New Stuff & Sundry Etceteras

Behold!  There are two new pages up this week:

• About Med-Free Depression, which is probably only interesting to a narrow audience but hey, you write what you know, y’know?  In consideration of its audience, I tried not to make it too depressing.  ;)
• Consumer Weaponry, which is a list of all the Corporate Smackdown tools I know and love (and use, and so should you).  Includes ways to complain, ways to do your research, and ways to spot scams.  Hey, we try to be useful.  Occasionally.

I laid down with my husband at 2:30 last night and slept like a big fat brick until 4:30, and woke feeling great.  Is that explained by the extra half-hours’ sleep, or the time-shift?  I’ve been breaking up my core because I can’t stand having it at either the beginning or the end of the night — but maybe the answer is just to put it in the middle instead? 

(I do get a nice “natural” tired between 2-3 a.m., and perk back up between 4:30 - 5:30.  Remember that, especially with the Everyman-type schedules, knowing your timing is everything.)

Well, as self-styled book-intentioned guinea pig, I guess it’s my duty to try everything until I either find the perfect schedule or exhaust its possibility.  (The latter isn’t likely; I have been gradually getting better and more comfortable as I tweak things along.)

I’ve said this before, but here it is one more time:  Everyman isn’t easier than Uberman, overall.  It’s way easier in the first couple weeks, but it takes waaaaaay longer to get the hang of.  All the Ubersleepers I know of who are as far along as I am (approaching 2 months) are feeling fully adapted and doing great, and I’m still having to put a lot of effort into just staying on track.  You go through hell adapting to Uberman, but it’s over in as little as 2 weeks, and you’re barely having to try anymore by the time you pass 1 month.  Give and take, I suppose. 

That is, assuming that Everyman works at all, which, at my current phase, I can *sort of* say, but not positively.  I have been managing on 3-4 hours of sleep a day for almost 60 days, and I feel okay, and my typing and reaction-time scores are only slightly under normal now.  But there are still definitely rocky bits that there wouldn’t be if I’d adapted to Uberman instead.

That’s all for now.  I’m almost fully recovered from the Salvia-assisted self-induced mindscrew, in case you were wondering…though I’m definitely more jumpy about insects than I’ve been since I was a kid.  Man, I hope that goes away…I hate being wussy!  ;)

-PD