Hello, World!

Well it's been 8 days since my last post on Eyecrust (It's now Day 18 of the experiment, I believe). Not much has changed.. I went on a snowboarding trip this past weekend so I got much more sleep than normal (some intentional, some accidental) so I would have enough energy to snowboard. As I said, some accidental: I went to sleep at 9:00pm on Thursday night (first night of the trip), my friend was supposed to wake me up at 10:30... he fell asleep while watching a movie... I woke up the following morning. Just about 11 1/2 hours of sleep that night. Could this be linked to Johnny's "reboot?" I also said some intentional: the two following nights I went to bed at 1:30, waking at roughly 7:30. That's 4 complete cycles. Gave me plenty of energy for snowboarding but made napping in the evening rather difficult.

So, due to last weekend, I'm still not fully adjusted to the sleep schedule.. I need to stick to my schedule for a longer period of time so my body can become fully adapted. I shouldn't have any interruptions to my schedule for the next couple weeks, so, providing I don't mess up accidentally, I should have enough time to become fully adapted.

Just to clarify.. When I say I'm not fully adapted, this doesn't mean I'm still incredibly tired during the day--cause that's not the case. Although I do feel rather tired throughout my days, it's nothing I can't overcome with some eye-rubbing and cold-water-splashing. I'm getting by.

John: The End of the World!

Almost. Last night's nap turned into a 12 hour sleep-o-rama. How? I can't tell you, I've got no idea. If I did this on purpose this would be called a reboot. A reboot is when someone sleeps for as long as they can every couple weeks while doing a biphasic sleep pattern.

Otherwise I've been doing very well. I went roughly three days before that without even needing an alarm clock, which felt really good. (I still set my alarm clock, but usually woke up minutes before it went off)

I've noticed that I have naturally fallen into that eating pattern I set up. Delicious.

John: Getting there! (13)

Today I woke up without an alarm at 5:45. I think I feel asleep something like 2:50 last night so that is two cycles, assuming mine are 87 minutes if I did the math right. I went to sleep a little earlier last night because I was thinking that my cycles might be longer than 90 minutes, turns out they aren't. Excellent.

Tomorrow is the two week mark, that is exciting. We will probably stop tagging the day numbers then.

John: Food/Nutrition Plan

I've read some stuff about polyphasic and it said it is better to eat smaller meals more often. I've been kind of confused about when and what to eat since I started this but it does seem more natural to eat throughout the day, more like animals. I've started devising a plan that will hopefully help me eat healthier.

Sleep: 3-6
Breakfast (6:20-7:30a): A bagel and maybe tea
First lunch (9-12): A sandwich probably
Second lunch (12-4p): Apple and maybe a bagel

Nap: 5-6:30
Dinner (7-8p): Dinner with family, small portion
Tea (10-11): Tea and maybe an apple
Supper (12-2a): Eggs? Grilled cheese?

This does sound like a lot of food but the portions would be small and I am awake quite a lot during the day. I'm going to stop doing fast food during the week.

John: 12

I woke up at six today. My normal alarm went of and didnt do anything then my cell phone went off and actually woke me up. I'll be using that from now on. I slept in warm clothes without a blanket so I had no reason to jump back in bed. I called Nick up and he was either awake or I woke him up.

Feels good.

John: Wack nap

So I woke up from my nap at seven. At first I thought this was a bad thing but then I realized that I didn't really fall asleep till 5:30, so this was an even hour and a half. I woke up and left the room and, upon reentering, noticed that my alarm was going off. This means that my alarm clock is dying and that I woke up naturally, kinda.

Mixed news, I guess.

Nick: I Don't Get It

I woke up this morning at 6am. Got out of bed. Turned off my alarm. Was awake... Then I woke up again at 9am. I don't get it. I don't remember getting back into bad and going back to sleep but I clearly remember being awake at 6. Johnny and I both slept til 9 today (I called him and woke him up when I finally got up). We need to stop this!

Nick: Tenth Day

I'm going to start this post with yesterday's nap. Since I allowed myself 90 minutes extra nap on Friday night and I moved my nap 90 minutes earlier yesterday (to accommodate plans), I found myself laying in bed for the majority of my nap not being able to fall asleep. Johnny reports I did fall asleep for some of it as he heard me snoring, but I swear I was awake the whole time. So I fell asleep nicely last night at 3am.

Johnny and I woke up this morning at 6am, sat around until 7:30 (my internet was down so there wasn't much to do...), and then Johnny left. After he left, I ended up crawling back into bed and sleeping until 10am (dammit!). I really need to cut this out.. no more oversleeping. In order for this schedule to start fully working I have to force my body to adapt.. and oversleeping isn't helping. So I wasn't able to nap very well this afternoon either since I got so much sleep last night.

Tonight I will sleep from 3-6 and ONLY until 6. I plan to wake up and wash my car. Hopefully this works out.

John: Big Number 10!

So yesterday I ended up skipping my nap, not because I didn't have time but because I couldn't fall asleep. I slept the normal 3-6 without any problems except a little groggyness in the morning. I feel pretty normal right now but I am looking forward to my nap.

Kevin: 80:8

I didn't sleep again last night. I feel a lot better today than the morning after I stayed up all night 2 nights ago. In the last 80 or so hours, I've only gotten around 8 hours of sleep. But other than slightly blurry vision and an auditory hallucination here and there, I seem to be functioning properly. The every-other-daysic sleep schedule is working better than I would have expected. However, I would not recommend this sleep pattern to anyone. If it is totally necessary, it seems that the body is capable of sustaining on the utmost minimum amount of sleep, for short periods of time at least. I am tempted to keep this pattern up and see what happens, but with finals and a ski trip coming up, I am concerned that I will become highly susceptible to sickness, which would be a big bummer for the ski trip. I guess it might also suck for finals, but mainly for the ski trip.

Nick: Ninth Day

I gave myself an extra sleep cycle this morning (3am-7:30am). I was feeling real tired yesterday and now I feel much better thanks to a little extra sleep. I should still be tired enough to fall asleep this evening too (although this evening I will be napping from 5:00-6:30 so Johnny and I can make it to our 7:30 plans in time.. +1:30 in the morning and -1:30 in the evening. We'll see.).

John: What?!

So it's 10:15 and I just woke up. My alarm was set for 5:25 (I tried to move the 3-6 portion forward 30 minutes or so, turns out that didn't work) on both my cell phone and normal alarm clock. I don't remember turning either one off. Let's see if this messes everything up. I read about some other people who did this and they said they would give themselves a couple extra cycles on the weekends, kinda like sleeping in. Maybe this will just be like that. This was three extra cycles, two if you count the one I missed on friday.

Good news: I do feel energized. The only problem is that I don't know if I'll be able to fall asleep for the nap this evening. Also (relatively) good news: This was probably the best time I could have over slept because it was a weekend and the only plans I had were with Nick.

Nick: Eighth Day

Today was a very exhausting day. I didn't even do much to warrant exhaustion, I've just been feeling pretty lousy all day today. Even after my nap (I did feel good for a little bit) I started to feel tired again around 10:30. I'm looking forward to sleeping in 40 minutes.

John: Bastards!

Doorbell disasters dominated my dormir. Dammit!

This morning was good but this afternoon wasn't. My nap was interrupted 45 minutes in, waking me up and making it impossible to go back to sleep. Depending on how I feel tonight I might try to make it up tonight.

Nick: Seventh Day, Nap

My naps are starting to be awesome. Although I do still feel a bit tired all day, it really starts to hit me between 5 and 6, just in time for my nap at 6:30. And when I awake at 8 I am good to go for the rest of my waking hours.

Kevin: No Phase, 38 Waking Hours

It's now been about 38 hours since I'v gotten any form of shut-eye. I had a big cup of coffee at around 7am, but I still felt groggy all day. However, after 5pm I started feeling better. It is now 9:26 and if I didn't know I had stayed up all night last night, I wouldn't have guessed it. Hopefully I'll be able to get to sleep easily tonight. I don't feel tired in the least. My guess is that tomorrow morning will suck. A lot.

John: Seventh Day, Bad Streak

I'm bad at this. Today was my third or fourth consecutive time sleeping in on the 3-6 portion. Dammit!

Other than that I've been doing well: nap works out well, falling asleep quickly, feeling energized throughout the day. I will be brainstorming about different ways to make sure I wake up.

Nick: Seventh Day, Morning

The weirdest thing just happened. I woke up a couple minutes ago around 6:05am. I looked at the clock and saw that it was 6 and immediately assumed it was 6pm and my clock had somehow been set two hours behind (I thought I was waking up from my early evening nap, not my 3 hour chunk of sleep). I was confused until just a moment ago who I realized what was actually going on.

I have been sleeping pretty well.. Falling asleep within 15 minutes of getting into bed. I'm going to go get in the shower right now, I'll report on how I feel today later.

Kevin: No Phase

I couldn't sleep tonight. I stayed up until 2 studying. I laid awake in bed for about an hour and a half, and at around 3:30am I decided that I would just be teasing myself with 3 hours of sleep, so I gave up trying. As I am still on a monophasic sleep cycle, this was my 1 shot at sleep for today, and I missed it. Oh well, we'll see at school today how well a nophasic sleep day goes. Hopefully I'll get a nap in later today.

Nick: Sixth Day

I fell victim to the exact same trap Johnny did this morning. "I can lay down in bed for a couple more minutes.. I won't fall asleep." Bleh! 45 minutes, just like Johnny. This is the first time I've messed up in the past 4 days though, and it's only 45 minutes so I should be good.

I've been feeling significantly better day by day. Less tired, less zombie, more alive. I'm really starting to enjoy my early evening nap. Before I would wake up feeling confused and groggy but now I'm starting to wake up feeling refreshed and ready for 7 hours of uptime. It's starting to look pretty good, maybe we'll achieve our goal of being adjusted (for the most part at least) by this coming weekend.