Day 1

I will try easing into this over a few days to see if that works. Since I'm doing the Everyman schedule, it is more flexible and forgiving than the Uberman, and in my estimation, less traumatic is better, in general. I will try gradually reducing the amount I sleep each night and the more I nap during the day, while trying to keep nap times fairly consistent in time of occurrence and duration.

Yesterday could count as a warm-up day, I got 6 hours of sleep because I had to get up early to catch a flight, then I napped on the plane.

Then, last night I retired at around 12 midnight, awoke at 3am as I sometimes do in the night, but instead of rolling over to go back to sleep, I elected to remain awake for an hour. I gave my SO a massage and browsed the net on my iPhone, then went back to sleep at 4am until about 7am, then napped for 45 minutes at 7:45. Total time so far is 6 hours 45 minutes, and I am only slightly bleary-eyed.

I should also mention that I am fairly addicted to caffeine, and regularly drink 3-4 cans of energy drinks in a day, along with 1-2 1500 mg of guarana and 2-4 500mg capsules of Yerba Matte in a day. I have stopped taking all of these as of today, and will avoid all caffeine and similar stimulants such as Yerba Matte, probably for the duration of this experiment. To avoid the symptoms of caffeine withdrawal which include unpleasant headaches, difficulty concentrating and muscle pains, I have had a couple of sips of black tea and will do so each day for a couple of days, because it contains caffeine, but yet lacks the stimulating effect of coffee and similar products.

It's 2 in the afternoon now. I napped for 20 minutes at 12:30. I now feel great. I actually started dreaming 5 times during that nap, and was awake 2 minutes before the alarm went off. Because I drempt, I think I may have achieved REM sleep even only lightly. I didn't think I would be able to sleep during my nap. Perhaps it was because I laid down, covered my eyes with a shirt to make it dark and put earplugs in so it was quiet. I have slept using earplugs for 20 years now - it is my usual way of sleeping.

I next took a nap at about 5:45 for 20 minutes, as the plane was taking off. Again a surprise that I could sleep since there was a bunch of girls near the back of the plane that were anything but quiet. I think the earplugs were the reason. I had bought a face mask for sleeping to close out the light and wore it as well, I deemed it worthwhile.

I was awake and alert until landing 5 hours later. Got sleepy at 10pm Denver time, (12pm east-coast time) tried to nap in the truck while the SO drove - unsuccessful - too bumpy. I kept my eyes closed and stayed quiet though for 20 minutes anyway - it seemed to help.

Got sleepy at 3-ish, pulled the truck over and had a successful 20-minute nap. Felt refreshed and continuted home.

Was alert until 4; went to bed at 4:30.