Polynapping, days 12-14
Day 12.2005.12.29 - After reading Men's Journal article and remembering my nap duration experience, I've decided to push the experiment further.
During daytime I'll sleep a 10-20 min mini-nap. At nighttime I'll have full 30-minute naps. So far, as my 11-day experience shows, it matches my body preferences.
Day 13. 2005.12.30
Used mininaps througout the night couple times - excellent refreshing effect. But the 04:00-07:00 period remains the damned dirty-gray dog-watch area when eyes just shut down. Only physical activity helps, which I can't get enough since it's quite cold outside - and how much you can do at home besides cooking and cleaning?
So, I've had a standard 25-minute nap at 02:00 (planned) and at 04:30 (optional). Then I'd mininapped at 05:10 due to eyes shutting down. It was amazing: just 5 minutes of music relaxation - and voila. Will use that definitely.
Taken planned 06:00 nap. While I could have been out of the bad at 06:25, I didn't. Familiar "just another minute of sleep" mantra. Will meditate on that - is that just my psychological limitation or it's a real and grounded body request (and if there's the difference between two). Perhaps I should just call it a "core sleep", relax and enjoy? ;)
While the rest of the day was pretty usual, I've overslept the 22:00 nap. Well.. If one can describe a 13hr hibernation as an "oversleep" :)
Day 14. 2005.12.31
After I woke up midday - at 11:30 - I've rediscovered all "merits" of my "normal" sleeping schedule: a headache, general slowlyness, no energy and desire to do anything. Definitely not what I'd sign for.
Nevertheless, it's New Year evening day - a day we celebrate with the same ceremony the western countries celebrate the Christmas... So it would be a hard day anyway.
One of possible reasons of my massive oversleep may be my stress the day before (faced a difficult decision to make about multi-$K project). So the body just decided to wrap it up and fix this and everything.
posted by Unknown @ 11:50 PM
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