Ceaseless Student

I had two really weird dreams last night.

In the first one, I stuffed someone’s shot in basketball. The weird part? I was playing a sport. Haha j/k. The weird part is that I’m almost positive that I actually swung my real-world arm and hit my bed.

This was followed by a dream where I dropped something acidic on three spots of my hand. My brain insists that it was “about as acidic as capsaicin.” I have no clue how acidic capsaicin is. Also, pure capsaicin doesn’t look like the oil in my dream. Anyhow. The weird part was that I felt it on my real-world hand for what seems like a couple of hours. I was asleep so maybe my time-perception was off, but it lasted through several unrelated dreams…

I think those are the two weirdest dreams I’ve had and remembered since the one with the cartoon fish that ate my older brother or the ridiculous one with the Scooby-Doo meets Paper Mario styled monsters that were trying to find me, my friends and my family in some weird mansiony thing. Those dreams are like 6 years old or something though… dreams are weird.

So I was looking at my schedule for this coming semester and some of the times lined up all pretty for me to schedule a nap…

So I’m doing biphasic again. I’m also going to be working out and doing something aerobic - a combination that I haven’t done for something like 4 years. The first time I did biphasic I was hitting 4.5 hours every day. And I would get tired/bored when people weren’t around (eg 04:30). So I’m going to try to avoid some of that this time around.

My schedule works somewhat better for it this year. Instead of staying awake and bored until 5, I’ll be in bed at 2 or 03:30. This should help with boredom at night and it gives me a nice chunk of time at 06:30 when the Babson gym opens.

Sadly, the schedule is a bit less straightforward. I wake up every day at 06:30, but there’s two different times I go to bed. On Wednesdays, SCOPE steals a nap. At the end of the day I’ll average just under 5 hours a day of sleep. I will, however, be adding in a bunch of physical activity so I might find myself needing more rest - we’ll see.

There’s two ways to go about a new sleep schedule. Gradual transition and habit forming or sleep deprivation. The second one is what I’ll be trying this time around. The abrupt change from summer sleep hours and the addition of running or swimming should make sure my body is begging for whatever sleep I decide it can take. That’s the quick, if plausibly painful, way to go about it. At least I’m not doing an uberman schedule where I don’t sleep at all for the first three days or anything that extreme…

Still haven’t figured out why I like toying with my sleep so much… I’m sure I’ll babble about how it goes in my blog