12:15pm
So my dad thought it would be a great idea to ride our bikes to our game (we play on the same team, weird sounding but the league doesn't have an age restriction and I love any opportunity to beat him), and of course it pour rain for the ride home (but hey, I still beat him home)
The game went well, i don't believe the sleep cycle effected me in any way physically wise, I actually think the early morning improved my endurance. The problem I did have was the effect on my mind, a couple times i got really mixed up which isn't usual. If this cycle stops that or at least lessens it, I think it will be extremely helpful in the future so I'm not a dough head every time I'm tired
Staying up at night isn't really a problem because its impossible for me to fall asleep in front of the TV and I cant really do anything productive (not yet at least) because I'm not one for concentration; especially when I'm tired.
Corbin has been able to be awake enough to work at night so the competitive side in me is determined to get used to working at night, and if its quicker than him; well...that's just the name of the game. right?
For those of you reading this at this time of night, koodos, you are half way there to the sleep cycle, just wake up at 5 every morning and you'll be good to go :)
Sleep tight!
Monday, July 9, 2012
Allyssa's Cycle - First Afternoon
4:30ish pm
I am so tired!
Today I shouldn't have watched so much Scrubs and actually did something productive like clean the house like I was suppose to. Tomorrow I will defiantly find something to do, like the gazillion craft ideas stumbleupon.com has given me.
My game tonight is at 6:30 and my position is only running, so we will see how that goes! I am actually very interested to see how athletic I can be with this cycle.
I am so tired!
I napped from 2:20-3:20 and it was very deep, but then when I woke up I was even more tired and slow minded. Like this morning I forgot to tell you how I was physically and mentally handling this so far. This morning i just felt dopey, nothing out of the normal tired feeling. Although I do have a headache from not having any caffeine (For this experiment and other reasons I am going without my daily morning coffee) so i hope I can get over this quickly.
Today I shouldn't have watched so much Scrubs and actually did something productive like clean the house like I was suppose to. Tomorrow I will defiantly find something to do, like the gazillion craft ideas stumbleupon.com has given me.
My game tonight is at 6:30 and my position is only running, so we will see how that goes! I am actually very interested to see how athletic I can be with this cycle.
as of now if I continue this after the 10 days I would continue to wake up at 5 and go to bed at midnight because the morning is actually very nice and the extra hour wouldn't hurt and there's not a whole lot for me to do at midnight anyways.
That is the up-to-date news and I will be back tonight to post about how the game went
Bye for now
Allyssa's Sleep Cycle - First Morning
8am
I didn't end up going to bed until around 1:30 because my sister was watching her show and then Scrubs is just too good to not finish.
5:30 this morning wasn't that bad actually, I stayed in bed for a while and talked to Corbin but didn't fall back to sleep which was pretty great! Hitting snooze instead of shutting my alarm off was the best advice from Corbin on how to get up on time because really, who wants to get up at 5 in the morning?
Since i have a game tonight i decided to just go for a walk instead with my dog. This morning was so cool I should have bundled up more, but it also helped me wake up.
so today I don't know when i will need the hour nap, i will just see how it all goes and blog afterwards
Enjoy the day :)
I didn't end up going to bed until around 1:30 because my sister was watching her show and then Scrubs is just too good to not finish.
5:30 this morning wasn't that bad actually, I stayed in bed for a while and talked to Corbin but didn't fall back to sleep which was pretty great! Hitting snooze instead of shutting my alarm off was the best advice from Corbin on how to get up on time because really, who wants to get up at 5 in the morning?
Since i have a game tonight i decided to just go for a walk instead with my dog. This morning was so cool I should have bundled up more, but it also helped me wake up.
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| London the Labradoodle also referred to as: meathead, and snickers |
so today I don't know when i will need the hour nap, i will just see how it all goes and blog afterwards
Enjoy the day :)
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Allyssa's Cycle
So as you have read, I am Corbin’s Girlfriend, and am very
forgetful so we will see how this goes!
The reason I chose to follow
Corbin’s steps in the sleep cycle is because I’m staying up to 1 anyways to
talk to him, and I am up for a challenge to keep life interesting. My main
concern is time; I usually use sleep to fill time and to replace boredom, so I
will have to find some way to fill my time and to patch my boredom. My
secondary concern is how I will function; when I am tired I am irritable,
impatient and I kind of become an air head. this may be because of the amount
of sleep I get in a 24 hour period (around 10 hours with an 8 hour night sleep
and a 2 hour nap in the afternoon is too much) and if this sleep cycle
decreases that my family and I (mostly my family because they so lovingly put
up with my over tiredness) will be overjoyed. I am opposite to Corbin in many
ways and that includes my schedule, because I don’t have one, I pretty much
just go with the flow and see where I end up. So now I will consciously have to
plan out how my day will go
I just graduated high school and am going back
for a victory lap to catch up on credits I lost from my full time co-op with an
electrical company. So its time to pick a new career path and I pray I can find
it this year
I work at McDonalds (small
stepping stone) and get about 15 hours a week, I usually work in the evenings
but this week I have 2 shifts in the afternoon, so we will see how it works
with the whole napping part of the day.
Two nights a week I play Ultimate
Frisbee in a league (it gets pretty intense) and I mostly use it as an excuse
to run around more than actually caring if we win or lose.
My Plan:
Sleep 1-5
Go for a run
Sleep for an hour whenever in the
afternoon
Fill my time somehow in-between
and repeat
I will follow the same blogging
schedule as Corbin and I’m keeping it on his blog to keep everything on the
same page
I will keep you posted because im
starting tonight!
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Tips and Tricks For Your Sleep Cycle
After trying this sleep cycle for ten days now I have accumulated some knowledge of what and what not to do if this is something that interests you. I thought that I would be generous and share this information with the public because I'm a swell guy. So ahead you'll find the most important things that I learned while trying this new cycle.
First up: don't ease into it. I know this sounds appealing and you probably think by slowly cutting back your bed times and wake up alarms you'll be better adjusted. This is false. You will be less committed and more willing to cheat. You may be thinking that you have a lot of will power and won't cheat when doing this. That's great, but if that's the case then just start with schedule you're planning on using.
Use time effectively. At first it seems awesome that you're awake for nineteen hours a day (it is), and you have endless amounts of time to do whatever you please. The reality is that you don't have an eternity and the day will end. I know this sounds needless to mention or condescending but it's very important to realize. If you decide in the morning to catch up on your favourite website or TV series and that takes you ten in the morning, you wasted more time on that than you would on any other given day. This also leaves less time to do the important things that need to get done. So don't spend hours playing video games because the day will end and you will have spent 24 hours playing FIFA.
The second part to the previous tip is to start being productive early. If you can get all your hard work out of the way first thing in the morning then it opens up the entire day so that you can do whatever you'd like. My personal example is running. I haven't run consistently in years and had it not been for this sleep cycle I still wouldn't be running. I didn't have time and my days were too sporadic. But now I can get the run out of the way and still shower before anyone is up. There's a sense of control that comes with getting annoying tasks out of the way first thing in the morning.
Know that times can change, but don't abuse this. I used three or four different times for my afternoon naps effectively. This was good news because that means your schedule can be flexible. I noticed however that the more I switched it around the harder it was to go to sleep. That's obviously because I was throwing my body off constantly. So know that your sleep time can change, just do it cautiously.
Plan ahead. It sucks when you're having a great time with your friends then realize you were supposed to be sleeping 47 minutes ago. Remember to tell people in advance. Mostly everyone finds different sleep cycles at least interesting and they will give you a couch and pillows. Even if they just give you some quiet almost everyone respects different sleep routines. It's important to tell people though and make sure you yourself remembers it.
That's about it for tips and tricks for now; if I remember anymore I will blog them or possibly add a tips and tricks part two. I hope this has been helpful for you go-getters.
As for where this blog is going in the future here's the deal; my girlfriend is going to try this sleep cycle as well. As I mentioned in a previous post, she is more forgetful than I so this will create a nice contrast between two different styles of committing to the cycle. I or she will be blogging her thoughts and reactions for at least the transition period. That way we will together be able to compare and see how the sleep cycle effects two people differently. I'm excited about this new tactic and I hope to see you again very soon!
First up: don't ease into it. I know this sounds appealing and you probably think by slowly cutting back your bed times and wake up alarms you'll be better adjusted. This is false. You will be less committed and more willing to cheat. You may be thinking that you have a lot of will power and won't cheat when doing this. That's great, but if that's the case then just start with schedule you're planning on using.
Use time effectively. At first it seems awesome that you're awake for nineteen hours a day (it is), and you have endless amounts of time to do whatever you please. The reality is that you don't have an eternity and the day will end. I know this sounds needless to mention or condescending but it's very important to realize. If you decide in the morning to catch up on your favourite website or TV series and that takes you ten in the morning, you wasted more time on that than you would on any other given day. This also leaves less time to do the important things that need to get done. So don't spend hours playing video games because the day will end and you will have spent 24 hours playing FIFA.
The second part to the previous tip is to start being productive early. If you can get all your hard work out of the way first thing in the morning then it opens up the entire day so that you can do whatever you'd like. My personal example is running. I haven't run consistently in years and had it not been for this sleep cycle I still wouldn't be running. I didn't have time and my days were too sporadic. But now I can get the run out of the way and still shower before anyone is up. There's a sense of control that comes with getting annoying tasks out of the way first thing in the morning.
Know that times can change, but don't abuse this. I used three or four different times for my afternoon naps effectively. This was good news because that means your schedule can be flexible. I noticed however that the more I switched it around the harder it was to go to sleep. That's obviously because I was throwing my body off constantly. So know that your sleep time can change, just do it cautiously.
Plan ahead. It sucks when you're having a great time with your friends then realize you were supposed to be sleeping 47 minutes ago. Remember to tell people in advance. Mostly everyone finds different sleep cycles at least interesting and they will give you a couch and pillows. Even if they just give you some quiet almost everyone respects different sleep routines. It's important to tell people though and make sure you yourself remembers it.
That's about it for tips and tricks for now; if I remember anymore I will blog them or possibly add a tips and tricks part two. I hope this has been helpful for you go-getters.
As for where this blog is going in the future here's the deal; my girlfriend is going to try this sleep cycle as well. As I mentioned in a previous post, she is more forgetful than I so this will create a nice contrast between two different styles of committing to the cycle. I or she will be blogging her thoughts and reactions for at least the transition period. That way we will together be able to compare and see how the sleep cycle effects two people differently. I'm excited about this new tactic and I hope to see you again very soon!
Just A Quickie
9:02 a.m.
Before I'm gone for most of the day I just wanted to throw a quick update on the blog. I hadn't intended on doing this but I thought that these two things were important enough to share. Last night after posting the summary, I was able to stay up until 1:00 without any tiredness. This was exciting and it made me wonder if there was something to the transition period after all.
The second thing that happened after I got out of bed and went for my run was that I was tired. From about 5:00 a.m. to 7:30 I was completely fine but after that and up until a few moments ago I was extremely close to falling asleep.
These two things have gone against most of what has happened before and everything in my summary yesterday. The blog post yesterday still should be taken at full value since it was an accurate summary up until that point. These are just very notable occurrences.
Stay tuned because later today (5:30 between 10:00), I will be posting my tips on how to successfully transition from a monophasic cycle to a polyphasic one. In that post I'll also be telling what's going to be happening with my cycle, the blog and other stuff that is secret right now. So stay tuned!
Before I'm gone for most of the day I just wanted to throw a quick update on the blog. I hadn't intended on doing this but I thought that these two things were important enough to share. Last night after posting the summary, I was able to stay up until 1:00 without any tiredness. This was exciting and it made me wonder if there was something to the transition period after all.
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| The view out my bedroom window every morning |
These two things have gone against most of what has happened before and everything in my summary yesterday. The blog post yesterday still should be taken at full value since it was an accurate summary up until that point. These are just very notable occurrences.
Stay tuned because later today (5:30 between 10:00), I will be posting my tips on how to successfully transition from a monophasic cycle to a polyphasic one. In that post I'll also be telling what's going to be happening with my cycle, the blog and other stuff that is secret right now. So stay tuned!
Friday, July 6, 2012
The End Of The Transition Period
As was promised earlier, I will give a summary of the first ten days (transition period) of my sleep cycle. It goes as follows;
Before the experiment began I was nervous and excited. I had imagined that it would be difficult to stay up at first because I would be tired all the time. I had also thought that it would take longer than ten days to make the adjustment because I had been sleeping in eight hour blocks pretty much since I was born. I had many concerns going into the project; I wouldn't be able to follow through, I would be too tired, and many more. This however was not the case.
The first few mornings in I woke and got up right at 5:00 a.m. This surprised me as I thought that I would be too exhausted to wake up. I also went for runs almost immediately and I'm sure they helped prepare my body for the day. There were some other surprises for me; ones that I had just been too busy to notice. One was how cool it is in the morning. I have never gotten up this early in all my summers and due to this schedule I have discovered that mornings are awesome even just for their coolness. I normally dislike the heat and in the morning there usually isn't any. Another observation was that I had to eat more and constantly be eating. I didn't gain any weight, fortunately and I haven't been eating any better. The last thing was that I had so much time in the morning. Usually on the weekends I would sleep in to 8:00 or 9:00 a.m. and would eat and shower taking me to 10:00 or later. Then I would do some pointless things (reading, TV) and I wouldn't start doing homework or yard work until the afternoon. Now I can be lazy for a couple hours and it will still be 7:00 or 8:00 in the morning; I still have the entire day open. This was a huge revelation.
As the transition period wore on I became more lazy in the morning. I would wake up at the alarm but then sleep in to 7:00 or 8:00. This was easily fixed by using the snooze button but it's still worth noting that my body was less comfortable with the schedule as the trial wore on.
For my afternoon rest periods, I got used to them almost immediately. I didn't find working my way into these challenging at all, and if you've been keeping up with the blog, you'll remember that I was able to freely change the periods from 2:00 to 1:00 to 4:00. This is an important aspect for those of us needing a flexible schedule.
I was never able to grasp the nightly sleep periods. Once in bed I was almost at once asleep however the most challenging task of this project was to stay awake until 1:00 p.m. Now I know that this doesn't sound hard but for me it was. I had trained my body to fall asleep around 10:30 and to push this back two and a half hours was very foreign to my body. I'm not sure if I'll be able to combat late night sleepiness better in the future but this is something that I will still keep an eye on.
As far as the miscellaneous stuff goes there wasn't too much to note. It felt weird sleeping in someone else's home but everyone was understanding. It did not feel strange to sleep in the afternoon even though I had never done this before. These periods just felt like naps and I never took the risk and tried to power through a day without my afternoon nap (soon, maybe). As mentioned before, I usually always want to sleep longer in the morning when thinking about it the night before. I rarely want to sleep in once I wake up though. I also always want to go to bed earlier and it feels like nonsense when I HAVE to stay up. That's about it for there though.
My last point that I would like to make is about productivity. I had envisioned myself being more creative and more productive and able to handle more. The truth about this is that you have to be productive yourself. You have to do it. You can't depend on parents or sleep cycles or agendas to make you more productive. You get what you put in. I would like to end this post with a quote from Yoda, "Do or do not, there is no try."
This is what you can expect tomorrow; tips and advice for when you start your own cycle. I'm personally excited as the survey shows that most people are looking to do something like this. After that post I will also be explaining the next step with this blog. You'll want to read it.
Before the experiment began I was nervous and excited. I had imagined that it would be difficult to stay up at first because I would be tired all the time. I had also thought that it would take longer than ten days to make the adjustment because I had been sleeping in eight hour blocks pretty much since I was born. I had many concerns going into the project; I wouldn't be able to follow through, I would be too tired, and many more. This however was not the case.
The first few mornings in I woke and got up right at 5:00 a.m. This surprised me as I thought that I would be too exhausted to wake up. I also went for runs almost immediately and I'm sure they helped prepare my body for the day. There were some other surprises for me; ones that I had just been too busy to notice. One was how cool it is in the morning. I have never gotten up this early in all my summers and due to this schedule I have discovered that mornings are awesome even just for their coolness. I normally dislike the heat and in the morning there usually isn't any. Another observation was that I had to eat more and constantly be eating. I didn't gain any weight, fortunately and I haven't been eating any better. The last thing was that I had so much time in the morning. Usually on the weekends I would sleep in to 8:00 or 9:00 a.m. and would eat and shower taking me to 10:00 or later. Then I would do some pointless things (reading, TV) and I wouldn't start doing homework or yard work until the afternoon. Now I can be lazy for a couple hours and it will still be 7:00 or 8:00 in the morning; I still have the entire day open. This was a huge revelation.
As the transition period wore on I became more lazy in the morning. I would wake up at the alarm but then sleep in to 7:00 or 8:00. This was easily fixed by using the snooze button but it's still worth noting that my body was less comfortable with the schedule as the trial wore on.
For my afternoon rest periods, I got used to them almost immediately. I didn't find working my way into these challenging at all, and if you've been keeping up with the blog, you'll remember that I was able to freely change the periods from 2:00 to 1:00 to 4:00. This is an important aspect for those of us needing a flexible schedule.
I was never able to grasp the nightly sleep periods. Once in bed I was almost at once asleep however the most challenging task of this project was to stay awake until 1:00 p.m. Now I know that this doesn't sound hard but for me it was. I had trained my body to fall asleep around 10:30 and to push this back two and a half hours was very foreign to my body. I'm not sure if I'll be able to combat late night sleepiness better in the future but this is something that I will still keep an eye on.
As far as the miscellaneous stuff goes there wasn't too much to note. It felt weird sleeping in someone else's home but everyone was understanding. It did not feel strange to sleep in the afternoon even though I had never done this before. These periods just felt like naps and I never took the risk and tried to power through a day without my afternoon nap (soon, maybe). As mentioned before, I usually always want to sleep longer in the morning when thinking about it the night before. I rarely want to sleep in once I wake up though. I also always want to go to bed earlier and it feels like nonsense when I HAVE to stay up. That's about it for there though.
My last point that I would like to make is about productivity. I had envisioned myself being more creative and more productive and able to handle more. The truth about this is that you have to be productive yourself. You have to do it. You can't depend on parents or sleep cycles or agendas to make you more productive. You get what you put in. I would like to end this post with a quote from Yoda, "Do or do not, there is no try."
This is what you can expect tomorrow; tips and advice for when you start your own cycle. I'm personally excited as the survey shows that most people are looking to do something like this. After that post I will also be explaining the next step with this blog. You'll want to read it.
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