Day 11 - Pre Core

In bed by: 8:15pm

A great ending to an interesting day. 

Feeling sleepy, yet no-longer abnormally so, my wife and I were able to get to bed a bit early after eating a scrumptious meatloaf dinner while finishing up a contraption on which we were collaborating in Minecraft, an auto harvesting wheat/carrot farm.

Lesson Learned:

Perfect naps and/or a recovery schedule can salvage even the worst days, ensuring that you don't have to suffer those nasty sleep-deprivation symptoms that you experience on a fluctuating/interrupted schedule. Oh, and exercise makes a big, positive difference too.

Day 11 - Nap 4 (Recovery)

Alarm: 3:30pm (smart)

By 1:30pm, I no longer felt the symptoms that convinced me to switch to the recovery schedule, so I decided to keep working a bit in the yard with my wife; we are preparing a tree for planting at a neighborhood park tomorrow morning.

At 2:45pm I decided that I should nap again anyway, but instead do so under a smart alarm, one that would monitor when I exited REM. The result was I only slept for 18 minutes, so my wife and I could still make our plans to go swim laps at the neighborhood pool. After swimming, I experienced near-perfect freshness.

Day 11 - Post Nap 3

Alarm: 10:50am

Ahhh... a perfect recovery nap was exactly what the doctor ordered; I'm already feeling so much better. I had just a slight headache when the alarm sounded, but a just little physical activity was enough to assuage the pain. I can't wait until after the next nap, its a big, whopping 1 hour kind!