Biphasic Sleep: Day 19

September 18, 2009

Back to the feeling good again...well, slightly tired, but definitely good! As mentioned before, waking up can be hard. Really hard. My normal wake up time for my larger block of sleep is from 3:30 am until 6:30-6:45 am, but this morning I had a really hard time waking up and slept until 7:15 am. For my evening sleep, which goes from 8:00 pm until 9:30 pm, I slept over and ended up waking up at 10:00 pm, and I am skeptical that if I didn't have my wife to crack the whip and make sure that I woke up at 10:00 pm, that I wouldn't have just slept all night. After waking up, I'll have 10 to 20 minutes where I am in a half-dazed state, but after this I wake up more and feel good throughout the rest of the day. The interesting thing is that when I go to sleep for each sleep period, I never really feel overly tired. Often times in fact, I will be wrapped up in working on something, and I don't feel like going to bed. I force myself to stay on schedule, so I go, but it feels like I really have a couple more hours left in my tank.

It seems to me, that since most days I feel really quite good, my body does fine on the reduced amount of sleep, and that I don't really need more. The difficulty waking up, and the 10 to 20 minutes of my body protesting the wake-up, is really just that my body isn't used to sleeping only in small chunks of time. It expects to keep on sleeping because that has been what it has been trained to do, regardless of whether I need the sleep or not.  
 

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