Week 02 update
Certain things I’ve noticed lately with the überman schedule:
My bed
I really, really miss my bed and a long night’s sleep. It’s just a conditioning, but it seemed like the well deserved rest at the end of a long day. A placebo feel good habit. Mind you, I get much deserved leisure time instead, so I wouldn’t switch them back, but I’ll most likely include a full night’s sleep here and there to help cope with my bed nostalgia and the lazy mornings where you just fool around in bed for way too long 
Bed sores
That’s one thing I don’t miss though, waking up with back aches in the morning. That’s gone for both Seb and I and that’s a really nice benefit. On the night I overslept, I woke up with a lower back ache and that alone makes me get up that much quicker after a nap to avoid oversleeping 
Food discipline
I really need to be careful not to eat too close to a nap and not to eat food too tough to digest. The harder the digestion, the more distance i have to put between the food and nap time, otherwise my naps aren’t restful and my nights are harder.
I should say I haven’t really changed my eating habits (outside of eating more) and they consist of fruit smoothies, as much vegetables as possible including a lot of salads, fish, a little bit of meat, yogourt, cheese (it’s absolutely surreal the amount of cheese I can ingest in a day) and cereals when we’re short on time (we tend to eat very little carbs except for the obligatory pizza deliciousness)
Schedule discipline
I really do not seem to need to stick with a really tight schedule like I’ve read most bloggers say. Store obliges, we’ve had to delay some naps, sometimes by up to an hour and so long as we take the next one on cue, all seems peachy. I’ll experiment more with that and will post about my findings.
Lucid dreams?
Lately I have the impression of waking up several times during my nap but wonder if it isn’t a precursor of lucid dreaming a lot of the polyphasic sleepers have experienced. Time will tell!
Taking the time
That is one really nice gain of überman: having all the extra time means I don’t cut corners, I can really take my time and do stuff not defined by its usefulness or efficiency. Amen.
Living in the now
Somehow, because of all the extra time, I really take the time to focus all my attention on the thing I am doing at the moment, rather than think about two three things at once. I am no longer thinking about the next thing while doing the current one and that’s made me not only appreciate more the things I used to enjoy that became somewhat paler, but also to appreciate more the ones I did not necessarily enjoy because there were a million things more urgent or that I liked more that I could have been doing just then.
The result is that I am more content. More focused. More positive. That’s an unexpected bonus that I welcome happily!
Rest is just a nap away
With monophasic sleep, if you sleep badly you’re screwed for the day. Fortunately with this, if you have one bad nap, you are just 4 hours away to feeling better! That’s pretty cool.