Everyman Day 8 – Recovery from Oversleeping

Hmm.  Hmm, I say.

Seems that the Everyman schedule is a TON more flexible than Uberman — well, not flexible, in the sense that you can tweak it hard with no consequences; but in the sense that if you DO tweak it, you can recover and readjust surprisingly quickly.

To recap, I semi-deliberately overslept a little on Saturday, but after getting all my naps in normally on Sunday, figured I was in the clear and didn’t set a backup alarm for Sunday morning — dumb, da dumb dumb!  I slept almost 6 hours on Sunday, putting me almost back to a monophasic schedule–yikes.

However, with a little thought, this was the perfect opportunity to see how hard it is to readjust to Everyman if you screw it up.  I–and many others–already know quite well how hard it is with Uberman — it’s rather like ripping off your thumb, sewing it back on, and then having to rip it off again.  ;)

I suppose I can’t jump all the way to conclusions yet (maybe the Humbug can help me out…and mad bonus points to you if you got that reference), but as of 1:30 today (Monday, day 8), it honestly hasn’t been worse than recovering from screwing up a monophasic schedule.  I had a bit of trouble napping yesterday, but I did nap.  Staying up until 2 wasn’t bad, and believe it or not, getting up at 5 was no worse than getting up on any normal morning when you haven’t slept quite enough.  I was groggy waking up from my 9 a.m. nap, but that went away quickly and I’ve been doing fine since then — not top-notch, not filled with bursty little sparkles of energy or anything, but not “impaired” either.

The real trick to this experiment still lies ahead of me, though.  I need to know what Everyman’s like on a long-term basis, once one is good and fully adjusted (meaning at least a month of adherence).  If it gives even half the extra energy and clarity that Uberman does, I’m going to become its Priestess.  Sleeping four hours a day is pretty kickass.  I get to be a morning person and a night person.  Rock.

Anyway, I should be working more on a) the interface for this site, b) the articles I have to write this week for work, and c) the papers and exams I have to write this week for school.  So I’m Audi.

-PD