The last few days seemed to go both very well and very badly: at the end of day 1 I decided to go back to monophasic sleep (temporarily). Reason being that excessive anger seemed to be a side-effect of a weeks worth of heavily disturbed sleep, and I didn’t particularly want to be taking my grumpiness out on anyone I gave a crap about. So the plan was to wait until the school holidays.
But with all this extra sleep, even after a few days I’m not feeling better in any way, and a lot less time to get through all the crap that needs to be done, figuratively speaking. So if it doesn’t kill me, I will actually adapt this time.
The last few naps before I temporarily gave up (end of day 1, I’d been up about 50 hours) were interesting. I still felt horrible but they were becoming increasingly refreshing and it was taking about 1.5 seconds to fall asleep. So contrary to my initial doubts, I actually expect this to work this time.
Now, off to my 1700 nap.
Oh and an interesting note about my memory at the moment. I sat down this afternoon today to do a week’s maths work, only to open my folder and find that I’d already done it. As hard as I tried, I couldn’t remember doing it at all (conclusion is that I did it a couple of days ago, when my fatigue was at its greatest). It was a wonderful feeling: to my perception, my work was literally doing itself.