So last night I had two thirty minute naps at 10:30pm and 12:00am. I didn't really feel tired till my core at 4:30am so I left it till then. Well that may have been a bad idea as I had my first blackout today. I assume I awoke to my alarm at 6:00am because the only thing I remember is waking at 8:00am naturally with no earplugs in or sleeping mask on. Initially before realizing any of this I thought I'd overslept but that was impossible because my alarm is set to vibrate infinitely until I wake up and turn it off. And it wasn't vibrating. Plus when I looked at my sleep graph it had apparently stopped recording at 6:00am, so I must have turned it off. Everything points to me waking up, going through the motions, and then accidentally blacking out so fast that I don't even remember anything. Very weird indeed.
After looking at my sleep graph I noticed that at the half an hour mark I had REM on my core sleep, which I guess was only confusing my body with the two different times. So I've decided to skip the core sleep and just go full on spamayl. I think this would probably be easier not to oversleep on due to it being quite short. I just have to make sure I get a couple more naps in the nights, at least for the first couple of weeks. Just in case I oversleep or have anymore blackouts or whatever, I've decided to have multiple alarms from the 4:30am nap onwards, separated by a couple of minutes each. I have no trouble sleeping for short periods of time at night, unlike most people, and tend to have a problem waking up for my morning sleeps instead.
So last night I had 4hrs of sleep altogether. Fast forward 7.5hrs. I've been feeling good all morning, and just had a 30min afternoon nap. I tend to feel more tired after my afternoon nap though and I've finally come up with a hypothesis as to why. It's probably because I get almost next to no stage 2 sleep at night anymore, meaning come afternoon, my nap is the perfect place to be enriched with stage 2 sleep. That's also probably why I get the urge to just sleep and sleep and sleep till the evening. As seen previously, I can easily stay in bed for 2hrs in the afternoon, lazing in and out of sleep. I have to realize that this is pointless on this schedule, and that if I still feel tired upon waking I can always wait 40mins before having another 30mins sleep as a back to back. I feel okay now though.
I may have a nap pre-8pm, but I'm thinking it's probably not a good idea. Although with this schedule I don't have to go to sleep at any certain time, I'd still like my first nap to be between 10 and 11pm, just as for now I'd rather keep a nap at 4:30am for convenience purposes. This may change over time though if I manage to successfully work the schedule. So here's luck for my first day tonight starting the true spamayl schedule.
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