Posted: January 19, 2010 at 7:15 pm | Tags: naps, rough sleep
So I went to get my Dymaxion nap this afternoon and I had set my To Bed time at 3:45pm, wake window at 30 minutes and alarm time at 4:00. I lay down at 3:35-ish.
Well, I lay there and lay there and checked the time at it was 4:00
I realized that if I’m going to get a nap that I’m going to need to quiet my mind.
Fortunately for me, I invented a method to do this which I developed.
I reset my watch for the alarm at 4:30, To Bed at 4:00 with a 30-minute window.
My watch woke me up at 4:26 and I was very rested.
Hooray!
Posted: January 19, 2010 at 10:08 am | Tags: coffee, naps
Last night I set the alarm for 5:30am with a sleep window of 30 minutes and was awakened at 5:04. Very nice. Felt good. Felt a bit tired since we went to bed last night at 12:15 catching up on Tivo (just love 24).
I started my first Dymaxion nap today at 9:15am. Normally, this will be at 8am, but I got started a little late on that plus I woke up from last night’s sleep at 5:30, so I figure I don’t have to start at 8 today. I will nap again at 2pm. Then nap again at 8pm. Then I will start cutting my regular sleep short by an hour.
I think I will keep doing this each day until I’m sleep from midnight-ish until 2:30. Then I will start cutting the bed time at midnight in favor of going to be later such that I start sleeping from 2–2:30 each night.
It’s looking good so far. I just love the watch.
For my nap just now I lay down at 9:30, set the To Bed time at 9:45, sleep window at 30 minute and alarm at 10:15. Well, I actually was awake at 9:43. If I had set my watch to 9:30 for the To Bed time, it would have woke me up at 9:43. So, I went “back” to sleep knowing that if I started sleeping deeply that it would wake me before 10:15 which is what I wanted. Well, it woke me at 9:52. Perfect. I got in two sleep patterns. I’m thinking that getting in two sleep patterns is pretty ideal. I still felt a little tired when I woke at 9:43. When I woke at 9:52 I felt more rested. I’m so glad I have such control over these things. This watch makes this all possible.
Oh, and by the way, I’m drinking coffee just fine, thank you.