Polyphasic Sleeping Day 4

I'm rather disappointed in myself this morning. I just woke up at about 7:30AM because I went back to sleep, after a 3 hour core nap, at around 5AM.  I definitely need to stop napping in my bed at night. It's most definitely too comfortable.  I'm going to keep going with the cycle though.  I don't feel any need to reset or start over.  I feel as though I'm more tired from sleeping 5 hours than I have been each time I wake up from a 20 minutes nap.

Last night before my core nap,  Boyfriend offered to wake himself up and then call me to help me wake up at 5AM.  I said no, he needs to sleep.  I've learned my lesson, I'm never turning down another wake-up call offer from Boyfriend.  The hardest part of oversleeping this time is that I picked up my phone, turned off the alarm, and lay back down because the bed was warm.  I exercised no self-discipline.  Today, I'm going to use Steve Pavlina's advice about getting up right when the alarm goes off. I'm going to practice waking up!  I just need to figure out what I want the first few things in my waking routine to be.

I'm learning more about my sleeping habits through this process and I'm always grateful to learn more.   That said, I need to re-train some of those habits. 

Polyphasic Sleeping Day 2

Update time!  This morning I took a nap that I woke up from around 4:15AM, I then managed to stay awake for a while before taking another nap around 6AM. After that nap, I waited 20 minutes and took another one.  If I had given myself rules and restrictions, I might have called that cheating. 

I overslept at my 12PM nap.  I'm using my cell phone alarm and I can't tell if I never set the alarm to "on" or if I turned it off and went back to sleep.  Boyfriend recommended putting my phone across the room.  That sounds like a pretty good idea to me, so I will do that for my 4:30PM nap.  I'm trying to space them 3.5 hours apart like the Uberman cycle.

I was having a lot of trouble with staying awake in between the 8AM and 12PM naps.  It occurred to me to stand up and move.  As soon as I walked around the room a bit, I felt much more awake.  I then had no problem staying awake even when I sat back down and watched a movie.

I'm keeping exercise light.  I don't want to exhaust myself and oversleep.  This morning I did about half an hour of yoga from the exercise channel on my TV.  It was very relaxing but didn't make me sleepy.

I've read that not knowing what to do with the extra 30-40 hours a week could easily be my demise.  I have enough hobby type things that I can direct my attention between that I'm not too concerned.  Since I'm very in to ballet videos right now and youtube is rather wonderful, I feel that I can keep myself occupied.  Even though it is winter break from school and I don't have a job, I can come up with enough things to do.