Polyphasic Day 4

Nap 28: 2013/8/18 1:30am

Was starting to nod off, so added this between-time nap as expected. I was woken up once by a dream where I thought the kids had woken up and were misbehaving and I needed to tell them to go back to bed. Pretty sure that didn't happen in hindsight. I also woke up from an actual child having a bad dream and the time-dilation experience coming from being woken up multiple times made me to decide to just get up. I still had 10 mins on the clock.

Nap 29: 2013/8/18 3:00am

More trouble staying awake. More feeling of disorientation on awake. I find I often wonder where I am and why I'm there when I wake. This time I woke up 30 seconds before alarm.

Nap 30-31: 2013/8/18 4:30am,6:00am

Fell asleep fairly quickly, slept well-ish. Woke up before alarm (30s) on the first, with it on the second. I feel like I'm sleeping a little harder, and I remembered a dream from the first, though I've forgotten it by now. I don't feel quite so bad today as I did yesterday, though I'm definitely still feeling over tired and a little chilly.

Nap 32: 2013/8/18 9:00am

Slept well, woke up to alarm. As before, I seem to come more and more awake at this time of day.

Nap 33: 2013/8/18 12:00pm

Had a social event, so didn't have time to post about the nap immediately. I recall that I woke up early because of my wife being a little extra loud, but it wasn't a big deal. 

Nap 34: 2013/8/18 3:10pm 

DISASTER! OK, so I mostly just wanted to write "DISASTER" in big letters. Apparently I rolled over and hit the button on the alarm. My alarm stops when the button is pressed and starts counting up (while flashing) if you missed it, and it was stopped at 12 mins left, unflashing. so either I woke up, hit the button, fell asleep, and don't remember, or I rolled over and bumped the button, which was on a chair next to the bed at the same level. Or the clock failed, which I find highly unlikely. So I ended up sleeping 2 hours instead of 25 minutes.

I recall waking up feeling alarmed and disoriented, but frankly that's how I often have been awakening. I feel >more< groggy and tired than I'm familiar with, especially during the day, but I'm especially ... well... grumpy. Clearly not the end of the world, but rather a disappointment. I'll skip just the 6pm nap, attempting to sleep next at 9. Maybe this will pull me out of sleep deprivation enough that I feel better without destroying the adaptation that's been done so far? That would be nice, at least.

Nap 35: 9:30pm

Attempted to sleep, but was unable. Felt tired, just couldn't manage it.

Nap 36: 2013/8/19 12:00pm

Took a while to fall asleep, but managed it eventually. Woke up to the alarm. Felt OK.