One fascinating thing I've discovered about Everyman is that once adapted, you can vary your core-to-nap ratio day-by-day to fit your schedule. You could literally decide on the number of naps you want to take/would be convenient on a particular day, and adjust your core sleep to fit. You could even go monophasic (eight hours) one night with little consequence, as long as you went back to Everyman for the next week or so. I like the sound of this! This means that I can pretend to be biphasic, or even monophasic, over Parents' Weekend. (Note: my parents have somehow figured out that I've been "sleeping less", though they don't know the whole deal, thank goodness. I just got a talking-to over the phone last night.)
One significant downside to Everyman that just occurred to me is jetlag. I fly quite a bit, and I'm not sure how jetlag would affect my core sleep. See, under Uberman, I would never get jetlagged; I'd just have to match the timing of my naps to Pacific Standard Time, wherever I happen to be. For instance, if I spent a few days on the East Coast, my naps in EST would be one hour earlier than they were in PST, but would actually be happening at the same absolute time. Presumably, my core sleep under Everyman would be short enough that even though it would be matched to a PST absolute time, it wouldn't conflict with whatever I'm doing locally.
I suppose I should work out the 3 + 3 and 4.5 + 2 schedules as well; they'd be good to have on hand. The 2:30 nap, of course, is fixed, unless I skip it all together. On the other hand, the core sleep period shouldn't change dramatically; I should be adding to the original 90 minutes, rather than moving the entire thing. The naps, though, are extremely flexible +/- 1 hour on 3 + 3, and +/- 2 hours on 4.5 + 2.
3 + 3 = 2:30 pm, 7:30 pm, and 12:30 am naps; 4:30-7:30 am core
4.5 + 2 = 2:30 pm, 10:30 pm naps; 4:00-8:30 am core
Wow, just looking at that... 4:00-8:30 feels almost sinful.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
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HAHAHAHAHAH "sinful" hahahahaha <3
ReplyDeleteOnce you've adapted properly, though, wouldn't it just be easier to spend a month keeping a journal of how your body naturally tends to sleep? I mean, workout days might need a different total amount of sleep & total number of naps per day than study days, or in general there are different types of sleepiness that only you & your body can differentiate. I know for certain that I'm a 2 - 4 nap per day kind of girl, except for those Special Monthly Girly Weeks which require something like 13 hours of total sleep, no matter how many naps I take them in.
It for sure beats setting alarms all the time...
As for The Jetlag Probleme, I always figured it wasn't so much setting your sleep schedule in your destination time zone so much as your brain just not cooperating, because I also set my sleep schedule to my destination time zone every time, but whether or not I get jetlag seems to be a random chance of luck. So, y'know. It might not really be a "problem" so much as "that occasional annoying piece of flying machinery."
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