Dan's Polyphasic Blog: Everyman-in-Training

Summary: I overslept my core over the weekend both mornings. I attribute it to going to bed about 10 minutes too late (and getting over sickness probably didn’t help). Last night (Sunday->Monday), I fell asleep in my chair shortly before my nighttime nap, and slept most of the night there. I think getting sick has set me back a bit.

While sick, I decided that if I wanted to take some extra sleep, I would do it, since you don’t want to drag out an illness. That would be at least as bad for adaptation, I think. So, I don’t consider oversleeping my cores on the weekend to be a big deal. They probably helped, since I’m feeling almost as not-sick as you can get, and before the weekend I was missing work.

I have been keeping logs of when I go to sleep, and how I feel in the morning. I’ve felt anywhere from pretty good to barely good enough in the morning when I go to sleep 3:20 before my alarm, and when I go to bed only 3:10 before my alarm, that’s where oversleeping occurs. However, I don’t know how much of that is actually spent sleeping. After going to bed, I make a point of not looking at the clock, because it only contributes to stress that makes it hard to fall asleep. The 2 nights where I overslept my core, I had been staying up late playing the new StarCraft 2 beta release, and got to bed a few minutes later than the ideal time. I probably should have bumped up the alarm time a few minutes to compensate, but I didn’t. Oh well. I was sick. I probably needed the sleep.

Last night was inexcusable, though. I was tired and uncomfortable in the chair I was sitting in with my netbook. So I moved to a more comfortable chair. That should have been a major red flag right there. Any time I do something to get more comfortable, I seem to end up falling asleep. It seems to be my body’s trump card. So, I ended up sleeping in that chair for most of the night (from about 10:30 – 6:00). When I awoke in the middle of my core, I moved to my bed to finish it. After being sick for a few days, I was just feeling tired and worn out, but I know that this sleep was avoidable. I wasn’t feeling sick any more at that point, so I can’t even make the same excuse I did for my core oversleeps.

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