Day 5: Uh oh

The 10am, 2pm, and 6pm, 10pm naps went pretty much as planned except for sleeping light, but I started dreaming a little. Good signs for coming REM sleep.

It's beginning to be that without even looking at a clock I can tell when my next nap is coming up. I hadn't looked at a clock since my 10am nap ended, and then I ate food and played in the surf. As 1:45 rolled around my body says "It's time". I hadn't remembered to keep an eye on the time and was glad that happened then instead of 2:30 or something.

The 2am nap had trouble. My alarm went off at 2:20am as usual, and I shut it off and fell back asleep. I don't remember turning it off, but I don't think it was playing continually either. I slept until the 6:20am alarm and then got out my computer to blog about falling asleep (I usually write the post between 10pm and 6am and I hadn't yet) and ended up falling asleep while sitting up until 7:30. Great.

A few problems. Usually what I do after waking up is walk around or something physical to make me wake all the way up. Last night I don't think I did that. Also, I've only been using my phone for an alarm, which works fine during the day, but I may need a back up for the night sessions.

I don't know much about how a night of sleeping in affects the following days, but it can't be good. I'll stick to the schedule and see how much it takes to overcome this. If I schedule out what I should do physically for 30 minutes after the nap and follow that for a few nights then it may help. I guess I've found "the wall" that people talk about and I had been missing thus far.

A word of warning is that if the naps leading into the night are not full and deep sleep, make sure to take that into account as a signal of upcoming oversleeps. Set extra alarms, lights, chant "I will not over sleep before bedding down, whatever. Puredoxyk's book has a lot of tips that I should revisit, having only skimmed over them the first time as I thought "I just won't oversleep."

;hunter