Posted by Chris on September 4, 2009
No over sleeping today! Its one of the better days so far. Decent focus and alertness. I guess ill have to wait and see how the rest of the day goes. If anyone has any questions feel free to leave me comments.
11am: The 7am nap was great and marked the first lucid dream of this experiment. In the dream I was aware that I was dreaming and had telekinetic powers. Very fun. Was almost worth it just for the crazy dreams.
Day 10 recap: Another positive day towards normality. Nothing out of the ordinary happened.
Posted by Chris on September 3, 2009
I finally did it. I over slept. I can't believe that I over slept that bad. I went to bed exactly at 11pm and I woke up at 2am. From what little I can remember, I felt okay but after I turned off the alarm I didn't get up right away and must have fallen back asleep. I woke up at 4am without any alarm clock. I'm not happy about this at all.
It is only 1 extra cycle of core nap so i hope it doesn't set me back too much. I'm considering taking only 2 naps but I don't think it would be a good idea to mess up the schedule to fit 2 naps in instead of 3. Of course, right now I feel pretty good. Not awesome, but better than the past few days getting up after the core.
Day 9 recap: The Noon nap was really good and I felt awake for 2 or 3 hours then I got tired again. Also I had an extremely long dream in a 20 minute period. Amazing what cool things surface when you try out new ways.
The 5pm nap was average and I felt pretty normal for the rest of the day. I hope things get better soon and my oversleep doesn't damage my progress to much.
Posted by Chris on September 2, 2009
Looks like day 8 is one of the better days. I'm not nearly as tired as I am usually in the mornings. I would describe it like getting up 1 hour earlier when you're used to 8 hours monophasic Sleep. Things seem very similar now every day. No huge set backs or improvements usually.
As I mentioned yesterday my new goal is to start testing my normal routines in this new sleep environment. I feel its stable enough to do that now. My body does feel more sluggish and heavy since I started the experiment. I haven't really felt energetic and ready to have a great workout yet.
But I'm trying to edge my way closer to that now. Timing is the question. Do I work out before the 5:30 pm nap? Or after? Or a completely different time? Yesterday, I did some rope jump just before my 5:30 nap. Didn't seem to have any negative effects on the nap.
11am: This is the second time that I've been tired at work. I'm very tired right now and I still have one hour left until the lunch nap. So far my results over these past 8 days have been all over the place. Its hard to find correlations when the results are so random.
Day8 recap: I did okay in the afternoon. But over all, it was one of the most widespread tired days I've had. I was rarely tired at work before today.
Posted by Chris on August 31, 2009
This morning is weird. My body feels good and not tired. But my eyes will not stop attempting to shut and go to sleep. I drifted into a split second of sleep a few times. And have to be careful now.
I'm so tired, I'm tempted to ad an extra nap. I have to say this morning was the hardest to stay awake. My eyes would not stop trying to go back to sleep. I must have drank a gallon of ice water and done 50 pull-ups over these past few hours to stay awake. But I've almost made it to the 7 am nap. Which will fix everything hopefully (don't want to be a zombie at work).
Made it to work: So after all this work to stay awake till 7am, I then overslept my 7am nap. I woke up at 7:25 and turned off my phone alarm but I was so drowsy I somehow fell right back asleep. I then woke up at 7:50 with my phone in my hand. I must have jinxed myself yesterday. An extra 25 minutes isn't the end of the world but I'm pretty mad about that.
I also have a theory on why I'm so tired today. Yesterday we where on the go a lot. So I took my Girlfriend out to Mexican food. Well I pigged out and had tons of chips and salsa and then a massively huge burrito.
It was delicious but it gave me heartburn and was entirely too much food. I felt very sluggish after eating it and I had to take some anti-acids before I went to sleep at 11. My theory is that over eating screwed up my core sleep a bit and I woke up very sleep deprived. I feel okay now and I figure I should be fine for the rest of the day. I will make sure to eat extra clean today to see if the results change tomorrow.
Posted by Chris on August 29, 2009
Red Eyes and trying to stay awake 2x per second. I just love the first hour after getting up. I will say my eyes don't hurt like yesterday. But I feel more tired. Its harder to focus yet again. So far I give today a Neutral rating compared to day 3. Now I just have to wait for the day when things start getting better!
6pm: Overall, today was Like the other days. I feel more tired and exhausted though.
Also I'm starting to have doubts as to the adaption. I'm wondering if my body will adapt to less sleep and be normal and productive, or if I will adapt to sleep deprivation and not know the difference.
Posted by Chris on August 28, 2009
Ahhh. Day 3. Dare I say it ? Yes, its worse then day 2 and 1 added together. My eyes hurt and I'm very tired. The first hour awake I had trouble focusing my eyes. Now I'm kind of in the zombie mode. I'm awake but not really. My body feels heavy and tired. It feels like I have to drag it around with sheer will power. Not sure what I'm going to do. Even physical activities sound like a lot of work with this tired body of mine. And my eyes still hurt.
Once again the 7am Nap saved the day! The 7am Nap together with my vitamins and a shower pretty much turns me from zombie to a normal awake business person. The rest of the day was similar to day 1 and 2. I feel normal until about 9pm at which time I then get very tired and have to fight till 11pm.
So I figure once it starts getting better I will incorporate regular heavy weight workouts and my regular supplements back in (check Diet for more info). I want to test how well my muscle recovery will work in this new sleep environment.