Spamayl w/Core - Day 1

Today was my first attempt at the SPAMAYL based schedule that I wrote about yesterday. Last night I slept half an hour at:
-10:30pm
-11:40pm
-1:00am
They were half an hour long because even though I gave my smart alarm a 15 minute period to wake me up in for some reason it always woke me at the 30min mark, which I'll now be changing to 25 minutes.

I have to say though that sleeping like this was really interesting. I had a second nap soon after the first because I was feeling quite groggy. I noticed that upon waking from the second nap I felt much more awake. Falling asleep was no problem. When I awoke overtime I felt like I'd slept forever. I don't really understand how sleeping less more frequently feels better than sleeping more less frequently, but it does. My third nap I took because I was bored. Now that was a blessing, not having to wait up pointlessly for my next scheduled sleep. I awoke alert from a vivid dream on that nap, which pleased me to no end. Already I'm seeing benefits.

I noticed I got really tired at about 3am though, which doesn't usually happen. I decided not to have another nap though because I wanted to be tired enough to fall asleep for my core. I ended up having a ton of micro-naps. Come 4:30am I fell asleep straight away for my nap. The entire last hour was REM, although I don't remember it because I woke a little late at 6:20am just as I was falling back into deep sleep.

Now. I ended up oversleeping. I haven't woken up before 7am in over six weeks so of course the first thing I would do is look at the clock and think, omg. Why. Even though I felt awake enough I decided to just go back to sleep and have a normal three hour core and wake at 7:30am instead. So it figures that I forgot to set my alarm and I woke naturally at 8:30am drenched in sweat. Somehow that always seems to happen, and although whenever I oversleep I never have my sleep graph running, it seems like I got straight back into deep sleep for that hour before waking.

So altogether I actually slept about 6hrs. I'm not too bothered though, I felt like that sleep in was due for a long time, and is a good way of feeling rested when about to attempt another extreme schedule. I didn't feel awful when waking either because it was all taken in parts. In future though I'll probably just have a nap an hour after waking for some more REM. All in all over the first three naps and 90minute core I recorded, I had about 2hrs of deep sleep, an hour of REM, and twenty minutes of light sleep. Of course then I accidentally slept an extra 2hrs so it was probably more than that in total.

I had a tired period a couple of hours ago and so decided to prepare by having an afternoon nap. I had about 10 to 15 minutes of light sleep. I may refrain from having an evening nap though, even if I'm tired because I've already slept so much, and sometimes it can still take me up to half an hour to fall asleep at night if I'm already so well rested.

So concludes my weird first day of a SPAMAYL type schedule.

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