Everyman Schedule - Day 4

Yes, I know, it’s dissapointing…

Let me go back in time and explain to you what happened:

Yesterday around 1pm, I went to take my nap as usual, and did take a really good nap, I fell into REM sleep for about 9 minutes, I caught myself on camera to actually realize my eyes were moving etc…

I survived the whole afternoon without any problems as usual, until my 6pm nap, I went to take my nap, set my alarm clock, but I set it about 4 minutes late. I took a 22 minute nap, in which I fell asleep for 21. I woke up after it feeling rested, but I guess I was already falling into deep sleep. Instead of getting up, I kind of laid there in bed, conscious, but not really awake. I eventually fell back to sleep an overslept for 1h30.

I can’t really describe the state I was in when waking up from that 2h nap, I guess the entire 3-day sleep-derivation caught up with me and hit me in the back. Really, I had never felt so fucked, this is really the worst awake state ever. The idea of quitting crossed my mind so many times but after 2 or 3 hours, I managed to come back to my “awake but only sleep-deprived” state in which I’ve been in for days. I watched a couple shows, called my sister, and basically went to sleep around 1.

Maybe it doesn’t come to you as a shock as much as it does to me but I was still in deep sleep the moment I woke up, that’s about 70 minutes of SWS. I don’t really remember waking up this morning, but I most certainly did, I turned of both alarms and went straight back to bed, woke up at 10…

I guess the adaptation period must be so different from person to person, and everybody must have a different way of adapting… Bodies must react differently, people sleep differently, nap differently… For me, there wasn’t a single nap in which I didn’t fall asleep within 2 or 3 minutes, and I must have woken up about 80% of the time before the alarm clock. Enough to say that I was PRETTY MUCH on the right track and that I was living through sleep-deprivation pretty well. My roommates and friends actually told me I was coping very well with it.

Anyway, oversleeping a little is what definitely killed me, and I can only blame myself. I will try to adapt again sometime, as I am already sad to go back to monophasic life :(

Thanks to those who helped me during this very short period of beginning of adaptation, I will be back!

Cyrille