Day 11

6am: Awoke after 3 hours; am sleepy but my mind cleared fairly quickly to a dull haze.

Note: My difficulties with being excessively sleepy, sick, and oversleeping started at the time I cut my core to less than 3 hours. After reading this chart it seems that there are some combinations of sleep/waking patterns that do not work. I wonder if I need to jump right from 3 hrs core to 1.5 hours core? I'll try that next.

Note: Now that I'm stabilizing I feel somewhat confident that I won't get sick on this schedule, and if I do start to get sick, then I have an approach I can take and that would be to take a couple of 2-hour naps to get over it.

So I propose this schedule for me:
Core: 3-6am
Naps: 12noon, 5pm, 10pm

10:30am: so sleepy. I am determined to adhere to the schedule. Closed my eyes while sitting in the chair; woke up as my head fell backwards. Did that twice. It cleared my head a bit.

12:00noon: took my nap on time - awoke refreshed.

3:30pm: very sleepy, eyes closing. Put my head down on the desk and set my alarm for 5 minutes. Fell asleep in a few seconds, awoke in 5 minutes and now feeling sharper. This is definitely an effective technique, better than just closing my eyes until my head nods and wakes me up. I wonder if 10 minutes would have been better or worse.

5:00pm: Napped for 20 minutes, woke to alarm and then decided to sleep a little more because my throat had gotten that scratchy I'm-getting-a-cold telltale feeling a couple of hours before the nap - it was all gone upon waking after a total of 50 minutes. It seems these naps have great healing properties when extended at necessary times.

Note: Was very clear-headed from the nap all the way to my evening nap.

10:00pm: Tried to nap for 20 minutes. Couldn't drift off, possibly because of the lengthened nap at 5pm. Interesting.

11:00pm: Worked out: squats: 200(8), 220(8), 200(8), Leg press: 435(8), 480(9), 435(10). This is my normal workout and improved over last week. Was wide awake and vitalized until bedtime.

2:30am: Cup of chamomile tea.

3:00am: Went to bed.