Today was another of those days I made little to no progress with the routine but learned or incorporated something in that will help me through the adaptation. During the first nap of the day, I was already using a dim light to simulate the dark period and the subsequent wake blocks were better. Yesterday for the first time I was as active and energetic during the 12am - 4 am block than I have been so far. In fact, I looked forward to the graveyard hours with the hope that it would be a different experience today. As I inched closer to and went past the 4 am nap, I still retained my wakefulness. It was relieving. I was happy thinking that I had made some progress. However, in all that happiness, I became careless and began reading in my bed, while leaning against pillows. I equated my wakefulness to the experience during the day time, during which no matter how much I read, I never feel sleepy and, now that I look back, I was overconfident. After the 4 am I may have been reading for about an hour, till 5 am when I fell asleep. The next that I opened my eyes, It was 10 am. I had overslept again, ladies and gentlemen, and this time it was avoidable, had I been more careful. The first thing after waking up I did was made some rules to follow no matter what; a rule not to spend any time on the bed other than for napping, a rule to not sit or lean against pillows during the night time, no matter how doable it seemed and a rule not to take nighttime naps on the bed but on the hard cold floor. Had I been napping on the floor, the nap wouldn't have extended for over an hour. My comfortable bed on the other end makes sleeping an entire day sound like a piece of cake. Hence, a bad idea.
I am still struggling to find some nighttime activities to keep me going through the nighttime wake blocks. The only things that I can ever think of are reading, writing or doing things that require me to be sitting at a place and using my head. I am unable to think of easy and engaging tasks that I can do without them seeming way too boring and repetitive. Like, I have already organized my wardrobe once, do I now start over again? I don't feel tempted to. If you can think of any activities I can do in my room during the nighttime blocks, leave them in the comments or message them to me personally. I am still willing to continue pursuing the Uberman as I still see some promise in it. I still see some form of improvement which convinces to me to keep going. If however, within day 30, I don't see any substantial improvement and I am still oversleeping, there won't be a Day 31 log. I may take a week off or two to recover and then, think about Uberman or switch to an entirely different schedule. At the time of writing this though, I still feel positive regarding this whole experiment but only time will tell.
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