I wasn't able to post this morning as I had a Doctor's appointment and, well, decided to leave it until after my afternoon nap. So yesterday's afternoon was pretty disappointing, I probably slept more than the day before but it was still pretty poor in terms of sleep quality. I was left feeling exhausted by the night and almost fell asleep early again. I managed to wait though.
I fell asleep at about 11:05pm and once again my alarm didn't wake me till 1am, consequently giving me 2 hours of sleep. I woke up with the most awful sleep inertia. I was fighting against the most primal urge to sleep for at least two hours. I was incapable of doing anything, I couldn't even find the willpower to exercise it off, I just ended up staring at the wall standing up for about 15 minutes before giving up. I can't actually remember what I did during those two hours, but I remember beginning to wake up at about 3:00am. I was ok from there on and watched Supernatural all morning and talked to a few Mexican friends for a while before my morning nap. That is one of the most awesome benefits so far, being able to talk to friends and family on the other side of the world who I haven't properly talked to in months due to the timing differences.
From now on for my night nap I'm going to try and sleep 1.5 hours instead of 2 to see if that prevents the sleep inertia. Otherwise, come morning I decided to go to sleep at 5:45am, but it was pretty restless, and although I was in bed for 2.5 hours I probably only slept about 1.5 hours of that. I was okay upon waking though. Again, I remember plenty of dreams and am really appreciating my morning nap the most. After having my deep sleep in the night it feels extremely complementing and restful.
Now, today I had my best afternoon nap of all time. I went to bed at 3:15pm and fell asleep within 10 minutes, waking up naturally about 40 minutes later wondering where on earth I was, completely devoid of any notion of perception. Once I completely came to and realized where I was I felt like I'd been asleep for hours.From the get go I had been completely unconscious. Here's the graph:
As can be seen it was extremely restful. I have yet to figure out the sleep stages ratio, but if I had to guess I would say that I cycled through about 15 minutes of stage 2 sleep either side with about 10 minutes of deep sleep somewhere in the middle there. I don't remember dreaming. I woke up about half an hour before my alarm feeling completely awake. No sleep inertia whatsoever. I feel absolutely amazing. My sister says she came in whilst I was sleeping and she said I was breathing so heavy it sounded like I was dying. My guess is that I had mostly four hours worth of stage 2 sleep compressed into those 40 minutes.
I have noticed somewhat of a pattern here though. I've noticed that my naps are ten times better if I involve myself in any type of exercise about half way through my wake cycle. So from now on I think that's what I'll do.
So far I absolutely love this. Best schedule ever. I feel completely rested, and it's true what they say about there being virtually no adaption time.
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