Nick: First Day, Nap & Night

It seems like Johnny and I both had pretty bad experiences with our first early evening nap. I stuck to my planned schedule and took my nap from 6:30 to 8:00pm tonight. I found myself laying on the couch drifting in and out of consciousness, but never fully falling asleep and entering the one sleep cycle that is the ultimate goal of this nap. Although I "woke up" very groggy after this 90 minute rest, it definitely did give me a bit of energy to keep me up through my night's activities.

Only 15 minutes left until the larger chunk of sleep for my night and I'm not even feeling too tired. Definitely exhausted and ready for the nap, but not too tired. So I'll be waking up at 6 and then spending my entire day tomorrow doing manual labor... we'll see how that works out! I'm expecting tomorrow and Sunday (the second and third days) to be the worst in this adaptation phase--when the lack of sleep starts catching up to me before my body is able to adapt to the new schedule. We'll see...

John: Second midnight

Ahh, the second midnight. I'm tired and I've got to stay up for two more hours. Why tired? Well, I didnt manage to get my nap. Since I was doing stuff tonight I decided to try and do the nap from 3:30 to 5 but I couldn't fall asleep. I did briefly go into a state of semi-consciousness that was very very strange. When I tried to do my nap I was sleeping on the floor again. For the next couple of days I am going to try to sleep my naps on the couch and my bigger sleep chunks on the floor.

Looking back on it, I had a lot of energy today. During school I worked well and was able to get stuff done. I came home and ran errands and didn't get sleepy or tired until about 2:30. I went home and did my want-to-be-nap and felt refreshed (just from lying down) until very close to midnight. All on three hours of sleep! I will keep you updated.

John/Nick: First Day, Afternoon

John: I'm feeling good. Today felt like a normal day except I was more awake in the morning. I did get a litte tired every once and a while throughout the day, but that wasn't anything too bad.

Nick: I'll go ahead and cover the morning as well in this post, as my internet wasn't working this morning so I wasn't able to comment. So my sleep last night: pretty terrible. I tossed and turned all night, but I was able to wake up naturally without the assistance of my alarm, making me think I completed at least one sleep cycle, but I doubt I got the two in. It wasn't very difficult to wake up, though, as I think I woke up right after the completion of that one sleep cycle. It basically felt like a normal day up until around 11:00am when I started to get pretty tired and now, at 1:44pm I'm pretty much burnt out. Definitely looking forward to my 90 minute nap at 6:30. Five more hours to go!

John: First Morning

Morning... I might have to redefine that. For now it will be the time that follows the 3 to 6 sleeping. Verdict so far? Well, last night was really good evidence in favor of the 90minute sleep cycle. I woke up after three hours of sleep feeling like I had been awake for an hour, completely alert. I went and took a shower like I normally do to wake myself up but I don't think that will be neccessary anymore. Energy? Yes, so far, feeling quite good.

I slept on the floor, with a blanket and a pillow. This is something I have done before, I like it for some reason. I'm not sure if I will be able to be as strict with my naps as Nick, so maybe he will serve as the control in our little experiment. Its 6:30 now and I have time to do stuff before school.

And about last night: For me it was actually pretty easy to stay up (not the case for Nick). The real problem is boredom. Nick and I now have stuff we can work on, but I imagine this would be a lot harder if we didn't.