Powiull Sleep Experimentation

1:29 pm Tuesday

Nicholas told me that my 3 hours wasn’t that harmful to my adaptation. The fact that I woke up is a good sign and shows that my body is getting closer to adapting, that it’s not held down by monophasic patterns as much anymore. I’m going to be going as long as I can today before I take a nap. This would have been my last opportunity for a nap before 2 am tonight, as I’m between classes. If I’m tired, I may be able to squeeze one in around 9:30 or so. We’ll see. I have a ton of intramural games tonight so I don’t think I’ll be to needy of a nap until I’m all done.

2:11 pm Wednesday

I didn’t update at all since about this time yesterday, but here’s what went down. I slowly started feeling worse and worse throughout the afternoon. Not tired, just sick and miserable. The intramural games changed that and when I got back around 12:30, I was feeling great. Just chatted online and watched some TV shows throughout the night until about 6:30. I had been dozing off slightly during the shows and decided it was time for a nap. Took it and felt horrible waking up, but got up nonetheless. Went to breakfast and then to class, where I proceeded to doze off some more. I was so dead tired that I took another nap at 9:15 after the class, went to my next class where I dozed off some more, and came back. I took another nap at 12:00, of which my suitemate said he would wake me up, and didn’t. So I slept 2 hours. Doing better I guess right? At least it wasn’t 3 or even more. I’m going to take naps a bit more often now to try and get my body used to naps and force it to get some really deep sleep during them. Then I can start stretching the times. Hopefully that goes as planned.

2:02 am Thursday

I don’t know what it is with me posting every 12 hours, but here it is. It took me a while to feel good after the extended nap in the afternoon, but I did eventually. I was still tired and dozed off a little here and there, but just for minutes at a time. Then once I ate dinner I was feeling good, especially after my late night workout. I’m starting to get a little tired now though, so I’m going to watch The Office until I can’t keep my eyes open and then take a nap.

4:00 am

I’m not dead tired, but I think I’m going to take a nap within the next hour. I think it would be beneficial, as it would give my body a chance to try and get restful sleep as well as avoid falling asleep later today. The next time I would be able to take a nap is at 1 and I’m not sure I could make it that far without dozing off in class. If I take this nap, I’m fairly confident I can make it until tonight (probably around midnight or so) before taking another nap. We shall see.

6:26 am

So much for taking a nap. I just never got tired. I got tired very quickly without even being aware of it while watching The Office about 30 minutes ago and dozed off for 4 and a half minutes, but that is quite alright. I’m not very tired now either but I will definitely need to take a nap by 8:00 am or I’m going to have trouble staying awake during my morning classes.

12:52 pm

Great!!! So I ended up taking that nap around 7:45, but apparently I went back to sleep after I woke up and just woke up, 4.5 hours later. I thought last night was my best night also. I was feeling great and I thought I was going to get through today perfectly. I guess that wasn’t the case. I’m not giving up though, oh no. I’ve got this whole weekend to buckle down even more. I will prevail.

2:18 am Friday

Apparently I slept 2 hours off and on tonight without noticing. Do to the fact that my body wants to sleep extended periods of time and isn’t getting deep sleep during naps, I’m going to be doing Dymaxion (a nap every 6 hours) to relearn the ability. I will do that through the weekend and adapt to it. I will then be able to extend awake times. Stay tuned.