2013/8/20
Today I had my first missed nap. I was hoping that a 3 hour cycle instead
of the 4 would allow more flexibility in case a nap had to be missed. It
doesn't appear (at this time) that that's the case.
I hit my 6pm nap as normal, knowing that I was leaving shortly and would
be in an environment where sleep was impossible at 9 (this is a weekly
event). As usual, I was feeling pretty good about everything. At 9, I
felt tired and like I should sleep, but nothing further than that.
At 11:30pm my body reminded me, politely, that it was significantly past
the first nap's time and getting close, now, to its successor's time. At
12am I had just barely gotten home so I managed to crash into bed no
later than 10 after. I woke up feeling a bit more tired than usual, but I
figured 'what the hey' I just missed a whole nap a little tiredness
should be normal. Given that I had missed a nap anyway and was feeling
pretty tired, I figured I'd throw in an extra nap right away, so took it
at 1:30am, half my normal time.
It's now 3:45. I took the 1:30 and the 3:00, and with each nap I'm
feeling worse, not better. This is now one of the more difficult nights
I've had. It appears that skipping a nap means (at least in feeling) restarting at least some
portion of the adaptation schedule. That's very bad.
At this point, I'm planning to continue as normal. I may take yet another
nap at 4:30, but either way I figure that next week's skipped nap will be
far more informative about how bad a missed nap is.
Later edit: This was the worst night in all of my testing. At 7am my wife
woke up, saw what shape I was in, and ordered me to bed. I was too groggy
to resist. I slept for 2 hours.
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