Naps working great!

While be overall schedule has been getting knocked around by some traveling and a couple social outings, I've noticed that the effectiveness of my 20 minute naps have greatly improved. I've been using my 19 minute nap track and been able to wake up feeling substantially better than I felt when I went to sleep. I've also be successful in slipping in extra naps to compensate for nights when I either had to shift my core or had some other issue. I'm trying to stabilize my sleep schedule over the next week or two in order to form a habit to my current sleep schedule.

Current Schedule:
Core: 0400 - 0700
Nap 1: 1200 - 1220
Nap 2: 1700 - 1720
Nap 3: 2230 - 2250

New Schedule Adjustment

I've moved back to my apartment in Virginia and had to adjust my Everyman 3 schedule for my new work schedule. In essence, I've moved everything 3 hours forward. Instead of having my core start at 1 am, it now starts at 4 am and ends at 7am. All of my naps are basically pushed back by 3 hours although I've had to push them around a little to work around some commitments that come up a few times a week. The adjustment to this has been a little rougher than I expected. I figured because I was sticking to the same sleep schedule with only a shift by a few hours I'd be okay. However, I'm finding myself incredibly tired at the times when my old naps were and have been forced to throw in a few extra naps to keep myself functional. Hopefully by the end of this week I'll be back on track and be able to see if I can make this a lasting habit.

I've been learning PHP, mySQL, JavaScript, and AJAX in my spare time and hope to be able to use it to build a set of tools for the Polyphasic sleepers in the future. I'm thinking a visual nap scheduling system, an alarm, and maybe a tie-in to the currently available open source task management programs would be a good start.

Everyman 3

Last week I changed over to the Everyman 3 schedule. The reason being that I was developing a pattern of going 2 full days on Uberman and then crashing for several hours at a time on the third. These crashes generally summed up to around 6 or 7 hours of sleep on that day. I repeated this cycle 3 times and then decided to attempt the easier Everyman adaptation. I have successfully adapted to Everyman in the past and held it for over a month. So from this point forward I'm using a 3 hour core with 3 20 minute naps spaced throughout the day.