After my level of tiredness was decreasing yesterday during the day, it increased again during the night. This morning I was really tired again and I decided to take an unscheduled nap at 5am. What followed was a fallback to one of my negative habits I formed during my previous tries. I repeatedly went back to sleep and had several consecutive naps. Luckily I managed to set enough alarms every time, so that I didn’t oversleep.
I don’t know if this is a good, or a bad thing, because the scheduled nap at 8am that followed was the first one where I had a vivid dream, that I could still remember after waking up.
Even though I didn’t have another dream during my other daytime naps, I felt pretty good. The naps were restorative and I didn’t feel tired for the biggest part of the day. I went for a long walk this forenoon which was very relaxing. In the afternoon I even felt capable to work on a speech I want to give on my next Toastmasters meeting.
I had a big pizza and a salad for dinner, which in hindsight was a mistake. I was pretty full after that and this combined with the regular nighttime drowsiness led to another series of consecutive naps.
Normally I have several alarms set up all over the room to force me to get up, but this time for some reason I thought that I’d only need my main alarm plus one backup. This turned out to be a mistake since it was all to easy to me to repeatedly reset the alarms (I have plenty of experience with that from my previous tries).
So to prevent this from happening again I will from now on use all my backup alarms again. To make sure I just turn them out from the bed I will distribute them in several different places throughout the rooms, maybe even other rooms. This is to make sure I have to move around for at least a couple of minutes so that I’m guaranteed to wake up and to be able to make sound decisions.
I hope that this isn’t affecting adaption too badly, but I think that an oversleep of equal length would have been far more destructive.
Another thing I thought of was scheduling two additional naps during the night. I think I might be less inclined to take an additional nap directly after waking up if my subconsciousness knows that the next nap is not even away two more hours. After the adaption I can still get rid of those naps when night time drowsiness is starting to subside.