Polyphasic Sleep Log: Day 3

Saturday was Day 3. Most of the day went really well. I was a little sleepy first thing in the morning, but once everyone else woke up, I was fine. We were going to do some painting, but my nap schedule came at the moment of truth. "Should we paint, or not?" then I said "I've gotta get my nap." "Ok, we'll paint another time."

My 11:30 nap was beautiful. I was able to go in a room, lay down, and wrap a pillow around my head to keep out any extra noise. I fell asleep easily and woke up refreshed. I can pretty much count on knowing it's nap time, without having to look at the clock, based on the way I feel. When I start getting a little tired, I can bet it's close to nap time.

I don't remember now if it was my 11am nap or my 4pm nap that was pretty amazing. I set my alarm for 25min and fell right to sleep. I woke up on my own and checked the alarm. Only about 15 minutes had passed. I briefly considered trying to sleep for the extra 10 minutes, but remembered reading that oversleeping leads to grogginess, so decided that my body woke up, so I got up.

9pm nap took a few minutes to fall asleep. That's been my trouble spot. For some reason it takes a few minutes longer for me to fall asleep. I don't know if I'm worried about the kids getting to sleep and my mind loses focus, or what. I did fall asleep but when the alarm went off I felt like I didn't get enough sleep. Again, the thought that oversleeping can cause problems, I got up anyway. I was tired for a lot of my awake time, but didn't have a problem staying up until my core sleep time.

So, I decided to really try the 3 hour core sleep instead of 4 1/2. I set my alarm for 3 hours, but ended up sleeping for 4 hours. I vaguely remember my alarm going off, but not much else. I woke up at the 4 hour mark on my own. I was going to go back to sleep to get my extra half an hour, but decided to get up. Being woken up in the middle of a sleep phase didn't work as well as naturally waking up.

Just like yesterday morning. I am actually pretty tired right now. It's still before sunrise, so again, I think once the sun comes up I will be fine. I'm still not over the hump.

I am still toying with my schedule, wondering if I should move sleep times around a little. I'm still going to stick with it for a while.