Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Back to Everyman 3

I think I've finally got fed up of constantly switching between schedules. It's starting to get very annoying. I had a good run on Everyman 1.5 for a week, with the intention of working my way down to Spamayl. I encountered one tiny problem though; boredom. Sure, there are plenty of things I could potentially fill my day with, every day, but as humans our attention span isn't that great and it becomes tiring mentally, even if you're not actually tired in the sense of the word. I found myself accidentally falling to sleep quite often due to boredom. At night I would finish whatever fun activities I was doing, reading a fanfic, watching an episode, chatting to acquaintances, and then I would just lay in bed mulling everything over, unsure what to do next. And because only sleeping three hours per day means falling asleep happens in under one minute when having a restful mind, I found I would either blackout and not wake up for a couple of hours, or I would end up micro-sleeping away a whole hour or two, just because I had nothing I actually felt I need to do. Also, my morning nap was confusing my body because it was so close after my core sleep, and so I would just think, "right, whatever, no point in waking up." I had no motive. And so whilst sleeping only 2 -3hrs a day is awesome, I found it a little impractical. And since I'm fed up of experimenting now, I've decided to just go with the schedule that's the easiest, the most efficient, and the most practical. I've decided to just try and stick with the Everyman 3 schedule.

I've fallen quite easily into the Everyman 3 schedule, albeit accidentally. I'll sleep between 3-4hrs per night between the hours of 3am and 7am. I'm not particularly a morning person, finding it easier to stay awake in the late night before a core sleep rather than after a core in the early-ish morning. And although I like being awake before anyone else, chances are I may end up falling into an Everyman 2 schedule on weekends or something, with a forfeit on the afternoon nap. But I should be averaging around about 4hrs sleep like this. Not too much, not too little. I've found it the perfect amount of time to sleep in the past. And of course if I ever do need to sleep less again I can always just postpone my core with another nap and then fall into the next Everyman schedule up like that. I've experimented enough now to be able to think that I can just switch between them as and when needed. No matter what though, I shan't be going back monophasic, or sleeping more than 6hrs ever again. If I do need to go back to monophasic then I'll just sleep 6hrs on it's own. This is my own personal Everyman guideline:

6hrs = no naps
5hrs = 1 nap (Evening)
4hrs = 2 naps (Evening, Night)
3hrs= 3 naps (Afternoon, Evening, Night)
2hrs = 4 naps (Late Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night)
1hr = 5 naps (Late Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night, Early Morning)

What's interesting is when I first started this experiment almost 3 months ago I started with the Everyman 2 schedule and found it unbelievably difficult and near impossible, giving up in favour for biphasic. Now look, I'm switching between all sorts of schedules with barely any hassle. I'm not saying it's consistent, but it's not difficult either. But now I favour consistency and am going to make Everyman 3 my lifestyle choice. I shall probably keep this briefly updated. I think if anything I'll just log the times I've slept and leave it at that.


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