Friday, 5 December 2008

Polyphasic sleep day 5

Day five was very smooth but only in some sections. I felt really great at work. I was functioning as my normal old self and was even surprised that this could be possible. Then I had a nap at 4pm, which was interrupted by a text message. I use my phone as the alarm clock and clearly that’s not a good idea because anybody can call or text and throw me out of my cycle and that’s exactly what happened. The text came right in the middle of my nap. I couldn’t go back to sleep so I got up. I drove back home and that was fine but when I arrived I started to decline, down, and down to the level of a zombie.
This wasn’t good so I took an extra nap at 6pm but it didn’t help that much. Finally just before my 8pm nap I started to feel better. I took my 8pm nap and after that I felt fine, back to normal. I stayed in bed and read the book.
My eyes started to hurt so I did some meditation. Yes I’m realising now that all this exra time now I’m reading or writing on the computer and that’ can’t be good for my eyes and ultimately for my body. My confidence in the success of this experiment is starting to fall. Am I doing the right thing?
It’s winter now and I can’t go outside in the middle of the night, well I can but it won’t be pleasant. On top of that the heating goes off before midnight and 4am so the house gets pretty cold in the night. That’s not comfortable too.
I’ll keep going, I’m determined to do my 30 days unless I won’t see any benefits coming my way very soon.
I just got up from my midnight nap. It was good and I can remember some bits and pieces of my dream. I was fully awake when I woke up and decided to stay in bed for a while; it was soft and warm. I stayed for another 40min. but I didn’t fell asleep. I wasn’t fully conscious and was dipping in and out of this state. I never did fell asleep but was hovering on the edges of it.
Now I regret that because I feel a little bit groggy and down. I started questioning my experiment. Next time I’m jumping out of bed straight after my nap. I have a real urge to go to sleep now but it’s only 2am and my next nap is not until 4am. I will hang on and hope to feel better.
I’m also becoming more hungry and therefore started eating more. When I wake up from my naps I really need to eat. I didn’t expect that. I need to make some raw food snacks. Yesterday in my zombie state I eat some bread!

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