Day 6 was quite uneventful. I was running overnight experiments in lab and I had to sleep there anyways so I took my core sleep there. Woke up to have breakfast at Cajun kitchen (yummm) and the rest of the day just went well, pretty much.
Day 7 was absolutely painful in the morning. Upon waking up, I was struck by a strong urge to go back to bed and sleep more, which I did for about 30 mins. Then I had breakfast and took an earlier nap from what was scheduled. Bad idea. That night I had such a hard time staying awake until 3 am. Eventually I did after almost falling a sleep several times and woke up with, you guessed it, sleepiness! This time, I fell back to sleep for an extra hour.
Day 8: After the fiasco with the sleepiness in the morning, everything worked out fine again today. I took my naps according to schedule and did not feel sleepy or tired during the day. In fact, I was running around like a headless chicken trying to get work done (oh, grad school!). Once again, I'm reminded why I started this sleep schedule in the first place: too much to do, too little time to do anything. Uh oh, I something going wrong with our schedule. Thomas just went in for an extra nap after oversleeping by half an hour his 11 pm nap. I hope this doesn't throw him off schedule for the next couple of days. So far, the before and after of the core sleep seems to be the problem. I read online that your body gets used to the nap but needs time to adjust to the core sleep so that it doesn't need the 8 hours of sleep it normally gets. Hopefully, this marks the turning point to a good fulfilling core sleep if we get through this phase!
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