After waking up from my 12:30 am nap, I felt like someone had kicked my head and stuffed my eyes with cat hair. I deliberated until 4:30 whether uberman was really worth it and decided against it — at least for now. There are too many conflicts with my academic schedule and uberman isn’t very girlfriend-friendly. Believe it or not, I don’t actually enjoy feeling like crap.
Now, I don’t think I’ll really be going back to a strictly monophasic schedule either. I think what’ll work best is to keep taking short naps when I’m tired, and staying up if I’m doing something that inspires me, but when I feel super tired, I’ll actually sleep. I only slept 6 hours last night, but I feel great now.
The naps seem to be a great way to recover from an all-nighter, but I think I need some good long sleep — like 3 hours or so ;) — every couple of nights to stay sane. At this point, I think I’m tuned into my body enough to know when a short nap will do the trick. I’ve woken up without needing the alarm for about 80% of the naps I’ve taken in the last two days.
We’ll see what happens. I’m assuming I’ll go into a kind of Everyman schedule (consists of a 3-hour block at night with short naps during the day) on weekdays and sleep a lot on weekends.