I’m going to attempt to do Everyman, with some personal tweaks to comply with my complicated work schedule. I’m also starting to blog about it, but unfortunately not in English. Good luck and thanks again.

It depends on the schedule. You should give Uberman about two weeks, and Everyman about four. If you haven’t made mistakes and you aren’t adapted by then, it probably doesn’t work for you (or it needs modifying). And if you did make mistakes and couldn’t adapt, then you should stop and re-adapt to a schedule you can handle so your body can recover from the sleep-dep.

I hope that helps!
PD

just wanted to say that I think your blog is great, I’ve got almost exactly 4 weeks before I go back to school, so am hoping to be ok-ish when school starts. I am a bit worried about being sleep deprived, but am hoping that it won’t be worse than how I feel at the moment after 10 hours sleep- which is still tired. How long would people suggest I stay at it, till I can safely say it works or doesn’t work for me- should I really give it 4 weeks?
Sorry for the incoherence,

Yes, I know about the error, and I’m sorry for it. I’ve been trying to hunt down exactly what’s causing it for months now — I can see in my logs where it occurs, but I can’t tell what file is referencing the nonexistent thing that throws the error, ARGH! Anyway, all your posts are still going through, and I’m terribly sorry about the annoying message. >,<

Very interesting subject. Thanks for the quick reply!

I shower at about 4:30 a.m. (The :30 is from getting up, making coffee, gathering clothes, and sometimes hitting snooze.) I like it because nobody’s awake then, and there’s a lot of competition for the bathroom in my house. ;)

Actually, I don’t have a morning coffee anymore, in the sense of drinking a cup right when I wake up, which is what I used to do. I put the coffee on first thing, put it in a travel mug at 6:00 when I leave, and I start drinking it at the office, sometimes with a few preliminary sips in the car. I stop about 8:30. Then I may have some more at some point in the afternoon, but it’s always nearer to the end of an awake-period, rather than right when I wake up. As long as I don’t drink too much (which for me is more than 2-3 cups at a time), it doesn’t bother my sleep at all.

I like toast or something breakfasty when I wake up at 4 a.m., yes. This could be attributable to the fact that I’m in “getting ready for work mode” then. My meals are basically normal, with either a largish lunch and smallish dinner or vice versa, and a snack around eleven p.m. Sometimes some crackers or something small at 9-10 a.m.; I get hungry then sometimes, not sure why.

Yes, going out in the evening can be tricky, though I don’t do it that often (2-3 times a week, I suppose), and really it’s not that hard to compensate for. I can take my afternoon nap later (like, 4) if I know I’m going to want to stay up a little later in the evening, though if it’s going to be later than 9:45, it usually won’t work. I can also just skip the evening nap, and sleep 4.5 hours at night — from 11:30 to 4, usually.

I drink every once in a while, a glass of wine or two, a beer or two, bailey’s in coffee. If I do it late at night (and have two drinks instead of one) it can make me tired, but that’s all I’ve ever noticed.

Hope that’s helpful!
pd

I’m interested in the eating as well. When is your big meal? Do you “feel” like dinner or breakfast foods at certain times?

Schedule-wise, if you’re only getting up at 9:20pm, it’s a bit late for dinner with friends/family. And if you went out for dinner before that, you’d have to be home by 9, so very restrictive about ever having an evening out with others, no?

How does alcohol (if you drink it) affect your sleeping?

Thanks.