lauantai 28. elokuuta 2010

Day Seventeen

Day 17.1
Naptime: 1:50 - 2:05, 15 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes
Time since last proper sleep: 394h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 1
Time since last oversleep: 2h 40 min

It's great to start again and with emotional reset in full effect I might as well think that I'm starting right now. My REM percentage hits the roof on every occasion after oversleeping.

Day 17.2
Naptime: 5:55 - 6:10, 15 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 398h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 2
Time since last oversleep: 6h 40 min

No REM and if traditions are anything to go by I'm gonna struggle during this phase and for next couple of naps. For now I feel fine though.

Yeah.. So now it's still one hour to go in this phase and I'm pretty fucked. If I continue sitting (without typing), I'll be likely to fall asleep. *One hour later* I never ceased typing and managed despite tiredness getting pretty intense towards the end. Now I'm easing through the last minutes of the phase. Now I just have to handle the next nap without oversleeps. One nap at a time, one nap at a time..

Day 17.3
Naptime: 9:50 - 10:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes
Time since last proper sleep: 402h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 3
Time since last oversleep: 10h 40 min

I remember having a dream, just not what it was about. Pretty standard stuff therefore. I'll start working on my recall once this program gets established, now I have to concentrate on shutting down the alarms too much upon waking up.

Day 17.4
Naptime: 13:50 - 14:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last proper sleep: 406h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 4
Time since last oversleep: 14h 40 min

I probably fell asleep for five minutes midway this phase, not even sure about that, but it's such a small flaw that I'm going to just count those five mins to my combined total of nap lenght. Why must everything be so hard all the time?

I again suffered from some microsleeps while watching football. There's still second half to go (and many other matches). If I keep having problems, I'll count that as a failure.

Day 17.5
Naptime: 17:50 - 18:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes
Time since last proper sleep: 410h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 5
Time since last oversleep: 18h 40 min

I kept having some trouble prior this nap with staying awake, but they went away eventually and my tiredness subsided. Third REM today. Looks damn impressive, but I still know that it's only a reaction to yesterday. Or I don't know, the microsleeps during phases might also have their impact.

CRASH OUT!
I overslept for 18 hours. I planned to go on for at least a week from this day, but that oversleep is enough to convince me to have a break. So consider this attempt a failure. What happens next? I'll have normal monophasic hell for some time. I don't know how long. I guess at least a week. That's too short break really, but I don't know how much patience I have when I notice again how super-short those monophasic days are. I might do biphasic for a couple of weeks too. Then I'll have my final attempt (this year) to adjust.

Next attempt plan:
Uberman for around a week - If I oversleep after the week, I'll change it to everyman, which seems to be very doable considering the oversleeps I had in this attempt.

perjantai 27. elokuuta 2010

Day Sixteen - Off Day

Day 16.1
Naptime: 1:45 - 2:15, 30 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes
Time since last proper sleep: 370h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 3
Time since last oversleep: 11h 40min

This was a little longer nap than I intended. I fell asleep accidentally couple of minutes early and in a place I didn't intend to, but woke up 10 mins before alarm and decided to continue sleeping, which then went on little longer than the alarm. Nicely enough it was another REM. Guess that oversleep really got the ball rolling. I just wish I'd know how to maintain it.

Day 16.2
Naptime: 5:45 - 6:10, 25 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 374h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 4
Time since last oversleep: 15h 40min

Quite normal nap. I wasn't enjoying REM anymore though. Let's hope it comes back at some point. It still seems like a reaction to that oversleep. It's funny how much better single short oversleep can make one feel when combined with the REM it induces.

Day 16.3
Naptime: 9:45 - 10:10, 25 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes.
Time since last proper sleep: 378h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 5
Time since last oversleep: 19h 40min

There was a weird combination of playing GTA, having sleep inertia and having REM on the mix earlier today. I fell asleep for an unknown time during that - means that I have to start from scratch again.

I guess I should write up some sort of schedule that I can follow even if I suffer from bad sleep deprivation, just so that I would have some sort of structure for these attempts. It would make it easier to figure out what's going on. I guess I better write it right away.

Fuck. I fucked up in the submitting so the text from last three naps went missing.

I'm too lazy to write everything again. In short I gained no momentum as there was some fuck-up on every phase. Slight oversleep in the fourth and even worse 1h 40 min oversleep for the sixth. I'm going for a start from clear table tomorrow.

torstai 26. elokuuta 2010

Day Fifteen - Oversleeping for a Change

Day 15.1
Naptime: 1:50 - 2:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 346h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 11
Time since last oversleep: 42h

Again no REM that I recalled at least, but still a pretty solid nap. Probably more like 17-18 mins than 20 mins, but anyway, long enough.

Day 15.2
Naptime: 5:50 - 6:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 350h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 12
Time since last oversleep: 46h

I was a bit groggy perhaps upon waking but playing football took care of that again. It has naturally become sort of a habit for me to practise around 20 minutes right after waking up. I really enjoy it for some reason, despite the fact that around this time there's still cold and wet regardless of the weather.

Still no REM (that I recall at least) which indicates that there might be trouble very soon. I know that my overall feeling has not gotten any better since the last shift from zombie-mode to quasi-pleasant. I'm afraid this might be another quite unproducitive day.

PureDoxyk wrote that the first 30 days is the adaptation period so I'm not in a hurry to feel better - especially since I haven't made it this close by exactly adhering to the schedule perfectly. Let's check her "You Know You're Adapting When..." -list and examine what I'm experiencing:
During more and more naps, you're able to:
- Fall asleep quickly [x]
This has been very true, even on those naps where I feel like I won't be getting to sleep quickly enough. I just be silent for a couple of minutes and that's it, I'll be asleep no matter what.
- Sleep deeply [x]
This varies, but the naps do feel long and stuff.
- Wake up feeling refreshed [x]
Not always, but these naps have luckily become more and more regular.
- You begin to dream during your naps.. [x]
Results have varied, but overall I'd say they've gotten more regular too.
- ..eventually during several naps each day []
I did have multiple naps in a day couple of days ago when was my best day, but overall I'm not still getting multiple of these daily. Hopefully soon enough.
- You don't yawn or feel tired during the day, expect when it's almost time for your nap []
I wish. This is overhelmingly not true for me so far. Especially afternoons have been destroying so far. I feel sligtly tired even now.
- You feel clear-headed and wide awake during most of your waking night-time hours [x]
Yes, but I doubt this was what PureDoxyk intended. As I've said many times already, my schedule has been opposite of normal and nights been easy while days are the hard part. During daytime this is not true, but nights feel still mostly good.
- Your memory and motor skills are normal []
Far from it. Memory is a mess, but motor skills are not that long way off, at least not anymore.

When should I start to worry then? Well, If I can make it full week with perfect adherence, in other words 42 naps, then I should get worried, if I'm not pretty much adjusted. That's still many days to wait.

My body works (at times) like a clockwork. Again its little past eight and I'm getting really tired. This is the part where I accidentally slept extra nap couple of days ago. I was tired yesterday as well. So yeah.. This doesn't look good and what I mean by that is that I'm going to have struggles in the afternoon as well if this is exact replication of yesterday.

Day 15.3
Naptime: 9:50 - 11:00, 70 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Probably.
Time since last proper sleep: 354h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 0
Time since last oversleep: 0h

Fuck. First real oversleep in a loong while. I apparently forgot to put volume on my other alarm while sleeping through the other. Nothing super-drastic but still it bothers me a lot.I guess I should be taking things a lot more carefully. But so much for doing a week without mistakes. I guess that's still possible, but I don't know.. My sis will be leaving soon and then I'll be completely exposed again to oversleeps.

I don't know. There was combined total of over 90 hours without sleeping over 50 min once in my two latest run-ins. I don't know, I just don't know. All I can do is not give up.

Day 15.4
Naptime: 13:50 - 14:30, 40 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 358h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 0
Time since last oversleep: 0h

I just didn't care on being just on schedule for this one. I need to get on it again.

Day 15.5
Naptime: 17:50 - 18:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes
Time since last proper sleep: 362h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 1
Time since last oversleep: 3h 40min

Okay, the oversleeps "helped" by giving me REM, but I don't really care that much. All I care is that I'm back on track again.

Day 15.6
Naptime: 21:50 - 22:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Maybe
Time since last proper sleep: 366h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 2
Time since last oversleep: 7h 40min

I'm not sure whether I dreamt, I felt different upon waking up than on my normal non-REM so let's leave it to maybe. A bit harder than usual to get up, but I managed it eventually.

keskiviikko 25. elokuuta 2010

Day Fourteen - Adapting.. Or Not?

Day 14.1
Naptime: 1:50 - 2:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 322h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 5
Time since last oversleep: 18h

Another decent nap. I played poker and lost. Played pretty bad, but not that bad, it was more down to tilting slightly towards the end. I'm feeling okay.

Day 14.2
Naptime: 5:50 - 6:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 326h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 6
Time since last oversleep: 22h

Another fine nap in a row. Effortless and easy. I forgot to put computer's alarm on, but it didn't matter as I was never in danger of oversleeping. It's only 6 succesful naps in a row, but the shift in mental stage is just too big to ignore - I am adjusting as we speak. I am so happy.

My typing speeds were still low compared to normal so motor skills are still not recovered. I expect them to come back within a few days.

This has been the most troublesome phase on average during this experiment. Yesterday I accidentally fell asleep for an extra nap during this phase. That's why I'm now monitoring my mental state closely. I fully expect that I get more tired than normally, but I don't expect to struggle really.

Sure enough it happened - around exactly halfway the phase I started again to get tired. This hasn't been that intensive, but I can't really slack off either.

Day 14.3
Naptime: 9:50 - 10:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 330h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 7
Time since last oversleep: 26h

Another quick nap. Had pretty bad sleep inertia and severe groggyness. I had written finnish here, though mostly it made sense, but in this context no reason to keep it. I could use another REM, my energy is running low already.

Day 14.4
Naptime: 13:50 - 14:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 334h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 8
Time since last oversleep: 30h

Tiredness is making a comeback? I don't know whether my body is reacting to it being afternoon (which prior to this attempt was my nighttime) or whether it's just the fact that we're once again hitting 30+ hours after most recent fuck-up. I still hope I'm adapting, but REM is needed soon. The whole phase was just one long struggle to stay awake and it has completely killed off my productivity.

Day 14.5
Naptime: 17:50 - 18:20, 30 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 338h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 9
Time since last oversleep: 34h

I've marked that I slept for 30 minutes, I have no idea about how much I overall spent asleep. There's blank spot between 17:50-19:00 in my memory. I presume I spent at least some of it asleep. That said I don't believe anything drastic. I got our internet functioning half-asleep, no good recall about it.

I just hope this mental mess settles before too soon. I don't want to depend on witness accounts for the rest of my life to remember what I've done.

But anyway, huge battle against sleep seems to be over for today, as worst tiredness has subsided. I'm not really expecting to be sailing smoothly for a few days yet, maybe a few similar battles.

Day 14.6
Naptime: 21:50 - 22:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 342h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 10
Time since last oversleep: 38h

I was little worried about this nap, because for the first time in a while I had to sleep in a room full of other people. There was TV and lights on so distractions were to a maximum, but I managed to fall asleep pretty quickly and had a restful nap. It seems that I can have another good night. I'd even say that I don't really even have to worry about the schedule for these couple of naps, it already does itself. Now just keeping the concentration on the day naps which are still giving me trouble.

tiistai 24. elokuuta 2010

Day Thirteen - At Least It's not Friday

Day 13.1
Naptime: 1:50 - 2:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 298h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 11
Time since last oversleep: 41 h 10 mins

Pretty good nap again, absolutely no problems in waking up or anything. Next nap is possibly the most important in the whole experiment. No only I am closing the "magical" 12-nap barrier, it's also the nap that has given me the most trouble so far.

In other news, my mouse broke down. Sucks, but luckily I found a shitty back-up.

Alright instead of feeling zombie all the time like I've felt lately, I've felt pretty good for past couple of phases. Now I am tired once again there's still 1½ hours still naptime. So at least that much there's still to go until the adaptation. Not that worried though, I should be able to weather through this easily. It's not zombie tired, it's some sort of different kind of tired. Hard to explain, but I don't exactly feel like mess in the head, in fact I'm feeling surprisingly clear.

Day 13.2
Naptime: 5:50 - 6:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes
Time since last proper sleep: 302h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 12
Time since last oversleep: 45 h 10 mins

Wohoo! Another REM! I don't remember much of the dream but just enough to deem my sleep REM. Surprisingly easy nap from which to get up. Now I can't wait for the next nap to see if this continues. I feel more groggy than earlier on these naps, though.

There was some initial groggyness, but I repelled it by having a short 25-minute football session. Now I have to admit, I feel great! I'm still vary off getting ahead of things and I don't think my productivity would be up to even normal (low) standard yet, but on the surface I feel great now.

Football Manager still does the trick - gets me tired every time. I don't know what is it, the passivity of the game or what, but now I'm once again very tired and it's still 2 hours until next nap. Crap!

Hmm. Now I fell asleep. Not for a long time, but anyway. Around 40 minutes? Something like that. It wasn't too long but it was still unplanned nap. Just fell asleep at my computer. I'm somewhat gutted. Let's hope that doesn't set me too far backwards. At least I didn't oversleep for too long. Shame that it sets my counters back to zero.

I mean it was pretty much exactly between my two naps and just about the right lenght. I'd think that it would have the minimal possible damage but you never know. This might ruin it all for me. I'm anxious to see it. I want already be napping.

I don't know. It could've been blessing in disguise and help me cover the accumulated sleep dep faster. But it might also just slower my final adaptation. We'll see during next naps.

Day 13.3
Naptime: 9:45 - 10:15, 30 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: I have no idea.
Time since last proper sleep: 306h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 1
Time since last oversleep: 2h

It was maybe a tad long nap, but I managed to take it fairly easily. Jury is and will be out on what will happen next. I'm hoping for relatively pain-free proceedings.

I had another short session of footie and now I'm again seeing tiredness creeping in. I intend to make sure I don't fall asleep again.

Day 13.4
Naptime: 13:50 - 14:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes
Time since last proper sleep: 310h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 2
Time since last oversleep: 6h

Is that enough? Mmm.. I'd say that it's 40 % chance that I'm adjusting. If I get anothe couple of REMs during next six naps it's certain. But yeah, my fights with my Mom about this schedule carried themselves over to this nights dream. My brother and sister had in the dream took my lead and joined the polyphasic revolution. Therefore alarms were going off left and right and Mom was going insane. That's pretty much it, the whole plot. Then my own real alarm woke me up.

I slept on the sofa and my neck got really hurt. I guess you can break your places even if you only sleep 20 minutes at a time. There's one problem though - I still get insanely tired. I guess it's the sleep deprivation. I have to work it off as much as I can.

Day 13.5
Naptime: 17:50 - 18:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last proper sleep: 314h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 3
Time since last oversleep: 10h

Basic nap. I still am a little confused in the afternoons. I don't remember waking up, so I have to make sure everything from my sis and I am constantly suspicious to myself whether I've ruined everything.

Day 13.6
Naptime: 21:50 - 22:00, 10 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Maybe?
Time since last proper sleep: 318h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 4
Time since last oversleep: 14h

Supershort nap, but fairly refreshing. Can't really help it if I just wake up naturally after 10 minutes. Don't know whether I was just visualizing or dreaming.

Another day on the back. I'm feeling pretty good, not monophasic good yet, but it's a big improvement over the constant zombie-mode.

sunnuntai 22. elokuuta 2010

Day Twelve - 100th Message

u3Day 12.1
Naptime: 1:50 - 2:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 274h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 5
Time since last oversleep: 17 h 10 mins

Well, when it comes to holding their end of the bargain, people around me aren't the best. Sis withdrew from waking up with me everytime. Well, too bad, but I still think I can talk her into it once I really need her. Now I'm just not tired enough yet. I have also been forgotting to go for that damn walk to avoid sleep inertia. It's been easy so far though so it haven't been needed, but it would be better to start to form a habit.

Day 12.2
Naptime: 5:50 - 6:05, 15 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 278h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 6
Time since last oversleep: 21 h 10 mins

Immediately upon waking I shrug whatever sleep inertia there was (and there was*) and went to work out first thing in the phase. It was pretty hard but short and intense upper body work out followed by hill sprints. I went to run this 5 km long way and sprinted every uphill there was. Pretty intense stuff. Unfortunately I had to abort it 25 minutes into it as I started to feel really sick. I walked rest of the way home. I wonder if I pushed too far? I've been training irregularly during this and they've been short and not-too-intense, this was more intense and also more lenghty session. This might make rest of the day harder. But I like challenge, right?

* It was really weird in a sense. Like there was some other personality inside my head as well. The other voice kept telling me what to do with my own voice and it was annoying. I knew it was sleep inertia and I wasn't thinking straight, so I ignored those thoughts.

Day 12.3
Naptime: 9:50 - 10:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 282h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 7
Time since last oversleep: 25 h 10 mins

I'm beginning to really tire out. The nap was.. Meh. Didn't really refresh me. In fact, I'm really tired. Looks like I will have to be very active to avoid falling asleep.

Day 12.4
Naptime: 13:50 - 14:05, 15 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 286h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 8
Time since last oversleep: 29 h 10 mins

Another naturally shorter nap. It might've been even shorter than that, but I'm not sure where I fell asleep let's say that it was 15 minutes.

Basicly this has once again become survival game, where I just wait for next nap and try to stay awake. We will soon enter double-digit naps again, but I'm not getting overly excited. I've seen enough failures to know that much isn't needed to ruin everything.

Day 12.5
Naptime: 17:50 - 18:??, Max 30 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes
Time since last proper sleep: 290h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 9
Time since last oversleep: 33 h 10 mins

Pretty awesome nap. I had a REM and felt initially refreshed (even if I got tired along the phase). Now my hopes are starting to go up.. But anyway, it wasn't perfect, as I failed to wake up to my alarm and my sis' methods are too soft. I got up 45 minutes after going to bed, but I didn't sleep all of it and I was awake just after my alarm while sis talked to me. I'm just not sure If I drifted back to sleep for a while after that. Doubt it since I was so refreshed. 45 minutes ought to have made me very groggy.

Day 12.6
Naptime: 21:50 - 22:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 294h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 10
Time since last oversleep: 37 h 10 mins

Another nap that works. I'm feeling very good.

So yeah, that was Twelveth day's last nap and as the header points out, it's already my 100th post on this blog. I guess it's well timed because I'm starting to get hopeful that I am closer than any time before. Following the schedule has been pretty effortless for the past couple of phases and I even laid down for extended period of time without any fear of falling asleep unintenionally. Still I know better than to get carried away. Tomorrow will be crucial and it will show where were heading.

Day Eleven - Do or Die

Eleventh day.. I survived yesterday. I have a chance to make it through two days without oversleeps. And at this point of the sleep deprivation, that would be huge. But that would mean that I would basically have to withstand even worse sleep deprivation today. I'm expecting longest day ever. Time seemed to stop still on one of yesterday's phases. The one where I felt the most tired. I fully expect to feel like that every phase today.

Hope not. Hopefully I just start for some reason stringing REM-naps together and notice sleep-deprivation just vanishing into thin air. Realistically though that's not going to happen yet.

Day 11.1
Naptime: 1:55 - 2:10, 15 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 250h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 9
Time since last oversleep: 35 hours 10 mins

I'm kind of a mess now. Long story short I can't really do anything that special tonight, mostly play games so that I don't disturb anyone. Now I just gotta figure out what and how.

So yeah, I was again on some sort of sleep inertia when I woke up, wrote up a bunch of nonsense, but I was sane enough to figure out that I wasn't making any sense so I deleted it and gathered all of my brainpower to write that bit. I started feeling better soon enough. There has been certain pattern in last couple of phases. I start off tired, then it gets better for couple of hours before I start to get tired again.

We should soon move to double digits when it comes to succesful naps in a row. I'm not really that worried of an oversleep right now.

Yeah, well I should've been:
Day 11.2
Naptime: 5:50 - 9:00, 200 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes
Time since last proper sleep: 257h 30 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 0
Time since last oversleep: 0 mins

Another fuck-up. This was pretty depressing. I remember waking up to alarms and shutting them off. Apparently I've sat back on my bed's side and fell straight back asleep.

It's pretty crushing to keep failing and failing. I'm not giving up even yet despite it really felt like I should've just some time ago. We have to make this one count.

Day 11.3
Naptime: 9:50 - 10:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes
Time since last proper sleep: 258h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 1
Time since last oversleep: 1 h 10 mins

Back on the right track after only short waking period. I woke up naturally. Guess I had some REM aswell, though might've been just leftovers from the oversleep.

We made an adjustment that everytime I wake up I have to go for a walk. That gives me some time to clear the worst sleep inertia and serves as a check for my sis that I've woken up. We decided that she will wake up every time with me for the rest of the effort. When I leave for the short walk she can go back to sleep etc. I think this is useful addition for me as well. It avoids just going back to sleep straight when you woke up and also serves as a time to plan what I should get done during the phase.

Day 11.4
Naptime: 13:55 - 14:10, 15 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 262h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 2
Time since last oversleep: 5 h 10 mins

Short, naturally ended nap. Nice and fairly refreshing. I guess the long-term sleep deprivation is unabling me to reach better mental clarity though.

Day 11.5
Naptime: 17:50 - 18:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 266h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 3
Time since last oversleep: 9 h 10 mins

I've got one problem with this phase. While watching football, I kept having microsleeps. There was no real chance of falling asleep fully, but my eyes kept closing every few seconds. I have no idea how this is going to affect the adaptation. That said I'm not planning to do that again.

Day 11.6
Naptime: 21:50 - 22:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 270h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 4
Time since last oversleep: 13 h 10 mins

Decent naps continue, though it's little surprise as were so early on a new streak.

So I guess that's that for this day. Very short writings today but there really wasn't much to say since my streak got ruined so soon. Tomorrow at this time I should be hitting double digits in amount of naps again, that should be more interesting.

perjantai 20. elokuuta 2010

Day Ten - Some Summarizing

Day 10 is about to start. I want to take this time to glance back at my previous attempts that lasted 10+ days:
March attempt: If I count it as a one long attempt which it pretty much was, there was six oversleeps after switching to uberman with combined total of "lotsa" hours. I fucked up often and I fucked up good as there were oversleeps as lengthy as full nights sleep. I'm not botherin to count them. I didn't manage to maintain the schedule much.

July attempt: Five oversleeps for 880 (=13h 20min) minutes in the first ten days. After that there was one oversleep of 260 minutes after which I gave up. Longest adherence to schedule was as pointed out many times, my former record of 12 naps straight. Pretty tame compared to what is needed though.

This attempt: Five oversleeps for 10h 45 min during the first nine days. So if I avoid oversleeps today I'll be a little better off than during the last attempt. Considering how well I started it's dissapointing. I have gotten sloppy after that start.

Day 10.1
Naptime: 1:50 - 2:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 227h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 3
Time since last oversleep: 11 hours 10 mins

Another decent little nap. For once both alarms went off - I didn't remember to turn computer alarm off before it went off which is good, makes me less likely to do that asleep. So far so good.

Day 10.2
Naptime: 5:50 - 6:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 231h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 4
Time since last oversleep: 15 hours 10 mins

Keeping it tight. In theory we're once again done for the day - I shouldn't oversleep today any more, but like yesterday proved, anything can happen. I will be careful around the naps so at least the most basic errors are avoided. Besides, the continuous oversleeps have replenished some of my energy meaning that I've not been even that tired yet.

These are the moments I truly enjoy Uberman, even in adaptation. When there's no real trouble in staying up and you can just relax and enjoy the dawn, that's the stuff. Hear everybody else snore and feel great about staying up yourself. Man, I wish I'd adapt. I certainly have wanted it enough.

About REMs.. Like I said earlier I'm almost certain that there's ton of REM's that haven't got any mention in here. My recall really stinks even with monophasic sleeping and when waking up from naps I gotta worry about shutting down all the alarms at first and then take care that I don't go back to bed there's really not optimal time to recall anything. But I'll eventually start to catch the grips of it, hopefully.

I've grown more tired during the phase, but I should be able to stay out of trouble for the rest of the time.

Day 10.3
Naptime: 9:50 - 10:20, 30 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 235h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 5
Time since last oversleep: 19 hours 10 mins

Now this is really streching the successful nap mark. I once again set my computer alarm wrongly to go off 4 hours too late. I didn't wake up therefore and my sis came to wake me 10 minutes later. I didn't know what was going on and didn't get up straight away. I was a moment half zoned out on the bed.

The bigged problem here is that everybody is turning against me. I'm obviously sleep-deprived and combine that with sleep inertia so I'm not on my sharpest when waking up. That probably makes me appear more of a mess that I am. My sis' reaction to when I didn't instantly get up was to get angry with me. Come on? Cut me a break here I'm pretty badly sleep-deprived and don't know what's going on. Give me a moment to figure it out.

Looks like I'm going to lose the remnants of the support I had. But this is not the time to give up. I just need to devote this time to really figure out more back-up plans on alarms etc. I think the computer alarm can be effective, I just have to be really careful in setting it up.

Day 10.4
Naptime: 13:50 - 14:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 239h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 6
Time since last oversleep: 23 hours 10 mins

Very hard phase, but I just grinded through it. Constant tiredness all the way.

Day 10.5
Naptime: 17:50 - 18:20, 30 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 242h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 7
Time since last oversleep: 27 hours 10 mins

This nap streched a little, but not too much. Probably not really even 30 minutes, but I'll error on the side of caution. I didn't wake up instantly to my alarm but my sis did great job to make sure I woke up. Very devoted stuff. Heart-warming.

I have a good feeling about this. If me and sis can keep it up my adaptation could be kickstarted by Monday.

Day 10.6
Naptime: 21:50 - 22:05, 15 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes
Time since last proper sleep: 246h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 8
Time since last oversleep: 31 hours 10 mins

Alright! Finally a REM in a nap and there even isn't oversleep nearby! I doubt that indicates anything towards adaptation, but it's still encouraging sign that'll help me push forward. It didn't help with tiredness though.

But yeah, nice way to end a day. Solid 8 nap streak as a base to build on, with 31 hours under my belt without oversleeps. I really hope I can keep it up on Sunday and beyond.

Day Nine - From Insane Sleep Inertia to Another Oversleep

Alright, here is how I expect this to pan out:
Phases 1-2 will be relatively easy. Nothing special, fairly functional etc. I don't think there's much of a risk of oversleeping.
Phases 3-4 tiredness will start to accumulate. Still I can fairly well stay clear of falling asleep, but there's certainly some uncomfortability. Slight risk of oversleeping.
Phases 5- I'll be nearing the full power of sleep deprivation with every nap. I'd expect that the next night will be harder that tonight. After than it gets even tougher in the morning but with the help of my sis I'll stay on the schedule with much struggle. Afternoon eases it a bit, but there's still big chance of screwing up. Finally we'll see the biggest risk of oversleeping in the night between Saturday - Sunday. I'll probably feel trashed the whole Sunday as well. From Monday onwards I start to show signs of adaptation and slowly but surely sleep deprivation eases off. That said it still won't be easy for a couple of days, because there will still be hard moments.

Now, let's start checking out how well those predictions go on target:

Day 9.1
Naptime: 1:50 - 2:05, 15 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 203h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 2
Time since last oversleep: 6 hours 35 mins

Great nap. I wasn't super refreshed, in fact I felt like I could've slept longer and tried to catch couple of minutes before my alarm which would've went off 2:10. But in the end I decided against it. That said I felt also that I was fresh enough to stay in bed without fearing too much that I'd fall asleep. I laid down for a while and pondered about stuff and felt unity with the world. I know that sounds weird and the old me would've probably scoffed at me for that, but I feel like I've been changing the most I've had in my life during the last few weeks.

So great nap and all.

Day 9.2
Naptime: 5:50 - 6:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 207h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 3
Time since last oversleep: 10 hours 35 mins

Okay here's bunch of sleep-inertia non-sense:

Only the second time when I've woken to the computer alarm / second alarm. It really puts me moving unlike anything else. I don't know why it works for me, but certainly no because I cushion my bosy perfectly or anything.

Gates keeped opening and closing and Isaac's crew had to make it through some obstacles. Professor just coolly found something genuinely interesting. **At this point I proceeded in finnish. I seemed to be writing a game's plot. I was playing a game just before I went to bed, so that explains why I would have such a dream and then write stuff like that asleep.

At least I'm awake now. That sleep inertia stuff never gets old. I don't have much idea about what I am talking in first paragraph's end. I guess it's body I typoed that I should be cushioning. But yeah first paragraph actually tells the truth overall.

I absolutely love the sentence "Professor just coolly found something genuinely interesting."

I rule. I should write more during these small hours.

Most of you're probably still WTF? on whats going on - simply I wasn't fully awake when I started to write the blog entry straight after finishing one level on a game. I'm not going to go in any more detail about the game.

But I really were in danger of just sleeping through. Gladly my second alarm is a hardcore as it is, it really scared me awake (Immortal's One by One starts pounding with max volume - nice transition from complete silence. I'll put a brain-blasting guarantee on that, 100 % proven method, or money back. I would wake up from my grave to that.. In a positive sense). Amazingly nobody else wake up to my alarm, at least that I know of. But still, I was pretty much figuring out myself 20 minutes after waking up - "Right, who am I? Where the hell am I? What's going on?"

This ought to be the last nap today that I'm on my own. I should be able to rely on my sis keeping me awake for the rest of the day. Luckily, because my self-confidence isn't at all time high. Thing is, I'd write more analysis if I could, but I hardly feel sane, so I'll avoid writing for a while.

Also I'm still tired enough that I could probably fall asleep sitting at the computer if I'd let myself.

Alright, I'm now over 2 hours into the phase and the situation is still pretty much the same. I feel like I'm mentally way off even if I'm not alarmingly tired. But still, there's no going down to lay for a moment for me anymore. Sis is still asleep, so it might be that I have to set the same alarm system again. I'd expect it to work on sheer psychological factor. It felt bad enough to wake up to it in the first place, I wouldn't want to let the other alarm get off.

But yeah there's really no reason to keep on jabbering. Other than keep myself employed and active so that my tiredness doesn't worsen. And that's precisely what I'm doing. Trying desperately to strech this as long as possible only to have something to do. I'm already bored to death on all my games.

It doesn't seem to be working, though. I feel even more flegmatic than that when I started. There's still 90 minutes to last. That's just messed up. I don't know what to do. I guess I am forced to go outside. There's so damn cold, but I guess that works in my favour this time.

Yeah.. I made it. I was outside for half an hour and then washed some dishes.

I apparently send my sis a text message during that sleep inertia madness when I woke up from this phase. It was ridiculous nonsense aswell. I was really messed up in the morning.

Day 9.4
Naptime: 9:50 - 10:05, 15 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 211h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 4
Time since last oversleep: 14 hours 35 mins

It's amazing how I continue to struggle considering how much I overslept yesterday. I woke up without alarm. I was feeling like I could've slept more and in fact just now drifted off for a few seconds at my computer. I hate being at the computer now. I guess I'll go outside for some time.

Now on in I have my sis' support until first phase of tomorrow, so I shouldn't oversleep.

I did fall asleep for like 1-2 minutes while sitting outside. My sis came to wake me up and I had hardly sat there, but apparently I didn't react to first shout. I don't really know how such supershort sleeps affect - I'll presume zero effect as this point, but something that might need some looking into. I've been very tired for the whole phase, so it isn't suprising to accidentally sleep for minute. Though on mental basis I didn't think I was asleep - in my mind I reacted immediately, but maybe not.

C'mon brain, start adjusting already.

Day 9.4
Naptime: 13:30 - 15:00, 90 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes.
Time since last proper sleep: 215h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 0
Time since last oversleep: 0 hours 0 mins

I wrote this form ready with optimal numbers in kind of hoping that they would happen.. Guess what? It went to hell! I fell asleep too early, woke up way too late, and now I feel mentally destroyed because I fuckin hate myself! I don't know what my sis was up either, she woke me up but what good does it make over a hour too late? Well at least I'm not tired anymore. Well done brains. You beat me again. I'm yet to feel this desperate during this. Feels like it's impossible to stay awake.

I'm not going to give up (yet), but I'm feeling pretty hopeless right now. If I can't do a straight day without oversleeping then how the hell three or seven needed is going to happen?

Day 9.5
Naptime: 17:50 - 18:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 219h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 1
Time since last oversleep: 3 hours 10 mins

Thank god for emotional reset. I felt crushed before, but I am feeling pretty ok now. Some new momentum towards building a successful nap streak.

Day 9.6
Naptime: 21:50 - 22:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 223h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 2
Time since last oversleep: 7 hours 10 mins

Solid nap this one too. I don't know where all the REM-naps are, I'd think there are some that I simply haven't recalled. It should get easier to recall when I start adjusting, if that ever happens.

I'm gonna glad now that I overslept. There was some issues before with microsleeps so it's good to proceed from clear table and go for few 100 % days. I mean with no microsleeps or anything like that either.

torstai 19. elokuuta 2010

Day Eight - Damage Limitation

My combined total from all the sleep during this experiment is little over 16h. If I'd were done it perfectly I would be at 14 hours after 7 days. So that's how much oversleeps have affected it (and missed naps compensated). Seventh day though consisted solely on 20 minute naps.

Day 8.1
Naptime: 1:50 - 2:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last proper sleep: 179h 50 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 9
Time since last oversleep: 34 hours 50 mins

Non-troublefree nap once again. I had some weird stuff going on after waking up. I played around with my alarm without clear reason. Another REM-related thing I've forgotten? I laid a moment on the sofa, luckily didn't fall asleep or something worse. I was so disconnected with everything for a moment that I needed to check what had just happened on the basis of how much time had gone after last nap. It was only 10 minutes to my relief. I also had changed my alarm to 8:10 for some reason. I was really messed up for a moment then.

I'm not as hardcore in tiredness as I've been at worst, but I'm just badly enough tired so that it definitely kills my productivity. I've been struggling with huge procrastination when writing and I won't even bother playing poker when I'm so long way off my normal brain performance.

Basically it seems it's going to be another day of just waiting for sleep depravation symptoms to subside. I might have some better moments where I could get something done, but it doesn't look that good. I am happy though that the next nap is already tenth in row successfully. That's only couple of naps away from my former record. Those couple of naps might be hard though. My sis will go to school today so she won't be around to keep me up during noon. On the otherhand, day time naps haven't still caused any superhard trouble for me. I'll just stack up on alarms and I should be fine, just fine.

I've done some some photoshopping for fun so in a sense I've been productive.

Day 8.2
Naptime: 5:50 - 7:50, 120 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes.
Time since last proper sleep: 185h 20 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 0
Time since last oversleep: 0 hours 0 mins

Damn! Another oversleep. I don't know what happened on this one, I really have zero recall. My compurer's alarm is set to next phase already and my phone's alarm seems to have come off as well. So it must've been your traditional sleeping through the alarm.

This is getting very frushtrating. Now what happens? 2-3 phases where I regain some functionality and then pretty much rest of the time zombie mode.

I'm not as upset as last time this happened but still, it always puts you down when you fight through the night only to find yourself waking up almost two hours too late.

I guess I need new alarms and some way to get myself not disabling computer's alarm everytime I get up to shut down my phone's alarm. I tried taking the mouse off once. Then again, I should probably start putting computer's alarm going off first for tough naps. Though I wasn't expecting this one to be tough, so it might've not helped at all.

The other person is the only 100 % alarm of course, I wish my sis were awake but that wasn't unfortunately the case. But at least I ought to make it through noon naps easier. Though I'm not falling into that trap that mantaining schedule would be easy for a couple of phases now. Last thing I need is another oversleep.

Words fail me. I'm having so much trouble in so many fronts again. And to think that there hasn't been anything really intense yet. Now I need to figure out some alternative alarms.

Worst thing about the oversleep is that it always begs for more. You don't get refreshed enough and now that you got really to the taste of sleep you'll want whole lotta more it. So I should make it through next 90 minutes just fighting in zombie mode.

If I force myself to find anything positive about it, it was refreshing to actually recall a dream once in a while. Or I didn't recall any plot or anything, just some scenes and situations, but it's still more than what I've gotten so far.

3h 40 minutes is a surprisinly long time. Really long time if all you do is wait for next nap, sleep deprived. I guess I'll go for a walk. I've sat around long enough.

Day 8.3
Naptime: 9:50 - 10:15, 25 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 187h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 1
Time since last oversleep: 2 hours 20 mins

A little longer nap, because I didn't wake up for some reason for my normal alarm. However the computer alarm for once did it's job. There was some initial groggyness, but it has gone away. Now I'm experiencing the "oversleep-high" and feeling alert and pretty good... Or then again, maybe not. My state is shifting around really much. I guess I have to wait for next phase before I start feeling really better.

I went out for a 20 minutes and sat there for a moment. I guess I fell asleep. My sis came shouting and apparently I had not reacted to first shout. However that's not really a notable error since it's impossible that I slept more than a couple of minutes, if even that.

I guess I'm really sleep-deprived because I laughed my ass off to this site: http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/

Day 8.4
Naptime: 13:50 - 14:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 191h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 2
Time since last oversleep: 6 hours 20 mins

Good nap even if I'm still fucked. Since I figured out tha only (fun) thing to do while in sleep-deprived enough is gaming I've been installing bunch of games to my computer. They should help to fight the the pain of nothing having much to do. But yeah, I'm still constantly feeling like I'm going to fall asleep just now. It seems like I'm not getting any improvement to my performance after all, or if it comes it will come at night.

Day 8.5
Naptime: 17:45 - 18:25, 40 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 195h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 0
Time since last oversleep: 0 hours 0 mins

Alright, this comes to strech a bit the term "successful nap". It certainly wasn't a success in terms of keeping inside the schedule, with me probably falling asleep couple of minutes early and getting up almost quarter of a hour too late. That said it isn't failure either. 40 minutes is a long time, but as far as I know it shouldn't mess up everything. So what happened? I shut down the alarm while sleeping. My sis told me to get up and I had reacted by opening my eyes everytime she said something. So finally at 18:25 I regained conchiousness and was very confused of what had happened. She apparently thought I were awake.

I made a deal with her that I'll get off the bed everytime I wake up so that there isn't future mess-ups on this frontier. Nap itself was refreshing - it has been really hard to battle all day, but this seems like a welcome break from it. Whether it is down to nap being longer or just a late reaction to the earlier oversleep, I don't know.

I'm actually really torn whether this is a successful nap or not. I counted 45-minute nap on day six as an oversleep. This is max. 40 mins, can be a bit shorter, I'm not perfectly sure about waking up or falling asleep times. Also I don't know what to think about the fact that I was reacting to her asleep. Meh. I don't know, I'll change it to unsuccesful. Limit is 30 minutes from now on, otherwise it is an oversleep, albeit a small one. It wouldn't matter if I had 20+ successful naps in a row under my belt, but now that I've been messing up constantly this minor thing just has that much of a bigger impact.

So presuming my last nap goes without problems this might seem like another catastrophic day with two oversleeps. I'm obviously not happy, but I think I did decent damage-limitation considering I was tired the whole day. I really need to step it up though. Tomorrow will need to be clean sweep. I think I have good chance of making through weekend without oversleeps. That would be three succesful days in a row.. Well, I can fantasize about it.

Day 8.6
Naptime: 21:45 - 22:00, 15 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 199h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 0
Time since last oversleep: 2 hours 35 mins

I went bit early to sleep, expecting some trouble falling asleep because I was feeling so fresh. I fell asleep bit faster than I expected and enjoyably woke up 10 minutes before alarm while still getting enough sleep.

I guess that's all. There's still the 3½ hours of this phase to "weather out", but I doubt there will be any trouble. So I'll just wrap this day up. Let's hope tomorrow is start of something special.

tiistai 17. elokuuta 2010

Day Seven - System Reboot

This is practically continuation from day six, decided to start this post a little early. Looks like it might be pushing for a novel lenght.

I feel like I have pretty solid concept over what to do in any situation now. I know when going for a walk is the best alternative to stay awake, when playing games is enough or when I really need to go into the hardcore stuff like ice-cold showers.

But everytime my brain has a new surprise up his sleeve. Today I overslept because I practically slept through alarm. It was first time in huge amount of naps that I overslept. I wasn't expecting it, even if I knew I was pretty much trashed.

Thinking straight is another problem when the narcolepsy gets really bad. You somehow start to think that "I can go straight back to bed after that nap" or other crazy stuff. I also have to really spend time figuring out what has happened if something went different from how I planned it. Like today's first oversleep. I was very dissapointed when I woke up, because I knew that I wasn't supposed to sleep that far. Then I stared for clock like five minutes trying to figure out when I had gone to bed. It would be funny if it weren't so sad.

That said, I hope my sister can keep me on the line for the rest of the adaptation. She won't be around too long again so I really don't have that much time to work it all out. I doubt I can do this alone, there's just too much evidence against it. I told my sister that If she ever sees me getting up from the bed, shutting down my alarm and going back to the bed she can kick me in the head.

In other news, I played poker after a couple of days break. I felt I was sane enough to enter the tables and it turned out to be true. I had good luck and played decently. Ended up winning almost 2 buyins.

Combination of winning in poker and actually being productive again is making me feel pretty good. Wouldn't call it euphoric, but at least content.

Day 7.1

Naptime: 1:50 - 2:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last proper sleep: 154h 50 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 3
Time since last oversleep: 10 hours 50 mins

Another REMless nap. I feel fine though. Having tough time to get anything started though. Since I've not felt like writing much here, I'll take this spot to answer Lyla Dame's question from the comments
"Have you felt any floating sensation or had any issues with spatial orientation?"
In short: Not. Most of my naps feel pretty much the same and as you know, I haven't had that much REM action, at least I don't recall having much of it. Most of my naps feel like I've just sorta drifted somewhere between dream and wake state for 20 minutes. I'm not always even sure whether I've been asleep but there's certain change of conchiousness that I've noticed when I'm dreaming. Also when I'm falling asleep I sometimes feel almost a physical "click" in my head just before I fall asleep. Or I don't know how soon before it is - I've just noticed that it happens and I use it as an indicator that I'm relaxing well and it helps me to stay calm, as in not try to hurry a nap because I know minutes are ticking away before alarm sets off.

But I hope I adapt that I can really answer how it changes for the REM.

I don't really feel that tired, but writing just know I noticed that my eyesight is really blurry at times. I don't really have anything else to say about it, just an observation that I probably are tired after all.

Day 7.2
Naptime: 5:50 - 6:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No/Maybe*
Time since last proper sleep: 159h 50 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 4
Time since last oversleep: 14 hours 50 mins

These six o'clock naps are their own beast altogerther. It's really hard to get up, even if you're not that tired really. It's just that it's cold and all. I hate it. Coldness and tiredness make for a bad couple. I'm having so trouble staying awake! I drifted to darkness for a moment just know. Glad I realized where I was heading.

On to the Modern Warfare, gotta shoot off this groggyness before it's too late... Alright, finished playing. Still feeling tired though. It seems that this day is gonna be constant fight as well. I just gotta weather through it. I thought that I could have a good productive day and during the first phase of the day my head would've been clear enough to do stuff. Now it seems like it's too late and I wouldn't bet on it getting any better in the latter phases. In short this is the start of the final battle against sleep deprivation. It can be up to three days of zombie mode from this moment on.. If I don't oversleep. Or then again this might still be just a warning round.

*I've been thinking about my waking up for this phase. I felt weird then. It was like I had some internal conflict that was annoying me and like I was someone else. Just waking up from a dream would explain that. However, I don't remember much about those thoughts, only that everything was not right after waking up. In short, still a mess mentally.

It's still 45 minutes 'til my nap. I'll try to pass as much time as possible writing this. I'm pretty tired. I'm worried about oversleeping. I'll be setting alarms on and doing as much autosuggestion as possible but I can't help but to feel little bereft of confidence. Also I figured out that going straight outside, first thing when you wake up (after setting alarms off) would be a good thing. It might take the easiest mistakes in terms of going straight back to bed off, as you'd have time to get your thinking straight. That said, if I'm hitting bad sleep inertia I won't remember to even go outside, there's that chance. But I'll do any little stuff available to improve my chances, even if only a little.

It's odd how your head works. Right now I feel like I have a hole in my memory for this morning. You know from around 3 am. to 7 am.. But I still remember what happened then. It's hard to explain, but it's like I feel like I don't remember it, even if I do.

I'm sorry (well, not that sorry). I won't be staying awake even if I keep writing. I need to get up, otherwise I'm not gonna make it rest of the phase.

Day 7.3
Naptime: 9:50 - 10:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last proper sleep: 163h 50 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 5
Time since last oversleep: 18 hours 50 mins

I was pretty much a wreck after waking up. I went outside but it really didn't do much expect frushtrate me because it's getting cooler. I talked later with my sis, or more like she talked to me and I struggled to stay awake. She was every two seconds telling me to keep my eyes open. It was semi-funny, but at least I made it through the toughest part. Now I'm sailing on much safer waters. I feel like I should be able to make it pretty easily to next nap.

Day 7.4
Naptime: 13:50 - 14:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last proper sleep: 167h 50 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 6
Time since last oversleep: 22 hours 50 mins

Close to perfection on execution this nap. But I'm still very tired and have to make some conchious effort not to fall asleep.

There's only one nap left before tonight's football match. Weather is great after all so I fully expect that there will be a game. Just to add some challenge into this adaptation. I will be playing my normal game, I don't even know how to play without giving it all. I'm fully expecting that phase 8.1 will be the toughest so far - Usually the football match hits that nap the hardest. If I survive it the rest will probably keep upping the ante. But if I weather that storm, I'll be very close to success.

But yeah, phase nearly over, have done much nothing so far.
Oh crap. Was very close to falling asleep just now. I guess I'll have to get up.

I felt like my tiredness would be subsiding a bit, so I sat back to my computer for a moment to listen to some music. One song later I'm pretty much ready to bed. This phase has been a constant struggle. I'm winning at the moment, but you never know..

Day 7.5
Naptime: 17:50 - 18:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last proper sleep: 171h 50 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 7
Time since last oversleep: 26 hours 50 mins

So this was the football match phase. There were only 8 people playing so I could spare some energy and we played only for a relatively short while. Still there will no doubt be some physical fatigue tonight. Obviously playing football doesn't leave you space to be tired. Also nap execution was again top-notch stuff. I can really be happy about that - not a minute too early in bed, fast asleep and just a couple of minutes before alarm sounded I got up. I really hope I can keep that up.

Day 7.6
Naptime: 21:50 - 22:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last proper sleep: 175h 50 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 8
Time since last oversleep: 30 hours 50 mins

I actually wouldn't have to have struggled on this one, it's just that sis was on my computer and I had absolutely nothing else to do. Therefore I just laid down. I was constantly about to fall asleep, but my sis' regular check-ups made sure that I never really drifted that close. The nap itself weren't perfect either. There was distractions and I didn't feel rested after it.

But this day is pretty much packaged. Let's hope I survive through the next day as well.

Day Six - It Hits Me Like a Train

Day 6.1
Naptime: 1:50 - 2:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 129h 10 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 17
Time since last oversleep: 83 hours 30 mins

I tried to take extra care to remember any REM etc. but didn't remember any of it anyway. God damn it, I want REM. Nap had a decent effect in terms of refreshedness. It was the usual quality as well, pretty fast falling asleep, instang wake-up to alarm. Though I might've woken up like seconds before alarm, not sure exactly.

I wonder how long this slight groggyness tiredness is gonna last? The whole adaptation process has been nothing like I expected. Where's the zombie mode? I'll take it that there's not such coming. I guess I'm lucky. I guess I should be trying to create some sort of schedule for myself next. 2 work phases doesn't sound too bad. I'd like to leave some phases permanently free to do whatever I want. I'll get on it now. I wrote one schedule during last attempt, but I really went overboard with it. It's stuffed with shit and I'm not sure anyone (least me) could follow it without burning out.

Day 6.2
Naptime: 5:55 - 6:10, 15 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 133h 10 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 18
Time since last oversleep: 87 hours 30 mins

Same groggy & slightly tired shit. I was actually do tired I returned to bed but I knew I was doomed to oversleep if I'd continue & besides it didn't even really help so I got back up.

Short testing at typera.tk proved that I'm over 100 characters / minute behind my normal typing speeds, meaning that my motor skills haven't yet picked up like they're supposed to. Still, I guess it's early days of my adaptation. I should only get worried after ten days of perfect adherence and it has been barely 4 days since my last & only oversleep. I am feeling functional so no real troubles. 18 naps in a row.. That feels pretty awesome.

Well, I'm having surprising trouble right now. I don't feel right in the head and I'm a bit tired. A bit more than usual.. I'm afraid I might have as hard a day as yesterday. If you count from the oversleep, I'm only at day four now. That basically means that today and tomorrow will still be in the intensive sleep-deprivation range. And we know that I haven't been remembering many REM-phases during my naps.

The funny thing is that since I never adjusted correctly back to monophasic, instead sleeping inversely during day and staying nights awake my body still wants asleep more on the day. I have had my worst moments during the day which is lot of better than during the night, when you're all alone in the dark. It's easier to push through when sun is burning your eyes and there's people around you notifying if you start "nodding".

Day 6.3
Naptime: 9:45 - 10:30, 45 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 137h 30 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 0
Time since last oversleep: 0 hours 0 mins

So yeah, I overslept, but hardly by half an hour, luckily there was people waking me. I hope it won't have too adverse effects on my adaptation. It shouldn't have anything worse except clearing my counters. And increasing my alertness. I'm hitting the zombie mode though slowly but surely. I need to be very careful now. Follow the schedule perfectly. Completely ace it. I don't want to come this far and ruin it all by getting lazy. No more oversleeps. Let's put in another 18 naps in a row.

I'll scratch all my productive plans for today. I am too wrecked to do anything. I need to divert all energy on staying awake and on the program.

I know that 95 % of this blog has been just me babbling randomly and it will intensify in coming days. I am running out of stuff to do. I mean by that, stuff that I can do while I'm tired that doesn't have big risk of me falling asleep. I can't watch tv or poker videos cause like I've said anything passive kills my brain temporarily. I can't do anything creative because everything is struggle and even if I'd manage to do something, it's mostly shit. I can't play poker because it demands far too much brainpower. Commodity that I don't have at the moment. So all there really is is writing this kind of boring to death but therapeutic flow of thoughts to the blog or play games that challenge my survival instinct. There really isn't much else to do.

One thing about the oversleep. I'll tell you exactly what happened: I went to bed already at 9:40, 10 minutes before the official naptime. I figured I'd read magazine for few minutes and that I could keep myself awake for that time. I fell asleep before I intended but I also remember staying awake for few minutes, so it's not that bad. Then I woke up to alarm 10:10. This wouldn't have been any kind of problem if I just haven't gone instantly back to bed after setting off alarms. Now I don't actually remember it so it's possible I hardly woke up. I just know that my alarms were sent off and that my computer's alarm had been set to 4 hours for the next nap. Basically it was 25 minute nap followed more or less without break by another 20 minute nap. It isn't that serious really, but I'm going to treat it as if it were. It probably won't reset my progress, it's going to be a step back but not massive. I still will look to beat the old nap-record again with run that starts now. I'll focus more on this. I have to. I owe it to myself. It really looks like that this time, I can pull it off. I just need to survive through these tough moments, that came in uncharacteristically late this attempt.

It's still over 2 hours to next nap. Looks like I'm going to have to type a lot this time.. Just joking. I'll grab something to eat and keep myself active. I'll be back to write about next nap, which hopefully is completely trouble free. I really need to consentrate on motivating myself to keep going and getting the fuck up immediately, not going back to bed or anything silly like that.

Rest of this phase went well. I played Modern Warfare 2 again and it refreshed me to the point that I actually might've got something productive done.

Day 6.4
Naptime: 13:50 - 15:20, 90 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes
Time since last proper sleep: 142h 50 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 0
Time since last oversleep: 0 hours 0 mins

Oh shit. Just what I didn't need - accidental oversleep number two and this was long enough to ruin my progress. I don't really know why I didn't wake up to my alarm. But now we really took a huge step behind. I'm not discouraged completely yet, but I feel like it's another five days for me from almost the beginning but with extra sleep dep to "get me started". Sucks really hard.

I feel so disillusioned. My sis told me she didn't know whether or not to wake me since she didn't know whether I was sleeping for real or not. I wrote my napping times up for her. I just wish I can get the ball rolling as fast as I can and can hit to that 2 days asap. Then survive through the worst sleep-deprivation before my sis leaves.

Everything so far has been for nothing. That feels the worst. I guess I should take solace from the fact that I didn't even deserve to go uberman so easily.

Day 6.5
Naptime: 17:50 - 18:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last proper sleep: 146h 50 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 1
Time since last oversleep: 2 hours 50 mins

Nothing much to say. Back on track.

Day 6.6
Naptime: 21:40 - 21:50, 10 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last proper sleep: 150h 50 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 2
Time since last oversleep: 6 hours 50 mins

Kind of unhappy about this nap. It was super-short which in itself isn't that big of a problem since I was refreshed, but the problem for me was that none of it was inside the normal nap-frame. I went to bed a little too early not expecting to fall asleep that fast.. Well not at least to wake up that fast! That said, I did stay in bed for the whole time.

I guess there's some after-oversleep trouble to be expected. I'm now experienced enough to see a pattern in all this. Now what follows is few easier phases before another crash. All I know is that I need to improve my succesful naps in a row -record if I'm going to adjust successfully.

maanantai 16. elokuuta 2010

Day Five - Shifting Schedule and Hitting Trouble

Day 5.1
Naptime: 2:20 - 2:40, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last proper sleep: 105h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 11
Time since last oversleep: 60 hours

I don't remember REM from that nap either, but I'm almost certain that I'm just not remembering then. I just can't stay this well focused completely without REM.

My plan for today is to not play poker. I'll be having couple days of break from that, especially since it's expected that today and tomorrow will be the hardest days so what. I have overall little less stuff planned to do.

I feel really weird. Like constantly I'm thinking I'm forgetting something. Like this can't be true, I can't have gone so long without oversleeping etc. It's like it's all just a one long dream.

After next nap, I'll be hitting my record on successive successful naps. Or tying with it to be exact. I've already been up without oversleeps longer than ever. I know I haven't really been challenged yet (and I'm hoping I wouldn't be - narcolepsy sucks), but I can honestly say that I'm closer to success than ever before. I just wish I'd start remembering REM to be sure of it. I'm pretty sure I've had it.

Day 5.2
Naptime: 6:25 - 6:40, 15 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Maybe
Time since last proper sleep: 109h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 12
Time since last oversleep: 64 hours

I slept a bit under a quarter of an hour, I know because it was 6:25 when I last checked before passing out. Once again I don't remember dreaming or any other stuff about this, just this sorta feeling that I did have a REM. I'm feeling more tired that on previous phases. Next nap will take me to the new depths, at least when it comes to purely numbers. I'm still waiting eagerly to be zombified.

I've been thinking about my current schedule a lot and I'm not sure if it is the best. I feel like 14, 18, 22, 2, 6, 10 would work better, on exact hours - going sleep of course, waking ups 20 minutes later. This would work especially considering my wednesday's possible footie match but even if I didn't have that I feel that my current program was a little rashly designed. If possible though 10 minutes earlier would work even better, I mean 13:50, 17:50.. etc.

But I know that shifting my schedule now will disrupt my adaptation. So I'll probably save it for later when I'm more established and keep hoping that there's no game in wednesday. If there is I'll probably shift the nap to 18:10-18:25 - meaning I would have to make it shorter. That really seems like a spot that this effort could culminate to - me getting less sleep and disturbing my rhythm combined with extra tiredness from football that has caused me to oversleep even before.

On the other hand, I don't know if I could slowly shift my schedule. There's still time and I could always aim just to fall asleep couple of minutes earlier etc. That would manage to shift my schedule probably enough, but how much would it exactly mess up my adaptation? Hard to say. I really don't know how much there is to spare in uberman. I mean you'd think that you can flex for couple of minutes, but it really isn't as straightforward. I already feel lot more tired than usual now that this morning's nap was shorter than usual due to me failing falling asleep instantly. So I won't be making any shifts yet. Once I'm couple of weeks in I'll start tweaking it five minutes / week. That's my plan. There's room for some messing up then as my sleep dep should be dealt with already by then. Not that I have that bad sleep dep at the moment.

Or hell, plans just changed. I need to be awake just now around my next normal naptime. So I'm going to go to bed earlier and just do at least part of the shift right now. I don't know how much it will affect me, but well know soon enough. Here's the plan:
I'll go to bed 9:50 and aim to be awake 10:10. I'm not playing around, let's do the whole shift at once. If I don't get to sleep immediately, I'll shift the waking time later. After that no changing the schedule for (hopefully) few months.

Again I lost two naps worth of data. Here's what I remember:

Day 5.3
Naptime: 9:50 - 10:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last proper sleep: 113h 10 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 13
Time since last oversleep: 67 hours 30 mins

Huge struggles as I shifted my schedule. Near falling asleep many times.

Day 5.4
Naptime: 13:50 - 14:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 117h 10 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 14
Time since last oversleep: 71 hours 30 mins

Success continues but only just. I'm constantly near falling asleep. Well now I guess I have woken just enough to stay awake without too much effort. I've been super-cranky and irritable the whole time, therefore I'm not really good company at the moment. It's really frushtrating - I've gotten past the worst symptoms of narcolepsy, but I'm not enjoying myself at the moment. The euphoric feel of say last night is gone. I hope next nap will see another emotional reset and hopefully this sleep dep eases off.

Day 5.5
Naptime: 17:50 - 18:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Yes.
Time since last proper sleep: 121h 10 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 15
Time since last oversleep: 75 hours 30 mins

I've somewhat recovered from that change in schedule now. I'm still tired, but situation has improved. Now I just have to motivate myself to exercise I and stuff. I planned this as off-day, but my productivity has been totally killed in a way I didn't intend to. Oh yeah, I finally had a REM that I remembered - I remembered the REM, not what happened in it. Frushtrating not to really recall stuff, but I knew I had dreamed.

I've been trying to watch a poker video, but I just keep nodding and nearly falling asleep. I stop for a moment and read bunch of other stuff - then back to the video and nodding. Watching passively seems to put me to sleep in these deeper stages of adaptation.

Day 5.6
Naptime: 21:50 - 22:10, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No.
Time since last proper sleep: 125h 10 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 16
Time since last oversleep: 79 hours 30 mins

Talk about zoning out. I've been watching the first half of ManU - Newcastle and I keep nodding. Short microsleeps I guess. Nothing bad, I can still reconstruct some kind of idea what happened during first half, but I still kept zoning out for many seconds every now and then. Half-time ought keep me activated enough to stay awake. I guess I should be keeping myself constantly activated even when watching some stuff.

It's kinda weird. I'm not super-tired, but if just passively watch something, I start doing that passing out routine. Like I have no trouble when I'm writing stuff etc. My eyes don't feel heavy or anything. I don't have a strong urge to got to bed. Even if I'd fall asleep I usually wake up when something happens in the game. It's hard to know what these kind of micro-sleeps do to your adaptation, but I guess I should be avoiding them. Therefore I'll be more active for the second half.

It worked.. But this day is just about done. See ya tomorrow.

sunnuntai 15. elokuuta 2010

Day Four - Still Feeling Too Good

Day 4.1
Naptime: 02:15 - 02:25, 10 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: Maybe
Time since last proper sleep: 81h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 5
Time since last oversleep: 36 hours

Well, that was supershort nap. I went to bed little early expecting that I'd take couple of minutes to fall asleep, instead I passed out probably within a minute and woke up very soon, perfectly refreshed. I don't remember, but I have a feeling that I had REM.

My current schedule works great compared to the last. Times are pretty much perfectly set. There's only two night naps - 2:20 one and 6:20 - or hell, by 6:20 there's already dawn. If you go by darkness the other night nap is the 22:20 one and I don't think I would oversleep on that. Everything is going so well now, it's amazing. I don't feel like I've been up pretty much 36 hours straight. Still the troubles should still be some way off so better not get too excited. It will get really hard. But I'm going to enjoy this clarity of mind and play some poker.

I had another pretty bad session of poker, but luck keeps me on winning ways. It won't last forever, though.

Day 4.2
Naptime: 06:20 - 06:40, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last proper sleep: 85h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 6
Time since last oversleep: 40 hours

I took a little gamble again and just laid around in the bed with blanket on. Luckily I stayed awake as there was little to avoid me sleeping for hours if I'd fallen asleep. I'm finally hitting the point where my physical inconfomt is starting to increase. It's just the start and it will escalate tonight and tomorrow. These days should be the worst of adjustment.

Alright, this is the first real tiredness strike. It's still 40 minutes before I can nap but I'm already all ready for bed. Gotta struggle through it.

Day 4.3
Naptime: 10:15 - 10:30, 15 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last proper sleep: 89h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 7
Time since last oversleep: 44 hours

I was tired, so I was in bed early. Therefore waking up full 10 minutes before alarm isn't that much of a surprise. But I'm still surprised how easy this is, that was fairly refreshing nap as well!

In terms of avoiding oversleeps, were very close to my personal best and in terms of succesful naps it's getting closer as well. But I haven't really hit a wall even once yet, that is amazing.

Today's Liverpool - Arsenal match is a little ankwardly timed, it starts 18:00 local time so I'd be sleeping 20th-40th minutes of the game. I'd like to shift it, but PureDoxyk's tips has scared me to not do it. According to her any shifting of schedule during adaptation kills the process. I have to say that I doubt that my napping so far has been adherent to the schedule. I mean, I've had so many under-lenght naps. How exactly can body even tell the difference? We'll see, but I'll believe her in the meantime - no shifting around.

Though that brings me to another shift. There might be still one soccer game left in the season, we'll decide on the basis if enough people come next wednesday. And it's 18:30. D'oh! I have to leave home earlier so that means at least 20 minutes of shifting and at the worst possible time. I will have been up of 120 hours straight if I can make it to then and it is supposed to be around the worst of the zombie-mode. But I have my priorities and I won't be skipping it, I might take the game easy but no skipping. If it adds day or two to my zombie mode, that sucks but I'll deal with it. And perhaps this will all look foolish when I oversleep tonight (I hope not). I'm kinda hoping it will be a rainy day, that way there's no need to even bother going to the pitch and I can nap on time (the forecasts are actually at the moment saying that it will rain).

Wow, tiredness is now creeping in and it's little over a hour after waking up. Now this is closer to my usual feelings, but still far from zombie-mode. Still, it has killed all of my productivity again. I'm just hanging around focusing on staying awake.

Day 4.4
Naptime: 14:20 - 14:40, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last proper sleep: 93h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 8
Time since last oversleep: 48 hours

I was extremely tired upon waking up but now that the initial grogginess is passed I'm feeling fine. No doubt that this is only temporary. I got tired soon, but now it has gotten better again. I'll do some exercising next.

I lost Day's 4.5 and 4.6 data because of blogger's saving fuck up, however I luckily remember them:
Day 4.5
Naptime: 18:20 - 18:40, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last proper sleep: 97h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 9
Time since last oversleep: 52 hours

Basic nap in the middle of the football match.

Day 4.6
Naptime: 22:20 - 22:40, 20 min
Mental: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tiredness: 0 1 2 3 4 5
REM: No
Time since last proper sleep: 101h 40 mins
Succesful naps in a row: 10
Time since last oversleep: 56 hours

I had written again something fucked up in the initial sleep inertia after waking up, I don't remember it exactly so it's a shame that it got deleted. It was hilarious though.

I feel like I'm picking up the pace. This was lower productivity day than previous days, but I'm still nowhere near zombie mode. I'm amazed, but still sure that the true test of character will come and it might come soon.