{"id":1012,"date":"2012-04-03T21:23:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T20:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/six40winks.com\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2012-04-03T21:23:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T20:23:22","slug":"days-2627-sleep-deprivation-and-good-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/six40winks.com\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"Days 26\/27 – Sleep deprivation and good citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 26:\u00a0<\/strong> It was a difficult morning.\u00a0 This was most likely due to yesterday’s strange naps (predominantly light sleep) which didn’t feel very re-energizing and left me tired through much of the day.<\/p>\n

(2012\/04\/02, (3:21,5, “eyes feel more irritated than normal”), (3:25,4.5,”decaf tea”), (3:49,3,”more sleepy than normal. nodding”), (4:10,7,”back to normal”), (4:53,5), (4:58,4, “laying on the sofa. OK in kitchen”), (5:10,6, “doing chores”), (5:30,3,”nodding off, laying on sofa”), (5:53,4,”very sleepy”),(6:05,6,”chores”),(6:20,5,”hard to program and write”), (7:10,7,”reading”), (17:50,7,”tired eyes”), (22:00,6,”movie watching, tired eyes”)).<\/p>\n

However the rest of the day was normal.\u00a0 Good level of work with about 10h of computer and 1h of exercise, … with some cooking and talking sprinkled in for good measure.<\/p>\n

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sleep phases, core sleep and naps on April 2nd 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

Day 27:\u00a0 <\/strong>Oh Boy!\u00a0 It happened again!\u00a0 My last nap yesterday wasn’t ideal (see only 16mn<\/strong> above) and to make things worse, when I woke up at 2:45<\/strong> it was in the middle of light sleep (which makes me groggy) … so I must have snoozed and totally overslept.\u00a0 Of course by “overslept<\/em>” I mean sleeping 5h55<\/strong>.\u00a0 But surprisingly I felt wide awake after that.\u00a0 I felt a little tired around 9am<\/strong> for 20mn<\/strong> but it was pretty much impossible to nap at mid-day, <\/strong>so I had to wait until 16:30<\/strong>.\u00a0 I can definitely say that my body is starting to adapt in some form or another.\u00a0\u00a0 This can of course be seen as a failure to stick to the schedule, but I see the other side of the coin:\u00a0 a few months ago, when I slept 6h <\/strong>at night I would feel tired, and would have a horrible time getting out of bed (I had to go to work without my 8h!!?).\u00a0 Today, I sleep 5h55<\/strong> … and I feel incredibly rested and awake.\u00a0 So clearly, in spite of the mess of the past couple of days and in spite of this over-sleeping something is happening inside me.\u00a0 But I’ll admit I’m not yet convinced about the possibility of fully adapting.<\/p>\n

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sleeping schedule with oversleeping, April 3rd 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

Today I experienced a somewhat dramatic event.\u00a0 And just to show that I still keep my mental functions in working order (well, as good or bad as they used to be anyway), I’ll relate it here.\u00a0 After my afternoon nap I went for a 12km<\/strong> bike ride to exercise and get some chores done.\u00a0 On the way back I saw quite a bit of smoke in a field and attributed it to agricultural waste burning.\u00a0 That farmer is burning a lot of stuff<\/em> _ I thought.\u00a0 But the flames were unusually high.\u00a0 It got me worried.\u00a0 I stopped.\u00a0 Was anyone supervising that fire?<\/em>.\u00a0 It was too far to see. And then … black smoke, … and what looked like the tire of a truck.\u00a0 Hum … dodgy!\u00a0 I stopped a runner:\u00a0 “can you tell me this address?\u00a0 Don’t you think it looks unusual?<\/em>“.\u00a0 That monophasic runner ignored my concerns and ran on with his ipod.\u00a0 But something wasn’t right.\u00a0 So I stopped another cyclist, urged him to give me the address and I phoned the fire brigade straight away.\u00a0 A few minutes later I trespassed onto their field to wave, shout and try to alert them.\u00a0 The fire was already out of control eating away at a tractor, a pile of grass and starting with a little woodland.<\/p>\n

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fire in a nearby farm<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Fortunately the fire brigade arrived at\u00a0 this moment (picture) and were able to get the fire under control in 2h.<\/p>\n

As a rough estimate, if I’ve been on Everyman for 24<\/strong> days (the first 2 were 5h<\/strong> and 4h<\/strong> ), then I’ve lost 24*(8 – 4.5) = 84h<\/strong> of sleep.<\/p>\n

Fortunately it seems 84h<\/strong> of sleep deprivation haven’t killed my empathy, emergency reaction time, and good citizenship!<\/p>\n

Let’s now see how oversleeping (5h20mn<\/strong> total) affects me tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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