Day 6 – Morning

Today’s been great so far. (It’s only 8:12am but still…). Some observations about whats happened – I got into bed by 2:10am this morning and was asleep by 2:30 – It’s interesting that I don’t sleep within a minute or so, considering how tired I feel when I go to bed lately. No, I have to lie there for a good 20 minutes first before I can sleep – but at least I’m getting rest and it’s better than lying there for hours like I have before.

A noise woke me up at 7:20am and I was back asleep by around 7:30. Sometime between then and when I woke up I had a strange dream about oversleeping my alarm and/or getting up and falling asleep and having trouble waking up, it was quite weird.

Then, dreams aside – at 8:04am,  I woke up – 1 minute  before my alarm was scheduled to go off. – Could it be I’m getting used to this? I hope so. – One things for sure, I feel better this morning than I normally do when I first wake up.

More later today.
I can do this.

Day 5 – Night

I’m tired. Hehe, it’s not so bad.

Today was interesting. I was tired when I first woke up, as usual, things picked up and were going well. I went out to lunch and afterwards had some caffeine in the form of a coffee, then a Red Bull.  I also had some coke throughout the day. My major slump was around 7pm-10pm were I was really irritable and my eyes were burning. I think it was partly a ‘coming down’ effect from the caffeine and also the other energy stuff in the Red Bull. I picked up from 10-1 and now I’m slowly getting tired and tireder. (1:50 now).

This is going well, I’m happy, proud, and surprised of myself that I’ve pushed myself this far. Tonight is the fifth night in a row I’ll be having just 6 hours sleep. No naps, no sleeping in, just sleep 2am to 8am, 7 days a week. That’s the plan, and so far – I’m sticking to it.

More tomorrow…at a little after 8am!
I can do this.

Day 5 – Morning

So, here I am. Day 5. I got up at 5 past 8 today, but by the I got to sleep it would have been around 2:15 so I purposely set my alarm 5 minutes later, to try to get me within a few minutes of 6 hours. I haven’t woken up properly yet so its quite hard to tell but I think right now is a bit better than I felt yesterday at this time of morning. I’m glad to know I can do this and that I am doing this.

Probably right now my only ’symptom’ is watery eyes. I suppose this might be unrelated but I think chances are high that sleep deprivation is playing a big part of it. I don’t really have too much sense of fatigue right now, just the eye thing happening.

I’ll probably post again mid to late afternoon  because I’m going out to lunch. If not then, expect a post close to 2am.

I can do this.

Day 4 – Night

Today was interesting. After being out in the sunshine a little in the morning, from about 12 onwards I felt quite good. Not yet completely normal, but a lot better than previous days. I didn’t take any caffeine today, except that in a few glasses of coke I had. My slumps were when I first got up, again around 7-9 and from 1am till now (1:50). My legs ache, my eyes burn, my throat is scratchy and even my ears feel a bit blocked.

Still, I’ve made it this far, and I’m going to do this. I’ll be up at 8 again tomorrow, so expect a post a few minutes after that.

I can do this.

Day 4 – Morning

Very nearly gave up this morning. As the alarm chimed I launched out of bed to turn it off then stood for a few moments. In that few moments I almost talked myself into going back to bed. One thing however, stopped me. That was the idea that I’d come too far to give up. So here I am, at just after 8am on day 4. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t tired, but I don’t feel ridiculously bad, at least not yet.

I’m confident I will make it to 2 again tonight/tomorrow morning, and I’m hoping that I am somehow slowly getting used to this. My goal is in a few weeks or perhaps even a month to be barely tired at all through the day, sleep naturally at 2, and wake up at 8 without even needing an alarm.

For now however, I have to concentrate on getting through each day without falling asleep.

Day 3 – Night

Well, here I am. 1:45am on night 3. I think today the toughest time was around 2pm, which is interesting – I had a 100mg caffeine pill and that got me through, and I found 7pm-12am was really easy. Right now I’m a bit tired but its not  to bad. As usual, something feels missing, it’s kind of like recovering from some kind of sickness – its not strong but something feels amiss. I’m hoping tomorrow will be better, but I’m not sure if a 3rd night at 6 hours is going to be enough for my brain to start realizing this is all the sleep its going to be getting from now on.

I have a kind of light headache and a sore neck, sometimes I notice it other times I don’t. It’s nothing major, but it’s not great either. I don’t have a lot to say tonight, except that I can’t wait to get used to this, and I really hope I can. I did this today, I can do it tomorrow. New post tomorrow at slightly after 8am!

Day 3 – Late Morning

(11am) After some breakfast, a shower, some easter chocolate and some general wake up time I’m feeling a fair bit better. I don’t feel 100% of course but it’s certainly an improvement. It’s a strange feeling really, I feel sort of drained and sort of dull, maybe even a little numb… but all in all 12 hours sleep across the last 48 or so hours hasn’t done me too much harm. I hope I can make it to 2am tomorrow morning, and then again wake at 8 tomorrow. – I’m also hoping that after tomorrow, or at least after Tuesday, I’ll start to get used to it…

It’s either going to be that or things are going to get progressively worse.

Time will tell.

Morning Day 3

Well…I’m up. On time as well, this is going good. I am a bit zoned out at the moment however and feeling really cold. Not sure what I can do to wake myself up a bit. Still it’s not too bad I think I can handle it. Although if I fell asleep I wouldn’t be surprised… hopefully not however. I can do this! Too out of it right now to write more =p expect another post within a few hours.

Day 2 – Night

Well it’s almost 2am. (1:40), and I’m proud of myself so far. Tomorrow might be tough, judging by today the toughest parts are when I first get up, also around 4-6ish, and around 10.30pm. These were my ’slumps’ today. It will be interesting to see how I go tomorrow, I’m confident I can do this, and the first thing I plan on doing in the morning when I get up is posting on here. It wasn’t easy today, but it wasn’t overly difficult either – I took some caffeine and vitamins at I think around 4 to get me through that slump because that was pretty bad – I felt really drained. – But after that, things picked up pretty well. It’s slowly getting closer to 2 and my eyes are getting pretty heavy. I’ll make it, but I’m expecting tomorrow to be harder, so maybe I’ll need to post here more often to keep myself on track – time will tell.

If any one ever reads this, happy easter, and if all goes well there’ll be new content here tomorrow, slightly after 8am.

Day 2 – Midday Update

Okay so it’s a little past midday, but close enough.

The stomach ache I had earlier seems to have subsided, and I’ve warmed up considerably after showering and equipping myself with some warmer clothing. In fact, things are looking up – something does feel…strange, I have a very light headache whos presence is often forgotten but sometimes makes itself well known for a few moments… eh? You’d be forgiven for thinking I’ve gone mad, saying things are looking up then saying I have a headache – but the truth is it’s not all bad. For the first time in quite a while I feel naturally happy, I haven’t been overly unhappy lately or anything, but today I just feel that little bit more alive. I really hope I can stick to this because I think the benefits are going to be amazing.

As a side note for those of you wondering, why stay awake longer? Well, look at this way, the more of life you consciously experience, the more you live it. In fact, cutting sleep from 10 hours per 24 down to 6, gives me over 2 months more awake time per year! This means every 6 years, I get an extra year of awake time – time which I would have previously spent sleeping….  that’s mind blowing when you think about it…. If I lived for 60 years from now, I’d actually have 10 more of them awake than I would have if I’d not done this…

I hope I can stick to it!