Dan's Polyphasic Blog: Everyman-in-Training

Summary: Had a bit of a hiccup on Saturday, which grew into a colossal failure on Sunday: major oversleep.

So, it being Saturday, I was spending some time at my family’s house. I took my noon nap there, and I upon waking up, I turned off my alarm before getting up. Fortunately, my family was waiting for me so we could have lunch, so my oversleeping didn’t go too long. Now, this happened because I set my alarm on the only clear raised space in the room, which happens to be right next to the bed. So, I was able to turn it off without even throwing off the covers. This hadn’t been a problem before, but I guess I was tempting fate every time I slept with the alarm so nearby…

So, I determined that i would do something like that again. Fast forward to Sunday afternoon. It’s 17:30, time for my afternoon nap. I’m at my apartment. I set my alarm in the regular spot, a few steps away from my bed. I’m settling down, and some big annoying fan that I’ve never heard before starts going in our storage space. It’s loud and annoying enough that I cannot get to sleep. So I cancel my alarm, haul out the MP3 player with placebo’s sleep track (the one that I loathe so much >:( ), with the intent of drowning out the noise with that, so that I can get to sleep. Well, it works. Has anyone spotted the problem, though?

MP3 players are physical devices that are connected to headphones via a cable. Generally, headphones have pretty short cables. Thus, in order to be listening to an MP3 player during a nap, the MP3 player would have to be pretty close by. Same situation as the previous day, except this time I didn’t have a family around to wake me up. I ended up sleeping from 17:30 until 03:30, a gargantuan 10 hours! ARGH!

When I woke up from that huge oversleep, I was sore everywhere, and even though it was just about time for me to lie down for my core sleep, I really couldn’t lie there any more. So I got up, played a game for a while, and by 05:15 I was feeling pretty tired, and much less sore. I guess my body has gotten used to being asleep at that time . It also felt like about the right time to go to sleep to get a full cycle of sleep in (my alarm goes off at 07:00 sharp every morning).

I’m a little bit confused, though. I didn’t feel that sleep deprived, so why would I end up sleeping for so long? Anyway, I’m a little bit shaken (unsurprisingly), but things had been going pretty good, and I imagine I can get things on track again this week, now that I have the schedule stabilizer that is work .

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