I’m going to start out this post with me telling you that today was a very odd day. Not one percent of it went like my normal days do. Granted this is hyperbole, but nonetheless it is so much so that you need to be prepared for the absurdity that is my name. Now, thanks to my awesome writing skills I better have seen a flying unicorn or you are going to be severely let down. I’m sorry to tell you it is the latter of the two. However, this is a sleep blog, if you are expecting me to see magic unicorns you may not be that far off. Sleep deprivation does weird things to people. Also, if I had seen unicorns, I would hope someone around be would either slip me sleeping pills or have me institutionalized.
Since this section is about my personal life and such, you will here about the absurdness of today. Just keep in mind that this is probably a lot more exciting firsthand and with a level of sleep deprivation. I’ll go chronologically for the first time in my life. I started out by going to see my grandparents. The set with the terminal grandfather. I enjoyed my visit. I had to take a nap while there, and I had to explain my sleep schedule to my grandmother. That was an odd endeavor in itself. After the visit with them, I headed back home. As soon as I got home I got a call from my college advisor. After finding out that I should change which major is my primary major from now on, and I have to transfer between the school’s colleges, I mention the possibility of having to drop a class on my schedule if I were to pass an AP test. At this point she decided to tentatively drop me from that class. While going to drop me she got a pop-up from the school’s enrollment system. Apparently, the first round of AP test results were sent to the college. Out of the 4 they recieved, I passed all 4. This means that I do not have to take any English class in college. Also, I get to tell my European History teacher, who is now one of my friends, to suck it, because he often said that I wouldn’t pass the test. Yet I did. Haha. After this amazingness, I was invited out to hang out with friends. This is where the title of this post comes from. I definitely pregamed for college. Legal substances only, which is a weird thought that tonight’s activities weren’t in any way illegal. Cool, I guess?
Now onto the repercussions of my social life onto my nap schedule. I’ll start out by saying that I slept normal at midnight. Woke up energized and such. Made it until 5:20 and then I started laying really still without realizing it. So, I gradually reached mega zombie mode before it was time for my nap. After the nap, I got up normally. Then, at 7, I went and got back in my bed. Long story short, I woke up at 8. Not that bad of an oversleep at all. I could almost consider it an added nap. After I woke up, I headed down to my grandparents. I helped them out on some chores and stuff. Then, I started getting amazingly tired. It turns out that I forgot about my 12pm nap, it was 1:45. I thought I was going to die, or oversleep, or something. However, I had a normal nap. Got up slightly after 30 minutes and was completely out of sorts. This prompted the explanation of my sleep schedule to my grandmother. I drove home. Got home, and had a normal 6 pm nap. I was still expecting the bounceback from the overly delayed nap. Then, I was invited to hang out with some friends at 8. We ended up hanging out until 2ish in the morning. If you didn’t infer from that last sentence, I’ll spell it out. I didn’t take my 12am nap. This is even more drastic to me considering the overly delayed nap in the same day. When I got home, I decided I would experiment and not take the 12am nap instead of taking it at 2. I’m writing this at 4:33 right now. I am definitely doin the zombie right now. I do think I have had some semblance of a nap tonight. While watching a move, I had several periods of micronapping. After about 5 of these, I felt pretty refreshed. I wonder if they help so much now because of my body’s ability to compress sleep cycles down??? I guess the world will never know.
Thanks for reading
-Robby
p.s. Like I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned, I am an example of someone who screws up at the rules of this, and still endures through. May you’re experience with polyphasic sleeping be enhanced by your glimpse into the stupidity that is me being a polyphasiac.
