Sunday, 13 April 2008
Wednesday, 16 January 2008
Not worth it
Enough is enough, polyphasic sleeping is just not worth it, for me at least. Final decision came for me this morning. Admittedly this was the day following the previous days oversleeping screw up, but the everman schedule is supposed to be more forgiving. I went to sleep for my core at 4 last night and set the alarm for 8. Thought I’d give myself a nice phat core as I’d missed the morning nap and had such a big one the night before. I woke up exhausted and sat on the sofa, nodding off and waking up. This felt like it went on for about an hour, before I managed to focus on the clock and realised that it was only 6 am. Back under the covers again then. Eventually, I woke up properly on the alarm and got up. Felt pretty tired, but thought no probs, but be fine once I get the nicotine levels back up. So, begin the usual start to the day, by skinning one up. I do this on auto pilot now, as you can imagine. Put a filter in the corner of the gob (mine in the absence of another suitably available one), pull out a paper, line it with tobacco, transfer filter from gob to paper and roll. This morning, it didn’t work. At 8:02, sitting on the sofa, I put the filter in my gob, pulled out the paper and added the tobacco. At 8:04, I woke up and picked the tobacco back off the floor and put it back in the paper. At 8:48, woke up and picked the tobacco again. This time I completed the procedure and got to smoke the roll up. I pretty much recovered after that, but the bottom line is that I just don’t think it’s working out well for me, so can’t be arsed to do it anymore. Anything that interferes with the morning drag, has got to go.
So, can I take any positives from this, well the answer is yes. The only problem I’ve ever really had, was the need for a snooze in the afternoon. It’s always been a struggle to make it all the way through the day. I’m not sure why this should be the case. When I force myself through it, I’m fine for the evening and can stay awake till late, no probs, it’s just an afternoon thing. At least this experience has taught me how to nap properly. I can now drop off in sub 2 minutes, which open a whole new world of toilet cubicle naps and solves the wobbly afternoon head in the office syndrome. Job’s a good un, as they say, whoever the heck they are! Reality is, I can get by on 6 hours fine anyway and the only time I’ve ever stayed asleep/in bed for the full 8 hours in years, is whilst trying this polyphasic malarkey. I do still believe that it can be done, as I actually had some good spells on the uberman and may even have given up on that a little early, for me, it just wasn’t worth the pain. After having a few nights all to myself on the trot, I’m not all that sure I want them! I have to admit, I could see the novelty wearing off very quickly and boredom quickly becoming a factor.
So, what about this blog. Well, my last blog got fairly popular, but also became a drain, so I’m not going to do the same thing again. The problem was that people expect a daily entry and I really don’t like to be depended on, not by the masse anyway. Having said that, life generally presents you with much to write about. So, I’ll keep it muddling along, just not necessarily ever day.
Film review – atonement. In a word, good. It’s a period drama and with the unlikely exception of Pride and Prejudice (yes, I was surprised I liked that too!), I generally don’t like them. This film had a great plot, was well acted and generally got on with it well. Apart for some daft arty farty bollox for a while in the middle, it was a great film. There was a little too much of Ms Knightly in skimpy and wet attire, suddenly bring you to mind of the recent restaurant trend to abandon stocking tooth picks, but you have to give it to the girl, she does gives classic good english face. Is it worth going to the cinema for? Yes, probably. It’s slick and at several time throughout the film, I sat and thought, “I really don’t know what the plot is going to do next”, which was a refreshing change. Right down to the end, I really didn’t expect that either. So even if you don’t go out to watch it, well worth adding to the DVD list.
Global warming, I want my money back! Alright, I didn’t actually hand any money over, so can’t really expect to get any back, but I really did buy into it. I have been waiting (with very nearly baited breath) for several years now, for the changes to kick in. I was going to ceremonially burn the winter coats, have a nice potted palm tree on the balcony and start going to wales for my holidays again, with the expectation of getting several rain free days. Generally speaking, I was looking forward to global warming, making things generally, warmer. What has global warming actually meant to us? Floods, storms and a liberal plethora of worldwide disasters. That’s no good to me. Come on scientists, stop buggering about and make global warming, make things warm, or there’s just no point in having it, is there. Seems pretty obvious to me! Oh, hang on a minute, that’s the point isn’t it, it’s not actually meant to be a good thing. Bugger. Oh well, was a nice idea. Maybe it’s time we actually abandoned it and cut down on the whole pollution thing. Stop the whole global warming thing altogether, frankly, it’s just not working out the way we hoped...
Political comment of the day – Hain, you’re busted, bugger off. Seriously, if anybody would like to make any anonymous donations to my election funds, I not only promise not to declare them, but as a bonus, I promise not to stand for election either. Now that’s got to be a good deal. You have to wonder really. This government seem to have loaded the gun and I’m now wondering which part of their anatomy they’re going to point it at next! Really, if you wrote a sitcom and included this stuff, people would think it too farfetched and turn off. British politics at it’s most entertaining, second only to the Americans. (BTW – do I get an award for bashing our transatlantic cousins yet?)
So, I think a trip to the Tap for a couple tonight, to celebrate my return to normality might be in order. Anybody care to join me? Won't be a big one, prolly talking 7 - 9, so no more than a gallong or so of beer :-)
Now for the geeky bit, the coding. I’m really ashamed to admit this and am definitely putting it down to the lack of sleep, but I’ve been coding like a prat, or maybe worse, an American! I’m not talking about syntax here or even a particularly bad domain or object model. No, it’s much worse than that. I’ve been working on a little (well, not actually that little) app, to make job searching more productive and of course, being bone idle, easier. It started off well enough, with a decent datamodel, to under pin it, then a high level architecture, then it went horribly wrong. Instead of starting to write tests and begin getting the data in and making sense of it, I started work on the gui and writing pretty/fun user controls. Or rather playing around with pretty and fun stuff and actually producing very little. Ok, it’s not all bad, I now know a lot more about attributes and how they work with the properties window. I also know a lot more about SharpDevelop (look at the alpha for version 3, I’m now switching from VS at home, nuff said). However, my project has not developed a single jot. OK, I’m back on track now and am actually starting to pull jobsearch data off tut tinterweb and process it, but I should have been here a week ago. This is a classic example of how to bin a complete week, just geeking out and totally losing track of what I was trying to achieve in the first place. This is a pretty damned fine example of why having a more hours available, doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to get a lot done!
Laters...
So, can I take any positives from this, well the answer is yes. The only problem I’ve ever really had, was the need for a snooze in the afternoon. It’s always been a struggle to make it all the way through the day. I’m not sure why this should be the case. When I force myself through it, I’m fine for the evening and can stay awake till late, no probs, it’s just an afternoon thing. At least this experience has taught me how to nap properly. I can now drop off in sub 2 minutes, which open a whole new world of toilet cubicle naps and solves the wobbly afternoon head in the office syndrome. Job’s a good un, as they say, whoever the heck they are! Reality is, I can get by on 6 hours fine anyway and the only time I’ve ever stayed asleep/in bed for the full 8 hours in years, is whilst trying this polyphasic malarkey. I do still believe that it can be done, as I actually had some good spells on the uberman and may even have given up on that a little early, for me, it just wasn’t worth the pain. After having a few nights all to myself on the trot, I’m not all that sure I want them! I have to admit, I could see the novelty wearing off very quickly and boredom quickly becoming a factor.
So, what about this blog. Well, my last blog got fairly popular, but also became a drain, so I’m not going to do the same thing again. The problem was that people expect a daily entry and I really don’t like to be depended on, not by the masse anyway. Having said that, life generally presents you with much to write about. So, I’ll keep it muddling along, just not necessarily ever day.
Film review – atonement. In a word, good. It’s a period drama and with the unlikely exception of Pride and Prejudice (yes, I was surprised I liked that too!), I generally don’t like them. This film had a great plot, was well acted and generally got on with it well. Apart for some daft arty farty bollox for a while in the middle, it was a great film. There was a little too much of Ms Knightly in skimpy and wet attire, suddenly bring you to mind of the recent restaurant trend to abandon stocking tooth picks, but you have to give it to the girl, she does gives classic good english face. Is it worth going to the cinema for? Yes, probably. It’s slick and at several time throughout the film, I sat and thought, “I really don’t know what the plot is going to do next”, which was a refreshing change. Right down to the end, I really didn’t expect that either. So even if you don’t go out to watch it, well worth adding to the DVD list.
Global warming, I want my money back! Alright, I didn’t actually hand any money over, so can’t really expect to get any back, but I really did buy into it. I have been waiting (with very nearly baited breath) for several years now, for the changes to kick in. I was going to ceremonially burn the winter coats, have a nice potted palm tree on the balcony and start going to wales for my holidays again, with the expectation of getting several rain free days. Generally speaking, I was looking forward to global warming, making things generally, warmer. What has global warming actually meant to us? Floods, storms and a liberal plethora of worldwide disasters. That’s no good to me. Come on scientists, stop buggering about and make global warming, make things warm, or there’s just no point in having it, is there. Seems pretty obvious to me! Oh, hang on a minute, that’s the point isn’t it, it’s not actually meant to be a good thing. Bugger. Oh well, was a nice idea. Maybe it’s time we actually abandoned it and cut down on the whole pollution thing. Stop the whole global warming thing altogether, frankly, it’s just not working out the way we hoped...
Political comment of the day – Hain, you’re busted, bugger off. Seriously, if anybody would like to make any anonymous donations to my election funds, I not only promise not to declare them, but as a bonus, I promise not to stand for election either. Now that’s got to be a good deal. You have to wonder really. This government seem to have loaded the gun and I’m now wondering which part of their anatomy they’re going to point it at next! Really, if you wrote a sitcom and included this stuff, people would think it too farfetched and turn off. British politics at it’s most entertaining, second only to the Americans. (BTW – do I get an award for bashing our transatlantic cousins yet?)
So, I think a trip to the Tap for a couple tonight, to celebrate my return to normality might be in order. Anybody care to join me? Won't be a big one, prolly talking 7 - 9, so no more than a gallong or so of beer :-)
Now for the geeky bit, the coding. I’m really ashamed to admit this and am definitely putting it down to the lack of sleep, but I’ve been coding like a prat, or maybe worse, an American! I’m not talking about syntax here or even a particularly bad domain or object model. No, it’s much worse than that. I’ve been working on a little (well, not actually that little) app, to make job searching more productive and of course, being bone idle, easier. It started off well enough, with a decent datamodel, to under pin it, then a high level architecture, then it went horribly wrong. Instead of starting to write tests and begin getting the data in and making sense of it, I started work on the gui and writing pretty/fun user controls. Or rather playing around with pretty and fun stuff and actually producing very little. Ok, it’s not all bad, I now know a lot more about attributes and how they work with the properties window. I also know a lot more about SharpDevelop (look at the alpha for version 3, I’m now switching from VS at home, nuff said). However, my project has not developed a single jot. OK, I’m back on track now and am actually starting to pull jobsearch data off tut tinterweb and process it, but I should have been here a week ago. This is a classic example of how to bin a complete week, just geeking out and totally losing track of what I was trying to achieve in the first place. This is a pretty damned fine example of why having a more hours available, doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to get a lot done!
Laters...
Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Over slept and a film review
Day something or other, I forget when I started this sleeping malarkey now, but it’s gotta be getting on for about a week. So far I’ve given up on the pain that is the uberman schedule and swapped to an everyman. The latter is going well, so well in fact that the SO and I decided to have a nice glass of wine with our pheasant for tea (dinner to you up yourself southern types). I didn’t have a lot to drink, maybe 3 glasses of Merlot, had a nap at midnight and finally settled down for my core sleep at 4:30, feeling fine. Woke up at 8:20 as planned, turned off the alarm, rolled over to get up and discovered it was 11 am! Somehow between switching the alarm off and turning around to get out of bed, I managed to fall back to sleep. Not good. In between that and my finally getting up, the postman rang the doorbell several times and the SO got up to answer it, with me sleeping through the lot! I’m a little surprised by this as generally I was feeling good. The core sleep felt like a proper nights sleep and the few short naps were generally keeping me pretty sharp during the day. I thought I’d cracked it. Hey ho, will set the alarm tonight and keep going. Even if I don’t gain much time, the increasing alertness is a defo bonus J
Film review – Ps I love you (no not you, it’s the rirle of the film). It starred Hillary Swank (fro million dollar baby) and some other actor types, including the blond air head from friends. The SO and I settled down to watch this expecting a bit of a rib tickler and simply put, it wasn’t. What it was though, was a good film, much to my surprise. The humour was intelligent(ish) and well thought out(ish), not a bad effort from the Americans. Sorry transatlantic cousins, you still think slap-stick is funny, you have a long way to go on the humour front! Anyway, this birds bloke snuffs it and writes her letters, post mortem. Well, actually he wrote them before he died and arranged for them to be sent at regular intervals. Generally it worked well. A bit muchy in parts, but not enough to retrieve your breakfast, so all is well.
Off to the market now to buy batteries for the sex toys. Need to keep those in good working order, to stop the SO from pestering me too much. Not that I mind the odd bit of squechly of course, but too much of a good thing and all that...
Later, shock horror, I’m going to go to the gym. It’s another thing I’ve been threatening to do for ages and it’s high time I carried out that threat. I’s a gonna git back in shape. Maybe not the full 6 pack, but at least not the full firkin any more. The way I figure it, I’m no midget now and if I hit the weights for a few months and montsa up, nobody will notice a remaining small barrel, when it’s got the full side of beef resting on it J
Laters...
Film review – Ps I love you (no not you, it’s the rirle of the film). It starred Hillary Swank (fro million dollar baby) and some other actor types, including the blond air head from friends. The SO and I settled down to watch this expecting a bit of a rib tickler and simply put, it wasn’t. What it was though, was a good film, much to my surprise. The humour was intelligent(ish) and well thought out(ish), not a bad effort from the Americans. Sorry transatlantic cousins, you still think slap-stick is funny, you have a long way to go on the humour front! Anyway, this birds bloke snuffs it and writes her letters, post mortem. Well, actually he wrote them before he died and arranged for them to be sent at regular intervals. Generally it worked well. A bit muchy in parts, but not enough to retrieve your breakfast, so all is well.
Off to the market now to buy batteries for the sex toys. Need to keep those in good working order, to stop the SO from pestering me too much. Not that I mind the odd bit of squechly of course, but too much of a good thing and all that...
Later, shock horror, I’m going to go to the gym. It’s another thing I’ve been threatening to do for ages and it’s high time I carried out that threat. I’s a gonna git back in shape. Maybe not the full 6 pack, but at least not the full firkin any more. The way I figure it, I’m no midget now and if I hit the weights for a few months and montsa up, nobody will notice a remaining small barrel, when it’s got the full side of beef resting on it J
Laters...
Monday, 14 January 2008
In the dreaded 7 - 11 slot
Wow, 9 o’clock in the morning and in the words of Frankenstein, “It’s alive!”. The everyman schedule (otherwise referred to as the weakling schedule), actually seems to be suiting me. It’s still relatively early days and I need to see more benefits, but it’s all looking positive. As it stands I’ll be on 5 and a half hours sleep a day, so the proof of the pudding will not be in the actual eating of it, but rather in the being alert enough to make the darned thing, at any point in time during the day. I need to trim the core down to 3 hours a night and I’ll do this in 10 minute intervals over a couple of weeks(ish). That would have me up at 7, so into an office (assuming I get back to work anytime soon) comfortably for 9. In an ideal world, I further trim that down to a 2 hour core, but I won’t worry if that doesn’t happen as the best part of 20 useful hours a day, would be good enough for me.
Have I adapted? Prolly still too early to say, but I’d be surprised if that’s not the case now. I seem to be happily alert for 4 to 5 hours at a time, then I need a 20 – 30 minute nap. Post nap, my wake up time is short, less than 10 minutes and I’m away. Even the core this morning, I was mentally switched back in 10 minutes, rather than the hour I take on 8 hours. All in all feeling very positive so far!
So, what I am doing with the extra time, well, so far, not enough! I made a rather nice chocolate Roulade with am Ameretto and Kalhua butter crème filling last night. Which although tasting pretty darning good, possibly hasn’t helped the diet all that much! Going to knuckle down today and try and be more productive, I’ll let you know how that one goes later today.
As part of the beginning of the fitness campaign, the SO and I walking down to Broadway market on Saturday. Generally speaking, it’s a bit up itself, but there is some decent gear there. It has a proper butchers shop in the middle of it, which had decent meat and wasn’t too expensive. But the high point for me, was what we’re having for tea tonight. A brace of pheasants, yum. Haven’t had pheasant for years. The SO has never had it before, so she’s in for a treat J
On a side note, as part of the ongoing battle to eat regularly healthily, I took to eating Fruit and Fibre for breakfast. On the whole, I like it, but there is one thing that drives me crazy. Those titanium chips, masquerading banana. Why do they put that stuff in? Ok, I’m not saying they taste bad, as such, but. I’m happily munching along on the general nuts fruit and tolerably boring bits, when all of a sudden, you hit one of the so called banana chips and they attempt do exactly that, chip, usually a lump off your teeth. Do they really need to include them, as consumers can we start up a campaign against them. I think those of us who are still the proud owners of our own filling should rise up against the manufacturers of this and force them to eat their own bananas, they’d soon see sense then!
OK, enough blogging. I’ve had my breakfast, so I’ll make one more cup of tea and settle down with a compiler and really test my awakeness, by writing some code!
Have I adapted? Prolly still too early to say, but I’d be surprised if that’s not the case now. I seem to be happily alert for 4 to 5 hours at a time, then I need a 20 – 30 minute nap. Post nap, my wake up time is short, less than 10 minutes and I’m away. Even the core this morning, I was mentally switched back in 10 minutes, rather than the hour I take on 8 hours. All in all feeling very positive so far!
So, what I am doing with the extra time, well, so far, not enough! I made a rather nice chocolate Roulade with am Ameretto and Kalhua butter crème filling last night. Which although tasting pretty darning good, possibly hasn’t helped the diet all that much! Going to knuckle down today and try and be more productive, I’ll let you know how that one goes later today.
As part of the beginning of the fitness campaign, the SO and I walking down to Broadway market on Saturday. Generally speaking, it’s a bit up itself, but there is some decent gear there. It has a proper butchers shop in the middle of it, which had decent meat and wasn’t too expensive. But the high point for me, was what we’re having for tea tonight. A brace of pheasants, yum. Haven’t had pheasant for years. The SO has never had it before, so she’s in for a treat J
On a side note, as part of the ongoing battle to eat regularly healthily, I took to eating Fruit and Fibre for breakfast. On the whole, I like it, but there is one thing that drives me crazy. Those titanium chips, masquerading banana. Why do they put that stuff in? Ok, I’m not saying they taste bad, as such, but. I’m happily munching along on the general nuts fruit and tolerably boring bits, when all of a sudden, you hit one of the so called banana chips and they attempt do exactly that, chip, usually a lump off your teeth. Do they really need to include them, as consumers can we start up a campaign against them. I think those of us who are still the proud owners of our own filling should rise up against the manufacturers of this and force them to eat their own bananas, they’d soon see sense then!
OK, enough blogging. I’ve had my breakfast, so I’ll make one more cup of tea and settle down with a compiler and really test my awakeness, by writing some code!
Sunday, 13 January 2008
On the up
I’m not exactly sticking to this everyman schedule religiously, but then again, you don’t have to, apparently. Whatever, it seems to be working out quite well so far. The mornings are still a bit groggy, but it’s a lot better. I sort of decided I was only going to nap when I felt I needed to, but I seem to need to have one at the right times anyway.
Went out to the shops today and didn’t consider the time, which meant I was late back, past the nap time, and I really needed it. I guess that means this schedule seems to be suiting me well. I’m going to try a 4 hour core tonight, 4 – 8 and see how the morning feels on that. Need to get to a schedule that is comfortable and I sharp all day, then I can start trimming the core sleep down. I should be able to get down to a 2 hour core and 3 20 minute naps. This will give me plenty of time back and regular naps through the day to stop me being drowsy. Seems to be working well so far, once I get past the perennial 7 – 11 morning issues.
So, going to start winding down to my core sleep now.
Nighty night...
Went out to the shops today and didn’t consider the time, which meant I was late back, past the nap time, and I really needed it. I guess that means this schedule seems to be suiting me well. I’m going to try a 4 hour core tonight, 4 – 8 and see how the morning feels on that. Need to get to a schedule that is comfortable and I sharp all day, then I can start trimming the core sleep down. I should be able to get down to a 2 hour core and 3 20 minute naps. This will give me plenty of time back and regular naps through the day to stop me being drowsy. Seems to be working well so far, once I get past the perennial 7 – 11 morning issues.
So, going to start winding down to my core sleep now.
Nighty night...
Rock and a hard place
Or maybe the devil and the deep blue sea, not sure which, but I’m certainly stuck somewhere. Couldn’t continue with the full one Uberman schedule. I just simply wasn’t adapting at all, it was just turning me into a Zombie. The 3 – 7am period was a case of the wheel was no longer turning, as the hamster was dead and the 7 – 11 am period was one of the lights were on but nobody was home. The rest of the day varied from very dim witted to full on space cowboy, after doing far to many drugs. So I decided to cave and introduced a core last night, in the 3 – 7 slot, it was actually the 4 – 8 slot as I was late helping the SO with some stuff.
So, how is it going? Answer, not well, but better than it has been. I had a 4 hour period yesterday between 7 and 11 am where I didn’t actually sleep, but the difference between the 2 states was that sleeping involves lying down with your eyes closed and that was sitting up with eyes open, but that was the only difference! Having said that, the reast of the day, after the 11 am nap was good! So, I deduced from this that I probably need to include a core sleep. Last night I did exactly that. How do I feel today, after that? Answer, not brilliant! Woke up at 8 felling shattered, couldn’t wake up properly at all, so after 30 minutes of that, thought sod this and lay back down. I was happy to give up at that point, but despite being knackered, couldn’t sleep.
So, it looks like I can’t polyphasically sleep and can’t get back to monophasic sleeping either! Great, this one’s going really well! I think I have no choice now but to continue with the polyphasic thing for a while, but include a core sleep, as if nothing else, I do seem to be functioning quite well on it. Still nowhere near where I want to be, but then again it’s still less than a week. One real bonus though is that I’m really good at napping now, so in theory, I could go back night sleeping, have a nap at lunchtime and be fully functioning all day. So there will be positive out of this, which ever way it goes.
I’ll plod on with a core sleep and 4 naps a day. The plan being that assuming I adapt to that, I’ll just reduce the core sleep until I get it down to 2 hours and would be a reasonable compromise. The rules remain the same, I have to see clear benefits. I have to be more alert and generally sharper during the day and I have to see health benefits. In truth, one or the other would do. But if I don’t get improvements in either area, I’ll go back to being monophasic.
So, how is it going? Answer, not well, but better than it has been. I had a 4 hour period yesterday between 7 and 11 am where I didn’t actually sleep, but the difference between the 2 states was that sleeping involves lying down with your eyes closed and that was sitting up with eyes open, but that was the only difference! Having said that, the reast of the day, after the 11 am nap was good! So, I deduced from this that I probably need to include a core sleep. Last night I did exactly that. How do I feel today, after that? Answer, not brilliant! Woke up at 8 felling shattered, couldn’t wake up properly at all, so after 30 minutes of that, thought sod this and lay back down. I was happy to give up at that point, but despite being knackered, couldn’t sleep.
So, it looks like I can’t polyphasically sleep and can’t get back to monophasic sleeping either! Great, this one’s going really well! I think I have no choice now but to continue with the polyphasic thing for a while, but include a core sleep, as if nothing else, I do seem to be functioning quite well on it. Still nowhere near where I want to be, but then again it’s still less than a week. One real bonus though is that I’m really good at napping now, so in theory, I could go back night sleeping, have a nap at lunchtime and be fully functioning all day. So there will be positive out of this, which ever way it goes.
I’ll plod on with a core sleep and 4 naps a day. The plan being that assuming I adapt to that, I’ll just reduce the core sleep until I get it down to 2 hours and would be a reasonable compromise. The rules remain the same, I have to see clear benefits. I have to be more alert and generally sharper during the day and I have to see health benefits. In truth, one or the other would do. But if I don’t get improvements in either area, I’ll go back to being monophasic.
Saturday, 12 January 2008
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4 hours sleep, 20 minutes awake, repeat, add infinitum. I recognise that style striaght away, welcome aboard Mr S. Love the suggestion BTW, just doubt the productivity levels in the long run, although in the short term, there would clearly be an improvement on my current form.
Yes, I was going to give it 2 weeks to fully adapt, but the few bogs I've seen for the sucessful ones, peaked on the second night and showed steady improvement from there. I peaked on the second night too, but then bottomed again hard and stayed there! Nope, not continuing with the Uberman, I am just too out of it and don't feel like I'm going to adapt properly. I'm going to give the Everyman a few days. I should be able to stick to that, it's close to my natural pattern. I've never had trouble with getting up in the mornings, even after a late night. It's just the ability to function all day I struggle with! Therefore, maybe the Everman will suit me. I can gradually keep trimming my core sleep down to 2 hours. So when I get into that, I gets 3 naps during the day to keep me going and a core sleep to s me being this Zombie!
Bottom line, nothing is worth this ammount of pain for 2 weeks and the SO has noticed a big jump down in the last 36 hours, underlining this. I think this may well turn out to be a younger mans game, I'm not 20 anymore! I may end up on a decent schedule anyway, just by trimming down the core sleep, over a longer period of time.
Effectively just had a 2 hour core sleep and I feel capable of functioning at the moment and I want to keep it like that. I may not have the strongest brain in the world, but I'm used to it now, I like it's company and I want to lose it again.
Nuff said...
Yes, I was going to give it 2 weeks to fully adapt, but the few bogs I've seen for the sucessful ones, peaked on the second night and showed steady improvement from there. I peaked on the second night too, but then bottomed again hard and stayed there! Nope, not continuing with the Uberman, I am just too out of it and don't feel like I'm going to adapt properly. I'm going to give the Everyman a few days. I should be able to stick to that, it's close to my natural pattern. I've never had trouble with getting up in the mornings, even after a late night. It's just the ability to function all day I struggle with! Therefore, maybe the Everman will suit me. I can gradually keep trimming my core sleep down to 2 hours. So when I get into that, I gets 3 naps during the day to keep me going and a core sleep to s me being this Zombie!
Bottom line, nothing is worth this ammount of pain for 2 weeks and the SO has noticed a big jump down in the last 36 hours, underlining this. I think this may well turn out to be a younger mans game, I'm not 20 anymore! I may end up on a decent schedule anyway, just by trimming down the core sleep, over a longer period of time.
Effectively just had a 2 hour core sleep and I feel capable of functioning at the moment and I want to keep it like that. I may not have the strongest brain in the world, but I'm used to it now, I like it's company and I want to lose it again.
Nuff said...
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