Biphasic Sleep Log - Day 3

Morning


Wow - what a terrible night of sleep! Expecting 4 1/2 hours of sleep (ie, not very much), and not yet fully trusting my alarm, I woke up after two hours of sleep, feeling like it was 4. I saw that it was only 12pm, so I went back to sleep. But I proceeded to wake up about every 1/2 hour after that.


When the alarm finally went off at 2:30am... it was a very unwelcome sound.


But I managed to drag myself out of bed anyway.


I couldn't shake the sleepiness all morning long. My sick son woke up about 5:30am and I sat in his room, rocking him back to sleep. That dark room was just too much for me! Couldn't stay awake. Once he was back down, I went upstairs and crawled back into bed for another hour and a half.


When I woke up at 7:30, I felt fine. No more sleepiness. In fact, I felt fine all the way till my afternoon nap.



Afternoon


My family was gone today, so I had the awesome luxury of napping in my own comfy bed. Fell asleep, woke up refreshed. Felt great all afternoon and evening.





Either the lack of sleep caught up with me this morning, or when I have bad sleep I'm going to follow it with a bad day.


My gut instinct tells me that this was due to bad sleep last night...


I'm not following this crazy routine to be sleepy and "adjust" for a week. I'm following it because the two sleep periods let me cut down slightly and be more productive without crashing hard. If I have a bad night of sleep, I'll probably always feel the need to make up for it with a little more quality sleep time. The hour an a half lost is way better than a whole day of being a zombie.


Tonight, when I go to bed, I'll just trust that my alarm is set and will wake me up (or not). But one thing is for sure - no longer will I wake up just to check and see how much time I have left! With this little sleep, I need to make the most of what I'm getting!


Tomorrow is Saturday. The first weekend that I will have an altered sleep schedule. This will be a real test - because my schedule is not as controlled on the weekends. Well, that's not true - it is controlled. Just, not by me - by my wife.

That means it may be hard to find a 90 minute block of time to fit a nap in. I don't know if this schedule will be possible having traditional sleep on the weekends and biphasic sleep during the week.

So, I'll do my best to maintain the biphasic schedule and find some nap time in the afternoon like usual.