Day 18.1: Thoughts on Everyman

I messed up again this morning! 45 minutes, from about 9:30 until the "almost naptime" alarm at 10:20. This core sleep just isn't going away, is it? (A pox upon ski trips!) It just kills me to know that had it not been for ski trip, I would probably be on Uberman right now. I was doing well that first week!

Something I mentioned to Caradoc last night: It would have been so much easier had I had someone else to do it with. The idea behind polyphasic support groups is that you prod each other and keep each other awake, providing external stimuli to stave off sleep. It's terribly hard to fight the sleep monsters when I'm stuck being very quiet alone in the dark, with my roommate asleep a few feet away, and the entire dorm also asleep throughout the hall. (The lounge doesn't helps much; the couches are soft enough to be tempting.) Being very quiet in the dark is easier with someone else.

Anyhow, let me work out an Everyman schedule, because from the way things are looking now, I'm going to need it...

The 2:30 pm nap cannot change, because of my class schedule. Ergo, I would have to shift my other naps, to make slightly longer blocks between naps. I would have one at 10:00 am, one at 7:00 pm, and one at 11:30 pm. Some of these might become a tad inconvenient, because I had originally planned my schedule to fit Uberman, not Everyman. Ah, well, I can swing it about half an hour either way. Core sleep would be 4:00-5:30 am, or 4:30-6:00 am, depending on when I got tired. I'll end up tweaking it; Everyman, being non-equiphasic, is more about feeling out your circadian rhythms than about sticking to a rigid, periodic schedule.

Oh, and before I forget...

Short term memory tests
Numbers: 11.67
Letters: 13
Words: 29

I'm doing fine on these, but I sure hope there aren't any more sudden amnesic moments.