Polyphasic Sleep / Sueño Polifasico

Day 4

5:32 am

Tonight has been really difficult but we were saved by a friend of ours, Fora, who came over and played a board game with us. This was the engaging physical activity we needed to get us through the first part of the evening. We took our 30 min nap at 2am on schedule while Fora was here but we both woke up feeling tired and even a little disoriented at first. We walked downtown and had a sprite at an outdoor cafe (at 3:30 am we could barely get a set in one of the 8 or so cafes) and then we walked home. We got home at 5am and tried to watch an episode, but we are having a lot of trouble staying awake while seated. We played the game again and it lasted luckly until our 8am goal.

It is hard because when you have no idea how you are going to pass the time awake, you don’t have anything to look forward to. The reward of a 30 minute nap is not really a reward, because your mind is craving sleep without abandon. We know that we are getting closer now to adoption, but this is so hard. I hope tomorrow night is better.

At times I had the sensation that the world was getting more cloudy…the wakeful dream state that some people have mentioned.

Lucas did have caffeine both before our 2am nap and a little bit after. I think it is ok because it is night time and we don’t have much choice…but there is always the wonder if that is holding back our REM sleep, which to my understanding is the key. We did eat very close to our 2am nap…pizza around 1am. We don’t remember having dreams, and we don’t feel so rested.

I really hope we make progress tomorrow. I do know it is easier to get through the day portions, there is more to do and the body responds.

6:32pm

We passed the day fairly well, but I felt very listless and had low energy throughout. We left the house at 9am to walk into town and ran errands. We barely got home in time to do our 2pm nap. That is what makes this type of sleep pattern tricky…you can’t be too flexible when it comes to the sleep schedule.

This afternoon we ate and I have been tired and somewhat uncomfortable. We watched a movie and I nodded off a bunch of times. I MISS SLEEPING! And today was really rainy so it was such a shame not to even be able to sit on my bed and read… It is hard to keep going when you don’t see that the results are getting closer, you just feel uncomfortable.

But with that said, we are definitely close to adapting, and it is really hard to believe that we are doing as well as we are considering we have only had 2 hours of sleep per day total. Looking forward to not dreading night time. We invited Marco and Alejo over…this will certainly be what saves us tonight.