Übersleep Update
Thursday August 13th, 2009
Good news and bad news. Good news is that I managed to take all my naps on time today and to fall into deep sleep in them. The next target is to have REM sleep in them, that is to dream. This requires major adjustment because normally REM sleep only occurs at the end of 90 minutes of sleep. While I can’t get REM sleep in my naps, tiredness will get worse every day.
Bad news is that today it was already terrible at times. This morning and also once during the afternoon, I was just fighting to stay awake and not fall asleep standing. A walk in the brisk morning air to the supermarket helped (for as long as I was outside anyway) but I would have been too afraid of collapsing on the way if not for my boyfriend coming along. Also, I can ignore tiredness very well when watching Romance of the Three Kingdoms or when playing Luxor or doing other stuff on the computer, but this morning my eyes refused to focus on the screen. I couldn’t look at it. I really wonder what I can do to give my eyes some rest some of these days. Originally I thought I’d listen to podcasts or foreign language recordings, but sitting somewhere with eyes closed listening to podcasts at this kind of low energy level is just a recipe for disaster (sleep). Fortunately I felt better this evening and I even managed to get some work done.