Day 11 - Frustrating night
After my successful midnight nap I was really looking forward to the rest of last night, but it ended up being a mess. To make matters worse, the audio I recorded (the most important part for seeing if the apnea played any role) was useless. All background noise.
That's the last time I change things without a "test nap" to make sure it's working. I had attached an external microphone to my video camera to get more detailed breath sounds and ended up with this hum that I can't make out anything over.
So, I laid down at 3:30 for an extra nap leading in to the 5am hell block and woke up at 5am. Doh. Fortunately, over-sleeping in the back seat of the car isn't as painful as when sitting up, but it still hurt.
Okay, I thought, I just got my 4:30 nap too is all. No biggie. An hour later I couldn't think anymore so I went to lay down at 6am. I woke at 7:30. Two 90-minute over-sleeps in the car. Ouch. Literally.
So I came home for the 8:30 nap not wanting to risk another car nap and that went fine (as far as I can tell without audio) but I took another nap at 9:30 just to make up for the car naps. That one must have gone very badly (didn't tape it) since I woke up and could barely think straight.
To top it all off, I went to get my license plate renewed and stood in line for 2 hours. Just what I wanted to do when I could barely keep awake anyway.
As I was saying in my wrap-up post from yesterday, having the video footage to look back on and use to improve things has really helped my attitude when I over-sleep. Losing the footage today with TWO PAINFUL over-sleeps just kills me. Argh.
It's days like today where I can understand how some people give up on this schedule. Of course this isn't much worse than a monophasic day for me (and it's bound to improve with my next set of naps) so I have no intention of giving up. But if I slept well monophasically I'd be sorely tempted to just say to heck with it.
That's the last time I change things without a "test nap" to make sure it's working. I had attached an external microphone to my video camera to get more detailed breath sounds and ended up with this hum that I can't make out anything over.
So, I laid down at 3:30 for an extra nap leading in to the 5am hell block and woke up at 5am. Doh. Fortunately, over-sleeping in the back seat of the car isn't as painful as when sitting up, but it still hurt.
Okay, I thought, I just got my 4:30 nap too is all. No biggie. An hour later I couldn't think anymore so I went to lay down at 6am. I woke at 7:30. Two 90-minute over-sleeps in the car. Ouch. Literally.
So I came home for the 8:30 nap not wanting to risk another car nap and that went fine (as far as I can tell without audio) but I took another nap at 9:30 just to make up for the car naps. That one must have gone very badly (didn't tape it) since I woke up and could barely think straight.
To top it all off, I went to get my license plate renewed and stood in line for 2 hours. Just what I wanted to do when I could barely keep awake anyway.
As I was saying in my wrap-up post from yesterday, having the video footage to look back on and use to improve things has really helped my attitude when I over-sleep. Losing the footage today with TWO PAINFUL over-sleeps just kills me. Argh.
It's days like today where I can understand how some people give up on this schedule. Of course this isn't much worse than a monophasic day for me (and it's bound to improve with my next set of naps) so I have no intention of giving up. But if I slept well monophasically I'd be sorely tempted to just say to heck with it.
posted by Jeremy | 12:12:00 PM
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