Day 7:
This morning before my core sleep was pretty easy to ride out, the early hours of the morning no longer seeming to zombify me. I did have a couple of waves of nausia mind. After going to sleep at 3:30am, I woke up at 8:00am naturally without the use of my alarm, though I don't think I've ever found it so hard to drag myself out of bed before. I was feeling awake by the end of the first hour though.
Today I've felt generally normal, bar the odd wave of sleepiness. I've also noticed that the mood swings I was having earlier in the week leading up to my nap times have pretty much diminished. I really feel like I'm stabilizing.
I managed to have my first nap today at 1:30pm, and for the first time all week during that particular nap I managed to fall into a light sleep. It did, however, leave me feeling alert and awake leading all the way up to my second nap at 9:30pm, meaning that during my second nap I couldn't manage more than an extended micro-sleep.
Either way, I feel pretty pleased with my progress. I'll be incredibly happy when the day finally comes where I fall asleep in both naps throughout the day.
As a side note, I've developed a sort of meditation technique to help me fall to sleep. I'll concentrate on the rate of my breathing, aiming to bring my heartbeat right down. I'll count my breaths all the way up to ten before starting over again, then again, and again. Whilst doing that I'll visualize every breath as a different color and visualize it entering and leaving my body like a cloud. Along with the iso-chronic tones, it's an extraordinarily effective way of clearing my mind of all thoughts, distracting or otherwise.
Back to the original point, due to most the days begining to blur into one I don't think I'm going to be updating this log for at most another week or so. I think I may do a mid-week post though, like on day 10. Until then.
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