I skipped Day 1 mostly because I’d intended to do the blog entry after my 3am nap, but the 3am nap extended all the way until 8am. I guess I’ve gotten pretty good at turning off my alarm in my sleep. So I find myself set back about one day. Today I biked to the coast from work to take my 11am nap. There was already a guy sitting in the spot I would have used, which surprised me given that I’d never seen anyone there before. I remembered that there was a path that led on some switch-backs down the side of the cliff, two of which have some overhanging rock. I stopped at the first one and slept there - or tried to.

It’s really amazing how hard it is to sleep for any length of time if you’re concentrating on doing just that. I was not sleep-deprived enough to need to get into it. I decided to skip both my 3pm and 7pm naps, since I wouldn’t be sleepy enough to do anything with them anyway. I did take the 11pm one though, and I actually did fall asleep. Waking up to the alarm and actually getting out of bed was a near thing though. It is now a quarter past 2am.

Like Steve, I’ve found it somewhat challenging to stay awake in the middle of the night. There’s this psychological pressure that tells me I shouldn’t be doing anything, that I should be asleep, to go to bed. Yet here I am, awake. I think I’ll take a walk - the night should be cool enough to wake me up a little bit. Day 2 video