I'm already beginning to see how having to take naps during the day is going to complicate things for me. There are 3 main areas that concern me with switching to this sleep schedule. My family and friend interactions, my girlfriend and the summer vacation trip that I've got planned. These are not necessarily in any particular order of importance, because I didn't feel liked trying to edit the line on my phone to put them in a specific order, yet typing this has proven to be more of an effort than if I had just reordered the line to begin with. Though, that's how I tend to do things.
Anyway, back on topic, the first issue is with conflicts with interacting with friends and family. This was very noticeable the other morning, when I made my brother go watch TV in the living room while I took a nap in my bed. Course, when I awoke, he had the TV blasting and was playing the piano in the living room, at 9AM! I quickly jumped out of bed, ran in there and smacked him in the head. "What the hell dude? What are you thinkin?" his reply: "I'm bored."
So yeah, there's that, but I also really enjoy going out with my grandmother to breakfast and dinner, which we do about once a week or so. If we go in the morning, it's usually around 8-8:30, which is right before my morning nap, and dinner I'd usually on the early side of 5-5:30, which is during my nap. Of course, those issues can be fixed by shifting around my sleep times slightly (either pushing them back or moving them forward), but my grandparents don't seem so supportive of the idea itself. Well, most people seem a bit weirded out by the idea, but only my mom & girlfriend seem supportive in the slightest. We'll have to see for how long though. I don't think it'll be long until I'm saying: "Ah, yeah, I can't make that because I've got to take a nap."
The next issue is with my girlfriend. She is supportive of my decision to horribly sleep deprive myself, which I think is partly because she is curious to see if it's possible, but the other part is because she's accepted the fact that I tend to do crazy/stupid things, and this is just one of them. The problem is that I don't think she realizes just how much my naps will throw off our normal schedule. First and foremost, the thing I'm going to miss most out of everything by adapting to this will be the fact that I won't get to sleep with her at night. Well, I'm sure I could, but I'd only be laying down for 20-30 minutes. With how light a sleeper she is, I'd just end up waking her up trying to lay down, then again when I got up. Instead, I imagine myself taking many of my naps with my head in her lap, while she reads a book or something, then, at night, she'll be in bed while I work on my computer programs or something as quiet as possible. Whatever we end up doing will take some getting used to, and some compromises on both our parts. But all that can be worked out with time I believe.
So, the last major concern I have is the Barbados summer trip I've got planned with my grandparents. They are already not terribly supportive of the idea to begin with, and I don't believe that they realize that when I've got to take a nap, I have to take a nap. There is no "well, it's too inconvenient right now, so just skip this nap." The Uberman Sleep Schedule does not quite work like that, and I'm afraid that there will be times that we're out, and I'll have to try to nap on a bench or something, and they'll get upset or something, I dunno. They can be weird like that.
So yeah, other than those issues, I'm all for switching over to this schedule to give it a try. It should be very interesting, and I think that I'll figure out how to solve my napping issues when they arise.
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