Strange Week of Sleep
Dan on February 25th, 2006
This week my sleep patterns have been a bit unusual. I would frequently take extra naps at night, getting a total of 4.5-6 hours of sleep in a day. Getting through the night has been quite hard. I’ve been getting in the bad habit of “snoozing” - waking up after a nap and then taking another one right away. There were also a few days when I woke up from a nap and decided to lay there for a minute - and woke up 1.5-5 hours later.
This wasn’t a problem since I this week was school vacation. I didn’t have to worry about being late to class. Next week will be the true test. I’ve been slowly giving up these extra “snooze” naps and getting out of bed right away. Last night I decided to go back asleep after my 1AM nap and didn’t set an alarm. Luckily I woke up at 3AM, my normal breakfast time. My body does seem to be getting used to waking up after shorter periods of time. There were a few days where I slept more than 1.5h on my core nap, but woke up multiple times during it.
On a side note, the low amount of sleep hasn’t seemed to affect workout recovery. I’ve been working out 3 days a week. The workouts themselves give me a lot more energy and keep me awake. I’m very happy that I started working out again. So happy in fact that yesterday when I showed up to work out and the gym was closed I was quite disappointed.
