Personal Growth

7:10am

Crash.
My iPod battery ran out during a nap. That was extremely stupid of me; I especially noted that I needed to keep the battery full. However I may also have slept through the one (or several) alarm first before the battery ran out, I can’t really be sure. This is somewhat of a major set back, I slept about 7.5 hours, which would have been 5 phases of REM sleep, that really shows that I wasn’t actually getting any from my naps.
I’m going to schedule today’s naps every 4 hours, since I had trouble getting to sleep every 2 hours anyway. I’ll see how that goes. I’m still aiming for 48 hours without core, a target, which does seem more elusive now than I first thought.

11am

I just had a short but refreshing nap. This was REM sleep; a pattern that seems to be emerging is that it is easier to achieve REM in short naps after recently having core sleep. I was intending to have the nap at to start at 10, but I only realised what the time was after 10:30, so I went then. I took me quite a while to fall asleep, and I woke up before the alarm went so it can’t have been more than 15 minutes.
I’m liking this 4 hourly better, my waking time goes by faster than if I’m always waiting for my next nap, or trying to fall asleep (which just torturously extends time). So next nap at 2pm.

3:50pm

I woke up at about 3:05pm after going for a nap at about 2:15. I slept through one cycle of the alarm clock, and was asleep approximately 45 minutes. This isn’t exactly a crash because I didn’t sleep at all long enough to get into standard phase sleep, and I woke up easily to the silence on my mp3 track between the white noise and the alarm; still, it shows how ineffective it is in waking me. I think I’ll set an alarm up as well as the mp3 track, just have to make sure I don’t wake everybody (Might put it under my pillow).

8:15pm

Had my 6pm nap. It wasn’t entirely easy falling asleep so I must’ve only had about 15 minutes sleep (I woke in the silent period between the white noise and alarm on my mp3 track). This seems to show some progress toward the body naturally going for 15 minutes naps.

10:30pm

Just got up from my 10pm non-nap. I didn’t fall asleep. Since I’m doing only 4 hourly naps now my next one is at 2am, which, during the night, looks like an incredibly long time away. I’m feeling tired now, I’m not sure how I’ll be able to stay awake till then. I’ll see.