Catching Up On A Fetishist’s Zzzzs

I will once again, change the way I post (a girl can change her mind, yanno?). Instead of going per week, I’ll go per event. Now that I’ve fully adapted to Überman, it seems to make more sense.

I was saying before that I was very curious to see how polyphasic sleeping would affect my work at our monthly party and more specifically if it would help me cope with the tiredness the day after at the store.

I’ve had my first FéticheSequence party since starting Überman and I have many interesting things to say on the subject.

First, it was remarkably easy to nap earlier. We open the doors at 22h but we’re lucky to have our party approximately four blocks away from our house so Seb could just walk home for his nap after setting the last details at the venue (I was already home getting prepared, a girl’s gotta have nice hair!). For our balls, we’d probably just sleep in the car (I’m sure there’s a joke to make in there..;))

Now, as we open the store at 11h and close at 21h and that things are usually hectic at the store previous to a party, we are usually fairly tired by the time the party starts happening.

But at 23h we were at the venue, remarkably refreshed and able to do our jobs much better, so already polyphasic sleep was scoring major points.

Normally, I can’t really drink alcohol during our events, or I am extraordinarily tired the following day at the store, so I decided to push the envelope a little and had a few drinks to see what would happen. I had a couple of vodka shots (I don’t know why but scotch and vodka are the two alcohols that have the fewer toxic repercussions for me, perhaps because they are both distilled rather than fermented?) and had a fantastic evening.

We went to sleep at around 4am, so about an hour late.

Now, something interesting happened. Seb never managed to wake me up from my nap (apparently trying to wake me involved a lot of grunting and vague waving of the hand on my part, both of which I have no recollection from) and I woke up at 7:30 after a three hour oversleep. Although this may seem like a setback, it actually wasn’t: I felt hangover free and wasn’t really tired.

I may not have been as invigorated as I’ve sometimes been after particularly refreshing naps, but imperfect felt pretty damn good and that was a definitive upgrade from my usual tired after Sequence Saturdays.

If it takes a three hour oversleep to allow me to drink a bit from time to time, that is something I can definitely deal with. It still leaves me with a lot of extra time that I didn’t have before (we would wake up around 10h30, so an extra 3h) and thus, Seb and I went for breakfast in a restaurant near the store before going to work, which is an option that we never dream be available before polyphasic sleeping.

I’ve now finished my 11am nap and I feel great! The day will pass by like a breeze!

Oh polyphasic sleeping, how I love thee!

Disaster decision yesterday: Seb and I had a couple of bad naps in a row and were fairly tired, so considering our monthly party is this week, we thought it may be good to sleep an entire night to make up for the bad naps.

Oh boy, what a mistake. We slept 8h and it was WAY too much. We woke up feeling like zombies and it took forever to get going. Also, our morning exercise, even though fairly light, was excruciatingly tiering.

Our energy levels seem to have gone back to what they were, but I wonder if keeping up with our regular nap schedule may have had the same effect.

Fortunately our naps do not seem to have suffered from this.

The one thing that has bothered Seb & I a great deal is the feeling that we have wasted an entire night on sleep, funny n’est-ce pas? I guess one gets used to the extra time!

We may try another time sleeping a full night, but more along the lines of 6h, not 8. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Wining and dining

It’s now official, no digestion problems anymore and light doses of alcohol are just fine, yay! Even red meat is fine and doesn’t seem to affect my naps.

However I have the bad tendency sometimes to forget that I should not eat close to naps and that does affect the quality of my sleep.

Energy

It’s amazing on this sleep regiment how the more you are active, the more energy you get. Very interresting. Soon I’ll prepare Christmas present before Christmas. That’ll be a first. (and by first I mean I’m never on time )

Pushing naps around

We started pushing our naps around during the day ( for instance taking our 19h nap at 21h30 at home instead of at work) and it seems fairly fine. The only problem I sometime see in diverging from our schedule is that it sometimes takes longer to fall asleep.

Bought a new alarm clock with lots of cool features. The timer didn’t work anymore as it rang only for about 20 seconds and lead to some oversleeping. Nothing dramatic, 1-2h a day, but I feel it’s been slowing our adaptation to überman.

The alarm actually increases progressively to the point where it gets impossible to ignore but the slow increase spear it from being thrown across the room. *And* it has a nap feature =D It’s been working pretty well waking us up, no oversleeping so far.

Psychological adaptation

I don’t know if it is because:

a) we are doing this as a couple
b) we were already perceive as eccentric on account of the nature of our businesses
c) the store ties us to a monophasic calendar
d) all of the above

but… we have had nil psychological adaptation to do. Weekdays are weekdays, they just feel longer and nothing feels particularly strange about the whole thing. Unlike many other bloggers who mentioned being weirded out by the whole thing. Neither Seb or I are. We are masters of weird *puts 80’s shades on*

The power of the nap

(I feel the need to mention I think this title should be a song by some polyphasic band) One amazing feature of polyphasic is that when you sleep poorly on a monophasic schedule, you are dysfunctional for an entire day. With polyphasic sleep, recuperation is a nap away, so you may feel poorly for a 4h block but as soon as you’ve napped you are back on track.
That is seriously awesome. *rocks head to polyphasic music*

Polyphasic sex

Well…it’s a fetishist’s blog afteral, did you really think I’d go on without ever having a post about sex? Fat chance

Seb and I often awake from a nap particularly horny. I checked into it and apparently, during REM sleep, a blood flow to the genitals is common although the reason is still inknown.

Well, this girl can’t complain, horizontal activities are a nice way to start a 4h block

Another advantage of being a monophasic couple

Mood

Lately I’ve started noticing how Seb’s mood has been consistently improving upon starting the whole überman treatment. I don’t know if it’s the extra time, the feeling of being more rested than before or something else, but it’s really great.

As for me, I’ve always been a very cheerful person by nature (I suspect I may be naturally producing more serotonin than others) but in the last year, I have to admit that the light has not been shining as brightly. I suppose this is normal considering the physical and psychological stress of starting a goods oriented business, but I do miss the old me. Luckily, since überman, I feel like my old self at times, but without any form of consistency. I am hoping that when I’m completely adapted to the schedule, I may reap some of the mood benefits Seb seems to get.

It makes me wonder if, since überman, we actually get more rest than we did before (we were definitely not sleeping enough monophasically) or does it possibly play a role on neurotransmitters and hormones production?

Vocabulary & memory improvements

The sleep dep of the last years had a negative effect on my vocabulary and my memory consolidation (shocking, right? ). I’ve always had en excellent vocabulary and exemplary memory, so this was pretty hard on me. Not having the ability to nuance as you do not recall the exact word you are looking for or having entire conversations brought to your attention that you remember nothing about is quite scary.

In the last week I have seen those two functions restored progressively. It’s been an enormous relief for me, thank you überman! So far, überman is so cool, Jesus would totally be a polyphasic sleeper were he alive.

I still miss my bed *cries*

I can’t wait to have adapted completely to the schedule to be able throw in an entire night’s sleep once in a while. It may have been the hardest part so far of polyphasic sleeping, the fact that I no longer get the reward of a full night of downtime after a hard day. Maybe that’s a psychological adaptation there that I should have mentioned earlier?

Still wouldn’t trade back all the advantages of polyphasic sleeping just for that though, it does not compare.

On the Gastronomic side of things…

My indigestion seems to be going away. I guess it was just like when you’re jetlagged and your digestive system gets very unhappy.

Started eating meat again, but in very little quantities.

I also started drinking alcohol again, both in small quantities (one or two glasses of wine) and coffee (a small espresso) right after nap times and it doesn’t seem to affect my sleep at all. I dream, I wake up just as refreshed.

Nappy times!

We increased our naptime to 25 minutes. 22 was too little afteral, with falling asleep time. It seems to be just right, because I wake up on my own pretty much each time during the day now.

Night naps still feel like they last for hours..but I still do not recall my dreams much. Neither does Seb. Maybe because Seb and I act as a distraction for each other so we promptly forget our dreams?

Nighttime drowsiness almost gone, YAY! I get more tired closer to a nap, but really, the rest of the time I feel tip top. Seb is gone to his parents’ for two days so I expected the night time to be dreadful, but it wasn’t! Naps are much better cuddled against my lovely man, but (egad!) I seem to survive without him

The condo is magnificently clean though, ahahhahah.

Yesterday Seb’s parents were in town and at one point we were out and about and it seemed clear we wouldn’t make it back in time for our nap. We delayed it for 1h30. Results: I expected I would crash as soon as I’d go to bed, but I actually had trouble falling asleep. Maybe because my body is used to the schedule now. I was a little less sharp for the next block, but nothing bad and it was gone after the next nap.

So today, I wanted to test things a little and pushed my 11h nap for two hours. Same thing. Except I tried to push my 15h nap to 16h to have more distance between the two and I also had trouble falling asleep on that one too. Now I am functional but not at my best.

Also, having more and more trouble eating red meat. Even right after I wake up. It seems I cannot digest it properly and I don’t feel super good after eating it. Also the quality of my nap seems affected. I guess there is something to all the blogs I read mentioning polyphasic sleeping is easiest when you are a vegetarian!

I’ll stop eating red meat for a little while, see if I get cravings like I used to. If I don’t, it’ll be a nice bonus to polyphasic sleeping, as I’ve been trying to eat less meat for a while.

Food intake:

I lost 1.5 kilos the first week because I wasn’t eating enough. Although loosing weight is rarely a problem for us females, not eating enough made me more tired than I should have been. I discovered about a week in that when I got tired for no reason, eating lightly would pick me up right away.

Because I realized that I couldn’t rely on hunger to determine when to eat, I decided to eat every time I’d wake up. Unfortunately, I wasn’t very smart about my portions, I kept eating a regular meal (me = le idiot).

Now because I’ve been eating regular meals 6 times a day, I’ve gained 6 pounds.

Now I still eat upon waking, but I’ve reduced my portions to what they should be. After all, polyphasic fetishists need to get into their latex

Body Repairs

This may totally be an erroneous reading, but some things seem to be happening quicker when it comes to my body. Example, I had a zit (and there you were thinking I was perfect!) and usually I’m stuck with those useless things for about 3-4 days. That one faded after a day. May be a fluke.

Hormones

I think polyphasic sleep is doing something to my hormones, because I get overly emotional in situations I wouldn’t normally be. Not like PMS though, it’s more like being overwhelmed with happiness or being touched to the point of tears by really tiny things. It’s very very odd. Old age is catching on and I am definitely turning into a poof?

Certain things I’ve noticed lately with the überman schedule:

My bed

I really, really miss my bed and a long night’s sleep. It’s just a conditioning, but it seemed like the well deserved rest at the end of a long day. A placebo feel good habit. Mind you, I get much deserved leisure time instead, so I wouldn’t switch them back, but I’ll most likely include a full night’s sleep here and there to help cope with my bed nostalgia and the lazy mornings where you just fool around in bed for way too long

Bed sores

That’s one thing I don’t miss though, waking up with back aches in the morning. That’s gone for both Seb and I and that’s a really nice benefit. On the night I overslept, I woke up with a lower back ache and that alone makes me get up that much quicker after a nap to avoid oversleeping

Food discipline

I really need to be careful not to eat too close to a nap and not to eat food too tough to digest. The harder the digestion, the more distance i have to put between the food and nap time, otherwise my naps aren’t restful and my nights are harder.

I should say I haven’t really changed my eating habits (outside of eating more) and they consist of fruit smoothies, as much vegetables as possible including a lot of salads, fish, a little bit of meat, yogourt, cheese (it’s absolutely surreal the amount of cheese I can ingest in a day) and cereals when we’re short on time (we tend to eat very little carbs except for the obligatory pizza deliciousness)

Schedule discipline

I really do not seem to need to stick with a really tight schedule like I’ve read most bloggers say. Store obliges, we’ve had to delay some naps, sometimes by up to an hour and so long as we take the next one on cue, all seems peachy. I’ll experiment more with that and will post about my findings.

Lucid dreams?

Lately I have the impression of waking up several times during my nap but wonder if it isn’t a precursor of lucid dreaming a lot of the polyphasic sleepers have experienced. Time will tell!

Taking the time

That is one really nice gain of überman: having all the extra time means I don’t cut corners, I can really take my time and do stuff not defined by its usefulness or efficiency. Amen.

Living in the now

Somehow, because of all the extra time, I really take the time to focus all my attention on the thing I am doing at the moment, rather than think about two three things at once. I am no longer thinking about the next thing while doing the current one and that’s made me not only appreciate more the things I used to enjoy that became somewhat paler, but also to appreciate more the ones I did not necessarily enjoy because there were a million things more urgent or that I liked more that I could have been doing just then.

The result is that I am more content. More focused. More positive. That’s an unexpected bonus that I welcome happily!

Rest is just a nap away

With monophasic sleep, if you sleep badly you’re screwed for the day. Fortunately with this, if you have one bad nap, you are just 4 hours away to feeling better! That’s pretty cool.

I had started doing individual posts as in week one, but really, there isn’t enough stuff to blog about, so I’ve regrouped it all in here

On Monday I missed a nap because I drank a bubble tea without thinking about the effects it would have.

Although I had planned to put in an extra nap at 1am to compensate, my body decided otherwise, as I never woke up from it.

I woke up at 7:20 sharp though, interesting. I suppose my body is really getting used to the überman schedule.

Unfortunately I was supposed to wake Seb up as well and didn’t, so he also overslept. See how it pays not have made fun of him? <halo>

Fortunately it doesn’t seem to have much effect on the other naps, they go as well as usual.

I have a bit more energy, perhaps this night has helped me get back the initial loss of sleep from the beguinning of the schedule adaptation?

Maybe it was a good thing after all!

The night naps are still really hard to wake up from and sometimes we chill in the bed for 15-30 minutes after the alarm rings because we’re so groggy. It’s a dangerous process though as it is very tempting to fall back asleep. We really should get out of bed just as the alarm rings to avoid oversleeping.

Our naps seem to be getting better and better and I now often wake up on my own during the day. Unfortunately sometimes I wake up too early so I have to take extra naps to compensate, as I feel just fine after the nap but get tired way before the next nap time.

I do not really experience lucid or even vivid dreaming like I’ve read on some other blogs. Although I know I have dreamed, I do not recall my dreams, not on a regular basis anyway.

I still am conscious during the falling asleep process and can feel myself twitch and start dreaming. It’s a very strange process. When my thoughts make no sense whatsoever, that’s when I realize I am dreaming, which ends the dreaming process temporarily. It’s very hard to describe adequately.

I appreciate the extra time, it’s out of this world! Time really does slow down and I feel like I am getting back all this time that passed me by in the last three years, it feels incredible.

I am not 100% back to regular energy levels at all times but perhaps 98%. There is still a certain feeling of faint fatigue lingering. Seb does not experience that, he is completely back to normal. Maybe the fact that I wake up too early from naps affects me, I’ll try letting myself fall back to sleep rather than get up in the future.

Edit: I really can say now that what I eat seem to directly affect my naps. If I do not eat well, or too much or too close to a nap, I do not nap well and if that happens more than once a day, my nights become worse, as I am sooooo tired.

Must start being more disciplined with my food intake.

It’s pretty hard again during the night and early morning phases, but exercise seems to get us out of the sleep jam one more time.

I keep sleeping on the sofa to avoid getting woken up by Seb’s “nocturnal” craziness (it’s hard to be creative with one’s vocabulary when it comes to napping during any time of the day!) until I’m a complete idiot and look at his little pretty face all sad that I go sleep on the sofa and decide to temp fate and cuddle with that adorable man.

Which in turn decides to teach me a lesson: never bet something you’re not willing to loose. Or, “damn it woman sleep on the stupid sofa when you know for sure you’ll sleep better that way!”

So, Seb starts snoring under record time (I’m sure that if there was a competition, he’d be a serious contestant) and I don’t want to wake him by leaving the bed, so I end up trying desperately to sleep for 20 minutes. Unfortunately, we’re on a tight schedule and need to leave right after our nap, so there is no time for me to nap before leaving.

Well. I’m usually a pretty even keeled person but let me tell you how that night was an exception. I was irritated, moody and nothing seemed to make me happy. Now I believe that when you are in such a situation, the only way to change things are to change your perspective and do a reset on your mood. After all you’re doing it to yourself (unless you like being crabby and not enjoying the moment, eh) and although I tried to get my groove back I kept getting back to being morose, which completely sucked Seb gave up trying to cheer me up at one point, I think he wasn’t even sure we spoke the same language

We got back home for our 23h nap and Seb doesn’t hear the alarm go off again. This time again I wake up at midnight for no reason I can determine. I’m sure there’s a sarcastic comment to make here, but I’ll refrain. After all, Seb might end up reading this blog and what would happen with the breakfasts he prepares me almost every morning? Again, never bet something you’re not willing to loose (I’ve learned my lesson)

So I am back to being exceptionally tired and even after going for a long walk, I still can’t find the energy to do anything… and while not doing anything, I can’t seem to keep my eyes open. I am so disappointed

Luckily, something that’s really helpful in the will department for sticking to the überman schedule, is that contrarily to most people who will try this, we desperately need the extra time.

So, I am ready for round 2. </determined grin>

oh. dear. lord.

Seb started snoring very loudly during my 19h nap and it woke me up. What I didn’t mention yesterday as it didn’t seem to warrant it, is that I also got woken up in my 7h nap because Seb was twitching and jerking in his sleep (he does that a lot). So that’s three naps on the same day (including the 11h nap that my McDonald’s meal ruined) that more or less failed and as a consequence, my evening and night were nightmarish.

I couldn’t sustain a conversation, let alone any type of activity, but sitting down I couldn’t keep my eyes opened. It’s like I’d sleep for microseconds before being able to wake myself up for another minute or two, it was excruciating. Not in the sense that it hurt but just that it was almost unbearable, a bit like when you really need to pee, but no toilet in sight.

It took all my willpower to wait for nap times (I took extra ones).

Our first polyphasic oversleep

For my 3am nap, there was no way I was sleeping in the same bed as Seb, so I went on the sofa. Unfortunately he didn’t hear the alarm so we both overslept. Lucky for us, I woke up for no obvious reason (especially considering how tired I was) a little after 4am. So we’ve overslept by over half an hour, I am hoping it’s nothing catastrophic.

I’d throw in a joke here of the type “why do I always have to do everything myself” but that’d be so far from the truth I’d feel pretty bad

Still, even after oversleeping and all my extra naps, I still can’t keep my eyes open.

At this point I crave a bed like I’ve never craved one in my life. All my thoughts revolve around going to this wonderland of comfort and restoration. It’s like the smell of bacon: no willpower in the world can stop you from eating it once you’ve been seduced by it’s olfactory power. It’s much stronger than amermaid’s singing. I have to say it is one of the things I’ve done that has required the most self control (the mermaids were easy). And until you’ve experienced it, you can’t really understand how hard it is.

The 7am nap brings no improvements and at this point, I’m willing to kiss überman goodbye. It’s hard to reason, I just want to go to the damned bed! Also, the store will open soon and I am in no shape to work, especially considering I’ll be at the store for at least 11h today.

It’s strange though, because my body doesn’t feel tired (I’m not clumsy nor cold) but my eyes just can’t stay open.

So I decide to do some mild exercise (Dance Dance Revolution on PS2 is least demanding for the most energy) and it does the trick! Hurray! I am back on überman!

Work goes completely fine

I’m now about to take my 20h nap and I am feeling better than I was yesterday. Probably 90% of myself

Really glad to not have given up

Theory of the day:

• - earmuffs – Fuck McDonald’s
• forget sleeping in the same bed as Seb
• exercise is a good way to shake the slumber.

Seb and I have decided to refer to the different blocks of 4h by a distinctive name, like when we used to be normal people. Nothing complicated, just something to identify those periods better than by their time stamp.

3h-7h – early morning
7h -11h - morning
11h-15h – afternoon
15h-19h – evening
19h-23h – late evening
23h-3h – night

The night and early morning periods went way better than expected. Except for some difficulty getting up both times (the early morning one being the worse) once up and about, we both weren’t tired until about 30 minutes from our nap. Me happy!

Since I’m a bit of a night owl, I never really get up in time for McDonald’s breakfast. I’m not a big fan of theirs but nonetheless, I felt like this was a small celebration of my being awake so early, thus we set out to eat our breakfast there. It cost 11$ for two trios and there was the McDonald’s conundrum: we were both far from full all the while feeling bloated and greasy. Weird!

So I’m going to write McDonald’s off, like usual, until I get another craving and rediscover how crappy it is. Something in their food seem to provoke targeted amnesia over the months.

I don’t know if it was the food, but I woke up from my 11am nap feeling really drowsy and took an 1am nap (I never needed a supplement nap in the day before this). I still had the dreams while falling asleep but had the impression other than that that I had slept a deep sleep.

Also I notice that now when my naps feel crappy, that my cheeks are flushed for a while during the block after. I have no idea if this has a correlation with anything, but thought of writing it down.

It’s a bit funny writing this journal, I’ve never been so aware of my body. Lucky you I am not talking about fluctuations in my poop

It’s now 17h38 and I’m still super drowsy. I took an extra nap at 13h and 17h (woke up on my own from my 15h nap still remembering my dreams, which is what I’ve been hoping to do for a while seeing that that’s the time I’ve felt the best!) but even with that, I feel as tired as yesterday after my night nap. I’m really disappointed by this, I was making such progress! Maybe it’s the McDonald’s? Just in case, I’ll eat extra well tonight.

Passage of Time

I still consider week days as such and feel no disorientation, however I’ve noticed I’ll refer to things that happened yesterday as having happened further in the past. I suppose the days being longer, it’s hard for my mind to readjust adequately to the passage of time.

Overal feeling

I am at perhaps 85% of my usual levels of energy. I can perform all of my tasks adequately, but it does take me a bit longer and I am not as good at it, things do not flow. I often can’t remember the right word to use and thanks to my studies in literature I easily replace them by something else, but this really bugs me. It’s like I’ve dropped one syllable from the words I use, eh.

Also, I will sometimes replace words by others by mistake but it isn’t a lapsus, as they have nothing in common. I think it must have to do with the brain’s filing system: somehow the words are linked in my brain to be accessed and one gets pulled out rather than the other. It’s happened two or three times now.

I can’t say anything about my short term memory because it’s been decreased for a while now (initially causing me much grief and panic, having so much become dependent on my intellectual abilities) so it’s hard to see if anything has changed there.

Also, I am usually a fairly gracious person, but found out in the last three years that when tired, I always become somewhat clumsy. It is the case now.

At least nothing as silly as putting the dirty dishes in the freezer or the yogourt in the cupboard like when I was suffering from serious sleep deprivation in our first year!

Motivation

I find myself to lack the enthousiasm necessary to do the things I set out to do and a general feeling of laziness engulfs me. I had hoped to go to work during our night period today but couldn’t drag myself out of the house and ended up cleaning the condo some more and watching movies. Considering I’ve had very little R&R time in the last three years I feel completely entitled to this but although this extra time for myself makes überman well worth it at the moment, it won’t if I can’t get out of this slum, as although I do not accomplish less work during my day I don’t have my usual energy levels and enthousiasm for work and that makes the day less fun.

Stress

One big advantage right now is the fact that the extra time means I can relax and I do not have to run everywhere because there is too much to do in a day. Getting ready in the morning has been a hectic affair for a while and I am enjoying considerably taking the time to put my make up and have a decent breakfast.

Theory of the day:

• Another reinforcement towards food influencing naps
• Motivation seems affected by transitory sleep dep

Seb is definitely feeling better, although still has trouble digesting food at night. We’re no longer cold, thank god!

The night isn’t a walk in the park, but we are feeling less groggy and engaging in various activities easily keeps us up. We even tempt fate and watch a movie and although towards the end we’re nodding off moderately, it’s manageable!

Getting up after a nap is very, very hard though. Maybe even harder. I think it’s because although our body is adapting, our mind still craves the need for a full night’s sleep, the comfort of the bed and the cocoon of the bedroom. It feels really strange not to cuddle, or to wake up during the night and both switch sides at the same time and cuddle again (we’re actually cute like that) I really really miss that.

Because of the tiredness we take another nap right after finishing one, thinking that so long as we cut them into two it would be ok, but boy were we wrong. I was seriously groggy for a long time after. Lesson learned, no naps back to back.

Hoping to help the waking process, we opt to nap on the sofa, as we speculate that our bed being super comfortable, it is harder to peel ourselves away from it. After playing lego (and some apparently not on purpose kicking from Seb) we both fit on the sofa and manage to nap but it doesn’t really help, and we end up laying there and talking weakly for almost 45 min. after the alarm because we don’t have the courage to get up!

On the other side, the naps during the day are super easy now. I’ve read many people write that you cannot delay a nap by 10 min. and if you do, you really can’t delay the other after. It doesn’t seem to be the case for us.

Both working at our store, we cannot nap at the same time, so we switch and thus nap either a little early or a little late during business hours and so far it doesn’t seem to cause problems.

Going for lunch at the restaurant however didn’t seem to go as peacefully. I ordered chicken and vegetables sauté on crunchy noodles and about 1/3rd through I started digesting really badly. My nap didn’t feel as refreshing and I am a little bit tired writing this. Greasy pizza works but not this? I’ll be damned. I’ve always known pizza was my friend.

WEDNESDAY EVENING

We had expiring two for one coupon to go to the movie and thus decided to go catch a flick, only to realize that all of the movies are playing during our naps, or too close to one for us to get back on time. Bollocks. I guess we’ll wait until we’re more adapted to the polyphasic schedule. It’s a bit irritating, but knowing it won’t always be impossible makes it still a worthwhile compromise.

Somewhat vivid dreams

It’s been very strange today, as I do not have vivid dreams that I remember per say, but often my feeling of dreaming before falling asleep has transformed into dreams with intermittent spout of consciousness. I don’t feel like I’m waking up, merely transiting smoothly from one state into another. Very strange.

Water

For some reason I drink a LOT more water than usual. And I don’t mean over the 24h period, even if I just count the water within regular up time. I just seem continually thirsty.

Our cat naps

It seems our lovely cat Ninja! has caught on the napping game, she now always naps with us! Überman, the game the whole family can play!

Eyes

Seb seems to have problem with his eyes, they are too dry and he has trouble keeping them open, but not because he is tired. It’s night now so no pharmacy will be opened (damn you monophasic world!) but we’ll get him some eye drops tomorrow morning first thing and hope that it will make him feel better.

Theories of the day:

• The theory that the food eaten has an impact on the quality of the naps gets reinforced with today’s experience
• Our naps seem to be reasonably adjustable in their schedule
• Napping twice in a row is baaaaad.