Biphasic Sleep Log - Day 8

I skipped a few days, because it was just more of the same. In fact, this is all starting to become quite routine. Which is nice.

Here is my usual day:
* I wake early, it takes a few minutes to feel alert. It's hard to hit my sleep cycle just right yet so some mornings are harder to crawl out of bed than others...
* I have an extremely productive morning, get an early workout in (on workout days)
* I get to hang with my fam for a little longer than usual
* I start to get physically tired in the early afternoon, but my mental capacity doesn't seem to fall-off
* I take an afternoon nap, and it takes a few moments to feel alert (but not as bad as the longer night sleep)
* I feel fantastic the rest of the day
* I get tired right before bedtime at night

One thing of note for Day 8. Usually during the week I can control my own schedule. But today I had an early afternoon meeting that would go right through my normal nap time. So I decided to take my nap in the late morning instead of mid-afternoon.

I usually nap from around 1:30-3pm. Or 2-3:30pm. Sometimes a little bit earlier, sometimes a little bit later - all depending on how I feel and how busy I am.

Today I took my nap at 10:45-12:15pm. I didn't have too much problem getting to sleep. But I woke frequently, wondering if it was close to time to get up (because I didn't want to be late to my meeting). I was also woken by my phone once (note to self: turn that damn thing off when you go to sleep). So the result was not a very good nap!

So between an early nap time and poor sleep, I turned into a zombie around 8pm. I usually go about 8 hours between nap and nighttime sleep - and I start to feel tired right before bed. But time, 8 hours after my nap I seriously turned into a zombie (and still had a few hours till bedtime).


Moral of the story? Couple of things:
1. Try to keep the nap time in the early afternoon if possible.
2. If not possible, don't schedule anything immediately after the nap.
3. Anytime I change the schedule or do something new, the first sleep session will be poor.