poly mono

I'm going back to monophasic for a while. I was noticing a decrease in my memory and I was trying to deny it for a while. Last week it got really bad, with people telling me stuff like: "Jesus I just told you that 2 minutes ago". I usually have a pretty bad memory, but now I think it's getting out of control, and I need to be careful because I'm supposed to be getting good grades on my exams and I'm not cause I forget everything.

I will try polyphasic later though, and if it happens again then I'll definitely know what the cause is (first I should see some memory improvement now that I'm going back to monophasic, to be able to prove my hypothesis)

Messing up

I've been messing up big time lately. School is starting to get a bit overwhelming and even with all the free time I'm supposed to get I still don't have enough time.That plus the fact that I've been sleeping more, getting more headaches (stress), etc, etc. I don't know if I really want to fix anything though, I feel like I wanna go monophasic-ish for a couple days but at the same time I know I won't have time to do all the stuff I'm supposed to be doing. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (frustration)

1.5-hr core everyman

I tried to switch to 1.5 hour core sleep the other night and it didn't work out that well. I think that since I would need to take 4 naps instead of 3, what I should do is to first, take the 4 naps to get ready and then sleep 1.5 hours less. I was reaaally tired and napping felt like 20 minute deaths. Also I had a horrible headache but I don't think it had anything to do with less sleep, but it was hard cause all I wanted to do was to crash for hours. It eventually went away and I didn't feel like crashing anymore and just switched back to my faithful 3 hour core. I don't know if I'll be able to pull this off one day but I think it'll be easier if I don't have school going on.

I forgot to mention that it took me a good week to recover from the post-U2 mess up. I kept oversleeping. Now I'm back on track with no intentions on missing naps and/or sleep times.

still messed up

This is I think the first time this happens to me. I have no recollection of getting up, turning off 2 alarms, not caring about the wonderful smell of fresh coffee, going back to bed. This is scary. I used to think I would always be aware of these things, or that I would make the conscious decision of getting back in bed. So I was woken up at 5... great, there goes 2 extra hours of sleep that might potentially keep messing me up. I took a nap at 2ish and I'll be having dinner at 7ish so I don't know how I'll make my evening nap happen. Maybe I'll just sleep in the car while my fiance (I need to get used to this one) drives.

uh-oh

On tuesday, I completely messed up because I didn't take my afternoon nap plus my evening nap. It was all for a good reason though, I was going to the U2 concert and the excitement got me. Also I didn't go to sleep at my now usual midnight. So I did this: I went to sleep at like 2ish in the morning but only for 20 minutes, as if taking a nap. Why? because I had an exam that day and had to study somehow. The result was that I overslept at all my naps yesterday. I think it was like doing 1.5 hours each (I've noticed that if I oversleep I always wake up at 1.5 hour increments, I guess b/c that's how long my sleep cycle is). Today I haven't napped yet (4:12 p.m) so I'm about to do that right now. I'll take this one, bump up the next one to 8 and then sleep from 12 to 3. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be back on track.

I'm also starting to get mentally ready for my switch to 1.5 hour core. I think I should set a date so that I force myself to do it as opposed to keep putting it off. We'll see.

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