I had a really good day yesterday in terms of feeling awake, concentrations levels and productivity. I think today will be similar as it it will start late at night and continue into normal waking hours. I did have a longer day awake yesterday so I will have to see how I am feeling by the end of the day.
0145. I didn’t set an alarm and woke naturally at 0145, feeling quite rested. I went to sleep yesterday at 1745 so I’ve had 8 hours sleep. I’ve been allocating 9 but during the other days I have woke up mid way through. So 8 hours out of every 28 seems to be working, whether in one go or split up.
The rest of the day I feel great. It’s a long quiet morning in the wee small hours for everyone else, but I feel refreshed and am able to just get on with things. Come morning time my natural circadian rhythms take over again in other words it’s day time now and I appear to still be in a day routine, so I’m wide awake and functioning.
The evening is where things fall apart, but not in the way you might think. The problem is that my social life takes over. I have a couple of drinks and go online to join in with others on HouseParty, the face to face social network. I’ve never used it before but it’s suddenly become quite popular. The bad thing is that the people I’ve joined on HouseParty are in a time zone a couple of hours behind me and now I’m on their time. I am also drinking with people I’m living with and in fact it’s someone’s birthday so things go on a while… a long while. Whereas I’m supposed to be going to bed at 2000, that time becomes a distant memory. Despite being awake for over 24 hours I keep going as if I’ve only been up for 16 or 17.
So the plan has somewhat fallen apart, I’ve synchronised with people that I’m socialising with. The main positive take away from this was that I was able to function for a very long time, I think I had my first drink at 1900 and was still feeling lucid up to that point. It would be unfair to say whether or not I could keep going for the time I did had I not been drinking as I can’t make that assessment.
At this stage there is evidence that although I am in a 28 hour day routine, my body is rebelling and rejecting this and wants to revert to 24 hour days. Lets see what happens tomorrow.