Weirdo Dream

I've been having some crazy dreams lately. I think that it is the biphasic sleeping-it makes my dreams more intense. Last night, I dreamt that I lived in an apartment by myself, and there was a guy who lived in the same complex. He had two best friends that were both girls. He kept coming over to my house and talking to me, but he never really said anything about being attracted to me. I wasn't attracted to him, but I did wonder if he was attracted to me but shy because he never really had a reason to come over, yet he was over at least once a day.

I then noticed that he had made copies of something I had written to him and both of his friends had written stuff (as if judging or grading what I was saying) in red beside my comments. When I asked him about it, he gave me a typewritten form letter telling me that he has decided that we can't be involved because he is really in love with one of his best friends. He apologized that nothing could come of our relationship. There were boxes on the form letter with check marks in them. Other options were: Will you marry me? and I want to ask you out. I don't know if it had occurred to him to give me the form letter previously or not, but apparently we were breaking up even though I didn't even know we were dating.

I talked to his other best friend about it-not the one who "stole" him from me. She told me that he had consulted both his friends as well as his parents about it. I said something about not really knowing that there was anything going on, and the friend said that she wasn't surprised because he was a little odd. She then told me that he sent out "Beware-I'll be joining you" cards to every member of the local gym before he joined it.

What does it mean?!!

I Have a New Blog!

My wonderful friend Anna (from England from Australia) is also giving biphasic sleeping a try. She invited me to post my experiences with her on our new blog: Biphasic Sleeping. In theory, it'll be updated often, since we both have all this new "free time." In reality...we'll see! When I lived in Australia, we did do a project together and it worked out quite well. We made a video of the area with her dad's camcorder. Of course, I can't find the movie, so you just have to trust me that it was a good little project... I didn't even get to transfer it over to the American version of the video-I have no idea what happened to it. This is a bad example of how well we work together... Alas, have a look at our new blog and enjoy!

I'm Back!

It is so nice to be back to normal! I haven't been able to do my biphasic sleeping very well because I had houseguests staying in both the living room and the den. Our house is small, so it made leaving the bedroom during my awake time very difficult!
Now, biphasic sleeping has been wonderful, and I am getting used to getting up in the middle of the night and really enjoy the benefits; however, it is extremely difficult to wake up for any period of time without getting out of bed. Also, Keira decided that having houseguests meant that she needed to scream in the middle of the night at weird times-just to keep us on our toes! So, that also made getting the right amount of sleep time difficult.
So, tonight is my first night really back to biphasic sleeping. I kind of dabbled when everyone was here, but now I'm on my serious schedule. It was very difficult to wake up be polite when my nap was over tonight. I didn't have much trouble getting out of bed, and I started doing things right away; but, when Josh talked to me, I felt like biting his head off. He sounded chipper, and that wasn't working for me at the time!
I'm doing better now, but he's in bed so it doesn't really matter. The animals don't care if I'm polite to them!
Now that the time change has taken place and I won't have any interruptions, I think I'm going to try sleeping just 3 hours for my 2nd phase of sleeping. I think this is a benefit because it gives me even more time awake (duh), but it also makes my time in between sleeps feel less rushed. Many times before, I would feel like I just woke up, only to have to go back to sleep and then I wouldn't have much time after my 2nd sleep to do much other than get ready for work. This way I will have more time after both sleeps!
My main concern is that once I decide I'm going to sleep for 3 hours rather than 4 1/2, I can't change my mind as I will need to get ready for work. If I stay up any later than 2am, I won't be able to sleep any longer than 3 hours and keep to a sleep cycle. Maybe it is better that way-no turning back when the alarm goes off; I just hope my mind doesn't decide I need more sleep and turns off the alarm!
Here goes nothing! I'm feeling pretty good right now!

Oh, to answer Connie's question as to what made me decide to start biphasic sleeping, I was tired of being tired all of the time. I felt exhausted pretty much all day-there would be a few hours where I felt pretty good, but it was usually when I was at work, which is really a waste... I wanted to be awake for my kids. I feel like I work too much anyway, then when I was home, I was either sleeping or might as well have been. I did some google searches about sleeping, and this is what I came up with! It is an experiment that has seemed to work pretty well for me!

Another Sleeping Update

Well, last time I wrote I said I was going to try taking my nap earlier... I haven't been doing so well at getting up from my nap. The first night, I had set the alarm wrong and it didn't go off. Josh came in to wake me up. I vaguely remember him telling me something about the alarm then asking if I was ready to get up. Nope. So, I slept all night. I had told him to set the alarm for 4 1/2 hours later and it'd be like I got up for my nap but didn't. I reset that alarm about 10 times, just like I did before I started my biphasic sleeping. I was fairly tired all day-not horrible, though. I really missed having that time, though!
Then last night, I was just really tired. I got up from my nap, for oh, about 15 minutes. Then Josh was just getting into bed when my alarm went off to get up, and I couldn't resist the cuddling, so I reset it and hit snooze a bunch, just like in the old days. I did, however, get up by 6:30, which gave me enough time to do pilates. Before biphasic sleeping, 6:30 was an excellent wake up time. Today, though, it didn't feel good. I missed so much of that free time; and I feel a little tired.
Tonight I'm going to go to bed by 9:30 and get up an hour and a half later. I WILL NOT let myself just go back to sleep. I need to do something active shortly after waking up; otherwise, I am too groggy to do anything. I heard myself telling this to myself last night on my way back to the bed, maybe it'll work tonight... I AM going to sleep for either 3 or 4 1/2 hours and then get up for the day.
I like what biphasic sleeping does for me, I just have problems convincing myself at the point of waking up; after that I'm fine. In fact, I'm usually better than fine. I just have to remember that when I wake up!

Sleeping Update

I am really enjoying this biphasic sleeping; I feel so much more rested, which is really my reasoning for trying it. I have noticed that it takes longer for me to get up (be ready to function) from my first nap than my second. I also noticed that when I wake up from my first nap, I am STARVING. It doesn't matter if I eat before I lay down (for just 90 minutes), but when I get up, I want lots of food. I'm not the same way after my second (3hours or 4 1/2hours, depending on the day/my mood) nap. I can go for hours without eating. I am usually more productive after my second nap.
I think I might tweak it a little and go to bed the first time a little earlier. I picked 10pm because it gives me the most time with the kids before they go to bed. Keira is usually down around 8:30-9:00pm, but Night doesn't go to bed until around 11:00pm. He and Josh tuck me in for my nap. It is really cute!
Due to the fact that it takes me so long to wake up at 11:30, I don't have a very long time between my first nap and my second one at 1:00, so if I move my nap to around 9:00 or even 9:30, maybe I will feel better when I get up. We'll see. The major problem with that is I have to work Monday night until around 9:00, so the day after my experiment begins, I'll be changing it! Maybe I'll wait until Tuesday!

Thursday night, I had the most difficult time waking up from my nap. I just didn't want to do it! It took at least half an hour for me to fully wake up and function. Then, I didn't want to go to sleep! I decided to try cutting back and getting 1 1/2 hours sleep at my nap then 3 rather than 4 1/2 for the second sleep. It turned out that I got less than 3 really because I went to bed after 3, but I still wanted to get up at 6:00. I was fine all day, until around 6:00pm. I was DEAD TIRED then. I wanted to sleep, but we were out shopping until around 10. I fell into bed as soon as possible last night (10ish?)
I didn't have too much trouble getting up from my nap last night, but I didn't do anything after I woke up. I ended up going back to sleep about an hour after I woke up. I planned on getting 4 1/2 hours sleep, but Keira was pretty fussy, so I didn't really have the quality sleep that I've been having. I feel very groggy, and I've been awake for nearly an hour; usually by this time I'm wide awake and don't feel tired again until night time. I haven't done anything physical yet today, which may make a difference. The past few days after waking up, I try to do something physical (cleaning, walking dog, just moving around rather than sitting) which seems to make a difference. Even though I knew that I should get up and do something when I woke up from my nap last night, I couldn't bring myself to do anything!
I'm hoping that once I get up and moving, today will be as good as the rest of my biphasic sleeping days have been! I'll let you know.