Sunday, March 13, 2011

Mind Pumping- Sleep Schedule

During spring break I changed my sleep schedule to see what would happen.  At school I usually go to bed around 11 p.m. or 12 a.m. because of early classes.  While I’m at school I usually take a nap every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.  If I don’t get a nap on those days I tend to go to bed earlier.  When I was home for break I stayed up an hour or more later each night.  Starting with Friday I went to bed at 12 a.m. and woke up at 11 a.m. the next day.  I had a good amount of sleep that night.  Saturday night I went to bed around 3 a.m. and didn’t wake up till 1 p.m. the next day.  As the week went on I had a higher tolerance of staying awake later.  For example, if I went to bed at 2 a.m. one night, the next night I wouldn’t be able to fall asleep till 2 a.m. or later.  I was so used to staying up late.  Each night would get worse and worse, I literally couldn’t fall asleep until it was about the time I fell asleep the night before.  I wasn’t tired at all, but once it was later then the night before that’s when I started to get tired.
Friday the 11th I decided to test my limits to the max with a couple friends.  We didn’t go to sleep till about 6:30 a.m. in the morning.  It was really hard to keep my eyes open by 5 a.m.  I really don’t know how we were able to stay up that long.  We almost watched a whole series of the show Real World on On Demand.  By the 21st episode I couldn’t take anymore and finally had to go to bed.  Of course the last episode would have another part to it, but I really couldn’t keep my eyes open anymore.
As a result I managed to pull an all nighter.  The next night I wasn’t able to fall asleep till 5 a.m.  I probably won’t try this sleep schedule again because I’m not tired when I should be going to sleep.  It completely messed up my sleep schedule for school, which is why I’m up right now writing this…

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