A2 Day 5

Sorry I haven't updated in awhile. One reason is because nothing really exciting has developed and two, I have been super busy at work. Yesterday, the only crappy thing was that I forgot to take my afternoon nap. I was talking with my friends and was complaining that today I have felt the most tired and groggy, all the while not realizing I was feeling that way because my nap time had come and gone. It was pretty brutal waiting for my 2am nap, but after I took it I felt soooooo much better. I made a cup of coffee and I was good to go until 8:30am.

One thing I am a little disappointed about are my dreams. I am having clear vivid dreams when I am taking my nap, so I know I am in REM sleep during them, but the fact is that they are just so boring. Mundane, work related dreams, or me just talking to people. I dont know if this is just a result in my change in sleep pattern, or the fact that I'm knee deep in this AE job, that Hardcore Pawn is the only thing I think about (most of my dreams have to do with the pawn shop that is in the TV show I work for). I used to have epic dreams of flight, fighting, love and death. Dreams were so cool that I wrote several down. I was hoping to keep a dream journal along with this sleep account, but so far there is nothing to write home about. Speaking of home...

I'm going to my parents house this weekend for mother's day. I reeeeeally hope they don't give me problems with my sleep schedule. Either them waking me up or me getting too comfortable and over sleeping, in any case it would be bad. I am looking forward to all the yummy food and coffee though....

And everyone must watch ***THIS***


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A2 Day 2

A relatively uneventful day today. Besides feeling very groggy after my core nap, I have felt pretty good all day. I'm beginning to think this sleep thing is working! I got up from my night nap about a half an hour ago (2:30 am), before I took it I was feeling pretty sleepy and unfocused. When I took the nap I fell asleep right away and I feel great now, way better than I did when I first came to work at 7 pm.

The only thing I have been concerned about lately is my eating habits. they haven't been the best since I started this whole process and I know if I start eating better I will feel awesome. Its a mixture of not know what stuff to buy and laziness that is holding me back :P

If I have enough will power to starve myself of sleep, I think getting on a healthy diet should be easy... right?

I welcome any food suggestions :)

End of Attempt #1 and Hiatus

Hello to whoever is reading this,

Well I had another major setback today, I fell asleep for over an hour way before my scheduled nap. I feel way worse than before. I came to the decision to put the experiment on hold for a few days, so I can catch up, re-group and come back at it strong. I know a lot more now and I think if I take these few days to rest and plan out not only a sleeping schedule, but an eating and workout schedule as well, things might go a bit smoother.

I still plan on taking the two small naps at the scheduled times of 5:50pm and 2:15am in hopes my body will still get used to sleeping at those times. But I am going to allow myself to sleep 7 to 8 hours after I get home from work. I would like to start the schedule again on Saturday, give myself the weekend again to take on the worst part.

I feel frustrated hitting so many road blocks, but I really don't want to give up!

Day 6

This last nap was probably the deepest sleep I've had since starting this thing. Still no lucid dreaming yet, but I noticed I can shape my dreams early on before I fall asleep. I think of a particular scene and my dreams have usually been an off shoot of that, not totally random like they once were...


Coming up on a week doing this sleep thing. What a long week it's been. I feel ok today, still pretty tired when I wake up from each nap though. I dunno if I have to wait a whole other week before I start seeing results because I changed my schedule, hopefully not. I don't know if I would want to carry on doing this if I still feel this tired by week two. I really REALY want to get to the next phase!!

Day 4 continue

A setback. Totally overslept today. I was hoping the restful feeling I was experiencing was this experiment to FINALLY be working, but then I rolled over and looked at the clock to see it was 1pm already, 2 hours past when I was supposed to wake up. I cannot tell you how frustrating this is. Most of what I went through this weekend was pretty much for nothing, since now my body is all off schedule. I have several options now. Start my experiment again, which will add even more days onto my body being acclimated to the cycle, start a new schedule that is less intenseness but will have some desired results, or quit...

 I don't want to quite, having experience the worst part of this experiment and not getting any great results is really bumming me out. I then realized as I stopped seething in rage this afternoon, is that I'm in no rush. I probably should have started slow on this whole project. My ultimate goal isn't to get to the Uberman Cycle of only six 20 minute naps a day. I just wanted to have more time in the day, and start feeling better health wise. All this pressure on my self and added stress is NOT making me feel better. So I'm going to dial it down a few notches and start light. Here is what my new schedule is going to look like:

--7:30am to 12 pm will be my first core nap: Most sites recomend sleeping in 1.5 hour intervals if you choose to sleep in large chunks.

--5:30pm to 6pm: Time for second nap. Time will be closer to when I go to work, so hopefully it will help me not be sleepy when I first get there.

--1am to 1:30am: Time for the third and final nap of the night.

Hopefully, if i get used to this schedule i can ween myself down to 3 hour core nap again and adda fourth nap time. hopefully this will be less brutal...

End of Day 3 (and weekend)

I'm into the part of the experiment where bloggers describe feeling like "being ran over by a truck" or being in a zombie haze. I feel OK for the most part, until I have to wake up from a nap. My friend just said I sounded drunk and I was slurring my words when I woke up from my first night nap. I feel pretty crappy until I get some sort of caffeine in me and about an hour goes by. I really hope I can start to see some sort of light at the end of the tunnel, because the incentive to keep this up is getting less and less after each nap goes by.

Today went by a little better than Saturday, I had some activities to take up my time like checking out some doggies, going to see Kick Ass and playing some video games at Landon's. The day still felt long but not as bad. It i nice to do so much stuff with friends and not regret staying in my room all day having slept a majority of it... although sleeping for 12 hours sounds so good right now.... I'm off to make some more instant coffee to keep such thoughts at bay...

the Milk Teef know how to enjoy a good cup of coffee

Day 3

Day 2 (Saturday) was an absurdly long day. Having more hours in the day has been the best part of trying out this sleep cycle, but when I don't have any plans the day just drags on and on. I guess it's my fault for not getting out and doing something. In between each nap I feel pretty shitty for about 2 hours, then I start to feel better, so I'm wary of leaving the house. Lets see, yesterday I:
--watched 6 hours of Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations"
--did laundry
--watched the Sharks game
--watched "Clueless"
--played 5 hours of Zelda; Twilight Princess on Wii
--watched 2 hours of "Full House"

I think I will watch 2 more hours of No Reservations until it's my core nap time. Too much of a sleepiness haze to really concentrate on the video game...

Today I'm going to go check out some pups at an adoption fair. I'm still in the mindset that I'm going to get a dog, and think actually going to look at some is a good step. More than likely this time next month I still will be without a dog, but there is no harm in checking some cute puppies out, right?...

Day 2

Like my 4th nap of Day 1, I had a really hard time falling asleep for my core nap today. Then about 2 hours in the gardner started working next door so I had to scramble to get my head phones and eye mask on and I fell back asleep without much problem. I'm just worried about not getting a full 3 hour core nap, but I guess thats what happens when I have my core nap be in the mid morning...

I'm really feeling the sleep depravation this afternoon. I'm tired like before but I feel really heavy and hazy. I was reading some other polyphasic sleeper blogs and most of the side effects are normal and what I'm used to but an interesting one that caught my eye was the feeling of being cold. One guy mentioned he felt a lot colder all the time and thought it might be due to his metabolism working faster now that he was eating more often. I noticed from last night to now I have been feeling pretty cold, I don't know if this is an actual symptom or if I'm just cold from the cool weather outside :-P

It's taking me forever to write this post, I have spaced out like 3 times, my grammar and spelling might be way off, sorry about that! I just need to get past this daytime waiting period. The ultimate reason why I'm doing this is so I can have more hours during the day to do stuff, but until I'm used to this cycle, the daylight hours are the hardest to get through and I'm pretty useless during them. Time to play ZELDA!!!