Warning–very likely rambles!

Polyphasic sleep, day 1.

You guys are not interested in what I’ve done today.  It was largely day-to-day stuff, but there was so much of it.  The fact that I still have 5.5 hours left in my day today astounds me.  Maybe that’s what I get for waking up at 1 am.

I also can’t tell you how excited I am for my nap in 40 minutes.  I’m adjusting to this pretty well, I already sleep through the naps and feel slightly more rested afterwards.  Probably due to my lack of ever sleeping in high school.  I pretty much mastered the power nap, much to the chagrin of my teachers.

I am still able to use big words, but they seem extra special for some reason.  Things are funnier.  I stared at a My Little Ponies mashup to various bad pop songs, and I couldn’t stop until I’d watched it in all of its seven minute glory.  This was not a good video.  My brain found it both addicting and hilarious.

My typing speed is way down.  My logic isn’t working at all.  I’ve felt basically two things during the day:  "bluur hurr when is next nap?" and a kind of sense of… falling in to it, I guess?  Clearly still sleep-deprived, but in a way where I can keep going, things more or less make sense, time flows smoothly (if very slowly), and it feels more…  More flowy.  Words fail me.

I’ve drawn a lot today, which is cool.  Bryan and I shopped, and it took us ages.

Oh, skipped a part.
Bryan’s doing it with me.  🙂  I came home last night declaring that I was going to do this, and there was no convincing me otherwise.  I expected some resistance, but other than "are you sure this is a good idea with your job?" I got an extra bonus.  Polyphasic buddy!  We had to re-work the schedule a bit because Bryan intends to stay up later than me, and I’d basically worked my schedule around Japanese times.

So, shopping took forever.  We actually needed to go back to the store for a few things that we forgot.  Our house is surprisingly clean for how little effort we put in.  More surprising considering our higher functions are simply not present.  We are making food.  I’ve been craving pot pie for some reason lately, and we are making it.  Bryan modified his pie crust to be savory, I’ve been making vegetarian gravy.  Then we just cook vegetables in the gravy, add vegan sausage, put it in the crust, and then cook it.

Nap in 30 minutes.  Nap!  Love nap!

Love so much extra time with Bryan, too.  I get plenty of personal time as well as Bryan time and it’s great.  We’re staying away from Star Trek, because it has been known to put me to sleep when I am tired, which I clearly am.  Instead, I have a project to get Bryan addicted to My Little Ponies.  We watched the first three episodes, and he laughed really hard through all of them, so I’m pretty sure I’m on a good path to mission completed.

I probably sound really sleep-deprived.  Some part of my higher brain function keeps squeaking that my sentence structure is not correct, but I can’t focus long enough to figure out what, or to even go back and read what I just wrote to try to try.  Just not happening.

I am not totally zombified.  Hopefully this will not happen.  I predict tomorrow to be the worst, and then I’ll start adjusting after that.  Dreams are good.  I seem to even be dreaming in the naps, though only what feels to be superficially.  I usually have such color and detail in my dreams that the vague and shadowy things that I’m having just aren’t quite right.

I also need to get over the reaction to drink potent teas.  I don’t drink caffeine much at all, because I like it when it works its full magic.  This is usually when I’m running on <5 hours of sleep.  BY THE WAY, THIS IS WHAT I AM DOING RIGHT NOW.  Caffeine bad.  Caffeine ruin naps.  Naps good.

Nap in 27 minutes.  Time to go find some other stimulating activity to keep me going for those minutes.
Loves!