Day 4 - Mid-day still feels like the best

I'm mostly awake again. I can at least concentrate on the same thing for more than 30 seconds, and I can type a bit :-)

Back when I started this thing I decided that I was going to take a page from Steve Pavlina's book and take extra 20 minute naps as needed throughout the day if necessary. The past 3 days I think I've taken 2 or 3 extra naps per day. Today I've already taken 3 extra naps, and that doesn't count when I fell asleep sitting up (for how long I don't know).

Except for the one time I know that I fell asleep sitting up, I think I've stuck to 20 minute naps all day so far, which is good. I've felt like hell most of the day though.

I'm still not remembering any dreams when I wake up, and since I started using the MP3 to fall asleep I haven't noticed any incidents of dreaming while being awake. I just hope I'm getting SOME REM sleep in there somewhere.

If the transition plays out like other people have blogged, today and tomorrow should be the hardest days and in 2 or 3 more days I should feel at least 80% most of the day. In another week I should be at 100% most of the day. I sure hope that's the case because honestly, when it gets bad, it's getting harder and harder to see the "benefit" of this plan. I'm afraid that in my exhaustion I'll decide to throw away all the work so far and just sleep. That would suck. Kinda :-)

Tonight I'm going to do 3 new things to try to get through:

1. I'm going to exercise (yeah, I know, I should have started with this, but due to having company I didn't have access to the exercise equipment for the first 3 nights)
2. NO TELEVISION AT ALL! I resolved to do this last night, but when my son started throwing up again, I thought "well, there's not much else I can do with a sick kid on my lap". I'm more and more convinced that TV is sucking all the energy out of me at night though. If I get the urge to do something mindless I'm going to play some video games. Which reminds me, I need to make sure I have some games ready to play in case of emergencies :-)
3. I'm going to go outside for at least 20 minutes per waking period. I've been avoiding the outside like the plague at night, mostly because I'm so cold during the adaptation period. I think I need to force myself to go outside and take a walk though just so I don't fall into the trap of sitting down and talking myself into watching TV.

Okay, I've got to figure out how to take my 12:30 nap now (the wife isn't back and I have the kids, hopefully she'll show in the next 15 minutes).