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    this is hard 3 years ago

    I tried, I couldn’t keep it up. I like to think not because I was getting inadequate rest, but rather because it completely destroyed my social life.



    tarunur is a Spiritual Reinventing Builder

    I've been doing this for two weeks now 3 years ago
    I’m starting on my last week, and then it’s back to a regular schedule for a bit. I’ve learned a few important things:
    1. Do your naps on time, every time.
    2. Don’t snooze the alarm; that misses the point.
    3. You can expect to be in a daze at least some of the “regained” time.
    4. My eyes get all gummed up and irritated when I do this. It’s as though I’m not really generating enough tears to keep them wet. I may need to consider eyedrops if I were to do this long-term.
    5. Spending the “regained” time all on 43T also misses the point :(


    tarunur is a Spiritual Reinventing Builder

    Well, the dreams were nice 3 years ago

    I can’t recall actually dreaming in a while now – so that was probably good for me – but 7 hours? And I was doing so well! I didn’t really feel deeply tired or anything. Now I feel like a zombie (which means, of course, that I’ve actually been a zombie before, or I wouldn’t know how it feels to be one). It wasn’t really my fault, though. My PDA’s alarms don’t go off if the battery gets too low; I just don’t know how low that is. When I turned it on, the alarm that should have gone off several hours ago went off. The battery was at 21%, which I don’t think is unreasonable. I guess I need to swap batteries more often when I’m using it as heavily as I am right now. And I guess I’m also glad that happened at home, at night, rather than at work and in the daytime. But it’s time to punish the PDA so that doesn’t happen again.



    tarunur is a Spiritual Reinventing Builder

    Crashed again, worse this time 3 years ago

    I just slept 7 hours. I remember hearing my alarm go off, and turning it off (one side effect of this whole project is that I have been able to avoid the snooze button and just get up on the first ring), laying back down “for just a moment” and then waking up when it was already light out.

    Ah, well. My napping yesterday was seriously bad – my two-year-old is not on the same schedule and thinks it’s amusing to do belly-flops on people who are trying to sleep. So after getting very broken sleep on the majority of my naps yesterday, I probably needed it.



    tarunur is a Spiritual Reinventing Builder

    Crashed 3 years ago

    I missed a nap yesterday afternoon, and got progressively more tired. I overslept on the last one by two and a half hours! No matter; I’ll pick up where I left off and keep trying.



    tarunur is a Spiritual Reinventing Builder

    This could be dangerous 3 years ago

    Day 3. OMG, this sucks. Why can’t I just stick knives in my eyes or douse myself in gasoline like an ordinary person? I missed a nap yesterday afternoon, and I hadn’t really been sleeping on any of them prior to that (I’m something of an insomniac anyway, but that doesn’t mean missing sleep is good). I’m sleeping now, but it’s a dead sleep, not REM, and I’m still not dropping off right away (I think that’s about to change). And the caffeine headaches aren’t helping either. A nice little drive, and I’ll probably be out. The thing is, I’ve got a 1-hour commute between here and work. If a car flies off the road at 75 miles an hour and wraps itself around a tree in a huge fireball, but there is no one there to hear it, does it still make a sound? Is dying stupidly an acceptable risk?



    tarunur is a Spiritual Reinventing Builder

    Don't know what to do with all the time. 3 years ago

    I went ahead and started this, beginning naps and reducing sleep by an hour a night. Today was day 1. I feel fine – my brain feels a bit like it has a stuffy nose – but I gained back a whole hour this evening. Suddenly an hour seems like a very long time. I’ve already finished all the things I would do in an ordinary day. So what do I do now? I have an hour to myself and nobody to spend it with, plus I’m not terribly far behind on the other things I’m doing right now. It’s just weird.



    tarunur is a Spiritual Reinventing Builder

    It will take time to get there 4 years ago
    Good gods, Claudio Stampi’s book is expensive! But I know I would need a little more guidance and insight to start. I made the mistake of trying this the week before finals one year, and wound up sleeping for something like a day and a half before swapping back to a monophasic schedule. So I need:
    1. A couple of weeks off to get started
    2. A job that would accommodate time for scheduled 30-minute naps
    3. Aforesaid job to accommodate space for the same (nothing quite like co-workers waking you up all the time by switching on the lights)
    4. Patience
    5. US$155 if I actually want to read Why We Nap.



     

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