Sep 25
2:12 AM-
Eyes are pretty sore, and I feel mildly tired. I think I'll take a break from the computer for a minute and make something to eat, since that seems to restore a bit of energy.
2:35 AM-
Made a PB&J and drank some milk. The worst thing is the eye soreness, it just makes you wanna close your eyes, which makes you more tired. Hmm. Not very eloquent today am I? Oh well. Another 2.5 hours and I can get some rest.
5:00 - 9:30 AM-
Decided to go for 4.5 hours on this one and see how I felt. It sure was a great sleep, maybe too great. It was realllly hard to get up out of bed. I wanted to just lay there and enjoy the feeling of the awesome sleep for a few more hours.
Well, as you can see I did manage to get up. It does seem to take longer to really wake up the longer I've slept, and also based on the quality of sleep. There seem to be two types of good sleep. The first is like today, where I feel rested but superbly comfortable. As nice as the feeling is, makes it bloody hard to get out of that bed.
The second is where the alarm goes off and I am wide awake and ready to go. This has the advantage where it takes less time to wake up, but lacks that extremely pleasent feeling of the first type.
Anyway, what this leads me to believe is that 4.5 hours for the morning sleep are best kept to a minimum, to recharge my batteries after a particularly long night, or if I feel like indulging myself. Three hours seems fine for normal circumstances!
It's odd to consider that I think of 4.5 hours as quite a lot now.. before that would have been almost nothing to me.
12:00 PM-
Went out to lunch with Josh, ate quite a bit and had two beers, left feeling rather drowsy.
4:08 PM-
The usual sleepiness that seems to occur around this time. Little else to report really.
9:34 PM-
8-9:30 nap went well. Need to head down to the corner store and grab some cigarettes before they close.
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Sep 26 Day Four
5:00 - 8:00 AM sleep-
Woke up the the sound of my computer waking up from sleep (Just the sounds of the fans comning on, in other words) before my alarm went off about 20 seconds later.
Also experienced that feeling of 'Oh shit, did I oversleep!?!' that others have described. It's still a bit unbelievable.
If I need it, I think I will allow myself a 30 min nap or two later today, since I went from 6 hours to 4.5
7:27 PM-
Worked on the house throughout most of the day with Frank, afterwards went out for few beers with him an Dave. Had some awesome beers (Devoloping a fondness for dark beers'; they often taste like coffee) However, currently preparing for my evening bath and sleep.
8:00 - 11:00 PM-
Ended up sleeping an extra 1.5 hours, for a total of three. Mostly just to sleep off inebriation. My updates have sucked today and yesterday, mostly because I've been doing things that are just one thing for a large block of hours (Watching movies, working on the house etc)
Perhaps tomorrow will offer a different experience, as it will be my first day of work while on this schedule.
Day Four (Sep 26) Recap-
Pretty simple day. Work on house > Drink > Sleep.
Although this does allow me to experience the effects of drinking on my sleep. Which is to say, you need more of it after drinking. Not many surprises there.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Biphasic Day Two
Sep 24
2:42 AM-
Did a set of 30 second stretches, then went for a two hour walk to the local supermarket while listening to trance. Picked up some sparkling water and sour gummy worms. Walk went well, but as soon as I got home I started to feel a bit of nausea. Still feeling it now, not entirely sure why. Had about 5 gummy worms and a can of soda water on the way home, so I don't think thats it.
Eyes are a bit sore again, nothing terrible. Going to make some ginger/cinnamon tea. Um... not much else to say at the moment.
3:32 AM-
Nausea passed. Sore from the long walk, so thats adding to my tiredness, but it looks like I'll be able to sleep from 5-8 which is good. What's odd is I havn't been playing any games since I started this experiment, rather been watching movies, anime, and reading.
5:00-8:00 Sleep-
5-8 nap was horrible. I slept for about 20 minutes, so when the alarms went off I got up, turned them off, stood there for a minute and decided the 6 hours between sleeps is too short. Set the alarm for another 1.5 hours (9:30) and went back to bed.
That helped quite a bit. I could tell the first 'sleep' had almost no restorative effect this time, but 1.5 hours extra gets me back up at about normal levels.
The real question is how to adjust my schedule with this new knowledge. It seems like moving my 3 hour sleep from 8-11 PM back three hours to 5-8 PM would be the simplest answer. Nine hours awake, three hours sleep, nine hours awake, three hours sleep. There's one major problem though: 5-8 PM is right in dinner hours! Hmm.
Well then.
3:30-8:00 AM Sleep
5:00-6:30 PM Nap
This was the more common arrangement that I found people used: a 4 to 4.5 hour 'core sleep' and then a 1.5 hour nap. After a while they begin to reduce the core sleep time, while keeping the nap time at 1.5 hours.
I'll give it a try. 4.5 hours is still a large chunk of time to be asleep, but the idea was to slowly reduce my overall sleeping time eventually anyway, so over time I can whittle this down.
11:07 AM-
I still find myself with urges to crawl back into bed and curl under the blankets. Not so much for the sleep as just the comfortable warmth of it. Perhaps this is why one person recommended wearing sweaters etc, even if it made you uncomfortably warm.
I think the biggest thing is that sleeping is an excellent way to pass empty time. So I have to find other ways to fill my time. On the plus side, been watching Hetalia and it's hilarious. Well, sometimes. But always entertaining at least.
Still! It's enough to make me want to get back into WoW. Or EVE. I really can't wait til Fable 3 comes out though... -Sigh.- Well, EVE would be preferable to WoW.
Oh EVE, how you take up my time with meaningless micromanagement, and how I do love it. And my pretty Abaddon.
1:42 PM-
Feeling awake and alert. Made some nomz ramen with chicken, onion, ginger, and egg. But what I wanted to say is that I'm debating changing my original schedule so early... Maybe cutting back my sleep at 8 PM to just 1.5 hours instead of 3 would work? And then just keep my 5 AM sleep at 3 hours. That would mean I only get 4.5 hours of sleep a day, instead of my originally intended 6... but if it works, it works! So I wouldn't complain.
So what I am considering now:
8:00 - 7:45 PM
5:00 - 8:00 AM
I think I will give this a try, and see how my 5-8 AM sleep goes. If it's better, I'll keep this new schedule. If it's worse, I'll do the schedule I mentioned in my first update of the day.
Also, beginning to realize that even if I feel pretty terrible in the morning, as the day progresses I begin to feel better and better. I may have been premature in my decision to change my schedule so drastically this morning.
2:03 PM-
Quick comment: I've been feeling a lot more positive and energetic today and yesterday than I usually am. We'll see if it lasts.
7:19 PM-
I plan on sleeping at 8 for 1.5 hours. Will see how that effects my other sleep. Aside from that, I am well, albiet still suffering a bit of boredom.
8:00 - 9:30 PM-
Hot damn. I was up like a rocket when that alarm went off! Fantastic nap. Took a bit longer to fall asleep than I would have liked but not going to complain. Now the real question: will I be able to sleep come 5 AM?
11:19 PM-
Cleaned the bathroom a little, washed my face and brushed my teeth. Then I swept downstairs. I think if I am going to clean more in the future it should be during the day, as vacuuming and such is not really an option when people are sleeping.
Not entirely sure what to do at the moment, but I am thinking that night time should be reserved for games, exercise etc, while daytime for more important tasks.
September 24 Recap-
This morning was a bit of a hiccup, however tonights nap was great. feeling a bit drowsy (It's a few minutes past midnight now). Overall I think the last two days have gone surprisingly well. Not much else to say for today, so day three begins!
Edit to add: 9.5 hours sleep in the last 48.
2:42 AM-
Did a set of 30 second stretches, then went for a two hour walk to the local supermarket while listening to trance. Picked up some sparkling water and sour gummy worms. Walk went well, but as soon as I got home I started to feel a bit of nausea. Still feeling it now, not entirely sure why. Had about 5 gummy worms and a can of soda water on the way home, so I don't think thats it.
Eyes are a bit sore again, nothing terrible. Going to make some ginger/cinnamon tea. Um... not much else to say at the moment.
3:32 AM-
Nausea passed. Sore from the long walk, so thats adding to my tiredness, but it looks like I'll be able to sleep from 5-8 which is good. What's odd is I havn't been playing any games since I started this experiment, rather been watching movies, anime, and reading.
5:00-8:00 Sleep-
5-8 nap was horrible. I slept for about 20 minutes, so when the alarms went off I got up, turned them off, stood there for a minute and decided the 6 hours between sleeps is too short. Set the alarm for another 1.5 hours (9:30) and went back to bed.
That helped quite a bit. I could tell the first 'sleep' had almost no restorative effect this time, but 1.5 hours extra gets me back up at about normal levels.
The real question is how to adjust my schedule with this new knowledge. It seems like moving my 3 hour sleep from 8-11 PM back three hours to 5-8 PM would be the simplest answer. Nine hours awake, three hours sleep, nine hours awake, three hours sleep. There's one major problem though: 5-8 PM is right in dinner hours! Hmm.
Well then.
3:30-8:00 AM Sleep
5:00-6:30 PM Nap
This was the more common arrangement that I found people used: a 4 to 4.5 hour 'core sleep' and then a 1.5 hour nap. After a while they begin to reduce the core sleep time, while keeping the nap time at 1.5 hours.
I'll give it a try. 4.5 hours is still a large chunk of time to be asleep, but the idea was to slowly reduce my overall sleeping time eventually anyway, so over time I can whittle this down.
11:07 AM-
I still find myself with urges to crawl back into bed and curl under the blankets. Not so much for the sleep as just the comfortable warmth of it. Perhaps this is why one person recommended wearing sweaters etc, even if it made you uncomfortably warm.
I think the biggest thing is that sleeping is an excellent way to pass empty time. So I have to find other ways to fill my time. On the plus side, been watching Hetalia and it's hilarious. Well, sometimes. But always entertaining at least.
Still! It's enough to make me want to get back into WoW. Or EVE. I really can't wait til Fable 3 comes out though... -Sigh.- Well, EVE would be preferable to WoW.
Oh EVE, how you take up my time with meaningless micromanagement, and how I do love it. And my pretty Abaddon.
1:42 PM-
Feeling awake and alert. Made some nomz ramen with chicken, onion, ginger, and egg. But what I wanted to say is that I'm debating changing my original schedule so early... Maybe cutting back my sleep at 8 PM to just 1.5 hours instead of 3 would work? And then just keep my 5 AM sleep at 3 hours. That would mean I only get 4.5 hours of sleep a day, instead of my originally intended 6... but if it works, it works! So I wouldn't complain.
So what I am considering now:
8:00 - 7:45 PM
5:00 - 8:00 AM
I think I will give this a try, and see how my 5-8 AM sleep goes. If it's better, I'll keep this new schedule. If it's worse, I'll do the schedule I mentioned in my first update of the day.
Also, beginning to realize that even if I feel pretty terrible in the morning, as the day progresses I begin to feel better and better. I may have been premature in my decision to change my schedule so drastically this morning.
2:03 PM-
Quick comment: I've been feeling a lot more positive and energetic today and yesterday than I usually am. We'll see if it lasts.
7:19 PM-
I plan on sleeping at 8 for 1.5 hours. Will see how that effects my other sleep. Aside from that, I am well, albiet still suffering a bit of boredom.
8:00 - 9:30 PM-
Hot damn. I was up like a rocket when that alarm went off! Fantastic nap. Took a bit longer to fall asleep than I would have liked but not going to complain. Now the real question: will I be able to sleep come 5 AM?
11:19 PM-
Cleaned the bathroom a little, washed my face and brushed my teeth. Then I swept downstairs. I think if I am going to clean more in the future it should be during the day, as vacuuming and such is not really an option when people are sleeping.
Not entirely sure what to do at the moment, but I am thinking that night time should be reserved for games, exercise etc, while daytime for more important tasks.
September 24 Recap-
This morning was a bit of a hiccup, however tonights nap was great. feeling a bit drowsy (It's a few minutes past midnight now). Overall I think the last two days have gone surprisingly well. Not much else to say for today, so day three begins!
Edit to add: 9.5 hours sleep in the last 48.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Biphasic Day One
The past three days I've been (Inadvertantly) sleeping 3-4 hours, waking up, dicking around for a few hours and then going back to sleep for 2 or 3 hours. The first day I felt like hell, but the second and third I felt about as rested as if I'd gotten a straight 6-8 hour sleep.
Well, I'd heard of biphasic sleeping before. Supposedly it was common in the time before the advent of clocks and electricity. So, considering that I've already had three days practice, albeit unintentionally, I've decided to adopt biphasic sleep officaially. Or at least attempt to.
This will be my first day. At the moment, the plan is to sleep from 20:00 to 23:00 (8 PM to 11 PM) followed by a period of six hours awake, and then three more hours of sleep (05:00 to 08:00). Since I normally wake up at 8 AM for work on Monday and Tuesday anyway, this seemed ideal.
Unfortunately my first 3 hour period was a failure (That would be Wednesday, Sep 22 from 20:00 to 23:00). I laid in bed for an hour, which was rather relaxing, but couldn't fall asleep.
5:00 to 8:00 AM Sleep-
The second sleep (Sep 23) went great. Just woke up from it, And for only three hours it feels great. I actually woke up at 7:46, but I wanted to make sure my alarms were suffecient (First night using Task Manager to both wake my computer from sleep and play music). Considering how I jumped up after they both went off it seems they will be ok. We'll see, but I think since I'll be experiencing much less sleep deprivation than somone trying an Uberman or Everyman schedule (Where you get all those crazy stories of people waking up, turning off three alarms across the room, and immediatly going back to bed without remembering a thing) two alarms whould be suffecient.
I also remember having a very detailed dream, something where I was playing a crazy video game, but writing this seems to have made me forget sadly. I can't deny that I really do want to crawl back into bed for 'just a bit longer' because it felt so great to sleep, but I know that is a mistake. Starting my 'morning routine' should help.
As a side note: I'm interested in seeing if this waking up 15 minutes shy of a full three hours becomes a trend or was just a fluke. I did go to bed about 10 minutes early to give myself time to fall asleep (Which was needed, but not too much. I still fell asleep way faster than I have the previous three nights.)
A promising first morning but we'll see if I can make it the full twelve hours till my next sleep. If I end up too exhausted, I'd rather just move that to an earlier time for now, but not unless it is absolutely neccesary. I'd like to keep this adaptation period as strict (And subsequently as short) as possible.
Waking up to 'Alexithymia' by Anberlin was pretty nice, as well.
12:41 PM-
Feeling quite well, been pretty energetic since my shower at about 9 AM. Finished up laundry I started last night (Our dryer sucks so it takes a while), wrote a short story (On this blog, Alexithymia) and cleaned out the mouse cage. The only problem is my stomach has been a bit off, but thats normal for me under light sleep. Nothing severe, just more frequent bathroom trips than normal. So I made some ginger and cinnamon tea. It's supposed to get down to the 40's tonight so I'm hoping A) that will ensure I am able to get good sleep periods and B) That I don't sleep -too- good and not wanna get out of my warm bed!
All in all I'm surprised at how well the day has gone thus far. Not anticipating incapacitating (Heh, alliteration) drowsiness before my 8-11 PM sleep period. But we'll see.
Oh, almost forgot: now that I'm done cleaning the cage I'm at a loss as to what to do. However it's not the usual restless boredom I usually get, I feel pretty relaxed.
1:37 PM-
Played with Bailey for a while. Feeling slight urges to nap, easy to resist. Yawning a bit.
4:40 PM-
Noticeably tired, mostly my eyes. Looking forward to the 8-11 sleep, but I'm not on the verge of passing out or anything.
6:30 PM-
Ate a big meal of homemade chicken soup and bread. The bread really filled me up, I was only able to finish half my second bowl of soup. However, it does seem to have woken me up a bit, at least for the moment. I'm curious as to how this will affect my 8-11 sleep. It may mean I fall asleep easier, but it might also make waking up harder. The success of earlier nap of 5-8 AM leaves me somewhat hopeful. I'd like to feel well enough to exercise (This was one of my reasons for attempting biphasic sleep.)
I should also note that I am -very- keen on not oversleeping and keeping a strict schedule. These seem to be the two biggest issues that fuck up people's adaptation, causing a lot of them to fail. Plus, if I can do all of this without oversleeping a single time, it'd be an awesome personal achievment!
8:00 to 11:00 PM Sleep-
Hmm. Not that fanatastic, but not horrible either. Certainly not the refreshed feeling of this morning's nap. That may be simply be the effects of a sleep debt, or, it may be the fact that I really pushed getting into bed -exactly- to 8 PM instead of going ten minutes early like last time. In tomorrow's sleep, I'll try hitting the sack ten minutes early again.
Also: one of my alarms was set wrong! My cell phone was set to 8 AM! That would've been twleve hours of sleep. Lucky me, my computer alarm going off (Just the music) was enough to wake me up, but it was a close call. I need to up the volume on that.
Furthermore, the urge to go back to sleep immediatly upon waking up is quite strong. I was sitting in my bed fixing my cell phone alarm after turning off the computer one, and thinking "If I don't get up now, there's a decent chance I'll flop over and pass out"
So, I just slid off the bed and stood. It helped, and the urge to go back to bed faded quickly afterwards.
Mm... so a bit groggy this time. But definitly more refreshed at the moment than when I went to bed, and only a six hour stretch till my morning nap as opposed to twelve like last time! Not so bad at all. Oh! What the fuck did I want to add... Um... the food! That was it.
Anyway, I had a pretty big meal about and hour and a half before bed time. I was curious as to if this would affect my sleep at all. It -may- be why tonight's nap wasn't all that fantastic (Although, I've certainly had times I've felt worse after sleeping 8+ hours straight). But there's too many variables to say definitly if that is the cause.
Think I took about 10-20 minutes to fall asleep, not great but it is still early in the test, and still much better than before I started. I think I could use with a glass of OJ though! ;) And a bike ride might be nice in an hour or so.
11:22 PM-
Mmm, have some orange juice and the last of the s'mores brownie mom made (Soooo good, but so sweet! Not a bad breakfast food when coupled with something tart like OJ) and I feel quite good, it's really amazing how even just three hours is that helpful. I guess thats how those uberman guys feel, but on their 20 minute naps! Well, once they start adapting and the naps actually kick in, anyway. Amazing stuff. I'm sure they think what I'm doing is cake, but if I just jumped into something like that I'd very likely fail... I know my limits, and unless I have something continiously going (Like in P-Days at bootcamp. You're up for something like 72 hours, but since you're constantly on the move with PO's pushing at you it's not that hard)
This biphasic presents me with better options, I think. I can move down to four hours total a night, and from there can, if I decide I want to, move into a polyphasic sleep.
Still really have my doubts about polyphasic. Mostly I hate the idea that you can only really miss one nap or you're doomed to crashing! But you know, thats what the future is for, I can always try it, and if I don't like it I don't have to stick with it. The benefits once you're fully adapated seem pretty badass, one youtube blog in particular from a girl has me pretty convinced. She actually went back to monophasic after about 8 months of poly, and she said it SUCKED. She actually missed polyphasic! (I should note she went back because she wanted to lose weight, not because of any inherent problems in sleeping polyphasic. She loved it. But then, I also think she looked better black hair than blonde :P)
Jeeze, I really start rambling on these updates. I wonder if I keep up this log it will help my writing blocks at all. Anyway...
Day One Recap-
Not to shabby, actually. The three hour sleep cycles seem to be the way to go. I'll make minor adjustments as needed, though of course the eventual end plan is to cut that down to two hours (Four total) if possible, however that won't occur anytime before 21 days on the 6 hours schedule, possibly 30 if things end up taking a while. For now it's just slow and easy down the 6 hour path.
No oversleeps! Of course, I've only had two official three-hour sleeps, but if you add in my jacked up schedule beforehand (Which is the cause of all of this anyway) it's more like four days of this. So I had a headstart before my official 'Day One' :P
P.S.- Official sleep time is now 6 hours in the last 24. Hm... that doesn't sound all that impressive unless you consider that it's 18 hours awake with very little stimulants or sleepiness! So in that sense,
I'm making anote here:
Huge Success!
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Aperture Science:
We do what we must,
Because we c-
Ehm. Anyway. TECHNICALLY speaking, it's been more like 6 hours of sleep in the last... ehm... 34 or 35 hours. So that's a bit more impressive :P (If I had been able to sleep on my first official nap it'd be 9 hours in 34)
Whelp. Next day begins after midnight, which is only about 20 minutes. So I'll see you there :P
(Assuming anyone will be reading this. I suppose it's really for my own record keeping, since my blog is read about as much as Maxim magazine. Everyone just comes for the pretty pictures)
-Edit- Forgot to add, this 6 hour awake period is supposed to be caffeine free. Don't trust 6 hours as enough time for caffeine not to screw up my 5-8 AM sleep.
Well, I'd heard of biphasic sleeping before. Supposedly it was common in the time before the advent of clocks and electricity. So, considering that I've already had three days practice, albeit unintentionally, I've decided to adopt biphasic sleep officaially. Or at least attempt to.
This will be my first day. At the moment, the plan is to sleep from 20:00 to 23:00 (8 PM to 11 PM) followed by a period of six hours awake, and then three more hours of sleep (05:00 to 08:00). Since I normally wake up at 8 AM for work on Monday and Tuesday anyway, this seemed ideal.
Unfortunately my first 3 hour period was a failure (That would be Wednesday, Sep 22 from 20:00 to 23:00). I laid in bed for an hour, which was rather relaxing, but couldn't fall asleep.
5:00 to 8:00 AM Sleep-
The second sleep (Sep 23) went great. Just woke up from it, And for only three hours it feels great. I actually woke up at 7:46, but I wanted to make sure my alarms were suffecient (First night using Task Manager to both wake my computer from sleep and play music). Considering how I jumped up after they both went off it seems they will be ok. We'll see, but I think since I'll be experiencing much less sleep deprivation than somone trying an Uberman or Everyman schedule (Where you get all those crazy stories of people waking up, turning off three alarms across the room, and immediatly going back to bed without remembering a thing) two alarms whould be suffecient.
I also remember having a very detailed dream, something where I was playing a crazy video game, but writing this seems to have made me forget sadly. I can't deny that I really do want to crawl back into bed for 'just a bit longer' because it felt so great to sleep, but I know that is a mistake. Starting my 'morning routine' should help.
As a side note: I'm interested in seeing if this waking up 15 minutes shy of a full three hours becomes a trend or was just a fluke. I did go to bed about 10 minutes early to give myself time to fall asleep (Which was needed, but not too much. I still fell asleep way faster than I have the previous three nights.)
A promising first morning but we'll see if I can make it the full twelve hours till my next sleep. If I end up too exhausted, I'd rather just move that to an earlier time for now, but not unless it is absolutely neccesary. I'd like to keep this adaptation period as strict (And subsequently as short) as possible.
Waking up to 'Alexithymia' by Anberlin was pretty nice, as well.
12:41 PM-
Feeling quite well, been pretty energetic since my shower at about 9 AM. Finished up laundry I started last night (Our dryer sucks so it takes a while), wrote a short story (On this blog, Alexithymia) and cleaned out the mouse cage. The only problem is my stomach has been a bit off, but thats normal for me under light sleep. Nothing severe, just more frequent bathroom trips than normal. So I made some ginger and cinnamon tea. It's supposed to get down to the 40's tonight so I'm hoping A) that will ensure I am able to get good sleep periods and B) That I don't sleep -too- good and not wanna get out of my warm bed!
All in all I'm surprised at how well the day has gone thus far. Not anticipating incapacitating (Heh, alliteration) drowsiness before my 8-11 PM sleep period. But we'll see.
Oh, almost forgot: now that I'm done cleaning the cage I'm at a loss as to what to do. However it's not the usual restless boredom I usually get, I feel pretty relaxed.
1:37 PM-
Played with Bailey for a while. Feeling slight urges to nap, easy to resist. Yawning a bit.
4:40 PM-
Noticeably tired, mostly my eyes. Looking forward to the 8-11 sleep, but I'm not on the verge of passing out or anything.
6:30 PM-
Ate a big meal of homemade chicken soup and bread. The bread really filled me up, I was only able to finish half my second bowl of soup. However, it does seem to have woken me up a bit, at least for the moment. I'm curious as to how this will affect my 8-11 sleep. It may mean I fall asleep easier, but it might also make waking up harder. The success of earlier nap of 5-8 AM leaves me somewhat hopeful. I'd like to feel well enough to exercise (This was one of my reasons for attempting biphasic sleep.)
I should also note that I am -very- keen on not oversleeping and keeping a strict schedule. These seem to be the two biggest issues that fuck up people's adaptation, causing a lot of them to fail. Plus, if I can do all of this without oversleeping a single time, it'd be an awesome personal achievment!
8:00 to 11:00 PM Sleep-
Hmm. Not that fanatastic, but not horrible either. Certainly not the refreshed feeling of this morning's nap. That may be simply be the effects of a sleep debt, or, it may be the fact that I really pushed getting into bed -exactly- to 8 PM instead of going ten minutes early like last time. In tomorrow's sleep, I'll try hitting the sack ten minutes early again.
Also: one of my alarms was set wrong! My cell phone was set to 8 AM! That would've been twleve hours of sleep. Lucky me, my computer alarm going off (Just the music) was enough to wake me up, but it was a close call. I need to up the volume on that.
Furthermore, the urge to go back to sleep immediatly upon waking up is quite strong. I was sitting in my bed fixing my cell phone alarm after turning off the computer one, and thinking "If I don't get up now, there's a decent chance I'll flop over and pass out"
So, I just slid off the bed and stood. It helped, and the urge to go back to bed faded quickly afterwards.
Mm... so a bit groggy this time. But definitly more refreshed at the moment than when I went to bed, and only a six hour stretch till my morning nap as opposed to twelve like last time! Not so bad at all. Oh! What the fuck did I want to add... Um... the food! That was it.
Anyway, I had a pretty big meal about and hour and a half before bed time. I was curious as to if this would affect my sleep at all. It -may- be why tonight's nap wasn't all that fantastic (Although, I've certainly had times I've felt worse after sleeping 8+ hours straight). But there's too many variables to say definitly if that is the cause.
Think I took about 10-20 minutes to fall asleep, not great but it is still early in the test, and still much better than before I started. I think I could use with a glass of OJ though! ;) And a bike ride might be nice in an hour or so.
11:22 PM-
Mmm, have some orange juice and the last of the s'mores brownie mom made (Soooo good, but so sweet! Not a bad breakfast food when coupled with something tart like OJ) and I feel quite good, it's really amazing how even just three hours is that helpful. I guess thats how those uberman guys feel, but on their 20 minute naps! Well, once they start adapting and the naps actually kick in, anyway. Amazing stuff. I'm sure they think what I'm doing is cake, but if I just jumped into something like that I'd very likely fail... I know my limits, and unless I have something continiously going (Like in P-Days at bootcamp. You're up for something like 72 hours, but since you're constantly on the move with PO's pushing at you it's not that hard)
This biphasic presents me with better options, I think. I can move down to four hours total a night, and from there can, if I decide I want to, move into a polyphasic sleep.
Still really have my doubts about polyphasic. Mostly I hate the idea that you can only really miss one nap or you're doomed to crashing! But you know, thats what the future is for, I can always try it, and if I don't like it I don't have to stick with it. The benefits once you're fully adapated seem pretty badass, one youtube blog in particular from a girl has me pretty convinced. She actually went back to monophasic after about 8 months of poly, and she said it SUCKED. She actually missed polyphasic! (I should note she went back because she wanted to lose weight, not because of any inherent problems in sleeping polyphasic. She loved it. But then, I also think she looked better black hair than blonde :P)
Jeeze, I really start rambling on these updates. I wonder if I keep up this log it will help my writing blocks at all. Anyway...
Day One Recap-
Not to shabby, actually. The three hour sleep cycles seem to be the way to go. I'll make minor adjustments as needed, though of course the eventual end plan is to cut that down to two hours (Four total) if possible, however that won't occur anytime before 21 days on the 6 hours schedule, possibly 30 if things end up taking a while. For now it's just slow and easy down the 6 hour path.
No oversleeps! Of course, I've only had two official three-hour sleeps, but if you add in my jacked up schedule beforehand (Which is the cause of all of this anyway) it's more like four days of this. So I had a headstart before my official 'Day One' :P
P.S.- Official sleep time is now 6 hours in the last 24. Hm... that doesn't sound all that impressive unless you consider that it's 18 hours awake with very little stimulants or sleepiness! So in that sense,
I'm making anote here:
Huge Success!
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Aperture Science:
We do what we must,
Because we c-
Ehm. Anyway. TECHNICALLY speaking, it's been more like 6 hours of sleep in the last... ehm... 34 or 35 hours. So that's a bit more impressive :P (If I had been able to sleep on my first official nap it'd be 9 hours in 34)
Whelp. Next day begins after midnight, which is only about 20 minutes. So I'll see you there :P
(Assuming anyone will be reading this. I suppose it's really for my own record keeping, since my blog is read about as much as Maxim magazine. Everyone just comes for the pretty pictures)
-Edit- Forgot to add, this 6 hour awake period is supposed to be caffeine free. Don't trust 6 hours as enough time for caffeine not to screw up my 5-8 AM sleep.
Alexithymia
(Written in wordpad while listening the the Anberlin song of the same name as the title)
It's not as if it were impossible to stop this endless spiral, trailing smoke, oil and blood spattered on the inside of the cockpit glass. Stereotypical crash scene. But sometimes they made it out, right? They slid that cockpit open, jumped out, pulled the parachute cord.
Assuming the parachute opened correctly, nobody perforated them with bullets, and they landed in safe territory without breaking their neck, the pilot would make it out alive. Fuck-all odds, if you ask me. Might as well win the lottery.
Thats what I thought as I stared at my bland cereal, with it's pale soy milk. The house creaked around me in early morning winds, other residents yet to wake. A scrap of song passed through my mind with a faint reminiscence, like the smallest wiff of a fragrance once worn by some forgotten lover, long passed.
Shit. It was hardly fair. I could hear the grains of snow beat against the old, warped glass panes of the windows. Virtually see the frosty breath of winter's wrathe creep in through the cracks around the doors and windows, between the ceiling and the wall. It was like some inevitable shadow-thing from a horror movie. Back when they allowed such things.
And still all was bland. It occured to me that this entire house represented the state of things; the state of the state, if you wish. I don't need to spell out the metaphor for you, at least I shouldn't. Unless you're dim on chems, but then, it's unlikely you'd be reading this anyway...
Fuck. It's all so redundant. My downcast eyes blinked away their glaze. I think my 'milk' was forming ice crystals. It had to be warmer in the battered old fridge then it was in this damn dining room. I wanted to crawl back into bed, to dream of a time and place before things were in a state of rotting undeath. It was all so fucking rediculous.
But no. I had to shovel the walks, at three in the morning. Two feet of snow outside, blizzard conditions and I have to shovel two miles to the work site. It wasn't going to happen. I knew it. The house coordinator knew it. If I failed, I would have my rations cut and... it didn't really matter anymore. What really pissed me off was Mally should've been the one to shovel today, but she was eating out that cunt of a coordinaters cunt, so she got all sorts of benefits. It would've been kinky, but it wasn't.
Honestly though, nobody should have to shovel. None of us should have fucking been here in the first place. But here we were. Because there wasn't really an alternative, unless you wanted to rot in the wastes. 'Course, we were rotting here all the same.
It was hard to resist the temptation to just kill them all in their sleep. I'd be doing them a favor, right? Even Brendon, and he was only twelve. Poor kid. Wasn't fair to him to be born into this world. Not like any of us are given a choice to be born.
Some of them deserved it. Some of them didn't. But instead of stabbing the coordinator in the eyes with my spoon, I thought about the wastes. Gated off. Patrolled. Guarded. There were the rumors of course, colonies spread out there, living free, more or less. It was hard to tell if they were spread by trolls or the centgov.
Fuck it. I was dead if I stayed here. And freezing to death out there didn't seem so bad anymore. I took what was mine, and stole the snowshoes. There was only one pair, for the coordinator. Fuck that whore.
The fence to the wastes laid two miles behind the house. A hundred paces out I thought I heard the entire thing crash down behind me; it was hard to tell over the wind. Probably just my imagination. Probably.
I got the the fence and it was halfway blown over with snow, like some sort of one way ramp. An open invitation, just for me. There's more to living than just being alive.
It's not as if it were impossible to stop this endless spiral, trailing smoke, oil and blood spattered on the inside of the cockpit glass. Stereotypical crash scene. But sometimes they made it out, right? They slid that cockpit open, jumped out, pulled the parachute cord.
Assuming the parachute opened correctly, nobody perforated them with bullets, and they landed in safe territory without breaking their neck, the pilot would make it out alive. Fuck-all odds, if you ask me. Might as well win the lottery.
Thats what I thought as I stared at my bland cereal, with it's pale soy milk. The house creaked around me in early morning winds, other residents yet to wake. A scrap of song passed through my mind with a faint reminiscence, like the smallest wiff of a fragrance once worn by some forgotten lover, long passed.
Shit. It was hardly fair. I could hear the grains of snow beat against the old, warped glass panes of the windows. Virtually see the frosty breath of winter's wrathe creep in through the cracks around the doors and windows, between the ceiling and the wall. It was like some inevitable shadow-thing from a horror movie. Back when they allowed such things.
And still all was bland. It occured to me that this entire house represented the state of things; the state of the state, if you wish. I don't need to spell out the metaphor for you, at least I shouldn't. Unless you're dim on chems, but then, it's unlikely you'd be reading this anyway...
Fuck. It's all so redundant. My downcast eyes blinked away their glaze. I think my 'milk' was forming ice crystals. It had to be warmer in the battered old fridge then it was in this damn dining room. I wanted to crawl back into bed, to dream of a time and place before things were in a state of rotting undeath. It was all so fucking rediculous.
But no. I had to shovel the walks, at three in the morning. Two feet of snow outside, blizzard conditions and I have to shovel two miles to the work site. It wasn't going to happen. I knew it. The house coordinator knew it. If I failed, I would have my rations cut and... it didn't really matter anymore. What really pissed me off was Mally should've been the one to shovel today, but she was eating out that cunt of a coordinaters cunt, so she got all sorts of benefits. It would've been kinky, but it wasn't.
Honestly though, nobody should have to shovel. None of us should have fucking been here in the first place. But here we were. Because there wasn't really an alternative, unless you wanted to rot in the wastes. 'Course, we were rotting here all the same.
It was hard to resist the temptation to just kill them all in their sleep. I'd be doing them a favor, right? Even Brendon, and he was only twelve. Poor kid. Wasn't fair to him to be born into this world. Not like any of us are given a choice to be born.
Some of them deserved it. Some of them didn't. But instead of stabbing the coordinator in the eyes with my spoon, I thought about the wastes. Gated off. Patrolled. Guarded. There were the rumors of course, colonies spread out there, living free, more or less. It was hard to tell if they were spread by trolls or the centgov.
Fuck it. I was dead if I stayed here. And freezing to death out there didn't seem so bad anymore. I took what was mine, and stole the snowshoes. There was only one pair, for the coordinator. Fuck that whore.
The fence to the wastes laid two miles behind the house. A hundred paces out I thought I heard the entire thing crash down behind me; it was hard to tell over the wind. Probably just my imagination. Probably.
I got the the fence and it was halfway blown over with snow, like some sort of one way ramp. An open invitation, just for me. There's more to living than just being alive.
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