The Dreaded 2-6 am Block

Day 2. Nap Count:4

Well everyone was right, 2-6 is the time you REALLY have to be careful. It is only the 2nd day and the first time I have had to live through this block and let me tell you, everything they say about finding something to do is ABSOLUTELY TRUE. I don't feel tired really because I have been sleeping less, but because I am so bored. I went back to my childhood and played some Typer Shark for a little while but soon that became really mind numbing so I tried to wake myself up by walking around my basement for a few minutes and that seemed to help.

I said that I would be using this time to try and accomplish some sort of unique goal I wouldn't regularly accomplish if I did not have all this free time on my hands. Well as of now I have had zip to none ideas as to what I should do during the dreaded 2-6 block, so really it is sort of my own fault that I am so bored. So I have tried keeping myself busy by (attempting to) building a house of cards. I am not sure if it is due to repeated failure, determination, or my growing frustration at these stupid cards that is keeping me from passing out. So whether or not I actually get to a 2nd level of my house, I am awake still.

I am starting to feel the experiment wear on me. There is this weird looming feeling of the thought that I am not going to be able to take a huge chunk of time and sleep off all my growing fatigue. Its just strange to think that the only sleep I am going to get soon is the 30 minute nap I am going to be taking in the next 40 or so minutes. While right now I am at a solid 2 or 3 on the alertness scale I know that I am going to start going more and more downhill as day 2 progresses.

Note to self: find out things you can do while in the basement that will not wake up the rest of the house. Also test out your alarms to see how loud they can go but still be undetected by the people sleeping upstairs. Also test the shower because most likely my new shower time is going to be at 3 or 4 am to insure I don't start dozing off (second note to self: don't fall asleep in the shower).

P.s I am most likely going to use this time block to do regular blogging to keep myself busy. Plus that way when you people on normal schedules wake up you can have a fresh blog post for your morning (call it a self esteem booster to know that someone is suffering from lack of sleep while you slept all night...you're welcome).