Day 2, Nap Count:8, Current Alertness: 3

I am going to be straight up and say that I almost pussed out this morning. I almost threw in the towel because this morning (6-10) was by far the hardest block of this experiment so far. Harder then the last dreaded 2-6 block, harder then THIS 2-6 block. Fortunately for me I somehow plowed through it and had a glorious 10 o'clock nap. From then on (besides about 30 minutes of grogginess slightly after that nap) I felt completely normal. It was like I slept for 12 hours and had the best sleep of my life. I was alert, I was functional, and although I thought sitting in a dark theater for 90+ minutes would have put me to sleep (on top of the thrown together piece of crap that Clash Of The Titans was), it didn't. I even stayed constantly alert when I skipped my 6 oclock pm nap (stupid I know, but I was in the middle of making cookies and lost track of time, worst cookies ever too so it wasn't even worth it. I have learned my lesson).

Today was also my first interaction of on-the-go napping. I had decided at about midnight to go visit a buddy of mine. So I walked the mile or so to his house (due to the lack of vehicular transportation) and was enjoying myself (besides the 4 inches of snow that hit my Utahan city, but hey thats the weather for you). Pretty soon it came around the time for my 2 a.m nap. But being the kind of person that never really does things in a logical, normal way (I mean I am giving up 60% or so of my normal sleep) I made camp in the bathroom.

It wasn't as bad as one might think and I actually came pretty close to actually falling asleep (a pleasure I have only accomplished on maybe 2 or 3 naps so far). So I figure once Spring Break is over and I am forced to sleep in school, I can do it. If you can sleep in a bathroom, you can sleep anywhere.

One thing that all my Ubermen forefathers have experienced and have talked about was the increased amount of dreams that they remember actually having. Well I am amazed to report that after only 2 days and a handful of naps I have on atleast 3 ocassions remember dreaming during my 30 minutes of rest. Now of course I was stupid and did not write any of them down for any indication that I am going insane, but what matters is that they happened. Does this mean that after only a handful of naps my body is starting to go into REM sleep during the naps? I honestly do not know, I am not a scientist. But if this is the case I am very surprised at how fast this is working out. Hopefully I will not have such a long adjustment period after all.

An update on ideas for what to do during the dreaded 2-6 block: do something active and physical, but not TOO physical. Being that it snow a few inches today I decided to not do something very unique like I said I would do during this chunk of time but instead attempt to shovel my relatively large driveway. I was feeling good towards the beginning. I had just walked the mile back to my place from my friends and I was feeling pretty alert and was grateful I actually had something physical to do to keep my awake. But after a while I really started to wear myself out. So eventually I just gave up shoveling (leaving a very awkwardly placed 1/4 of a drive way covered in snow) and went inside. Right now I am feeling tired, not exhausted, not foggy, just tired. I didn't take my 3 am shower like I had hoped for being afraid that it will only relax me more and make me more open to falling asleep. But oh well that gives me something to do during 6-10 block.

Tomorrow is really going to be the test of my alertness on account of I need to work on this really really important flash animation I am doing for school that is really going to take some time to complete and is due no later then Thursday. I will keep you posted on how THAT is going.