Better

My naps yesterday were restless and dreamless(so no REM and no refreshment) Jetgyp was over till about 4:30 AM. I took a shower when he left and ate. I was done at about 6. My body REALLY wanted to go to sleep! but I fought it and tried reading about memorization techniques. It was extremely hard to concentrate on what I was reading, the call to sleep was getting stronger. I decided to switch to a less mental task.

My room is in shambles but I was too tired to walk around and clean, so instead I sat on the couch and folded clothes slightly nodding off.

The last thing I really remember was seeing the clock at 7:35AM praying for it to be 8. I don't know if I fell asleep then or if I actually waited till 8 but all of a sudden it was 8:30 and for some reason I thought that I had forgotten to go to sleep so I slept till 9. My girlfriend called shortly after 9 to make sure I wasn't sleeping in. I don't remember it but she says I answered the phone and told her I wasn't sleeping and that I wasn't going to sleep. but I actually woke at 10 and went to her house, when I got there she explained the phone call. My 2 PM nap was really really nice, I pushed it back 10 mins, but it was great. I had a weird little dream and felt totally rested.

I then went to a used bookstore and home. Now I'm going to finally get this damn room clean!

AGAIN!?

I slept extra again this morning. I was at Jetgyp's till 4 somthing. I then went home and ate while cleaning. Then at 5:30 AM I decided for some reason to lay down for a minute. I woke up at 10. From now on when ever I lay down for anything I'm going to set my alarm to go off 30 minutes later so that I can never sleep more than 30 minutes. Becaue as long as I don't do that I won't screw my schedual up too bad.

Week two

The first day of my second week has gone well. I slept and woke up from all of my naps very nicely. The only deviating I did was I pushed my 8 PM back 10 mins. I am now at Jetgyp's house watching a very old horror movie called "The Terror" costarring a young Jack Nicholson.

Starting over

Wenesday night(Thursdy morning) I slept an extra 6 hours by mistake, thursday I had to push back my 8 o clock nap because I was helping my girlfriend with her car and I tried to make it up in the car ride home(I wasn't driving!), but that failed. Friday I skipped my 2 PM nap because of work, the 8 PM went well, but I went to bed at 2AM and woke up at 8:30AM this morning! I'm going to blame that on my nap skipping.
Anyways I'm basically starting over today. I'm going to try harder this time around to not screw up any more. I've given myself till the day before Christmas Eve to get this down, otherwise I'm going to have to drop it.

Big update

Yesterday was a little weird. after writing my little blog I ate some and then went over to my girlfriend's house. While on the way I did not feel tired, however, I kept "Blanking out" it was like I was falling asleep while driving except it was more like my brain had a light switch attached and someone kept flicking it off then on really quickly. At 2 I had my nap. My girlfriend came and woke me up at 2:30. I woke up but I wasn't really awake. She asked me three times how to turn my alarm clock off, but each time I just responded with "what??". She made me stand up, but I protested saying "Wait! Wait!" I sat back down on the bed, picked the little battery operated clock up and dropped it on the floor, stood up and said "OK". I never truly woke until around 3. We were sitting in my kitchen and NOTHING made sense to me, so I just kept trying to figure out what the hell was going on. It was really hard though because my brain kept turning off and then I'd have to start my thought process over again. finally I managed to keep it on by visualizing a candle with all my energy. I moved from this to focusing on my surroundings and then fully woke up.
The rest of the day I spent at the mall. I went home around 7:30 and at 8 just slept in my car in my driveway, it as an OK nap. My girlfriend came over around 11. I felt really really tired, she left at 1:30. I watched some episode of Futurama. at 2 i took my nap. I got up
and watched another episode of futurama. I then apparently fell asleep till 6:35 then I was up for awhile and fell asleep till 8:30. I got up took a shower and went over to my girlfriends house. I was mad about the oversleeping and figured I wouldn't be able to nap. I was wrong. right around 2 i began to feel tired and went to sleep. At 2:30 my girlfriend didn't have to wake me because I woke up to my alarm and felt really good. I bought two books by Ursula K. Le Guin. My 8 nap when much like the 2 except it was in my car. My and my girlfriend went and saw The Pick of Destiny. at my 2 AM nap I didn't think I could get to sleep but I did when I woke up though I felt like I did something wrong and didn't sleep at the right time or something but then i slowly came to realize that I had sleep just right. Now I'm going to eat, shower and read.

doing well

I've been doing pretty well today, no over or undersleeps yet. I have been eating and going to the bathroom a lot . I don't know if it is related to the sleeping change or not but I thought I would mention it incase it is realated.

24 hours

In about fifteen minutes I will be going back to sleep, signaling the end of my first 24 hours in this project.

I decided to go out to dinner and to a movie with my girlfriend. so at about 7:30 we met up at the movie theatre and got our tickets and then i drove us to the restaurant we wanted to eat at, I went in and made reservations for 8:30. I went back out to my car where I had set up a pretty comfy bed in the backseat and gave my girlfriend my laptop so she wouldn't be bored and asked her to wake me. at 8 I went to sleep. I didn't feel like I was sleeping but when I got up I felt like I had slept for hours and it felt pretty great. We went to dinner and to the movie("Stranger than fiction" it was quite excellent) afterwards we met up with Jetgyp at Stake and Shake and had a good time. Now I'm back at his place again and about to sleep

Day one Update from about 4:20 PM

Ok. I've made it through my second and third naps, watched two movies, eaten a lot and accidentally slept two extra hours.
Around 5 in the morning I was really tired and nodding off so I decided to take a shower to keep myself awake. I did that for an hour, at 6 I made a vegetable and cheese wrap(bad idea) while I watched Star Wars episode II. I really started dying as 8 AM drew closer and closer, the nodding off got worse and worse until finally the clock said 7:59. At this point I pulled my blankets together and my head hit the pillow at 8. It took me a while but I finally got to sleep. My clock woke me up at 8:30 and it took me a couple minutes to even figure out what was going on. About ten minutes later I laid back just to feel my pillow, because it was so soft and warm. Then my clock suddenly said 11. DAMN. I was kind of ticked but at least felt a little refreshed(but still pretty tired). I got up and ate some breakfast and finished watching star wars. I went to the bathroom, got some cheesecake and decided to watch "She's the man" which is based on Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" At two I paused the movie, ask my dad to wake me if I slept past 2:30 and I got in bed. I didn't feel that tired but I got to sort of a half sleep state. My family as being really loud outside my door but it didn't really bother me until my youngest sister decided to come in, set something on top of me and then go take my movie out of the DVD player. Since she had already woken me up, I sat up and asked her what she was doing and why she was take a movie that someone was watching. She left and I looked at the clock it read 2:23. Great I thought as I lay back down. I laid there till it was 2:30 and I got up, despite the interruption I felt pretty good. I finished my movie, played with my dog and ate some more. It is 4:45 right now and I feel wide awake, but bored. I'm probably going to clean some more. I could watch another movie but I don't think I want to, I would much rather read a book as I never have time to do that anymore.(till now of course)

calling

Only a few hours into this and already I find my body calling and begging me for sleep. I find this strange because in the past I have easily gone two full days with no sleep, but I suppose I already haven't been getting much sleep this past week which might explain my current situation.

Sleeping right now sound to me like the best idea ever, but I refuse to give in. My stomach still hurts. I might take a shower to keep me up. 3 hours and 12 mins till I get to sleep again :)

One down

Well I just woke up from my first nap. During the first probably 15 minutes I didn't even sleep, but appearently slipped away at some point while I was laying on the couch in Jetgyp's family room. Because he came and woke me up and it took me a minute to come back from my brief dream, which I can no longer remember.

At first I felt like utter shit, and spoke to him for a minute about how much this is going to succk to get used to. Right now while writing this however, I feel pretty much totally fine, a little sleepy but really, not bad at all.

Dymax, it's going down

So my journy into the world of polyphasic sleep begins here very soon with my first nap coming up at 2 AM. I've asked Jetgyp to make sure I wake up(He lives down the street from me). Just sitting here I've been thinking about how my life ill be different with this change. This coming week is probably going to be difficult but I'm fairly confident in myself and believe that I can make it through.

For those reading this to see what it's like to go through this I'll go on and fill you in on how I feel right now so you don't think that when I say like crap after my first nap that it is just because of that. I already feel fairly shitty right now. My stomach hurts and I'm really tired because I really didn't sleep that well last night and I had a final exam this morning.

I'm hoping to get some cleaning done here tonight in my extra time. Well I'll post some more when I wake up.

Sleeping

I have finally settled on a new sleeping pattern, which I'll be taking up starting on Saturday. I'm going to go with the Dymaxion sleeping pattern and my sleeping times will be: 8AM, 2PM, 8PM, and 2AM. Each of these will last 30 minutes, giving me a total of 2 hours of sleep per every 22 hours awake. I did some calculations and, on average, this will give me 7.5 extra DAYS awake a month. My some of my friends are a little upset with my decision because they think that I will not be able to do much because I'll have to go sleep every six hours. Personally however, I do not feel that it will effect what I can and can't do that much for I will simply sleep in my car if I'm out and about when nap time comes.