This morning now marks the THIRD time that I’ve overslept my 1:30 nap.  I don’t know why this is.  I do know that I have, on occasion, before the experiment slept straight through alarms.  Some days I turn them off and don’t realize.  I’m trying to figure out what happened (again) this morning, and why.

I’m also considering whether I should continue with this little experiment.

It seems I get about 4 to 5 days in when I sleep through one full 4 hour block.  To prevent this I had been using my watch alarm in combination with my cell phone alarm (since I’ve been napping on the couch, I put the phone on the glass table so that the vibration would add to the cacophony.)  One mistake might have been that the cell phone was on a book, rather than directly on the glass, where the vibration has the most violent effect.

The only good thing was that this time I woke up on my own, exactly at 6:00.  So my body’s starting to find some kind of rhythm.  But the weirdest thing is that I wasn’t really even that tired when I laid down at 1:30.  Though somehow my next thought was waking up at 6, with both my alarms still set for 2.

Apart from this incident, the experiment has been going well.  I’m not usually too tired (at least not during the day) and I haven’t had much trouble keeping the nap schedule.  It just seems that my body has other plans of it’s own.

So now I have to decide whether to scrap this experiment, or restart it for the 4th time…  part of me really just wants to go back to a normal cycle and sleep in bed with my wife for a change.  But the other part, the one that doesn’t let me quit and that knows how much better this will be for my work schedule, is screaming at me to keep going.  Either way, oversleeping means I’m going to be dead tired for the next few 4 hour blocks…