Dan's Polyphasic Blog: Everyman-in-Training

Summary: Since my oversleep on Sunday evening, I haven’t had any unintentional deviations from my schedule, but I’ve made a few intentional ones since starting to feel a bit sick.

I don’t remember exactly when I started to notice symptoms of getting sick, but it was no later than this Monday. I decided to tough it out Monday night, since it was the night after my oversleep, and I wanted to get back on schedule. The next night (between Tuesday and Wednesday), I decided to go to sleep about 90 minutes early. I made that decision when it was already kind of late, but looking back on it now, I still think the reasoning was sound.

The night thereafter, I went to sleep at the normal time again, thinking that since things hadn’t gotten any worse, that I had successfully averted illness. Unfortunately not. On Thursday morning, I woke up with a lousy cough and a really sore throat. I felt bad enough to call in sick to work. (I also really didn’t want to spread the sickness more than it has been spread already. I wish more people at work were considerate about things like that.)

I felt pretty bad all morning. Then I decided to take a longer core sleep around my noontime nap. The idea was that this was something that would be much easier to untrain my body from, again. I felt a lot better in the afternoon. I’d signed up for a course that I was supposed to got to for the first time this evening, but I didn’t feel up to going. I hope I don’t miss anything too important.

I’m not sure what tomorrow will feel like, yet. It could go either way. I feel better than I did in the morning, but a few hours of sleep can change everything, I’ve learned (and not always for the better).

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