To give you a quick summary of how my second week of the sleep schedule went, I have collected the following data:
Day - Core Sleep - Nap Total
- Day 8 (4/15/08) - 5 hrs - 1.25 hrs
- Day 9 (4/16/08) - 5 hrs - 1.25 hrs
- Day 10 (4/17/08) - 3 hrs - 1 hrs
- Day 11 (4/18/08) - 3.75 hrs - 1.25 hrs
- Day 12 (4/19/08)* - 4.5 hrs - 1.5 hrs
- Day 13 (4/20/08)* - 3.5 hrs - 3.5 hrs
- Day 14 (4/21/08) - 4.75 hrs - 1.25 hrs
Average core = 4.2 hrs / day
Average nap total = 1.6 hr / day
4.2 hrs + 1.6 hrs = 5.8 hrs sleep / day
Skipped naps = 2 / 21
*The two worst days of poison oak (I couldn’t stay asleep for longer than a couple hrs, but still tried to get as much rest as possible)
At this point, I’m still getting used to napping, but have been constantly improving the amount of time to fall asleep and the amount of actual sleep per nap. The poison oak was a pain (both literally, and in terms of the schedule), however I quickly got back into a routine. Another thing to note is the ease at which I was able to shift around my schedule to make sure I was fully rested for a conflicting trip to the airport.
I wasn’t able to bring down my sleep per day average, but that was mostly due to the poison oak - and an extra 2 hours a day ain’t too shabby. We’ll see how I do the next couple weeks.