Day 0

• 30 April 2002 11:30am EDT
  
  Woke up from the last long night of sleep I should have during the
  course of this experiment. Slept at around 6am for a good 5-5.5
  hours.

  
  

• 30 April 2002 3:30pm EDT
  
  Skipped nap, not tired, feel fine.

  
  

• 30 April 2002 7:30pm EDT
  
  Skipped nap, not tired, feel fine.

  
  

• 30 April 2002 11:30pm EDT
  
  Skipped nap, not tired, feel fine.

  
  

• 1 May 2002 3:30am EDT
  
  Didn't sleep much. Just lay in bed tossing and turning for about 20
  minutes. Not too tired though, as I woke up around noon.

  
  

• 1 May 2002 7:30am EDT
  
  Was getting pretty tired prior to my 'nap.' Though, I'd been working on
  getting SourceForge configured and didn't really have any difficulties
  in either cognition or recall.
  
  Nap is in quotes because, again, I didn't really fall asleep; just tossed
  and turned. I started to fall asleep just as my alarm rang and kind of
  feel a bit like shit now: groggy, tired, and hungry. I'll eat some soup
  now.

  
  

• 1 May 2002 11:30am EDT
  
  Was tired, but not painfully so before the nap. Spent the last few
  hours brainstorming and talking with Doug, which I think did reasonably
  well. I don't think Doug could tell how little sleep I've had (though,
  I've only been awake for 24 hours, which I've done plenty of times).
  
  My nap went a little better, but I seriously feel like just staying in
  my bed now. Didn't really start to fall asleep until the last few
  minutes, but it felt good. I am exhausted.

  
  

• 1 May 2002 3:30pm EDT
  
  Before my nap, I was quite awake, maybe because of the daylight. Spent
  some time working and some time watching a movie. Again, I didn't fall
  asleep immediately, but did halfway through the nap. It's becoming
  harder and harder to get out of bed after each nap.

  
  

• 1 May 2002 4:00pm EDT
  
  It is the hardest for the first 20 minutes after waking up from my nap.
  I feel singularly awful, but after that first 20 minutes, it's not so
  bad. So, as long as I'm disciplined about just getting myself out of bed
  and staying out for that 20 minutes post-nap, I might be able to get
  through this.

  
  

• 1 May 2002 7:50pm EDT
  
  I was starting to feel a little better before my nap but 'overslept'
  anyway. I wasn't really sleeping though. I think my cold is getting
  worse and I may have to abort the experiment and try again when I
  recover. Then again, I can't fall asleep anyway at this point, so I
  might as well keep going. I'm feeling pretty awake now, except for
  my cold. I took a vitamin pill.

  
  

• 2 May 2002 1:30 am EDT
  
  So, I purposely overslept my 11:00pm nap because I was feeling so
  terrible from my cold. Just woke up. I had REM sleep! I automatically
  woke up after my dream ended. I feel so much better. Maybe I will a less
  strict version of the routine until I recover and try to wake up from
  one REM cycle at a time and then stay awake for four hours.

  
  

• 2 May 2002 6:00 am EDT
  
  Well, I pretty much missed by 3am nap because I can't fall asleep. My
  throat is inflamed because of my cold, so the amount of mucus in my
  throat and the inflammation keep causing my glottis to close just as I'm
  about to fall asleep. So, just as I'm about to fall asleep, my glottis
  closes, which wakes me up since I can no longer breathe, and I cough,
  opening the glottis, and then try to fall asleep again, which then causes
  my glottis to close again, ad nauseum. I think the same thing happens in
  sleep apnea. I hope I don't have sleep apnea; I hope it's just the cold.
  I'm feeling quite miserable at this point and just want to sleep, but
  can't.

  
  

• 2 May 2002 8:00 am EDT
  
  I missed another nap because I couldn't breathe. This pretty much sucks.
  I just went out and bought some NyQuil. If that doesn't help, I'm going
  to the doctor. This project is pretty much over. I am so miserable.

  
  

• 2 May 2002 8:00 pm EDT
  
  Well, Nyquil is wonderful stuff. I slept for about 11.5 hours and felt
  great afterwards. It wasn't the most restful sleep; woke up a number of
  times in middle, but I feel great now. I'll take a shower, eat some
  dinner, watch some television, take more Nyquil, and wake up tomorrow
  again. I spent the last half hour cleaning out all of the demented shit
  I did while sleep-deprived on seneca.omniscia.org, e.g. SourceForge.

  
  

  Posted by bobo at July 16, 2002 07:13 PM | TrackBack