Polyphasic Sleep Log: Day 2

My initial intent was to get a 3 hour core sleep in, but my wife and I talked a little about it and I ended up getting 4 1/2 hours of core sleep. I am trying to keep it in 90 minute increments, to get a full sleep cycle in. I set my alarm for a 3 hour sleep phase, but I ended up resetting it for that extra 90 minutes.

I woke up at about 6. It gave me plenty of time to study some scriptures and have an easy morning before getting the kids up at 7 for school. Felt fine all morning. No problems at all.

At about 11:30 I went into the same dark unused classroom that I had used the day before. I actually had a hard time falling asleep. I think that I was worried that someone would come in and wonder why I was sleeping on the floor at work, and that kept me up. I could hear people outside from time to time and it tensed me up because I wasn't sure if they were headed towards the room I was in. Then, sure enough, a co-worker came into the room and I had to get up and explain that I was taking a nap. Then, after laying down again for a few minutes, my Blackberry buzzed me because of an incoming e-mail. I'm using the Blackberry as my alarm clock, so I can't tell the difference between an e-mail buzz and an alarm buzz without turning it on and checking it. So I tried to reset my 20 minutes, but a little after that I got a phone call on the Blackberry, causing another buzz disturbance. I don't think I got much more than 5 minutes of sleep, but again 30-35 minutes of laying down time. I learned... TURN OFF the communications to the Blackberry during nap times.

at about 3:30pm I went down for my afternoon nap. I turned off the Blackberry's radio antenna. I can't turn the whole thing off because it's my alarm clock. This time I decided to sleep in my car to make sure I didn't have to deal with anyone at work disturbing my sleep. After laying and having a somewhat hard time falling asleep again, my phone buzzed me. It wasn't the alarm clock though, it was a calendar reminder! Doh! I reset my 20 min, but probably only got about 10 minutes of sleep before it was time to get up. I thought about resetting my time again, but decided not to.

9pm nap with the kids was the same as last night. I couldn't get to sleep. Usually I can fall asleep through anything, but I had a hard time. Dealing with the kids made me reset my time twice. I figure I layed there for about 40 minutes and maybe dozed off for 5-10 minutes of it. I've got to get a situation where my naps work.

Getting past midnight and closer to my 1am core sleep time, I was getting pretty yawny and tired, but I was able to stay engaged in things until 1am and then get to sleep fairly easily. I was woken up twice by kids during this phase. I was able to fall back to sleep easily, but still ended up extending my 3 hours into a 4 1/2 hour core sleep.

Now I am blogging this, and feeling pretty tired. The sun is coming up now, so it should help me wake up more. I am thinking this is the hump that I have to get over. Hopefully it's a little hump of 1 or 2 days and not 1 week.