On Saturday I was headed down to San Luis Obispo so I took an early nap to make sure I didn’t get tired on the drive.
I only took a single nap later in the day, however didn’t set my alarm right and wound up sleeping for about an hour. I was drowsy afterward, but had no lingering effects after walking around a bit.
I had a pretty bad reaction to poison oak this weekend, so my sleep schedule was a bit disrupted. I planned to sleep as long as possible to give my body more time to heal and because the fewer hours awake, the fewer hours in pain. I went to bed around 1:30 a.m., but unfortunately was only able to sleep until 5:00 before the poison oak got me up. I took a shower and watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas online, and then went to bed again at 8:30 and slept until 11:30 (total night sleep = 6.5 hrs). I felt well rested on Sunday and only took one nap. That night I went to bed early again (12ish) and woke up Monday morning at 4:45 a.m. to drive home and be at work by 8:00. I was happy to discover I was fully awake and had no problems driving between 5am and 8 am after 4.75 hrs of sleep.