I hate mp3s that come in less than 256 kbps because I can almost always hear the compression artifacts. The reason I wrote this is because there weren’t that many guides on the subject when I googled it a long time ago. [Read More…]