Anki reps, mostly. I found that I could do proper review sessions for about 2-3 days and would hit an impenetrable wall. I couldn’t learn a single new card and had total brain fog until I got 3 hours more sleep.
Oh, cool—as I understand it, Anki keeps fairly detailed statistics and exposes them to you; it’d be interesting to see graphs matched up with you being on Everyman vs Uberman, etc.
I didn’t notice any other major mental impairment after the initial sleep deprivation...Besides all that, it’s cool and kinda works.
Yeah, but I wonder what’s really going on during polyphasic adaptation. Relevant tangential links:
Oh, cool—as I understand it, Anki keeps fairly detailed statistics and exposes them to you; it’d be interesting to see graphs matched up with you being on Everyman vs Uberman, etc.
Well, yes, it would be, if I weren’t a dumbass who threw them away. ;) I deleted my complete Anki deck at the time because it was pretty low quality and I was really getting annoyed with the content. I did another one that covered the later half of the polyphasic sleep period (which I also used to test my memory), but that was 1.5 years ago and as I have a fairly strict “delete boring cards” policy, virtually nothing of it is left.
Also, most of my diaries are gone. The only thing left are activity logs of some months (nothing really interesting) and several recaps I wrote based on the earlier material. Mania’s a bitch.
Oh, cool—as I understand it, Anki keeps fairly detailed statistics and exposes them to you; it’d be interesting to see graphs matched up with you being on Everyman vs Uberman, etc.
Yeah, but I wonder what’s really going on during polyphasic adaptation. Relevant tangential links:
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/4264/can-we-be-awake-and-asleep-same-time
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sleep-t.html
Well, yes, it would be, if I weren’t a dumbass who threw them away. ;) I deleted my complete Anki deck at the time because it was pretty low quality and I was really getting annoyed with the content. I did another one that covered the later half of the polyphasic sleep period (which I also used to test my memory), but that was 1.5 years ago and as I have a fairly strict “delete boring cards” policy, virtually nothing of it is left.
Also, most of my diaries are gone. The only thing left are activity logs of some months (nothing really interesting) and several recaps I wrote based on the earlier material. Mania’s a bitch.
A Lesson is Learned But the Damage is Irreversible. People wonder why I hate to delete stuff, but examples like you are why.
Agreed. I’m now logging and saving much more aggressively. That wasn’t the first chunk of important data I lost, but I try to make it the last.