Everyman, Day 3
Well, here we go again…
1:33 AM, Wednesday, December 17
Reaction time: .238 – Interesting – a rather significant improvement, actually.
Typing Speed: 100 WPM – Par for the course.
Short-term Memory: 12 – Slightly better than normal, but not amazingly good.
Tetravex: 1:23 – Marginally improved
I’m actually feeling pretty sluggish right now, although my test scores don’t show it. Yesterday morning, I wasn’t able to wake up without taking another nap immediately, then another…I ended up taking 2 20-minute naps after my 3 hour core, and I think that I need to set a more realistic goal for tomorrow. Perhaps just one nap. We’ll see. Regardless, it is an improvement – a little under 4 hours as compared to the previous day’s 6 and the day before that’s 7.
During the day today, I actually felt really fantastic. Admittedly, the latest grade reports may have had something to do with that, but I felt physically pretty good as well. Even before I got those reports, I was doing very well, and I actually set a new personal record at work for the number of cases I processed today. (I work as a paralegal and am currently doing some legal secretary stuff – the office is in a bit of a crunch time on billing. I don’t mind, though – it’s good to know how the secretaries operate, because once I actually finish law school, I’ll probably have a few working for me and I’ll better know how they go about their jobs…)
Back to Polyphasic, though, this is encouraging. I feel like my current schedule is actually fairly realistic and would give me quite a bit of extra time during law school. After Christmas, assuming that all continues to go well with this schedule, I may try Uberman again, or perhaps a fascinating new twist on Uberman that was hinted at today on the Google groups.
Right now, aside from the core sleep issues, I do have two major problems, though.
1) I’m quickly running out of things to do. While I enjoy video games, I’m not one to binge on them unless I get really, really into it and I’m not, currently. Likewise, the same goes for books or whatever. I’ve been watching a lot of videos on Hulu, but there’s only so much video that you can watch in a day without getting tired of it.
2) I’m still not getting any serious sleep in the naps. For both of the regular naps that I took (one, unfortunately, had to be in a car and I wasn’t able to get the full nap in), I was able to achieve that stage-1 tingly feeling that I described yesterday. I think that if I can learn to get relaxed enough going into a nap, I’ll be able to succeed much more quickly. I think that will also open the doors to trying more stringent schedules. We’ll see.
As a side note, my eyes are horribly dry during the evenings, and the eye drops don’t seem to help after a certain point. That’s a bit concerning, but it’s not a major worry. I tend to get dry eyes anyway, and I think that they’ll clear up in the future.
I’ve noticed that I tend to be a lot calmer on this schedule, at least I have been so far. I don’t think it’s due to a lack of energy, because I have more than enough energy to get through the day and do things well – maybe it’s due to a lack of stress due to having more unwinding time, I don’t know. It’s interesting, though.
I’m expecting tomorrow to be pretty rough. I hope that I’m wrong, and it’s entirely possible…But at the same time, I know that I’m already tired and that I’ve not gotten much out of my naps today.
I’ll let everyone know what happens – the next two hours are gonna be pretty tough – I feel droopy already, but I think I should at least manage until 4 PM. I may take an additional nap here, though.
Thanks for reading!
P.S. – I just noticed that the comments were accidentally set to moderation. I’ve turned moderation off, so please, feel free to comment as much as you’d like! I encourage comments, criticisms, suggestions, ideas or just plain tomfoolery in the comments.
