Übersleep 4 – adjusting, I think
Okay, so I read other logs and apparently it’s common to feel low on energy for the first couple days after being able to REM sleep. The body needs to catch up on sleep. For this purpose, some advocate having additional naps in the middle between two scheduled ones, when tired. I have been doing that to some extend and am gradually starting to feel better. Today for example the fog receded from my brain enough to allow me to study Chinese characters on Anki. Also, yesterday I automatically woke up after 20 minutes of an impromptu additional nap, and that’s encouraging, too.
On the down side, I seriously overslept this morning. After going to bed for my 4am nap, I only woke up at 8:30am!. I blame my alarm clock, because I switched to a different one to prevent my boyfriend from getting sleep-deprived as I do this, and that alarm clock is apparently default set not to operate on Sundays, only work days. So it never went off and I slept all that time. Since normally I would have taken another nap from 8am to 8:30am, I decided not to do anything special but just to go ahead with my naps as before and hope for the best. Just now I was suitably tired for my 12pm nap and woke up from deep sleep before the alarm even went off.