I had the luxury of doing the uberman sleep schedule for a summer. It was amazing, but I had no job, no car, and few friends, so it was easy. In my experience, you get a ridiculous amount of things done, simply because you have so much time. Sure, you're tired at first, but being tired doesn't mean you have to sit there and not do anything.
In the first month of doing it, I finished everything on my to-do lists, cleaned everything in the house, cleared all my email in boxes, did a lot of stretching, condensed 3 years of mechanical engineering notes into handy reference sheets, and then had to start seriously thinking about what to do with all this time I had. I managed to come up with deep goals for life, map out extensive details about how to accomplish them, evaluate all my interests, and decide on which hobbies to keep, which to let go, which to adopt, etc. In short, I feel like I got my life in order. Once I had a main goal/purpose for myself, I ran with it. I've been happy with that since. Although I do periodically fine tune the goal as I progress towards it. The more progress I make, the clearer I see what I'm really aiming for.
It seems to me like your schedule with exams is a serious problem for this sleep schedule. It might be better to post pone adopting it until you have more flexibility. Toward the end of the summer for me, I went out swimming with my friends right at my usual nap time. I was super tired, and it threw me out of whack enough that I abandoned the whole thing so I could hang out with my friends easier.
The ideal fit for this would be someone who makes their own schedule, flexible work, flexible commitments, flexible social life, etc. Working around rigid schedules makes it near impossible. That being said, some people still might find it more preferable to the standard 8 hour model. Bi-phasic sleep is another option with much more flexibility on sleep times.
Right now, I'm operating quite well on the push and crash model. I was up for 16 hours, went to work for 8, slept 5, did another 8 hour shift, then slept 90 minutes. Right now I'm feeling that it is time for the crash part of that: 18 solid hours of sleep, pee break, maybe a snack, then back to bed, then back to work. It feels like time travel sleeping for 18 solid hours, but I figure that if I can sleep all in one chunk like that, I'll take it. Seems like 18 is always enough to recover, I've never really gone longer than that. It does make me laugh when I set my alarm clock 21 hours in the future, just to make sure I'm up in time for work lol.
But seriously, even if there are obstacles for you, even if you don't know how you're going to make the schedule fit with everything, I would definitely recommend trying it, and seeing it as a learning opportunity. You might find that you personally have more flexibility with the nap times than others, or you might find some other insights into it that make it easier to do at another time. What's the worst that could happen?
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