It was a foreboding evening. I left the library to take my 8pm nap, set my alarm, and then woke up at 10:30 pm realizing that I had never switched the actual alarm option to "on." While normally this would just have been a bad slip, since the night life at my school is non-exist (or at least ... quickly quelled), I actually missed the core social drinking hours during 8 and 10:30. I met up with some friends who had obviously had a more extensive night than me. Trying to catch up a bit, I played some beer pong, but I never got close to where I would have been had I drank with my friends earlier.
I pushed my midnight nap until 1:30 just because I had already slept so much, and I wasn't particularly tired. Leaving my friend's house for my 1:30 nap, it was reasonable to wonder whether I would wake up, but it wasn't surprising or stunning when I actually did. I had a very hard time falling asleep for my 1:30 nap perhaps because of my 2-hour slip up. I laid in bed restlessly wondering when I was going to fall asleep, feeling nearly completely conscious but at some point the alarm clock "woke" me up. It never felt like I was asleep because I was having very conscious light dreams.
After meeting up with any remaining awake friends, we did the whole pizza, tv thing. Leaving for my 4 am nap a few hours later, I was almost completely confident that I would wake up.
And that's where I write now. It's 6:13 in the morning, and I am continuing on my normal polyphasic sleep cycle. While, in a mild sense, I feel good that I could take my nap and still have my alarm clock wake me up this evening, the challenge that I expected and still need never really materialized. That being said, tomorrow is my school's Halloween celebrations... I'm sure I'll get another chance.
I pushed my midnight nap until 1:30 just because I had already slept so much, and I wasn't particularly tired. Leaving my friend's house for my 1:30 nap, it was reasonable to wonder whether I would wake up, but it wasn't surprising or stunning when I actually did. I had a very hard time falling asleep for my 1:30 nap perhaps because of my 2-hour slip up. I laid in bed restlessly wondering when I was going to fall asleep, feeling nearly completely conscious but at some point the alarm clock "woke" me up. It never felt like I was asleep because I was having very conscious light dreams.
After meeting up with any remaining awake friends, we did the whole pizza, tv thing. Leaving for my 4 am nap a few hours later, I was almost completely confident that I would wake up.
And that's where I write now. It's 6:13 in the morning, and I am continuing on my normal polyphasic sleep cycle. While, in a mild sense, I feel good that I could take my nap and still have my alarm clock wake me up this evening, the challenge that I expected and still need never really materialized. That being said, tomorrow is my school's Halloween celebrations... I'm sure I'll get another chance.
