Biphasic Sleep Log - Day 2

Morning

I awoke this morning at about 3am, after 4.5 hours of sleep, and felt pretty good. It was easy to get out of bed so I must have timed the sleep cycle right and hit the sweet spot.

Shortly after waking I felt fantastic. I love the morning - it is so productive to be hard at it when everybody else is still sleeping.

I started to get a little tired after a couple of hours but it was nothing overwhelming, just back-of-the-eyes kind of tiredness.

At around 5am I took off for the gym. I ran 3.5 miles on the treadmill, hit the showers, and headed home. --> Same adrenaline high as usual after the workout, despite the lack of sleep the last two days and the early morning workout. When I left the gym, and for a couple of hours afterward I felt pretty great.

Tiredness from about 10am-12pm. Not too bad, I can just tell I didn't sleep long last night. Looking forward to that nap!


Afternoon

My nap today came about 3pm - 4:45pm.

I got the office cot set up - pad, pillow, blanket, I'm not making the same mistake as yesterday! Believe it or not, I also got some ear plugs to completely block out household noise.

I set the alarm for 15 minutes past my 90 minute nap length to give a little time to fall asleep. Apparently I didn't need it because I woke up naturally at about 4:25. But... since I had 20 minutes left, I didn't know whether to get up or go back to sleep. Usually when I have any kind of "get up/sleep" battle in my head when I'm tired - the "sleep" option wins. So, I fell back asleep and was awoken by my vibrating alarm at 4:45 feeling quite groggy and out of it. I even considered for a brief moment going back to sleep for another cycle... (glad I didn't)

So, it took me a few minutes to get going, get the cot put away and get back online.

But now, about an hour later, I feel fantastic. Very alert and focused. I think if I can force myself to get used to jumping out of bed instead of lingering that this is going to work out very well for me.