So so interesting to read about this schedule, I am just taking in all the knowledge right now and preparing to convert.

There are 2 things that I am wondering if you have any knowledge on:

1. I travel around the world quite frequently – do you have any records of how it is to keep this schedule with jet-lag?

2. I note that you say that you know two people who quit because of health reactions – one with auto immune disease and one with diabetes. Diabetes is also an autoimmune disease – and I was wondering – since I also have an autoimmune disease – if this sleep schedule particularly affects the immune system.

I would not think it is in a negative way for healthy people, because usually, with an autoimmune disease, you want the immune system to be be less active to keep it from attacking different parts of the body. (I have autoimmune hepatitis, which I don’t have any symptoms from now, but it is recognized by that my immune system is attacking cells it should not be attacking, ie my own body).
It might be that the immune system is more effective on this cycle, and that’s why they were having problems. (?)

Thoughts on this? Did you experience getting sick more or less than on a monophasic schedule with the Uberman?

Thanks!
PD

I have a rather mundane question. What kind of alarm clock do you suggest? It seems to me that continually moving the alarm time up, as you have to do on most clock-radios, would very quickly become too tiresome to endure over a long period of time. Moreover, anything electric might fail in areas, such as mine, that endure frequent black-outs…

At day six I was about where you were; ups and downs. It didn’t start really getting easier (i.e. the drowsy periods getting shorter and disappearing) until about week two.

Hope that helps!
PD

I’m on the 6th day of Every man my self. Do you remember on what day things started to improve ? Right now for me its like a roller-coaster. I have good days and bad days but I’m not really seeing a consistent up trend. There is more Detail in my Log/Blog. If you want to, you can check it out and give me any pointers or tips on things that might help. Thanks

Good luck!
PD

To answer your questions, transitioning from a more-restrictive schedule like Uberman to a less-restrictive one like Everyman is usually painless (you’re getting *more* sleep after all); but going the other way can be a little challenging — not as much as doing Uberman from monophasic, but still, you’ll notice some sleep dep. Similarly, if you’re on Uberman and you take a “break”, you’re going to experience some discomfort getting your schedule back — how much depends on what kind of break and for how long you took it, as well as individual factors.

Hope that helps, and good luck!
PD

Or more generally, is it easy to switch from the Uberman schedule to an Everyman schedule/monophasic schedule ? And is it possible to “take a break” from an Uberman schedule for something like a week and then go back to it afterwards without too many difficulties ?

Have a nice day (and nice naps too) !

Adaptation is somewhat different for everybody. There are certain things that should worry you (none of which are in the account you describe): 1) it’s been more than 2 weeks and you’re not feeling less tired; 2) you don’t make any mistakes, but unexpectedly begin to feel MORE tired; and 3) it’s been more than a month and you still have periods of OMG-tiredness.

To the best of my knowledge, anything that doesn’t include those things counts as a normal, progressing-well adaptation. When I did it, I was in hell from days 3-5, and almost perfectly fine by day 8. I’ve talked to other people who were zombies from days 1-3, and then slowly got better until day 10, when they felt perfect. And I’ve even talked to some unlucky folks who couldn’t kick the augh-shoot-me-now tiredness at night for over a week, but eventually they did. As I mentioned in this post, I’ve even heard of people who did it with very little discomfort at all. It’s all about how your body reacts to changes to something as fundamental as your sleep schedule.

You may also consider getting my book, and/or reading more around here, since there’s more updated information in both of those places than on Everything2, which I wrote back in 2000 when the only experience I’d ever seen or heard of with Uberman was my own (and my friend’s, but we did it at the same time and with the same results, pretty much).

But yes, to my “ears” you sound fine — just keep it up, don’t slack and don’t let anything get in the way of your schedule, and in another couple days you should see more progress. As long as you’re progressing and not making mistakes, don’t stress it; just keep chugging…and by all means keep us updated!

Thanks for sharing!!